Year in Review
From page 13
Council races were decisive.
Ann Marshall won by 75 per-
cent of the overall vote.
Forty-seven percent of eligible
voters turned out for the election.
The final results were later cer-
tified by the Los Angeles Registrar
of voters. The City Council races
weren't as decisive as the mayoral
race, but the results showed a dis-
tinct voter preference for the chal-
lengers over the incumbents.
Cinde M. MacGugan-Cassidy
and Joe Sampson were elected
to the council, defeating incum-
bents Ralph Morrow and Michael
Ponce.
MacGugan-Cassidy received 38
percent of the City Council votes.
Sampson received 36 percent.
Ponce received 29 percent
of the votes cast and Morrow
received 28 percent.
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May
Silent Film
Benefit wows
The Avalon Theatre was near
capacity for the Catalina Island
Museum Silent Film Benefit's May
screening of Charlie Chaplin's
"City Lights." According to Dr.
Michael De Marsche, Executive
Director of the museum, "Our
benefit is enjoying tremendous
growth, with ticket sales up over
40 percent compared to just two
years ago."
Preparing for
water rationing
Edison prepares for water
rationing
In May, Avalon residents and
business owners began receiving
notices from Southern California
Edison, telling them just how
much water will be allotted to
them when water rationing begins.
The notices came with customers'
regular bills. Anyone who applies
for a variance on their water allot-
ment may use 30 gallons a day
while the application is being con-
sidered.
Avalon will be subject to Stage
2 water rationing, which limits
users to fixed amounts, when the
Thompson Reservoir water level
measures 300 acre feet or less.
As of May 28, the Thompson
Reservoir water level was 355 acre
feet, a 3-acre foot decrease from
May 22.
June
Council nixes
Grand Prix
The Avalon City Council
directed staff to stop trying to
get multi-year permits to hold the
Catalina Island Motorcycle Grand
Prix race on Tuesday, June 3.
Most council members opposed
continuing to spend public funds
on the project when it was unclear
the race would take place.
Water regulation
proposal tabled
The Avalon City Council unan-
imously decided against acting
on an urgency water-use regu-
lating ordinance at the Tuesday,
June 17 meeting. Some critics said
the ordinance placed a burden
on construction. There was no
From page 1
Avenue with her husband and the
loye of her life, Bill Hill, for many
years.
The world was her family.
"We moved here in 1963,"
Jeanne Hill recalled in an earlier
interview.
"We were so fed up with peo-
ple's lack of ethics on the mainland.
Fortunately, both of our families
had summer homes. We chose to
live in the one at 305 Eucalyptus,"
Jeanne Hill said.
Bill and Jeanne Hill's connec-
support for the ordinance from tion to Avalon went back much
the public or the council and the further. "His parents first brought
him here when he was a baby,"
Santa Catalina Island Company
had threatened to sue the city if Jeanne said.
the ordinance was passed. His family has owned property
Wayne Griffin, president
and CEO of the Catalina Island
Chamber of Commerce, said his
biggest objection was that the City
of Avalon was exempt.
The council voted unanimously
to table the ordinance.
on the Island for more than 100
years. "I spent most every summer
here," he said.
And so did Jeanne.
However, because Bill was six
years older than Jeanne, they did.,,i
not actually meet until they werd~ll
adults.
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crossed the ice-clogged Delaware
River. He marched on Trenton in
the midst of snow and sleet, thus
surprising and capturing many of the
British troops.
Today we will see sunny skies with a high
temperature of 62°, humidity of 47%. The record
high temperature for today is 85° set in 1956. Fri
Expect mostly clear skies tonight with an overnight Sat
low of 49°. The record low for tonight is 31° set Sun
in 1953. Saturday, skies will be sunny with a high Mon
temperature of 62°, humidity of 38%. Skies will Tue
be mostly clear Saturday night with an overnight Wed
low of 50°. Expect mostly sunny skies Sunday Thu
with a high temperature of 61°. Skies will remain
mostly sunny Monday with a high temperature
of 61°. Tuesday, skies will be sunny with a high
temperature of 57°.
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i~ * . . * How low can the sun go? It all depends upon where you live, your location north or south of the equator; however, for us in the Northern
|~. ~.,~. " Hemisphere, the noontime sun will be at its lowest yearly altitude in the sky on December 21. It's simple arithmetic to calculate the daily
| . "ir ~." high sun for your location. Keep in mind that the Earth is essentially a sphere, and as you travel north or south, the sun will reflect your
| * I ~ . motions. If the noontime sun is south of your position as it is now for all of the US, and you move southward, the sun will get higher in
| ,~r~ the sky. Movingnorthward will decrease the sun's altitude. Here is a simple way to calculate how low the noontime sun will be on the
| winter solstice. Subtract 90 degrees from your latitude position, and then add or subtract the latitude position over which the zenith sun
| is shining. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, south of the equator is negative, and north of the equator is positive. You now have your own personal
! noontime calculator of the sun's altitude on December 21, I live at approximately 40 degrees north of the equator, so 90 degrees minus 40 degrees minus
23.5 degrees (the sun is over the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5 degrees south latitude) equals 26.5 degrees: That will be the noontime winter solstice altitude
of the sun at 40 degrees north latitude. Ifl lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, 65 degrees north of the equator, the calculation would be 90 degrees minus 65
degrees, minus 23.5 degrees which equals 1.5 degrees. The sun would transit due south at noon only 1.5 degrees above the horizon. Yuck! It would actually
be closer to two degrees because the atmosphere causes objects near to the horizon to appear higher than they actually are. That's still a big yuckl In Miami,
at 26 degrees north latitude, the noontime altitude of the sun will still be only 40.5 degrees, but the wanner waters surrounding Florida will make all of the
difference. Here's hoping for a higher sun real soon.www.astronomy.org
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