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BMX Fans Gather for Olympic Time Trials

BMX Fans Gather for Olympic Time Trials

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Hundreds of BMX fans will gather at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista this weekend to cheer on Olympic hopefuls for this year’s London Games. Local BMXers, Nic Long of Lakeside and Mike Day of San Diego, will be competing for a spot on the team — and…

Two Camps Scheduled at The Olympic Training Center

Two Camps Scheduled at The Olympic Training Center

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The Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista will be the site of two summer camps organized by the Chula Vista Recreation Department this month. Registration is now open for a soccer camp for kids and a sports camp for disabled children. The week-long soccer camp from June 18-22 is geared…

Strider World Cup Sprints To San Diego For USA BMX U.S. Nationals

Strider World Cup Sprints To San Diego For USA BMX U.S. Nationals

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Strider Sports International, the world’s premier no-pedal balance bike manufacturer, is bringing the Strider World Cup™ to San Diego, California for the USA BMX U.S. Nationals on Saturday, June 16th at the Olympic Training Center, 2800 Olympic Parkway, Chula Vista, CA 91915. The season-long Strider World Cup™ series gives toddlers…

Toll Cuts Will Go Into Effect June 30th on SB Expressway; Drivers will see savings of up to 40 percent

Toll Cuts Will Go Into Effect June 30th on SB Expressway; Drivers will see savings of up to 40 percent

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Effective Saturday, June 30, SANDAG will cut tolls for using State Route 125/South Bay Expressway by as much as 40 percent. Savings for customers enrolled in the FasTrak electronic tolling system will be especially dramatic. New tolls will range from 50 cents to $2.75 for FasTrak users and from $2…

Eastlake Little League Major’s Angels Face Red Sox in Finals

Eastlake Little League Major’s Angels Face Red Sox in Finals

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Last evening, Eastlake Little League’s Majors Red Sox beat the Dodgers to face the Angels in the Majors Finals.  The  top ranked Red Sox, will face the 2nd ranked team, Angels at the little league field this evening at 5pm The second ranked team, the Angels, coached by Jerry Lewis,…

District 42 Little League’s Tournament of Champions & All Stars slated to start June 18

District 42 Little League’s Tournament of Champions & All Stars slated to start June 18

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California District 42 Little League’s annual Tournament of Champions is set to start June 18 with play in three divisions: 7/8, Minor and Major. The 7/8 TOC division will employ a modified nine-team round-robin and take place at Chula Vista National, South Bay, Eastlake and Southwest Little League fields. Preliminary-round…

Kiko Garcia Verbally Commits to Pepperdine

Kiko Garcia Verbally Commits to Pepperdine

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Congratulations to Kiko Garcia, an alumni of the Park View Little League 2009 World Series Champions.  He has verbally commited to attend Pepperdine University on a full scholarship. Eastlake Times www.Eastlaketimes.com is an online guide to Eastlake, a master planned community of Chula Vista. Eastlake News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Chula…

Summer Rugby Clinics Offered in Eastlake, Chula Vista

Summer Rugby Clinics Offered in Eastlake, Chula Vista

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The South Bay YMCA, Serevi Rugby and the City of Chula Vista Recreation Department have joined forces to introduce rugby to local youth. Rugby has become so popular it will be a metal sport in the Summer Olympics in 2016. Designed to develop basic physical and mental skills of rugby,…

ELL Majors Red Sox, Angels Advance

ELL Majors Red Sox, Angels Advance

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With Eastlake Little League’s post season playoffs underway, the Eastlake’s Major’s top ranked team, the Red Sox, advanced to the quarterfinals with a win over the Padres yesterday. The team, led by Coach Bob Daily, finished the season with an 11-4 record. The Majors Red Sox will face the Dodgers,…

Southwestern College Gets Two New Vice Presidents

Southwestern College Gets Two New Vice Presidents

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Southwestern College’s governing board unanimously approved two new hires at its board meeting May 23 to fill vacancies in Superintendent/President Melinda Nish’s cabinet. Kathy Tyner was named vice president for academic affairs and Steven L. Crow was named vice president for business and financial affairs. Tyner, a 22-year veteran of…

USA Cycling Trials at CV OTC on June 16th

USA Cycling Trials at CV OTC on June 16th

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Reigning Olympic silver medalist Mike Day and bronze medalist Donny Robinson are among eight BMX riders who will compete for the automatic berth to the U.S. team headed to the London Games. USA Cycling announced the field for its BMX trials this week. The other riders are Connor Fields, Nic…

