Wygods To Disperse California Bloodstock

By Lenny Shulman

Marty and Pam Wygod have announced they will be dispersing their California breeding stock at Barretts in Pomona, Calif., in October.

The dispersal involves about 100 head, including broodmares, yearlings, and weanlings. The Wygods also plan to sell their River Edge Farm near Buellton, Calif., with stallions Bertrando , Benchmark , Tribal Rule , and Dixie Chatter moving to other California breeding facilities in time for the 2011 breeding season.

“We have confidence that these mares and stallions will continue to do well in the future, and we will continue to support the stallions,” Marty Wygod stated June 16. “But going forward our primary focus will be breeding and raising horses in Kentucky.”

River Edge Farm, encompassing 250 acres, was started by the Wygods and farm manager Russell Drake in 1975. One of the Wygods’ first stakes winners, Pirate’s Bounty, stood his entire 19-year stud career at River Edge, and got the farm off to a flying beginning. He was California’s leading freshman sire, topped the state’s 2-year-old sire list twice, and California’s general sire list three times. The Wygods bred and raised 44 of his 63 stakes winners at River Edge.

More recently, in 2006-2008, the Wygods were the leading California breeders, with progeny bred and raised at River Edge earning more than $10.5 million over those three years.

“Although I am saddened that the era of River Edge Farm as one of the dominant and most successful breeding operations in California is coming to an end, I am very proud of our achievements,” noted Drake. “But we have determined that the opportunities for the Wygods’ breeding operation are far greater in Kentucky. We intend to continue to pursue our goal of producing and racing top-quality homebreds.”

The Wygods’ homebred grade I winners include Private Persuasion, Key Phrase, Pirate’s Revenge, Silent Sighs, Sweet Catomine, After Market , Life Is Sweet, and Idiot Proof . They have raced, alone or in partnership, additional grade I winners Pharma, Exotic Wood, Tranquility Lake, and Twice the Vice, and have bred grade I victors Octave, Officer , and Unfurl the Flag.

“Pam and I have enjoyed our breeding program in California, and we are very proud of the results of our progeny over the last 35 years,” said Marty Wygod. “What Russell Drake has accomplished with these mares, and raising the foals, is unprecedented, and we could have never done it without him.”

Both natives of New York, the Wygods moved to California in 1995 and live in Rancho Santa Fe near Del Mar.

THE 20TH ANNUAL WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD JUNE 19TH AND 20TH 2010

SATURDAY 9:00AM-5:00PM SUNDAY 9:00AM-4:00PM

FOOD, MUSIC, RAFFLE, ALL THINGS WOODEN BOAT!

Father’s Day Weekend 2010
Wooden boat owners are invited to display their craft at The San Diego Wooden Boat Festival, held every Father’s Day Weekend at Koehler Kraft. More than 80 wooden craft, ranging from row boats to regal schooners, are on hand for viewing by the public.

This year proceeds will go to Challenged America-check them out at: www.challengedamerica.org

Download our online application here and e-mail it to info@koehlerkraft.com.

Interested in volunteering for the San Diego Wooden Boat Festival? Contact us at: koehlerkraftwbf@gmail.com

Switchfoot Bro-Am

The Switchfoot Bro-Am surf contest and concert returns to Moonlight Beach in Encinitas on Saturday, June 26, 2010. An annual event near and dear to Switchfoot’s hearts, the Bro-Am was created to give back to the San Diego community while benefiting a local children’s charity through funds raised at a pre-event auction night set for Friday, June 25, as well as from vendors on the beach day-of, sponsorships, and an after-party at the Belly Up Tavern.

The 6th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am presented by Hurley will benefit the San Diego and Oceanside chapters of StandUp For Kids, a national nonprofit volunteer outreach organization dedicated to making a difference in the lives of at-risk, homeless, and street kids. (www.standupforkids.org)

“The Bro-Am has been my favorite day of the year ever since we started it back in ’05,” notes Switchfoots’s Jon Foreman. “To see our hometown come together to help out a deserving group of kids is an incredible experience – surfing, music, and the San Diego scene at its best. We feel truly honored to again partner with StandUp For Kids, an incredible organization serving at-risk youth here in San Diego and across the country. Last year was our biggest year ever, and we hope to top it again this year.”

