The internationally acclaimed Calder Quartet comes the the CHS Theatre for an afternoon performance. See an amazing string quartet perform chamber music. A rare treat in Coronado!
CHS Theatre - 3:00pm
Roger Boddaert, owner of Protea Farms of California, will be the guest speaker at the first meeting of the year for the Crown Garden Club. Mr. Boddaert is renown as landscape designer, arborist, horticulturist, and grower. He designs and plants custom gardens throughout Southern California. His gardens have been featured in many prominent magazines including Sunset, Architectural Digest and Better Homes and Gardens to name a few.
On Sept 25th, 9:00am at the Library Winn Room, Mr. Boddaert will present ”Maker of Natural Gardens.” This featured event is open to the public.
Caltrans will start work on State Route 75 repaving the road from Avenida Lunar, down Orange Avenue, to the Bridge Toll Plaza. Work is scheduled from Monday, Sept 22nd - Thursday, Sept 25th from 8:00pm - 4:00am to minimize the impact to commuters and business owners and residents. Work will continue on the same schedule in the following weeks, with all the work estimated to be completed in about a month and a half. Watch for detours!
For more information please call Caltrans Information at 619-688-6670.
Come to the Coronado Ferry Landing to view local artists and enjoy entertainment.
Sponsored by the Coronado Historical Association, Coronado MainStreet and CoSA.
For more information call 435-7242
It’s always a special treat to watch fireworks at the beach in Coronado. Your next opportunity will be on Sunday, Sept 21 at 9:00pm on the beach in front of the Hotel del Coronado.
CHS Islanders Varsity Football will kick off against Hamilton High School at 7:30pm on Niedermeyer Field - 6th Street at F Avenue.
Earlier in the afternoon the Frosh/Soph Game will be played at 4:30pm.
Games for the rest of the season are on WelcomeToCoronado.com’s calendar of events.
Coronado Coffee presents “Set My Heart on Fire” Day Conference on Sept 27 from 8:30am - 3:30pm.
The event will be held at the Coronado High School Theatre at 650 D Avenue.
Call 435-0881 for more information.
Village Hall will be the site of the annual Cub Scout Roundup from 6:30-7:30pm. Boys in grades 1st - 5th are invited to join Coronado’s Cub Scout Pack #122. Older boy scouts will do some entertaining and training with new scouts while new scout parents attend an informational meeting.
Annual cost is $45 with needs based assistance available. For more information call Scoutmaster Glenn Hopson at 619-435-9015 or email him at hopsons@sbcglobal.net.
Coronado resident, Rob Gilliland, sent a favorite picture to the Union Tribune’s Travel section and it was published yesterday in the Sunday Travel edition. Rob shot the picture in 2005 while travelling with his friends, Mel & Mike Whittemore, also Coronado residents, in New Hampshire.
Go to Union Tribune to see this pretty picture. Congratulations Rob!
On a fall foliage trip in October 2005, Rob Gilliland of Coronado shot his friends Mel and Mike Whittemore sitting on the back porch of the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H.
A quiet, early morning in Coronado on this Sunday morning was disrupted by a high speed chase through town. About 7:00am a light blue Ford Mustang traveling at a high rate of speed across the bridge and into Coronado, raced down Orange Avenue as it was being pursued by a number of California Highway Patrol and Coronado Police. The Mustang turned down Isabella, made a right on E Avenue and was slowed down by a dip at the intersection. (Let’s hear it for the dips!) The driver of the Mustang tried to evade authorities by turning into an alley, but ended up being surrounded by law enforcement on 10th Street at E Avenue. He was arrested and handcuffed. Lots of neighborhood residents came streaming out of their homes, shaken after hearing the screeching tires and revving engines.
Yours Truly was on the corner of 10th and Orange when the Mustang went past me at an unbelievably fast speed as it turned onto Isabella Avenue, followed by a number of law enforcement vehicles. An elderly couple had just crossed the street. 5 seconds earlier and this story wouldn’t have had such an uneventful ending. Was the chase necessary? It seems that once the car entered Coronado it would have been easy to catch the offender without a high speed chase. Where can he go if exits from the Strand and the Bridge are blocked. Was there a more pressing matter involved? I don’t know, but attempts to get more information about the chase were unsuccessful.
