The Auwahi Wind Farm is a renewable energy project located on the eastern most part of Ulupalakua Ranch’s property. It is operated by Sempra Energy, a company that specializes in developing and operating clean energy projects around the world.
Le Ranch Bo Soleil est une ferme où l'atmosphère est conviviale et où tous sont au rendez-vous: moutons, chèvres, poules, lapins, et sans oublier nos nombreux chevaux! Nous avons à vous proposer plusieurs expériences plaisantes tels que des randonnées à cheval ou en carriole, des cours d'équitation, des camps de jour, une visite de la ferme, un salon de races et des tours de poney. Venez vous détendre et vous amuser en toute sécurité au ranch Bo Soleil! Nous offrons également produits de la ferme dont viande d'agneau, œufs et depuis maintenant un an du bon miel frais.
Scripps Ranch Swim & Racquet Club swim lesson coordinator Kristen Neth speaks to children in a steady, easy-going tone, making swim lessons a relaxing experience. (photo courtesy of Kristin Neth)
The ability to swim is both a joy and an important life skill, but learning to swim can be pretty intimidating for children. Fortunately, Scripps Ranch has a very good learn-to-swim program in its midst at the Scripps Ranch Swim & Racquet Club (SRSRC), and it’s available to club members as well as non-members.
One of the stars of this program is Kristin Neth, the SRSRC swim lesson coordinator and assistant aquatic director. Observing Neth teaching children to swim is a calming experience for the parents because she makes it a relaxing experience for their kids. Neth speaks to the youngsters in a steady, easy-going tone, asking about their interests beyond the pool — kid things. The children respond in a trusting way.
“My philosophy is to teach them to fall in love with the water — and not to be forced … but to actually teach them to love the water, be comfortable in the water, relaxed in the water and then from there, to just grow and learn to swim,” Neth explained. “I definitely build trust and then I slowly introduce comfort, ease, relaxation and then we just keep repeating and just slowly introducing them into swimming.”
Neth said that after a while, her small students realize they can swim. “I tell people all the time, ‘You just come once a week, just keep coming and they will swim,'” she said.
Neth grew up in a life filled with swimming. She was raised in Ojai. She was a competitive swimmer most of her young life and into college, she said. She competed on the team at San Francisco State University. After college graduation, she got married and moved to San Diego where she has lived for about 24 years. She resides in Scripps Ranch and is the mother of two daughters.
Neth was a member of the SRSRC Masters Swim program — a swim team for adults — and eventually became involved teaching swim lessons at the club.
“I really enjoy it and I love teaching kids to swim,” she said “It’s something that I’m very thankful for in my life that I learned and applied myself to. I really enjoy watching kids day in and day out just love swimming.”
The SRSRC has an abundance of swim lessons available, starting with the Parent-Tot class for children 6-months-old to 3 years of age. This class involves parents getting into the pool with their kids. “We teach them how to hold their baby (in the water), introduce your baby to the water, maybe float on their back, blow bubbles, hold their breath — just the basics for babies 6-months and up,” Neth explained.
The club has group swim lessons for kids at several levels, all nicknamed for sea creatures: Flounders (ages 2-3); Grunion I and II (ages 3-5), Shrimp I and II (ages 4-6); Seahorse (ages 6-12); Seals (ages 6-12); Stingrays (ages 6-12); Dolphin and Swordfish (ages 6-12).
There is also a non-competitive swim group called the Squids. Participants on this team learn to swim well, get exercise, learn endurance, learn to dive, do flip turns and all the strokes. It teaches them the basics that a swimmer on a competitive swim team would need, but the classes leave enough time for the youngsters to pursue other activities outside of swimming. It’s a good activity in itself, letting participants learn skills and discipline while enjoying the sport of swimming. This group has two teams — Squid I and Squid II — and each meets three days every week for one-hour sessions. The Squid program runs year-long.
The group swim lessons are mostly seasonal, running in spring, summer and fall. About 10 instructors are employed by the club for lessons during the summer and about six instructors teach lessons in the fall and spring, according to Neth.
The SRSRC also offers private, one-on-one swim lessons with an instructor, as well as semi-private lessons in which a child can learn swimming with a friend or sibling.
Swim lessons are taught at the SRSRC Trails club, 10216 Scripps Trail. The after-school program at the Trails location offers some swim lessons as well. In addition, the SRSRC offers summer swim lessons for kids in its preschool program at the Aviary location, 9875 Aviary Drive.
For more information, click on the “Swim” button at srsrc.com or email Neth at [email protected].
2 eggplants, sliced in 2-inch rounds
1 lb (500 g) ground meat
1 cup tomato sauce (strained tomato)
Preheat the broiler and line a baking sheet with foil. Lay the eggplant slices in a single layer on the prepared pan, and using a brush, brush evenly on both sides with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, then broil eggplant 5 minutes per side, until browned. Place broiled eggplant in the bottom of a baking dish. I had 2 layers of eggplants on top of each other. Reduce oven heat to 350ºF (180ºC).
