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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008
June 17, 2008 Surf City Nights - Street closure, Farmer's Market and Craft Fair plus free live entertainment and 2 hours free parking in City-owned garage, 200 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA. Time: 5 to 9 p.m. Cost: Free admission. www.hbdowntown.com
June 17, 2008 Lecture - Beauvoir lecture with the theme, American Civil War history, is presented by Connie Moretti and sponsored by The Civil War Round Table of Orange County, California (CWRTOC,CA). Time: Banquet room opens for dinner at 6 p.m., lecture at 7 p.m. Cost: Membership: $20 annual, plus dinner. Location: Carrows Restaurant , 16931 Magnolia Ave., Huntington Beach, CA. Contact: Sweetsstar@aol.com
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Mayor Debbie Cook pictured above spends much time at the Bolsa Chica
Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach,
California.
An environmental activist, Cook serves on the board of
directors for the Association for the Study
of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO-USA) and Post
Carbon Institute. Prior to her election to
Huntington Beach City Council, she served on
the Bolsa Chica Land Trust legal team that
set precedent in protecting coastal habitat.
She helped create a Charter Amendment that
protects public beach and parkland from
sale, lease, or commercialization without
voter approval.
The attorney attended high school in Newport
Beach where she was runner-up in the Miss
Newport Beach contest. She also earned a
student pilot’s license, completed an
Outward Bound course and successfully
climbed Mount Whitney.
In 1989, Debbie began a quest to save
Huntington Beach’s natural resources from
development, filing a lawsuit against the
Coastal Commission. A settlement saved
beaches and parks from development.
In 1996, the California Coastal Commission
approved a plan to construct thousands of
houses in the Bolsa Chica wetlands. The
Bolsa Chica Land Trust sued the Coastal
Commission in an effort to protect the 1,700
acres of wetlands, at the time the largest
unprotected wetlands south of San Francisco.
The suit challenged the commission’s
approval of the construction of housing on
coastal wetlands. The suit was successful at
both at the local and appellate court level
and resulted in a published opinion that
protects coastal wetlands throughout
California.
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