Eastlake High Baseball Players Commit to College

Eastlake High Baseball Players Commit to College

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Three seniors from the Eastlake High School baseball team have committed to playing in college. Outfielder Andrew Calica will join UC Santa Barbara from Eastlake High in San Diego after receiving numerous awards in his junior season. Calica was a First Team All League player and a Second Team All-CIF…

6th Annual Snores & Smores

6th Annual Snores & Smores

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More than 300 people will be pitching tents, roasting marshmallows, watching movies and playing games Friday, June 8, during an overnight campout at Montevalle Park. The sixth annual Snores & Smores, an event hosted by the City of Chula Vista’s Recreation Department, is focused on families and includes a campfire…

Leonardo da Vinci Health Sciences Charter School Changing Venues

Leonardo da Vinci Health Sciences Charter School Changing Venues

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Leonardo da Vinci Health Sciences Charter School is pulling up stakes at Mater Dei Catholic High School this summer and moving to Karl H. Kellogg Elementary to save money on rent and other expenses. Since it opened in 2009, the charter school has been housed at the private high school.…

Stroller Strides of Chula Vista Offers New Moms More Fun Through Fitness with Free Class and Summer Concert

Stroller Strides of Chula Vista Offers New Moms More Fun Through Fitness with Free Class and Summer Concert

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For the perfect cure for new moms looking for variety in their fitness regimen, Stroller Strides of Chula Vista is proud to offer Free Class and Summer Concert, which will be held on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at Mt. San Miguel Community Park at 9:00am. Unique to the Stroller Strides…

Jessica Sanchez Loves Her Hometown Burritos

Jessica Sanchez Loves Her Hometown Burritos

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Eariler this month American Idol Runner-up, Jessica Sanchez did a home town performance in Chula Vista for American Idol. Since she had not been home in 2 months, after the hometown performance she was escorted by a dozen police officers and the American Idol television crew back to her caravan.…

San Diego Real Estate Company Is Giving Away iPads

San Diego Real Estate Company Is Giving Away iPads

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The Gaylord-Hansen Mortgage Group, a branch of Gateway Funding, is giving away an iPad to attendees of their free homebuyer workshop. The giveaway is taking place on June 9th, 2012, at 10:00 AM at their upcoming Homebuyer workshop at the Bonita Library in Bonita, CA. “We are thrilled to be…

Toll Prices to Drop on SR 125/South Bay Expressway

Toll Prices to Drop on SR 125/South Bay Expressway

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  Following the motion made by Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox, the SANDAG Board today unanimously authorized an across-the-board reduction in tolls on State Route 125/South Bay Expressway, believed to be the first-ever comprehensive resetting of toll rates by a public toll road operator in the United States. “It is…

Free Things on Memorial Day

Free Things on Memorial Day

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When Memorial Day began years ago, the war dead were placed front and center. The holiday’s original name, Decoration Day, came from the day’s main activity: leaving flowers at cemeteries. More recently, the last Monday in May, and the weekend preceding it, has come to mark the unofficial beginning of…

REOs Short Circuited by Short Sales

REOs Short Circuited by Short Sales

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During a frenetic one-day New York media tour last week, I got the chance to sit down with Fred Katayama of Reuters to discuss the foreclosure numbers, which show that bank repossessions (REOs) dropped to a 49-month low in April. Banks seized a total of 51,415 U.S. properties during the…

Eastlake Little League Gearing Up For Playoffs

Eastlake Little League Gearing Up For Playoffs

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As the 2012 regular season comes to a close, the Eastlake Little League is busy planning for the 2012 playoff season.  Within the Majors Division, there have been several changes for post-season play. They include: (1) All teams will participate in post season play (2) Tie breakers for the purpose…

Eastlake Titans Baseball Crowned 2012 Mesa League Champions

Eastlake Titans Baseball Crowned 2012 Mesa League Champions

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Congratulations to this year’s 2012 Eastlake titans Mesa League Champions   Jorge Balvaneda Helping People Succeed and Celebrating Their Success. Co-founded Bravado Awards, specializing in donor walls, bronze plaques, corporate awards and sports trophies.  Also Co-founded Chula Vista Sports, a free community website covering all sports and outdoor activities in and around the…

Phillip Phillips draws higher praise in ‘American Idol’ finale

Phillip Phillips draws higher praise in ‘American Idol’ finale

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Jessica Sanchez wishes she could’ve changed one thing about the “American Idol” finale: her final song. The judges completely dismissed “Change Nothing,” the lukewarm potential future single that failed to fully showcase the 16-year-old singer’s vocal prowess during the Fox talent competition’s final performance round Tuesday. “Idol” judge Randy Jackson…

