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IMMIGRATION
NATION PAGE 7
CHICAGO ISCUPCHAMP
SPORTSPAGE 12
BROAD SELL-OFFON WALL STREET
BUSINESS PAGE 10
U.S. SENATE PASSES LEGISLATION
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The chance of a public marinaremaining at Pete’s Harbor afterits conversion into 411 waterfronthigh-rises — a demand by oppo-nents and a concession by thedeveloper — is now lost becausethe state forced owner PaulaUccelli to terminate leases of theouter waterway, according to herspokesman.As of June21, Uccelligave notice toend her 28-yearlease with theState LandsCommissionfor the outerharbor, an areadeveloper PaulPowers hadagreed to keep as public slips if Redwood City officials approvethe application. Uccelli said shehad little choice because the com-mission issued a breach of con-tract, ordered her to make millionsof dollars in capital improvementswithin 60 days and claimed shehad not provided timely notice of her husband’s 2005 death.“At this junction, the StateLands Commission has made it lit-erally impossible to maintain theouter harbor and has in all likeli-hood needlessly ruined anyprospect of a future public marinaat Pete’s Harbor,” Uccelli said in aprepared statement.Pete Uccelli opened the 21-acreharbor in 1958 and the quirkyboat-dwelling community becamea Peninsula landmark. Uccelliplanned to sell her land and trans-fer the outer harbor lease toPowers for his planned develop-ment. However, as news of thepending sale broke and Uccellievicted tenants, opponents foughtback against the proposal andquestioned the State LandsCommission about her right to doso under the existing lease termswhich called for a commercialmarina. Powers attempted to splitthe difference by agreeing to pub-lic slips and even financial com-pensation to move remaining ten-ants in return for the opposinggroups to drop their efforts. No
Public marina jeopardized at Pete’s Harbor
Longtime owner terminatesleases afterState Lands Commission orders quick and costly improvements
By Bill Silverfarb
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Beekeeping is forbidden inFoster City.Most who work for the city,however, could not tell you whyand some on the City Council wereunaware of the fact until the DailyJournal asked them about it.Beekeeping was banned in resi-dential areas pretty much from theFoster City’s inception in 1971,Assistant City Manager SteveToler said. City code was thenamended in 1975 to ban beekeep-ing outright in every part of thecity, he said.“I can’t tell you why and it hasnever beenrevisited,” Tolersaid.That couldchange, howev-er, since ViceMayor CharlieBronitsky andCouncilmanHerb Perez saidthey were bothwilling to consider beekeeping inthe city if it gets on a councilagenda.“Many of our rules are antiquat-ed,” Perez wrote in an email. Healso said he is committed to updat-ing all ordinances that may “haveoutlived their usefulness.”Bronitsky was not aware thatbeekeeping was banned in thecity.“If a resident wants to raise thisissue, they can always appear atany City Council meeting and askus to put it on the agenda or theycan email any of us to do the same.We would then have the benefit of a staff report and the applicant’sposition from which to make adecision,” Bronitsky wrote theDaily Journal in an email.In March, members of theBeekeepers’Guild of San MateoCounty attended a San Mateo CityCouncil study session on sustain-
Beekeepers abuzz over rules
By Heather Murtagh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Summer in Millbrae starts witha contract agreement betweenschool officials and teachers forthe year that just ended. The one-year agreement doesn’tsolve all the contract issues. Bothsides will resume talks inSeptember to tackle an agreementfor the two upcoming schoolyears. Under the agreement, whichmembers of the MillbraeEducation Association approvedearlier this month, teachers willhave a 2 percent salary increaseeffective July1, 2012 and aone-time, 1percent pay-ment from thebase salaryprior to the 2percentincrease. Inaddition to thesalary increase,the agreement calls for a $75boost for health benefits, accord-ing to a staff report. Linda Luna, superintendent of the Millbrae Elementary School
Teachers ink contract dealwith district
Paula Uccelli
Millbrae reaches one-year agreement;additional talks to pick up again in fall
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Beekeeping in the county faces restrictions depending on where you live.Some cities ban beekeeping outrightas others restrict how many hives can be kept or where the hives may be located.
Foster City forbids it,othercities’ordinances vary
Nickie Irvine
San Mateo Union tostudy bondfinancing
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
Financing options for executingwhat’s left of two voter-approvedbond measures —M and O —willbe part of a special study sessionheld by the San Mateo Union HighSchool District Board of Trusteestonight. How the money is financed couldchange the district’s cash flow andthe potential projects to be tackledby the bond funds. This isn’t the first time the use of bond funds, as well as financingoptions, has been revisited. Theplans for using money fromMeasure M —a 2006 $298 million
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Linda Luna
House investigators:Disability judges are too lax
WASHINGTON — Social Security isapproving disability benefits at strik-ingly high rates for people whoseclaims were rejected by field offices orstate agencies, according to Houseinvestigators. Compounding the situ-ation, the agency often fails to dorequired follow-up reviews months oryears later to make sure people are stilldisabled.Claims for benefits have increasedby 25 percent since 2007, pushing thefund that supports the disability pro-gram to the brink of insolvency,which could mean reduced benefits.Social Security officials say the pri-mary driver of the increase is demo-graphic, mainly a surge in babyboomers who are more prone to dis-ability as they age but are not quite oldenough to qualify for retirement bene-fits.The disability program has beenswamped by benefit claims since therecession hit a few years ago. Lastyear, 3.2 million people applied forSocial Security Disability orSupplemental Security Income.In addition, however, managementproblems “lead to misspending” andadd to the financial ills of the program,investigators from the HouseOversight and Government ReformCommittee say.“Federal disability claims are oftenpaid to individuals who are not legallyentitled to receive them,” three seniorRepublicans on the House committeedeclared in a March 11 letter to theagency. Among the signers was thecommittee’s chairman, Rep. DarrellIssa of California.