“StandUp For Kids is extremely proud that Switchfoot has chosen our Southern California programs as the beneficiary of their Bro-Am again this year,” notes Rick Koca, founder and CEO of StandUp For Kids. “Their dedication, support, and commitment to the homeless and street kids of Southern California is unequaled. For Jon and the band it isn’t just about raising funds, but getting to know the kids and the volunteers. Their impact in Southern California is felt long after the last surfboard is put away, the last song has been played, and the last fan has left the beach.”

The Switchfoot Bro-Am will again work with San Diego-based Sustainable Waves to offer cutting-edge solar-powered sound and staging. Sustainable Waves utilizes the renewable energy sources of the sun to deliver 100% pollution-free concerts. By using solar power rather than a diesel generator or grid power, the Bro-Am will avoid emitting approximately 1,000 lbs of CO2 into the atmosphere (the equivalent of not driving your car approximately 1,100 miles or the annual sequestration of 66 trees).

In addition to the surf contest and live music performances, the beach day will also feature a nerf surf jousting exposition between surf contest heats and an expression session.

This year’s surf contest participants so far include riders representing Hurley, Billabong, Surfer Magazine, Jedidiah, Surf Ride, Macbeth, Jet Pilot, and AKA, as well as professional surfers Rob Machado, Tom Curren, and Timmy Curran, and members of Switchfoot.

A free concert on the beach will feature performances by a number of well known local as well as national bands. The lineup will be announced June 7. Past performers have included Jason Mraz, Tristan Prettyman, Timmy Curran, Tom Curren, The New Archaic, Jane Carrey Band, Switchfoot, and many more.

This year’s beach vendors include the Surfrider Foundation, Pizza Port, Nika Water, Harney Sushi, Surf Ride, Keep A Breast, Quiver Boardworks, California Quivers, Love Nail Tree, INT, Surf Aid, Jedidiah, So Cal Kettle Corn, Walking On Water, the Belly Up, 91X, To Write Love On Her Arms, Life’s Rad, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, Outside The Bowl, Le Grand Cru, Hurricane Olympics, Project7, Zinka, Water For Christmas, We Minus Me, Vitamin Water, GenerateHope, Tonic, Green Cruiser, Inc., Clif Bar, Nature’s Agave, First Light Surf, Christian Surfers Encinitas, and more. Clothing brand Hurley will also have its “Phantom Truck” on location, allowing beachgoers to customize boardshorts, win prizes, and potentially win an all-expense-paid trip to Indonesia with Rob Machado and the Hurley Team.

“The Bro-Am has always been about good times and good causes and I’m proud Hurley is a part of it,” says surfing icon Rob Machado. “Plus, it’s always interesting to surf with my left foot forward. I can’t wait.”

An after-party hosted by Teva and Switchfoot featuring Silent Comedy, The Howls, and special guests will take place that night at The Belly Up Tavern to help raise additional funds for StandUp For Kids.

“This is the event of the year,” Koca concludes. “Switchfoot comes home to tell these kids that they care about them, that the kids count, and they’ll keep talking about America’s homeless and street kids for as long as it takes.”

Making a better place to learn

Campus renovation brings a host of improvements

By Bruce Lieberman, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.

John Gastaldo / UNION-TRIBUNE

The Rancho Santa Fe School District has big plans for the R. Roger Rowe campus renovation. A multipurpose room under construction will be used as a performing arts center that can seat 300 to 350 people, designed with theater acoustics and a loft for theater performances.

Photo by John Gastaldo – UNION-TRIBUNE

The school construction is funded by a $34 million bond measure that voters passed in February 2008 and $3 million left over from a bond measure voters passed in 2004 to renovate the R. Roger Rowe campus.

For more than eight years, educators in Rancho Santa Fe have sought a new public school campus with modernized classrooms and more space.

The school district finally has that place. This fall, a new campus for 700 students in kindergarten through eighth grade will open at the site of the former 52-year-old R. Roger Rowe campus.

