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Good morning, San Diego ☀️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- The county’s proposal for a half-cent sales tax increase will be on your November ballot.
- A new restaurant is set to open at the base of the “Mr. A’s” building.
- Some things to do this weekend, besides run a marathon.
Jennifer Vigil
News editor
Top story
‘Mom, what can we do?’ Community steps up for Little League coach struck by recurring seizures
Imagine one moment of youthful derring-do reverberating decades later – and in terrifying ways.
That’s what happened to Rich Lansner, a Little League coach in Lake Murray who has been suffering from seizures since 2023. That was nearly 25 years after he tried to make a stunt catch, but ended up on a playground with a serious head wound. Even then, doctors told him he might face long-term risks because of the injury.
That has come to pass, and specialists are still working on the best treatment plan for Lansner, a former San Diego State student. The path could include brain surgery and though he’s scared, the coach has been touched by the big-hearted support of fellow coaches, parents and young players even as he has had to cut back on many activities due to the seizures. He gets “emotional thinking about it,” he said.
Our contributor Noah Perkins has more on Lansner’s journey – and also on how you can help.
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Stories you should know about
🏘️ A group of La Jolla residents is suing to a stop at 13-unit townhome project: The lawsuit alleges that the amount or ground-floor retail in the Adelante project violates La Jolla’s community plans.
🎸 Your guide to the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon: The main event is the full marathon – a 7-hour affair that begins at Sixth Avenue and Quince Street finishing at Ash and Union streets. Major streets in areas like North Park, Mission Bay and Old Town will be closed.
⛏️ California moves to ban quartz countertop fabrication: The ban attempts to curb a growing silicosis epidemic. Workers in fabrication shops can inhale tiny crystalline silica particles, scarring their lungs, to which a transplant is often the only treatment.
🎭 ‘Sound of Music’ tour alive with pre-WWII politics, fleshed-out supporting roles: The former Old Globe artistic director Jack O’Brien’s latest interpretation of the “The Sound of Music” is in San Diego through this weekend.
🏡 Opinion: Measure A will put the humanity back into San Diego housing.
What else we’re reading
📝 The two gunmen that killed three men at a San Diego mosque last week, it turned out, also hated women. One expert called the misogyny “an important thing” that has been left out of much of the coverage of the killings. (NPR)
🚔 A deputy director of the County’s Health and Human Services Agency was booked at the San Diego County jail on a the charge of vehicular manslaughter, after a deadly hit-and-run. (Union-Tribune)
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Locals Only
🍕 We asked you: What’s the best pizza spot in College Area/ Navajo/ Rolando? Here’s what San Diegans had to say:
🍕 Woodstock’s Pizza on El Cajon Blvd. from Doug P.
🍻 Milo’s Pizzeria on El Cajon Blvd. from Susan C.