Phone Scammers Using The Sheriff’s Department To Trick Seniors Into Wiring Money

Phone Scammers Using The Sheriff’s Department To Trick Seniors Into Wiring Money

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In the past week the Sheriff’s Elder Abuse Unit has received information about two telephone scams which prey upon elderly residents of San Diego County. The first scam involved a suspect who claimed to be a ‘relative’ of an elderly woman whom he could not reach by phone. The suspect…

Where The Wild Things Are Food & Wine Classic June 2nd

Where The Wild Things Are Food & Wine Classic June 2nd

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A fundraiser for the newly re-branded Living Coast Discovery Center (formerly Chula Vista Nature Center) featuring cooking demonstrations, wine and food tastings, live music, animal encounters and more is scheduled for Saturday, June 2, from 3 to 7 p.m.. All proceeds from the culinary celebration will benefit the center’s animals,…

Olympian High School and Eastlake High School Named Among Best in Country

Olympian High School and Eastlake High School Named Among Best in Country

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In its annual ranking of schools, U.S. News & World Report magazine has named the best schools in the nation. This year, all 12 of the Sweetwater District’s comprehensive high schools were named Silver Medal winners, placing them among the top nine percent of over 22,000 schools in the U.S.…

Eastlake’s Luca Casimoro Wins 100 Fly

Eastlake’s Luca Casimoro Wins 100 Fly

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SWIMMERS from the greater San Diego area competed in two divisions at the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) San Diego Sectional Championships May 16-19. Division 1 Torrey Pines High School grabbed the team title, scoring 194.5 points. Carlsbad found itself in second (174), followed closely by La Costa Canyon (171) and…

ELL Fundraiser

ELL Fundraiser

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Don’t have plans for dinner tomorrow?  Then eat at Islands in Eastlake and support Eastlake Little League! Islands is donating 20% of your bill to ELL if you dine with them between 5pm to 9pm and present the attached flyer.  Remember, ELL is a non-profit organization and needs your support!…

Jessica Sanchez, Phillip Phillips make “Idol” final

Jessica Sanchez, Phillip Phillips make “Idol” final

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He brought the “American Idol” judges to their feet, but Joshua Ledet couldn’t win over fans and was sent home from the top-rated TV talent show on Thursday, leaving Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips to battle for the crown on next week’s finale. The elimination of Ledet – through audience…

Idol Dream Continues for San Diego’s Jessica Sanchez and Her Many Fans

Idol Dream Continues for San Diego’s Jessica Sanchez and Her Many Fans

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Fresh off a whirlwind homecoming that saw hometown favorite Jessica Sanchez perform for thousands of local fans, the 16-year-old singer looks to take yet another step toward the coveted title of this year’s American Idol. Family, friends and fans will gather, as they have weekly now, at Eastlake Tavern &…

Eastlake Community Garage Sale Set For May 19, 2012

Eastlake Community Garage Sale Set For May 19, 2012

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Eastlake’s Semi-Annual Garage Sale Will Be A Community Garage Sale on Saturday, May 19, 2012 starting at 7:00 AM   Eastlake Times www.Eastlaketimes.com is an online guide to Eastlake, a master planned community of Chula Vista. Eastlake News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Chula Vista Real Estate, and more. More Posts –…

2nd Annual Miss Eastlake Scholarship Finalists

2nd Annual Miss Eastlake Scholarship Finalists

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On Sunday, May 6, 2012 the 2nd Annual Miss Eastlake and Miss South Bay Scholarship Pageants were held at Eastlake High School. Over 40 young women ages 10-24 years of age vied for the titles and the Educational Scholarships. Denise Jenkins, of National City and Melissa Floyd, of Jamul took…

2012 Chula Vista Fun Run Registration Ends

2012 Chula Vista Fun Run Registration Ends

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Early bird registration ends May 14 to walk, stroll or run at the U.S. Olympic Training Center on Saturday, May 19 for the Chula Vista Community 5K Fun Run/Walk! The fun run/walk will be held on the center’s inspirational grounds where participants have the opportunity to run along side Olympians…

Jessica Sanchez Comes Home

Jessica Sanchez Comes Home

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Chula Vista in California has long been seen as a quiet , suburban town compared to its more famous neighbor, San Diego. Then the Jessica Sanchez phenomenon happened. Chula Vista’s hometown girl came home Saturday to the kind of motorcade and welcome once associated with astronauts and sports champions. That’s…

Rise in Residential Investment May Help Home Depot-Lowe’s

Rise in Residential Investment May Help Home Depot-Lowe’s

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Spending on construction of new residential housing and improvements to existing homes is at a three-year high, a trend that may boost sales at Home Depot Inc. (HD) and Lowe’s Cos. (LOW) Private-residential fixed investment, which includes major replacements such as new roofs and improvements like finishing a basement, rose…