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January 14, 2002
Tickets are still available for a Thursday seminar on how small businesses can best take advantage of the Internet. Admission is cheap and one attendee will win a year’s worth of free Web hosting services.
Sponsored by Cox Business Services, The ABCs of Internet for Small Businesses symposium will take place from 8 to 11:30 a.m., at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park.
Veteran journalist and author Michael Rogers of Newsweek.msnbc.com will be the keynote speaker.
The ABCs of Internet for Small Businesses will include topics such as e marketing, basic technology definitions, customer service, building a Web site and how government agencies are helping small businesses.
Channel 4 San Diego's ultra smooth, wise and refined Dennis Morgigno will moderate a panel discussion that includes Deanna Weeks, East County Economic Development Council, Deborah Egelske, Mind Innovations, Mike Fenton, owner of Musik Musik, David Montierth, Cox Business Services and San Diego Metropolitan editor Tim McClain.
The cost is $15 by Jan. 17, or $20 at the door, which includes a continental breakfast and admission to the museum. To register, call (619) 269-2400 or visit www.e3sd.com.
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The San Diego Symphony says it will receive an endowment commitment totaling $100 million from Joan and Irwin Jacobs. This is the largest individual donation ever awarded to a symphony orchestra.
The couple, residents of San Diego, will make the gift official at a special ceremony and performance reception at Copley Symphony Hall in Downtown San Diego today (Monday).
Irwin is the co-founder, chairman of the board and CEO of San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc.
The Jacobs' gift is in two parts. Fifty million dollars immediately is being set aside on the Symphony's behalf, with interest and proceeds going directly to the symphony. An additional bequest of $50 million to the symphony has been added to the Jacobs' will, to be paid upon their passing.
The Jacobs' gift kicks off the symphony's $200 million New World Endowment Campaign, which, when complete, will place the symphony among the nation's largest in terms of endowments.
The campaign ensures the symphony's financial future and will help establish the it as a world-class organization.
"This is a monumental day for the San Diego Symphony, and our organization will forever be grateful to Joan and Irwin Jacobs for their generosity," says Douglas Gerhart, president and CEO of the symphony. "Joan and Irwin Jacobs once again have shown us their giving spirit. The completion of our New World Endowment Campaign will define our city's spirit and deliver San Diego to its rightful place among the world's leading cultural cities, as it will be home to one of the world's leading orchestras."
"Joan and I have experienced so much enjoyment through the years from the many performances and concerts at the San Diego Symphony, and it was important for us to give something back," says Irwin. "The San Diego Symphony offers so many wonderful cultural events for the entire community to enjoy. We want the New World Endowment campaign to provide the long-term resources and security to ensure that the San Diego Symphony is forever a world-class organization."
Until today, the largest single gift ever given to a symphony orchestra is the 1996 gift by late Carnival Cruise Lines founder and CEO Ted Arison. The gift to the New World Symphony Orchestra, led by Michael Tilson-Thomas, totaled $40million.
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Sunstone Hotels has completed a $2 million renovation and high-tech upgrade of the Holiday Inn Mission Valley Stadium, located at 3805 Murphy Canyon Road.
The $2 million project included the renovation and restyling of 175 guest rooms, 4,060-square feet of meeting space, the lobby and all public areas. Additionally all guest rooms and meetings rooms are now equipped with high speed Internet access.
"The renovation will help meet local demand for high-quality accommodations and techno-complete meeting facilities," says Cheryl Chester, g.m. of the inn. "Business and leisure travelers in the San Diego area have been very receptive to the quality lodging and amenities that Holiday Inn offers. Our selection as a 2001 finest service award winner by the San Diego CVB, combined with travelers' increased demand for accommodations with the value-added services that Holiday Inn provides, make this renovation a timely event for the hotel."
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Reversing a four-month trend, the price of gasoline spiked upward throughout Southern California, southern Nevada and Arizona, bringing the average price to more than $1 per gallon, reports the Weekend Gas Watch, compiled by the Automobile Club of Southern California.
In San Diego the price is $1.251, which is 4.9 cents higher than last week's.
Currently, the average price of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $1.064 per gallon, which is 7.2 cents above last week's price. Motorists in the central coast have an average price of $1.183, 6.3 cents above last week's price.
"The price upswing is not unexpected," says Auto Club spokesman Jeff Spring. "Gasoline producers have been trying to bring supplies in line with demand. As a result gasoline prices are likely to increase for the immediate future."
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San Diegans can match wits to win prizes by playing the KPBS Knowledge Game, a fund-raising innovation developed for public broadcasting that will run from Jan. 21 to 25.
The game, at www.kpbs.org, consists of 10 questions each day for five days relating to information players can learn by listening to KPBS Radio. From program facts to current events, arts, culture and history, the diverse questions are guaranteed to be entertaining and challenging.
A game preview site will be available through Jan. 18 at www.kpbs.kintera.org.
