Archive for June, 2001

City Council must reconsider ban on alcohol at beaches | Clerk verifies opponents have enough signatures

Angela Lau. The San Diego Union - Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 26, 2001. pg. B.1

Opponents of a round-the-clock ban on alcohol at parts of Mission Beach and Pacific Beach are now officially armed with enough voter signatures to force the City Council to reconsider the ban.

Surf’s up — but not lifeguard squad — at Imperial Beach

The San Diego Union - Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 21, 2001. pg. B.17

Imperial Beach is a much nicer place to visit than it used to be. Beach closures due to polluted waters are way down. The city is sprucing up beachfront areas. Alcohol is banned in the beach area so the street drunks are gone. The pier area was renovated. And just recently, 120,000 cubic yards of soft sand was laid along the city’s south beaches.

When in the course of human events …

Peter Rowe. The San Diego Union - Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 19, 2001. pg. E.1

YE OLDE EDITOR’S NOTE: San Diego patriots are battling Tyrants who wouldst ban GROG from our beaches. Committees of Correspondence are petitioning to recall Byron Wear, a Burgess who plot’d to crush our RIGHT to swill in the surf.

Beach rowdiness | Alcohol bans accomplish what police cannot

The San Diego Union - Tribune. San Diego, Calif.: Jun 3, 2001. pg. G.2

Assistant Police Chief Lou Scanlon says there’s a big problem with the belief that instead of a trial ban on alcohol at the beach, San Diego needs greater police enforcement of existing laws.