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by David Axelson

America’s 41st President George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday at the age of 94, the son of former United States Senator Prescott Bush, the father of President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and a man with a distinguished military record and a life-long career of service to his country in his own right. Wednesday has been declared a national day of mourning and U.S. flags on public buildings will fly at half-staff for 30 days.

Funeral plans call for Bush to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda until Wednesday morning when a funeral service will be held at the Washington National Cathedral. Bush’s final resting place will be at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He will be buried next to his wife of 73 years Barbara Bush and their daughter Pauline who died at the age of three.

by David Axelson

Assuming you follow local politics to a greater or lesser extent, you know where candidate and City Councilmember-designate Marvin Heinze stands on Coronado-related issues. With eight candidate forums and six lengthy Q-and-A opportunities in this publication, you probably have the public Heinze figured out. The goal of this piece is to provide some background into what brought Heinze to this point of his life of service.

Born in Beltsville, Maryland, 12 miles north of Washington, D.C., Heinze graduated from Highpoint High School in Beltsville. Academics were his strong suit as he graduated in the Top 10 of his graduating class, comprised of 750 students. The apple didn’t fall too far from the academic tree as Marvin’s father earned a PhD in plant physiology and went on to work for the Department of Agriculture. His parents met at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College and both became civil servants. The odds are strong that Heinze and I are the only two people in Coronado who have been to scenic Moberly, Missouri, his mother’s hometown.

Before heading off to college, Heinze was the manager of the high school track team and became an Eagle Scout. He said, “I have always wanted to serve people and I think often about that. I wanted to do things to help people. That’s the whole scouting thing and I fell in with that.”

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Nado Natterings by David Axelson

Islander Cross Country Head Coach George Green provides the details of last week’s Western League Championship meet. “The Cross Country team attended its first Cross Country Competition Aug. 25 and some of our runners won’t run their last race of the season until Nov. 24 at the State Meet in Fresno. That’s a long season. For those not moving on to the CIF Finals, the season ended last Wednesday at the Western League Championships. 

“Our girls’ team placed second to Scripps Ranch and were followed by Cathedral Catholic, University City, La Jolla, and Serra. The boys’ team wound-up in third place behind Scripps Ranch and Cathedral Catholic and they were followed by University City, La Jolla, and Serra. 

“Teresa Perez successfully defended her league title by placing first over the 3.11-mile Western League Varsity course in 18:29 to repeat as the Girls’ Western League Athlete of the Year, which she also won in 2017. When we were in the Eastern League in 2016, she won the Eastern League Girls’ Athlete of the Year title.

by David Axelson

Coronado Island Film Festival III is in the books and it has been my privilege to attend all three years of the home-grown cinema extravaganza. Each year my goal is to attend 10 events, most of them with my wife and better half Sharon. Working on the theory that most of the content from the weekend will either magically arrive at a theater near you, or in your living room via a streaming service such as Netflix or Amazon in the near future, or both, here is the list of my Top 10 2018 CIFF experiences in order:

1: Kris Bowers Music in Concert Interviewed by Leonard Maltin – Kris Bowers is a 29-year-old jazz pianist who scored the film “Green Book,” wrote original music for the same film, and played the intricate piano performances of the late Dr. Don Shirley for the movie. Hearing Bowers play the Steinway grand piano in the Winn Room of the Coronado Public Library was a singular treat. He played music from the “Green Book” plus other works, and an additional treat was the fact that Maltin, an acknowledged cinema expert who has literally written the book(s) on film, is also an informed jazz fan. Maltin engaged Bowers in a thoughtful question and answer session, all of which combined to become the highlight of the festival for me.

The Coronado Eagle & Journal’s e-blast, the Eagle Weekender, randomly selects a weekly winner on their subscribers list to receive 2 free tickets to the Coronado Village Theater. This has been a huge success due to the support and donation of tickets from the Coronado Village Theater.