In a skillet, add some oil and saute the onion, add the garlic. When transparent, brown the meat then sprinkle with salt, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. Cook for 5-7 minutes using a wooden spoon to break up the meat as it cooks.
Add the chopped tomatoes and cook for 5-8 mn. Add the tomato sauce and let it simmer for a few minutes.
Carefully pour the meat mixture over the eggplant rounds and bake for 30 minutes.
Serve with rice or plain yogurt.
Did you know that eating pomegranates on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) is a tradition for some? It’s said to contain 613 seeds which corresponds with the 613 commandments of the Torah. Actually, seed counts can vary from 165 to 1370, but with an average of 613. And in some Greek villages, brides have been known to hurl pomegranates through the door so hard that they burst open upon crashing to the floor. Purportedly the ritual supports a happy marriage and many children.
When choosing a pomegranate variety, it’s smart to consider what you want to use them for as some varieties have soft jewel-like seeds and other contain hard seeds. Do you want to juice the fruit, or do you want to eat them fresh (which means you should look for a softer seed variety)?
If a large pomegranate isn’t in your cards, then consider the dwarf and dense pomegranate ‘Nana’. But be aware that the fruit will not be tasty, so grow this smaller-sized shrub more as a 3-foot ornamental than an edible shrub. This variety is excellent in containers and good for bonsai.
A sample of varieties to grow in your garden:
Wonderful: A popular, long-lived, and improved variety with a fountain-like habit and large, purple-red fruit with a deliciously tangy flavor. Also good for making juice and cold hardy to zone 8.
Eversweet: As the name implies, this variety is very sweet and, a bonus, virtually seedless. Red skinned with clear, non-stain producing juice. Grows to a 10-foot arching shrub or can be trained as a tree or espalier. This variety is known for having showy flowers with a long blooming season and extended crops. Cold hardy to zone 8.
Did you know that eating pomegranates on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) is a tradition for some? It’s said to contain 613 seeds which corresponds with the 613 commandments of the Torah. Actually, seed counts can vary from 165 to 1370, but with an average of 613. And in some Greek villages, brides have been known to hurl pomegranates through the door so hard that they burst open upon crashing to the floor. Purportedly the ritual supports a happy marriage and many children.
When choosing a pomegranate variety, it’s smart to consider what you want to use them for as some varieties have soft jewel-like seeds and other contain hard seeds. Do you want to juice the fruit, or do you want to eat them fresh (which means you should look for a softer seed variety)?
If a large pomegranate isn’t in your cards, then consider the dwarf and dense pomegranate ‘Nana’. But be aware that the fruit will not be tasty, so grow this smaller-sized shrub more as a 3-foot ornamental than an edible shrub. This variety is excellent in containers and good for bonsai.
A sample of varieties to grow in your garden:
Wonderful: A popular, long-lived, and improved variety with a fountain-like habit and large, purple-red fruit with a deliciously tangy flavor. Also good for making juice and cold hardy to zone 8.
Eversweet: As the name implies, this variety is very sweet and, a bonus, virtually seedless. Red skinned with clear, non-stain producing juice. Grows to a 10-foot arching shrub or can be trained as a tree or espalier. This variety is known for having showy flowers with a long blooming season and extended crops. Cold hardy to zone 8.
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Members of a panel discuss cinema during a past San Diego International Film Festival event.
Film fest holds at home series
The San Diego International Film Festival continues to seek safe ways to share artistic experiences. Now, the Festival is providing an online film series.
The San Diego International Film Festival is working with a number of the filmmakers who brought films to the 2019 San Diego International Film Festival. Every Wednesday through May 6, the San Diego International Film Festival will be providing a new film. The San Diego community is invited to join and watch them from home.
Film selections are from films that were screened during the 2019 San Diego International Film Festival and are not yet released in theaters or on a streaming service. Viewers will also be treated to a special message from the filmmakers prior to the screening of each film.
Online Film Schedule: April 15; “Safe Inside” | Luxembourg | Thriller/Mystery April 22; To Be Announced April 29; “Love in Kilnerry” | Comedy/Romance May 6; “Philophobia” | UK | Drama
Here is a link to the full series: https://sdfilmfest.com/online-film-series/
Participants receive a custom link and have five days to watch each film.
Passes: https://sdfilmfest.com/passes-2020/
Donations: https://secure.sdiff.com/e/donation-2/tickets
The San Diego International Film Festival (SDIFF) presented by the San Diego Film Foundation (501.c.3), is the region’s premier film event and one of the leading stops on the independent festival circuit. SDIFF celebrates film’s power to create empathy via new perspectives that emerge from powerful and compelling storytelling. Great film sparks great dialogue, so the SDIFF is dedicated to giving audiences the unique opportunities to meet with and hear from first time and veteran filmmakers as they debut their latest work. Watch major studio premieres on the road to the Hollywood awards season. SDIFF also has a robust year-round calendar of unique events, special screenings and film tracks.
My favorite for marinate my grilled fish. The sweet savory from sweet soy sauce combine with fresh lemon flavor..hhmm...