The school, completely re-imagined for up to 850 students, is a compact addition to the Rancho Santa Fe Village.

“I think we’ve maximized use of our funds to make a focal point for the community for years to come,” said Lindy Delaney, superintendent of the Rancho Santa Fe School District.

The school is styled after the Spanish colonial architecture that characterizes the area. The campus is dominated by two-story stucco classroom buildings topped with red tile roofs.

The school cost $37 million to build. A total of $2.5 million in construction aid has been held up by the state, requiring a handful of scaled-back plans — at least temporarily. The project has been funded by a $34 million bond measure that voters passed in February 2008, plus $3 million left over from a bond measure voters passed in 2004 to renovate the R. Roger Rowe campus.

San Marcos architect John Trittipo designed the school, but Delaney said the school district worked hard to incorporate suggestions from many people in the Rancho Santa Fe community. Construction began in May 2009.

The front of the campus, facing La Granada, is centered by a two-story administration building, flanked on each side by two-story classroom buildings that include science and technology labs. Directly to the right of the administration building sits the campus library. Second-story walkways connect classroom wings, allowing students to circulate from class to class above ground level.

Courtyards and outdoor amphitheaters, meanwhile, will provide places for students to congregate.

The most prominent structure on campus will likely be the multipurpose room, which is being built to be used also as a performing arts center that seats between 300 and 350 people. Designed with theater acoustics, enhanced lighting and a loft for theater performances, the performing arts center is expected to be a community focal point for musicians, dancers and actors.

While a multipurpose room was budgeted to cost $3.5 million, a community campaign has raised an additional $1 million to outfit it as an arts center. Another $1 million is still needed to complete it, Trittipo said.

As portable classrooms are removed this summer, more space for a new parking lot and blacktop space will be available.

Bruce Lieberman: (760) 476-8205; bruce.lieberman@uniontrib.com

Architect’s Rancho Santa Fe

By Roger Showley, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 12:02 a.m.

Book cover for HOMES—"Lilian J. Rice Architect of Rancho Sante Fe, California" by Diane Y. Welch.

Copyright 2009 Darren Edwards

Lilian J. Rice, shown in 1923, designed a U-shaped home for J.B. and Bessie Cushman to resemble an Andalusian farmhouse. The realty office in the Civic Center, known as the Francisco Building, was a food store in the 1930s. Historic photo courtesy Diane Welch; contemporary photos by Darren Edwards (center) and Bertocchini Photography (right)

“Lilian J. Rice: Architect of Rancho Santa Fe, California”

Lilian J. Rice: Architect of Rancho Santa Fe

By Diane Y. Welch

Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, Penn., 224 pages, $49.95

DETAILS

“Excitement is building: the life, work and legacy of Lilian J. Rice”

Reception and book signing: 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Solana Beach City Hall, 635 S. Highway 101, Solana Beach

Diane Y. Welch’s book is expected to be available in local bookstores starting next month. In the meantime, it may be ordered online at lilianjeannetterice.com

The rustic feel of Rancho Santa Fe — its central business and shopping core and many of its oldest homes — owe their look to Lilian Jeannette Rice, one of San Diego’s first female architects. Now, 72 years after her early death, tribute has come, courtesy of Diane Y. Welch and her coffee-table book, “Lilian J. Rice: Architect of Rancho Santa Fe.”

“She defined the modern career woman of her era: well educated, professional and independent,” wrote Welch, a freelance writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune.

But except for architectural historians and a few locals, Rice’s wider body of work was virtually unknown. And even the San Diego Historical Society’s biographical website suggested at one time that her boss, Richard Requa, was responsible for Rancho Santa Fe, not Rice.

Welch spent five years researching Rice’s life and produced a combination biography and photographic tour of many of her buildings.

“How sad that Lilian Rice’s reputation and name had just kind of fallen into the shadows,” she said.

Rice (1889-1938) was the daughter of Julius and Laura Steele Rice, who had moved to National City in 1880, five years ahead of the real estate boom that seized Southern California. Her father, grandfather and uncle became involved in National City development and promotion, but when the boom went bust, Julius returned to teaching.

