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Nado Natterings by David Axelson

Fifty-Seven Golfers representing the 13 member schools of the San Diego City Conference entered the Annual Girls Golf championships last week and when the dust settled, Islander junior Crista Izuzquiza was the lone player standing. The City Conference event has a unique format, with the golfers playing one round of stroke play to determine who will participate in the match play event, which starts the following day.

Interestingly the worst round Izuzquiza shot all week was in the stroke play, where she shot a one-over round of 73 at the Par 72 Balboa Park Golf Course. That score earned Crista the No. 4 seed in match play, which lasts four rounds.

by Luan Troxel

The Design Review Commission met last week and considered Kleege Enterprises’s first proposals for changes for the “Shops at Coronado,” as Bruce Kleege has been referring to the conglomerate of properties that he purchased, nearly, but not all of, the full square block on Orange Avenue, bounded by Tenth and C streets. Over the last year, that block has undergone significant changes with the departure of a number of businesses including Island Surf, El Cordova Garage, Costa Azul, and others. Additionally, Bay Books has been significantly diminished in size and many fear it, too, may need to exit Coronado as a result of drastically higher rent and the potential of a less desirable location off-Orange.

Kleege Enterprises’s representative at the meeting, Audrey Ruland, from the Ruland Design Group, presented proposals for exterior modifications of the El Cordova Garage and a rendering of the expected layout of the site, which included an exterior addition of a deck to the Eagle House. Overall, she said that the site could be used in a lot of ways and that the main focus was on beauty. The artistic renderings of the site showed a modern structure with, as Sue Gillingham, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce remarked in public comments, it has a lot of right angles, steel and a canopy that might not be consistent with the Orange Avenue Corridor Specific Plan and which looks, as she said, “like Palm Springs, not Coronado.”

He’s Had his Mako-ver and Now He’s Ready for his Close-up

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by David Axelson

What began as a relatively straight-forward feature on Asante Sefa-Boakye (CHS ‘10) and a recent trip he took to Ghana, branched out into several different paths. An example is midway through our interview when he spoke of his music career. As it turns out, the personable former high school, collegiate and professional water polo player is also a working hip-hop musician whose stage name is Santé Prince.

Before we got to that, first some background information. Prince Asante Sefa-Boakye is the middle of three sons born to Dr. Kofi D. Sefa-Boakye and Elizabeth Sefa-Boakye. Born in Ghana, Kofi came to the United States after high school, and attended USC as an undergraduate and UCLA for medical school. Asante said of his father, “He studied so much, he said he didn’t know where the football field was.” Kofi went on to become a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology, with offices in Coronado and a clinic in Chula Vista. He also has a goal of creating and opening a clinic in his native Ghana.

by David Axelson

One of the hottest directors in the film industry, Matt Tyrnauer, will be honored by the Coronado Island Film Festival during its upcoming run Nov. 9-12, 2018. His latest film production “Studio 54,” is generating industry-wide Oscar buzz. That film will be presented during the Festival Saturday evening, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Village Theatre.

Tyrnauer, is a Los Angeles native and graduate of Santa Monica Crossroads High School. He also holds a degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he majored in film. Tyrnauer had a highly successful career as a writer and columnist. When asked about his first paying job in journalism, Tyrnauer replied, “It was at Spy Magazine, where I earned $50 a week as an intern.” From the monthly humor publication, Tyrnauer worked his way up to Vanity Fair Magazine, where he held several editorial positions, in addition to being a feature writer and special correspondent. He noted of his print career, “I was with Vanity Fair on the masthead for 25 years.”

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.