SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –– Elissa Greenberg, a Francis Parker senior, a member of the community outreach program Whatever It Takes (WIT), was among teens written up by the U-T’s Pam Kragen in her “Making A Difference” column. She and other teens had received a $10,000 grant to mentor younger students in making healthy eating and exercise choices. In dealing with food issues, she learned that some schoolchildren go hungry when schools are out of session, and helped arrange for their families to acquire free groceries.
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District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis wrote a letter of recommendation to University of San Diego President Mary Lyons in behalf of the son of Jose Susumo Azano Matsura, according to the U-T’s Greg Moran. The contents off the letter are sealed, but the fact of its existence may indicate that her relationship to the Azano family was closer than previously disclosed. Azano is the central figure in a federal investigation concerning the funneling of campaign contibutions to Dumanis and others by Azano, who is a Mexican national. Only U.S. citizens are permitted to make contributions in American elections. Meanwhile, Dumanis was up for reelection on the day the letter was publicized.
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A newly unsealed grand jury indictment accuses Jeffrey Barton, the former administrator of the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, of molesting former cadets. Barton’s attorney Dan Greene told the U-T’s Teri Figueroa the grand jury action “will not be the be-all and end-all of this process. More exculpatory evidence exists that will become available before this case is over.”
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In Diane Bell’s U-T column, Daniel Passov reflects that he had been a UCSB sophomore in 2001 when a troubled young man drove into a crowd of students, killing four. That memory returned after the recent fatal shootings and stabbings in the Isla Vista community adjacent to the college campus. He is marketing a set of “Isla Vista Strong” T-Shirts with profits to be donated to the Victims of Isla Vista Fund created by the Santa Barbara Foundation.
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The ever-popular playwright Neil Simon has another of his plays–“The Sunshine Boys”–being produced at the Scripp’s Ranch Theatre. Reviewing it for the U-T, Anne Marie Welsh said actor-director Ruff Yeager could have “turned down the volume and quickened the pace.”
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Their names weren’t mentioned in the story by Bloomberg News’ Ian King, but you can bet Qualcomm co-founders Andrew Viterbi and Irwin Jacobs had something to smile about. Compettitor Broadcom announced it was pulling out of the business dominated by Qualcomm in chips that connect smartphones to mobile networks.
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Investor and financier Carl Icahn is at the center of an investigation by the FBI and the SEC reported by the Wall Street Journal into whether golf Phil Mikelson benefitted from his insider tips via gambler Billy Walters. No charges have been brought in the case which the U-T’s Dan McSwain outlines in a primer.
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California Chrome’s trainer Art Sherman and his assistant trainer and son Alan Sherman are Jews. A recent story in the Racing Form about the man who readied the thoroughbred for victories in the Kentucky Derby and in the Preakness–and who next tries to win the Belmont and racing’s Triple Crown — said Sherman didn’t have a bar mitzvah but considers himself a cultural Jew. He loves ethnic foods and his favorite restaurant in San Diego — you guessed it — is D.Z. Akins Delicatessen.
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Preceding collated by San Diego Jewish World staff