NewsVolunteer of the Year: Congratulations to 2011 Volunteer of the Year Judy Taylor! The volunteer of the year dinner will be held in early 2012, time and place TBA.
Miss Mira Mesa: The Mira Mesa Town Council and the Mira Mesa Chamber of Commerce are proud to present the Miss Mira Mesa/Miss Mira Mesa Teen Pageant. The pageant will take place on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Country Inn and Suites, 5975 Lusk Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92121. Tickets can now be purchased online.
Mira Mesa Maintenance Assessment District: The proposed MMMAD budget for 2013 was approved at the January 2012 meeting. Here are the MMMAD budget summary and MMMAD budget details.
Mira Mesa High School Celebrates its Success! The
California Department of Education (CDE) through a very stringent
selection process has honored some of the states most inspiring public
schools. Based on Academic Performance Index and federal standards Mira
Mesa High School has been named a 2011 California Distinguished
School and is concurrently awarded for its Exemplary
Career Technical Educational Program. Only seven schools in
the State of California received both of these honors. There was a
celebration on Thursday, Dec 15th at 1:00pm in front of
the Mira Mesa High School Administration Office off of Reagan Rd. with
presentations by SDUSD Superintendent Bill Kowba, School Board
representative John Lee Evans and Councilmember Carl De Maio.
Bari Vaz developed this slide presentation on redistricting that was presented at the September MMTC meeting. Due to redistricting, term limits and retirement, all of Mira Mesa's elected representatives in the City, County and State government, as well as Congress, will be replaced in 2012.
Mira Mesa Street Fair Saturday, September 17, 2011: Crafters and other vendors, non-profit and business information booths, and food from around the world were at the 13th Annual Mira Mesa Street Fair, hosted by the Mira Mesa Town Council, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, 10 AM to 5 PM, Camino Ruiz from Mira Mesa Blvd. to New Salem St. See Pam Stevens' detailed description of the event. Pictures are now online.
Congratulations to the 2011 MMTC/Verne Goodwin scholarship winners Mindy Kim Truong, Christ-Lynn del Rosario, Linda Pham, Cherie Tran, Melisa Chavez and Yazmin Hernandez! The picture below shows scholarship committee chair Jon Labaw (left) and MMTC president Ted Brengel (right) with the scholarship winners at the June 2011 MMTC meeting.
Pam Stevens' book on the history of Mira Mesa in the Images of America series from Arcadia Press is now available at the Mira Mesa Barnes and Noble. It is also available at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
San Diego 311: this is a new app for iPhones, Android phones and Blackberries for reporting potholes and a long list of other problems directly from the City. Available now from iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace.
CartSnap App: The CartSnap iPhone app can be used to easily report abandoned shopping carts in Mira Mesa. iPhone 3, 3GS, and 4 owners can download the CartSnap app for free, then use the app to report abandoned shopping carts in Mira Mesa.
Mira Mesa Theatre Guild hosted "Mira Mesa's Got Talent" at the Epicentre on May 21 at 7:00 PM. The performances were outstanding. Ted Brengel has posted some pictures.
Mira Mesa Living, a new community newspaper, is being distributed by community residents and businesses. If you would like to volunteer to distribute copies, or have a business where you would like to place copies of "Mira Mesa Living" for public distribution, please contact Publisher@MiraMesaLiving.com.
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group of young artists are painting the electric boxes along Mira Mesa
Blvd and other areas around Mira Mesa. See pictures of their work at
www.miramesa.carbonmade.com.
There is now a Farmer's Market in Mira Mesa at Mira Mesa High School. It will be open every Tuesday afternoon from 3-7 PM (6 PM during the winter). It is sponsored by and a fundraiser for the Mira Mesa High School Foundation.
Long time Mira Mesa volunteer Orlando Vernacchia died on January 4, 2010. Orlando was Mira Mesa Town Council Volunteer of the Year in 1989. He was 92 years old.
97 abandoned shopping carts were collected by Mira Mesa volunteers the
morning of Feb 20, 2010.
Abandoned Shopping Carts: We have been looking for more effective ways to address the abandoned shopping cart problem in Mira Mesa. On Saturday morning, Feb 20, 2010, Mira Mesa volunteers staged a demonstration by collecting abandoned shopping carts and placing them at a visible location next to Mira Mesa Blvd. The event was covered on KGTV Channel 10 News. After the event, the shopping cart retrieval service and individual stores were called to come and collect them. This is a typical number of carts that can be easily found any time on Mira Mesa streets. Abandoned shopping carts can be reported to the California Shopping Cart Retrieval Service at (800) 252-4613. In 2008 CSCRC picked up 6,331 shopping carts in Mira Mesa. The online reporting site formerly at CSCRC has been deactivated. Here is information for reporting carts and getting them picked up.
The Mira Mesa Scripps Ranch Sentinel newspaper ceased publication as of July 2009.
Jonas Salk Elementary School: A new elementary school is planned at the intersection of Parkdale and Flanders, to be paid for by Prop. MM bond money. The draft EIR for the school can be downloaded from the school district Web site. The Mira Mesa Community Planning Group sent a letter in support of this long-awaited project. A volunteer Design Task Force worked with the School District on the elementary school design and completed its work on November 5, 2003 (Design). The school was scheduled to open in 2006 but has now been delayed until at least 2013 to satisfy U.S. Fish and Wildlife requirements for vernal pool/fairy shrimp preservation. The school site was graded for a school when the surrounding homes were built in 1980, but because of the long delay in construction, vernal pools formed on the site and the School District is being required to perform mitigation for them. The latest information as of 11/7/2011 is here.
Many thanks to Bruce Brown, Marv Miles, Ted Brengel, Mike Davis and the HEROES crew and other volunteers for painting the brick fence along Mira Mesa Blvd east and west of Parkdale. Paint and supplies were provided by Frazee Paint and the Mira Mesa Town Council. You can now donate money to the "Adopt-A-Wall" program to paint the walls along major Mira Mesa streets and paint out graffiti throughout Mira Mesa.
RSVP: The Retired Senior Volunteer Patrol is looking for new volunteers. See also Helping Our Police to Help You.
Heroes Program: HEROES ("Hometown Efforts to Rescue Our Endangered Society") is designed as an informal "Good Samaritan" group effort to help neighbors in need. If you would like to help with future events or want more information please call Mike Davis at (858) 549-0392 and/or send an e-mail to volunteer@miramesaheroes.org.
Congressman Brian Bilbray was guest speaker at the August 3, 2009 Mira Mesa Town Council Meeting.
Outdoor Theater planned for Mira Mesa High School: At the October 2007 meeting, Mira Mesa High School principal Jeff Olivero described a plan for an amphitheater with a 50x200 foot 3D screen and headphone sound being planned for the northeast corner of the high school.
Web Changes and Notes
Community services page added August 2009.
Revised Web Site color scheme and format March 2008.
Links to all Mira Mesa area schools added November 2002.
The Mira Mesa Town Council Web Site won a San Diego Press Club second place Award in 2001 for non-profit Web site.
This Web Site was created on 2001 January 14.