Tightrope walk over Arizona gorge draws 13M viewers
LITTLE COLORADO RIVERGORGE, Ariz. — Aerialist NikWallenda’s tightrope walk over agorge near the Grand Canyon drewnearly 13 millionviewers to the livetelevision broad-cast.The DiscoveryChannel saidMonday that thequarter-mile stunt atthe Little ColoradoRiver Gorge wasamong the mosthighly viewed shows in the station’shistory.It also prompted 1.3 million tweetsSunday, making it one of the toptrending topics.Wallenda took 22 minutes to crossthe 2-inch-thick steel cable, 1,500feet above the dry river bed. He did itwithout a harness or safety net.The well-known daredevil contendedwith the wind and repeatedly called onGod to calm the swaying cable.He wore a microphone and two cam-eras, one that looked down on the riverbed and one that faced straight ahead.
11-year-old California boy sells gun art in New York City
NEWYORK — ALos Angeles boywho hopes to get people talking aboutgun violence made $2,500 in NewYork City selling his art made fromtoy guns and tape.According to the Daily News(http://nydn.us/17wYcoA), CharlesGitnick sold 17 pieces on PrinceStreet and West Broadway this week-end, where many artists sell theirwares to wandering pedestrians. The 11-year-old says he wraps toyguns in multicolored tape and thensplatters the canvases with paint. His parents tell the newspaper theycame to the city in March and Charlessold 20 pieces and made $2,000. Charles says he feels that guns arescary and dangerous. He hopes his artgets people talking about gun vio-lence. He also says he wishes guns wereonly in art galleries.
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Actor-ComedianJimmie Walker is 66.
This Day in HistoryThought for the Day
1973
Fformer White House Counsel JohnW. Dean began testifying before theSenate Watergate Committee, impli-cating top administration officials,including President Richard Nixon aswell as himself, in the Watergatescandal and cover-up.
“Four hostile newspapers are more to befeared than a thousand bayonets.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Singer Carly Simonis 68.Comedian RickyGervais is 52.
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A man juggles a flaming torch in Belo Horizonte,Brazil,which is hosting the Confederations Cup soccer tournament.
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The story “Fire service sharing expands: Hybrid RedwoodCity-San Carlos department moving toward full service” inthe June 22, 2013 edition of the Daily Journal had incorrectinformation. The possible new consolidated fire stationwould service the Fire Station 19 area on Edmonds Road.
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The Daily Derby race winners Winning Spirit,No.09,in firstplace;LuckyCharms,No.12,in second place;and Eureka,No.07,in third place.The race time was clocked at 1:46.50
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MILLBRAE
Vandalism.
Avehicle window was smashedon the 1000 block of El Camino Real before2:37 p.m. Saturday, June 1.
REDWOODCITY
Suspicious solicitors.
Two residents report-ed two men tried to sell them cleaning productson Windsor Way and Birch Street before 9:28p.m. Monday, June 3.
Suspicious person.
Awoman wearing a skirtwas flashing her private parts on El CaminoReal before 7:12 p.m. Friday, May 31.
SANMATEO
Vandalism.
Somone reported finding a sec-ond hole in their wall on the 300 block of ElmStreet before 1:37 p.m. Monday, June 3.
Police reports
Wasn’t feeling well
Avehicle pulled over and a passengerleaned out the door and vomited on the1400 block of Hillside Circle inMillbrae before 4:19 p.m. Saturday,June 1.
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
The Service League of San Mateo Countynamed longtime employee and interim directorKaren Francone to permanently take up thereins of the nonprofit which administers pro-grams preparing and transitioning jail inmatesback into society. Francone has been involved with the ServiceLeague since 1990 when she helped launch theorganization’s first Hope House which givesrecently released female inmates an intensiveresidential substance abuse treatment programbefore reuniting with their families and thecommunity. She has been director of the HopeHouse program since 1997, working to expandto six houses and offer transitional housingopportunities.“Karen is already such anessential component of this organization and weare very excited that she’llbe working in this role,”said Mike Scanlon, presi-dent of the board of direc-tors, in a prepared state-ment.The decision came after anationwide search to replace former executivedirector and county supervisor Mike Nevin whoserved six years before his December 2012death from esophageal cancer. Scanlon citedFrancone’s “instrumental” work with Nevin tomake the Service League successful in theannouncement of her naming.In 2010, the Service League honoredFrancone’s work by dedicating the Karen MarieWellness Center which provides Hope House’sclients with a fully-equipped health and fitnessfacility.Francone said she is “incredibly honored” bythe new opportunity and chance to continue theorganization’s work.“Twenty years ago, I joined the ServiceLeague because I wanted to work hands-on toimprove the lives of some of our community’most vulnerable people. Today, I’m celebratingthe success that we’ve had and embracing thechance to promote the Service League’s contin-ued growth so that more and more people canbenefit from our programs,” Francone said.
Service League names new executive director
KarenFrancone
Oktoberfest moving back to San Carlos
Peninsula Oktoberfest, the annual one-daycommunity excuse for music, food and goodbeer, is heading north this fall to San Carlos.After a four-year run in Redwood City,Peninsula Oktoberfest organizers want a small,more intimate event and believe the HillerAviation Museum in San Carlos provides theperfect mix of large outdoor space, centralizedlocation and — on the off chance of rain as inthe celebration’s first year — indoor space.Organizers are touting the free parking,indoor rest rooms and limited ticket sales tohelp keep lines short. Oh, and the addition of cool airplanes to check out is a bonus for visi-tors, too. The smaller location also frees volunteersfrom the extra burden that comes with biggerevents and popularity, according to anannouncement of the move. More details will be released closer to theactual event at www.hiller.org.
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