This week in The Alpine Sun

Lead Stories

Supes accept CE map, question traffic numbers  
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted on Aug. 2 to accept the Circulation Element map of the General Plan 2020 update, which will dictate roads in the unincorporated parts of the county, including Alpine and the Back Country.  

Walkers will raise money for cancer research 
Seventeen teams, with 12 to 15 members each, will take to the Joan Mac Queen track on Saturday morning, Aug.19 for the first lap of the Alpine and Back Country Relay for Life. 

Jacob blasts proposed Sunrise Powerlink 
Even as the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) was giving its approval to San Diego Gas and Electric’s massive Sunrise Powerlink project, District 2 Supervisor Dianne Jacob continued to denounce the project as unnecessary and too expansive for the unincorporated Back Country of San Diego.  

Wrong-way smuggler goes to trial one year after incident
A federal jury was sworn in Monday to hear the trial of a Tijuana man who is charged with not only smuggling illegal aliens into the country, but also with smuggling 692 pounds of marijuana in the same carload that hit a California Highway Patrol vehicle near Pine Valley. 

Local artists will add Alpine flare to 9/11 memorial tile display in NYC
A memorial wall at the corner of 7th Avenue and 11th Street, near the site of the infamous Sept. 11, 2001 attack in New York City, holds more than 5,000 hand painted tiles honoring those who died in that horrible event. This fall a tile from Alpine will be displayed on that wall.
 
Alpine Community Center decides fate of former fire station building 
The former fire station at 1834 Alpine Blvd. will soon have a new use. The Alpine Community Center board decided at their last meeting to offer the building for rent, since the ACC itself did not have an immediate use for the building.

Local readers flip more than 10,000 pages in county library challenge
Alpine, Descanso and Campo have tallied up the pages and brought their specific chapters of The San Diego County Library Reading Challenge to a close.

Boil order lifted in Rancho del Campo
County officials lifted a boil-water order for the Rancho del Campo area on Monday, after issuing the order due to elevated bacteria levels in the water system.

Civic Report: High speeds and ORVs a rising concern on roads and trails

Dance Nights step off Thursdays and Fridays
The Alpine Community Center hosted another Friday Night Dance with refreshments offered, beginning at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dance instructor, Luis Sumaya led everyone in the Cha-Cha and some swing dance steps.
 

Columns/Opinion

Spiritual Sunrise with Merry Murray: When God’s servant is put out to pasture 

My Turn with Adam B. Summers: Minimum wage, minimum opportunity

Just The Fact's Ma'am with Carol Lovejoy: Unfortunately, Alpine is not the small country town it used to be

Making The Grade with Steve Hunyar: ABR could reinstate critical thinking and debate in college classrooms
Class Action with Chuck Taylor: School board trustees must put students before everything else


Sports

Mountaineers prepare six teams and two cheer squads for new season