Lewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer died with six other people in a small plane crash in Massachusetts. He had attended a gathering at the home of Doris Kearns Goodwin, the presidential biographer, according to an AP story in the U-T.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vermont,plans to introduce legislation this week to permit veterans who have to wait too long for medical appointments to take their cases elsewhere. Sanders is chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, according to a U-T story credited to both the Washington Post and the AP.
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Restaurateurs David and Lesley Cohen have expanded to Long Beach with a restaurant called Bo-Beau Kitchen and Roof Top. Reporter Michele Parente of the U-T said the top chef is Katherine Humphus, 25, who worked her way up from being a hostess at the Prado Restaurant in Balboa Park. Humphus, of Palestinian descent, went to Le Cordon Bleu in Paris to learn gourmet cooking, and the Cohens gave her a chance as chef at the 70-seat Bo-Beau in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego. Her cooking, say her pleased employers, c’est magnifique!
Jacob Gardenswartz is among ten students who have won Chelsea Scholarships from the family of the slain teenager Chelsea King. The U-T’s David Garrick reports that Gardenswartz created a group at Francis Parker School that utilizes short dramas to educate younger students about bullying. The ten winners will dive a total of $85,000 in awards.
Looking back on sports headlines from 50 years ago, the U-T’s Bill Pinella noted that it was then that Chargers football head coach Sid Gillman was asked about the possibility of his team moving somewhere else. “Nobody in this organization leaves town without a round-trip ticket,” Gillman replied. “This is our home—this is where we are going to stay.”
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Preceding culled by San Diego Jewish World staff