North County Times from Oceanside, California • 11

CAI BJ A THURSDAY, July 4, 2002 (O) North County TJmes wxssBSzmMssaBszmm Beach JEFF SCULLIN Staff Writer shuttle van debuting today If trial run successful, pilot project may operate year-round He said the city has given him permission to run the pilot program through the end of September. City officials have identified downtown shuttle service as an important part of their overall plan to draw more tourists to Oceanside and to bring more locals downtown. SHUTTLE, B-6 three Pacific Street lots near Myers Street and the parking lot on Myers Street near Surfrider Way, Shippee said. The shuttle also will pick up and drop off passengers along the route, he said. After Sunday, Shippee said that he and his investors will decide whether to operate the shuttle for the rest of the summer.

beaches and the Oceanside Transit Center, from 8 a.m. until sundown, Shippee said. The shuttle will loop between the harbor and Wisconsin Street, running an indeterminate route west of Coast Highway. Major stops are to include the harbor parking lot, the three city parking lots on Cleveland Street, the OCEANSIDE Through the end of this holiday weekend, people headed to the beach for a little surf and sand or to see the fireworks can hop on a shuttle from a number of downtown parking lots. If the trial run proves to be a money-maker, entrepreneur Michael Shippee says he plans to operate the shut- Commemorating 3 Decades Encinitas man convicted for 2nd time in murders Daniel Scott Whitlow faces life in prison without parole SCOn MARSHALL Staff Writer VISTA A different trial with a different judge, a different defense attorney and a different prosecutor yielded the same results Wednesday when an Encinitas man was convicted a second time of the first-degree murders of a La Costa couple more than four years ago.

Daniel Scott Whitlow, 21, faces life in prison without parole when Superior Court Judge Marguerite Wagner sentences him Sept. 13 for the Jan. 30, 1998, slayings of Carol Dreyer, 49, and her longtime, live-in boyfriend, Gary Engleman, 52. At his first trial in 1998, Whitlow and Dreyers adopt Rancho Carlsbad resident Tuckie Fromm walks over a bridge that leads to the pool area of the mobile-home park, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary today. Rancho Carlsbad celebrates 30 years of memories NOTES QUOTES Festivities today are wide and varied Today will be busy throughout North County, especially in Oceanside where the ninth annual Freedom Days Parade kicks off at 10 a.m.

up Coast Highway. The parade begins at TOM Wisconsin MORROW Street and runs north to Civic Center Drive in the downtown area. If you miss it, catch the parade later in the day or throughout the weekend on KOCT-TV, Channel 19 (Oceanside Cox viewers only)- If youre into picnicking, Vista probably will have the comer on that sort of recreation today. Brengle Terrace Park will be brimming with folks all day as they enjoy family fare, games and entertainment onstage at Moonlight Amphitheatre. Itll be braggin rights time at 9 p.m.

as Vistans light off their big fireworks display what they term as the largest in the area. But Oceanside has a pretty fair set of explosions down at the Pier, which will rival any around. Owners Dan Cannon and Ron DesRosier of The Flying Bridge restaurant have planned a novel Fourth of July party. The Bridge bash begins at 3 p.m. out on the harbor-view patio and ends aboard one of Dick Helgrens boats for an on-the-water fireworks experience.

Barbecue ribs, tri-tip, salads, adult beverages and music will be in abundance. Prices vary, depending upon whether you. want to take the bus down to the harbor for the boat ride. Call (760) 722-1151. Most communities here in coastal North County will have celebrations, which are detailed elsewhere in todays paper.

Whatever you do, though, stay safe! NEW SLATE The Oceanside Chamber of Commerce Toastmasters Club has elected a new slate of officers for its 2002-03 year. They are: Melissa Schmitt, president; Dess Alredge, vice president of education; Steve Herrod, vice president of membership; Marvin Dennis, vice president of public relations; Nielsine Archibald, Carl Mabuhay, treasurer; Tom Taylor, sergeant-at-arms; and Scott Ashton, past-president. The Chamber group has 30 minutes and meets at 7:15 a.m. each Monday at Grandma B.B.s restaurant in Oceania. CaH (760) 722-1534.

