Community Corner
Stage and Song, and Can't We All Just Get Along
A road show tradition, minus Bob and Bing, but Tutto Fresco isn't moving just yet. Planning commissioners have a banner day, and the U.S. has a star-spangled-banner day. Also, something happened to Rodney King.
1. More than at the Latter-day Saints' church on Via con Dios today and Friday in Rancho Santa Margarita. Kids from seven wards will be participating. The evening should go quickly: Seven shows, all 12 minutes in length, are scheduled. One minute for setup, two minutes to get off the stage. That's entertainment.
2. The for a 66-unit townhome complex near Alma Aldea and Banderas, as well as a BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse on the site currently occupied by T.G.I. Friday's.
3. Although Stephen White, the owner of Tutto Fresco Trattoria, hopes to move the restaurant from its current site, he says it's not a done deal yet. There are still a few kinks to work out before the restaurant can be relocated down the street.
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4. On this date in history, March 3, 1887, deaf and blind Helen Keller, 6, met teacher Anne Sullivan, whose "touch teaching" technique pioneered the way blind children are taught today; Keller graduated college and became an activist and international lecturer. In 1931, the "The Star Spangled Banner" became America's national anthem; it was written by Francis Scott Key after witnessing a night of bombing of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. In 1991, at 12:45 a.m., Rodney King stopped his white Hyundai and was videotaped getting beaten by unknowing Los Angeles police; when the cops were tried, and exonerated on April 29 it set off the L.A. riots that ended in at least 50 deaths, 2,000 injured and $1 billion in damage. Say it together: Can't we all just get along?
5. Celebrating birthdays today are Jessica Biel (29), and athletes Jackie Joyner-Kersee (49) and Hershel Walker (49). Others include Star Trek's Scotty, the late James Doohan (1920), Jean Harlow (1911)—who would have been 100 today—and the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (1847).
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For What It's Worth: March is Adopt a Rescued Guinea Pig Month. It's National Write a Letter of Appreciation Week. It's Peace Corps Day.
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