July 2010 Entries
By Michael Stetz, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
To celebrate her 90th birthday Tuesday, Edna Baldwin dropped like a rock from 10,000 feet.
A tiny dot way up in the sky, she hit about 125 mph.
She fell ...
And fell ...
And fell ...
Then, the parachute blossomed.
She floated to earth, guided by Andy Rowell, owner of Pacific Coast Skydiving, who was her tandem partner.
"That was something else," Baldwin, the great-grandmother of 10, shouted when she landed near Brown Field in San Diego without breaking a nail.
"That was really great."
It was her first time jumping out of an airplane. Some people like to have a bit of...
- By Ray Holt -
Computer Committee Chair Gloria Wolf
“The Computer Committee’s purpose is to augment the interest and enjoyment of computers by residents of La Costa...
- By George L. England Sr. -
A/V Committee Chair Richie Clyne
It’s Friday night, so what’s playing at the Brentwood Theater? Check Channel 3 and it will give you all the movies for the current week, menus and much more...
- By Carole Eibelheuser -
The opening day for the Del Mar racing season is just around the corner. That means hats of all sizes and shapes from the
ridiculous to the sublime will be there, too, to make fashion statements.
Do you remember when women always wore hats in church (white gloves, I think, were optional)? In my own experience in the 1940s and 1950s, a hat in church was mandated by my mother. At least once a year, she would take me hat shopping at our small town local milliner or a department store in Hackensack. I could hardly wait...
- By Carol Eibelheuser -
Someone else screams for a Mello-Roll ice cream cone. What the heck is a Mello-Roll? East coast residents, especially those from the Bronx and Brooklyn who have visited Jones Beach, will know exactly what it is. Does it bring back memories of the 40s and 50s? Well, it is a cylinder of vanilla ice cream about 3” long by 1” in diameter wrapped on the long side with paper. There were two types of waffle cones: one regular shaped with the diameter to fit the Mello-Roll, and the other had a
rectangular collar for the ice...
- By Eleanor Seidenglanz -
Lee Scherer was born in Charleston, SC, and raised in Kentucky. He studied at the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in 1942. He was a fighter pilot in WWII. He went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Cal. Tech.
In 1952 he transferred from the Navy to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration [NASA] where he worked for 18 years.
While there he directed the unmanned Lunar Orbital Program, which made close-up pictures of the moon’s surface to assist in selecting landing sites for the manned mission to follow.
He became Director of the...
- By Marian Goe -
Among the outstanding employees we have here at La Costa Glen is our night time Supervisor of Environmental Services, David E. Ruiz. David has been an employee since December 2006. Prior to that, he worked in construction for 15 years and had his own video production business for five years.
All through the years he can only remember wanting to be a writer, creating plots and story situations that would fit into fictional novels or movies of some sort or another. Finally he decided that his life’s savings should be used to buy filmmaking equipment so...