The new interactive game was developed by KPBS and Kintera Inc., a San Diego-based Internet marketing services provider for nonprofit organizations. This is the first game of its kind, and the first time a public broadcasting station has used this type of technology to raise money.
Prizes will be given to people with the most correct answers at the end of the week, or teams that raise the most money for KPBS.
A one-time registration fee entitles participants to play the five daily games for the week. Current KPBS members play for a gift of $15; non-members are invited to join KPBS and play for the special membership fee of $35. As part of the entry fee, KPBS will give each game participant a Virtual Goodie Bag with online coupons valued at more than $200 from retailers such as Mrs. Field’s Cookies and ProFlowers, with offers ranging from $5 to $15 discounts and 10 to 15 percent off.
“KPBS Radio listeners are smart people who are interested in news, arts and learning,” says Deanna Martin Mackey, KPBS’ associate g.m. for marketing, education and new media. “This game is a fun way for us to interact with our listeners and raise money at the same time.”
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The Tiffany & Co. store at Fashion Valley will host a "Why a Tiffany Diamond" workshop at 7 p.m. Jan. 30.
The workshop addresses the interest customers have in learning about the various aspects of diamonds before they make a purchase. Cathryn Ramirez, Tiffany & Co. director for the San Diego store and graduate gemologist, will provide all of the essential information for making an informed decision.
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Several events today (Monday) are offering local residents the chance to view Olympic Flame as it travels through San Diego County.
The Olympic Flame will make stops today in Chula Vista, Coronado and San Diego as part of its 13,500-mile journey to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
The flame will travel portions of its route through the San Diego region in a specially designed “cauldron truck,” and will be hand-carried through the remainder of the route by more than 60 Torchbearers who were selected through a local nomination process in mid-2001.
Chula Vista will be the first local city to welcome the Olympic Torch Relay, with a public ceremony featuring entertainment, Olympians and resident athletes at the ARCO/U.S. Olympic Training Center from 10 - 11 a.m.
The Olympic Flame is scheduled to arrive at the training center at 10:40 a.m. where it will remain on display for 15 minutes. In addition to the public ceremony, a $200-per-ticket fundraising “Breakfast with Champions” featuring four-time Olympic gold medallist Janet Evans, will be held at the USOTC from 8 - 10 a.m. (Call (619) 656-1500 to buy.)
After departing the Olympic Training Center in eastern Chula Vista, the Flame will be carried by Torchbearers through nearly four miles of downtown Chula Vista before departing for Coronado.
In Coronado, the Olympic Torch Relay will make its way through streets lined with pennants made by Coronado’s youth, before arriving at Spreckels Park where a lunch-time celebration will be held from 1-3 p.m.
Coronado will host a small “hometown” celebration event with entertainment provided by local schools and community groups. Service clubs will sponsor the food and beverage concession. Local dignitaries will join the Olympic Committee representatives for official presentations, announcements, and to emcee the show.
The Olympic Flame is expected to arrive at about 1:45 p.m. and will be on display until 2:15 p.m. before continuing on to San Diego.
The Olympic Torch Relay will travel through more than 11 miles of streets within the city of San Diego.
The route will cover the communities of Downtown San Diego, Old Town, Mission Hills, Hillcrest, Balboa Park and Little Italy.
A "mini” celebration and Flame rest stop will take place at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park from 4:35 - 4:50 p.m.
The Flame will come to rest at an end of day Community Celebration at Embarcadero Park South.
The Community Celebration is free to the public and will feature a number of activities including a celebration stage and video wall along with interactive activities provided by Olympic Sponsors. The Community Celebration will take place from 4 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. The Olympic Torch will arrive at the Celebration site at 5:55 p.m. and will be carried by Lance
Armstrong.
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Anyone can be an art collector at the San Diego Museum of Art's 10th Annual Print Fair, which takes place Jan. 24, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Museum's Copley Auditorium.
A dozen of the country's foremost print dealers will be at the museum to offer high-quality engravings, etchings, woodblock prints, and lithographs by a wide selection of artists, from old master to contemporary.
Among the exhibitors, C. and J. Goodfriend Drawings and Prints of New York will bring a fine selection of old master prints and drawings along with other 19th-century works on paper.
Also from New York, the Susan Teller Gallery will present one-of-a-kind prints by 20th-century American artists.
Another out-of-state dealer will be Richard Reed Armstrong Fine Art of Chicago who specializes in 19th and early 20th-century French prints by such artists as Belleroche, Bonnard, and Denis. Other exhibitors include, from California: The Annex Galleries in Santa Rosa, The Prints and the Pauper in Santa Monica, and Herbert Egenolf Japanese Prints in Venice. Among San Diego area dealers in attendance will be Kestrel Fine Arts, Argosy Fine Arts and Brighton Press.
The museum says its Print Fair is a unique opportunity for people of all tastes and budgets to explore and bring home a piece of today’s print market as offered by a variety of dealers all in one location.
Admission is $4 for museum members and $5 for the general public. Tickets are sold at the door and proceeds benefit the museum's funds for the acquisition of works on paper.
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