Encinitas summer in February makes news in San Francisco

San Francisco Chronicle:

Surfers and kayakers share the beach as they enjoy the unusually warm temperatures Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Encinitas, Calif. California is having another day of unseasonable warmth before a low-pressure system brings rain and snow.

If summer weather in October or November is "Indian summer," what's summer in February? Australian summer?

2/17/16 City Council meeting open thread

The current city council has continued prior councils' practice of not providing written summary minutes of council discussion, but only "action minutes" which state the outcomes. Encinitas Undercover will provide a forum for observers to record what occurs at each council meeting.

Please use the comments to record your observations.

Cardiff Chevron targeted in manic I-5 crime spree

While you were sleeping...

A man suspected of shooting up parked cars in Mission Hills and trying to rob an Encinitas gas station was arrested after carjacking a box truck in Torrey Pines and temporarily shutting down the Interstate 5 freeway early Tuesday morning.

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At around 4 a.m., San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a reported knifepoint robbery at a Chevron station at 805 Birmingham Dr. in Cardiff.

Olivenhain drug mansion figure soliciting depressed former NFL players

NFL Players Association:

Lawrence Burzynski (also known as Larry Burns), President of the Crosby Centers (also known as the Crosby Sports Treatment Center for NFL Players Concussion Treatment), 613 West Valley Parkway #102, Escondido, CA.

The subject Lawrence Bruzynski is using the alias name of Larry Burns and identifies himself as President of The Crosby Centers. The Crosby Centers are ACTIVELY engaged in the solicitation of current and former NFL players to undergo treatment for concussion-related injuries using this website.

Bruzynski, using the alias name Larry Burns, was featured in a recent ESPN story which aired on January 31, 2015 titled: "Depression After Football."

Bruzynski has accumulated numerous convictions for felony FRAUD related violations. He has been convicted in federal prosecutions in Wyoming, Colorado, California and elsewhere. Bruzynski, a career criminal, is recorded under FBI Number 189372M7.

Anastasia Kirkeby, who identifies herself as co-owner of the Crosby Center was arrested in December, 2014. She was charged with multiple offenses, including operating a DRUG house and a firearms offense.

Any member of the NFLPA who is undergoing treatment at the Crosby Centers or has been contacted by a representative of the Crosby Centers should exercise extreme CAUTION.

If you have any information related to this matter, you are requested to contact Supervisory Investigator Robert Brockway, California Department of Insurance, Orange, CA, tel. 714-712-7652.

You may also contact NFLPA Director of Security and Operations Tim Christine at 202-756-9102 or Tim.Christine@nflpa.com

Kirkeby was the owner of Olivenhain mansion that was the target of a spectacular but fruitless SWAT raid in 2014, and the site of a fatal fire six months later. The mansion was listed online as a drug rehab center, and online reviews refer to Larry Burns as a key figure there. Burns was sued by Kirkeby along with several banks in a lawsuit apparently related to the mortgage on the property.

Burns was featured in this ESPN story on treatment for former NFL players.  Kirkeby was sentenced to counseling, presumably not at the Crosby Center, for misdemeanor charges stemming from the SWAT raid.

2/10/16 City Council meeting open thread

The current city council has continued prior councils' practice of not providing written summary minutes of council discussion, but only "action minutes" which state the outcomes. Encinitas Undercover will provide a forum for observers to record what occurs at each council meeting.

Please use the comments to record your observations.

No Rail Trail Kook

We hope that's washable paint. If not, that's very bad form.

Photo credit: Teresa Barth.

Cardiff merchants sue Kook race organizers

Union-Trib:

For the first three years of the race, the business association and race organizers had a partnership agreement. Under that agreement, revenue from the runs paid for beautification efforts around the statue, including new landscaping. For this year’s event, however, Lebherz decided to go in a different direction and approached a citywide parks group — the nonprofit Patrons of Encinitas Parks organization — about a partnership.

“We just felt like we had accomplished all the stuff we had wanted to accomplish (around the statue),” he said.

The trouble is that he’s still using images of the statue to promote the race, Cardiff 101 MainStreet Association officials said. In the lawsuit filed in federal court, the association alleges that the organizers of the for-profit Cardiff Kook Run have knowingly used the copyrighted surfer images more than 25 times in recent months on race publicity without paying the association.

The suit seeks $150,000 in damages, plus attorney fees.

Lebherz said Thursday that he didn’t know until the legal dispute began that the surfer statue image was copyrighted. After being notified, he took down a billboard sign and agreed to stop using the image on other publicity materials once Sunday’s event concludes.

The Kook was despised locally and unknown beyond until local pranksters made it what it is today. I'm not sure why Cardiff 101 needs to get lawsuit-happy and demand a cut every time someone wants to use a picture of a statue on public property. Maybe the city should start charging Cardiff 101 rent for the use of public property if that's the way they want to play.