After graduating from National City High School in 1906, Lilian enrolled at the University of California Berkeley, months after the San Francisco earthquake. She joined the campus Architectural Association and designed her first house for her father in 1908.

One of her professors was John Galen Howard, designer of more than 20 stately buildings on campus and dean of the newly formed architecture department. But Rice also adopted the Arts and Crafts philosophy of “nature-inspired craftsmanship,” Welch said, a reaction to the highly decorative preferences common in the Victorian era.

From 1910 to 1920, Rice traveled, taught and took postgraduate courses, worked part time for San Diego’s first female architect, Hazel Waterman, and then joined the firm of Requa and Jackson as a draftsman. The firm won the commission to design Rancho Santa Fe for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. But its principals soon turned over the work entirely to Rice.

“Simplicity of design, Rice’s hallmark, showcased her Arts and Crafts ideals,” Welch wrote, “as both residential and commercial buildings were treated with the same attention to quality of craftsmanship and artistic, yet restrained detail. The landscape in effect became her canvas, and her buildings conformed to the lay of the land.”

The ranch was conceived of as a rural getaway for wealthy industrialists from the East. Its architecture took its clues from pueblo and Spanish Revival styles, popularized at the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, and both Requa and Rice traveled to Spain to gain firsthand knowledge.

Among her projects were the key buildings, including the Inn at Rancho Santa Fe, in the civic core, and dozens of private homes, including one for Bing Crosby, who was a key promoter of the Del Mar Racetrack. From 1927, she designed homes in other parts of San Diego, including La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Escondido and La Mesa. Nonresidential work included the ZLAC Rowing Club in Mission Beach and Rice Elementary School in Chula Vista.

But Rice’s career was cut short when she contracted ovarian cancer and died Dec. 22, 1938. She never married, probably because she had decided to pursue a full-time professional career that few married women had available to them.

“She was an independent woman on a career path and would not throw it all away for a relationship,” Welch said.

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Santa Fe Christian students earn full rides to USC

May 13, 2010

		Scholarship recipients Jenna Puterbaugh and Olivia Gardner

Outstanding academic and athletic performances have opened the doors at the University of Southern California for two Santa Fe Christian students: Jenna Puterbaugh and Olivia Gardner as each have accepted full scholarships to one of the nation’s leading private research universities.

Puterbaugh, one of the top sprinters in California, is the current state champion in the 55 meters and recent winner of the 100- and 200-
meter events at the elite Arcadia Invitational, will be attending USC on an athletic scholarship. Jenna commented: “I chose USC because I enjoyed the atmosphere and the pride that I felt all the students had for their school. After having been educated at Santa Fe Christian my entire life, I am ready to test my faith at a secular school and am confident that USC will allow me to excel spiritually, athletically and academically.”

Olivia, a junior at Santa Fe, is graduating a year early to begin her journey at USC embarking on an M.D./Ph.D. track majoring in biochemistry. Olivia noted: “Santa Fe recognized my desire to get an early start on my college career which will involve years of study. I was able to fulfill the school’s chemistry requirement by taking summer classes through John Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. With my college counselor’s encouragement I was able to double up on math and English classes to reach my goal.” An exceptional student, Olivia was awarded a Trustee Scholarship by USC and accepted into the Thematic Options Program as well as the Freshman Science Honors Program. For more info: (858) 755-8900 or www.sfcs.net.

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YOU GO GIRLS!!!!!!!

Surfing USA for dogs hit Imperial Beach again in San Diego over the weekend. Many of the dogs we introduced to readers in this surfing story attended the 5th annual Loews Coronado Bay Surf Dog competition Saturday.

A screening of the Marmaduke movie followed. More than hundred guests and their dogs came to the screening, including many who competed in the competition earlier in the day.

Among them was George the Great Dane , the 200-pound dog who played Marmaduke in the film, and some of the winners of the Paw Print Post contest.

Ricochet and Kalani (as seen in the video) won the tandem competition. These litter mates are stars in the surf. Ric recovered from an injury just in time to partake in the event that was a charity event for the San Diego Police department canine unit. Ricochet has moved on and is doing an arthritis fund raiser now.