With spring coming, so too does the cleaning
Spring is always a new beginning, and spring is right around the corner. So far this year Friends have installed their new board members, we have had much needed rain and bulbs are popping in...
View ArticleA Place to Call Home: Taking a stroll through memory lane
Spring, plus turning 86, has spurred me on to weeding and shredding and have unearthed some interesting newspapers from the past to share. As we travel down memory lane, how many remember Gebhart...
View ArticleA Place to Call Home: Pizza, brew and a great view
On a gorgeous summer morning after enjoying tea and “crumpets” with a friend at Pappalecco on San Elijo, I strolled around the corner to Best Pizza & Brew, 102 Aberdeen, for a meeting with Manager...
View ArticleA Place to Call Home: Leucadia author to talk about new book
Author and family man John Valdez has lived in North County since 1972 and has “always, always written.” Asked about hobbies, John says he really doesn’t have hobbies but has a long list of “things I...
View ArticleA Place to Call Home: How we arrived at this ‘Place’
Congratulations The Coast News on celebrating 30 years of keeping our community in the know with “real” news. I am looking forward to many more informative issues. As I read the story my mind wandered...
View ArticleA Place to Call Home: Cardiff resident gives back to her community
Lisa Bentson, president of the Friends of the Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library, was born in Seal Beach, California, and graduated from Huntington Beach High School. After graduation her work as a civilian...
View ArticleCardiff Library kicks off new year
Friends of the Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library kicked off the new year with their annual membership meeting. President Lisa Bentson chaired the meeting, which included voting for board of directors and...
View ArticleA Place to Call Home: A stroll down memory lane
I find perusing old newspapers a delightful past time and I have been doing just that; reading a collection to be passed to the Encinitas Historical Society. The Feb. 18, 1981, issue of the Citizen...
View ArticleLeisurely fun at the library
As summer fades away we look back on the many good memories it has brought to the Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library. We kicked it off on June 16 with Marion Ross sharing her book, “My Days Happy and...
View ArticleA Place to Call Home: Library tradition raises funds and spirits
When I read in a 1990 Michigan church bulletin that 16 pennies laid side by side measured a foot making a mile of pennies $844.80 (5,280 x 16), I thought it a clever fundraiser for the Friends of the...
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