GAS UPDATE Oceansides Donna and Bill Gleason recently went north to Alaska and, surprisingly, found gas prices there the same as here: Upon arriving in Anchorage I could not help but notice gas prices in the state where everything costs more, Bill chuckled. The first station was Chevron where regular was $1.51.9, mid-grade $1.61.9 and premium was $1.71.9. Most other stations were the same. FROM MARS A lot a people say that worrying about things doesnt do any good. Well, I know theyre wrong.

Almost all the stuff I worry about never happens. Neal Mars tie through September and, possibly, year-round. These four days, with the high volume of traffic expected, it is going to give us a real good idea if its going to be a cost-productive measure and whether we should keep going, Shippee said Wednesday. The 34-passenger shuttle van will service the Ocean-side Harbor, the pier and JAMIE AT I NORTH COUNTY TIMES a mobile-home park was still relatively new to California, and the developers, David Dawes and Ronald Schwab, wanted to build a quality park. They felt they had found the perfect spot in the rolling hills of east Carlsbad.

My husband and I lived in Los Angeles when we heard about this mobile (home) park and we would drive down to watch them build the place, said Gretchen Merritt, 87. It was so exciting to see them install the streetlights and the roads. We soon realized without a doubt that this is where we wanted to re for voluntary compliance, Fowler said. We know that people are going to try to outsmart the system and hide their beer. If they try to be clever, well deal with it.

The ban is an extension of an ordinance that prohibits drinking on public property for up to four days anywhere in Del Mar during the Fourth of July holiday. Beaches were included this year because of a near-riot last year that forced a temporary closure of the 26th Street beach, city officials said. This years ban started at 6 p.m. Wednesday. It will end at 6 a.m.

Friday. FOURTH, B-6 Civil War re-enactment this weekend in Vista SCOTT LYTLE Staff Puarcx.RAPHtR tire. Back then, new home-owners could plunk down a deposit of $100 for the purchase of the mobile home, carport and porch selling for $20,000. Within a year 140 homes were occupied and the fun had begun. There was a lot to do here, said Christy.

My wife was a Red Cross swimming instructor and taught swimming at the pool. Even before she died, when she was struck with multiple sclerosis, she still taught from her wheelchair. We both loved this place. Merritt, whose husband Bob died eight years after moving to Rancho Carlsbad, remembers telling people she lived near a four-lane highway El Camino Real. We would laugh about living near the highway, she said.

There were some days when we seldom saw a vehicle driving down it. CARLSBAD, B-2 CANDICE REED For the North County Times CARLSBAD When Bob and Dorothy Ann Christy moved to Rancho Carlsbad Mobile Home Park in 1972, the streets were still muddy and the pool and clubhouse had yet to be completed. Now, 30 years later, Rancho Carlsbad has an 18-hole executive golf course; an Olympic-size swimming pool and a clubhouse complete with ballroom and card room, which is undergoing a facelift. Today, the parks more than 800 residents will celebrate Independence Day while marking the 30th anniversary of their development with a parade and a party. Ive loved this place from the moment we moved here, said Bob Christy, 83.

I still feel good when I pull through the entrance and see the park. In 1972, the concept of ed son, Henry Lee Dreyer, both 17 at the time of the slayings, were convicted of the murders as adults. Both were later sentenced to life in prison without parole. Last year, a state appeals court upheld Dreyers convictions and sentence, but overturned Whitlows and ordered a new trial for him. Tall and burly, Whitlow sat with his head bowed and resting on his hands as a court clerk read the verdicts Wednesday afternoon.

Afterward, his attorney, Deputy Alternate Public Defender Bart Sheela, said the verdicts devastated Whitlow. He felt the jurors could see his lack of participation, Sheela said. Once he heard the word guilty, it was horrible. For him, hes been through this before, and he knows what this means. Wednesdays verdict included findings that Whitlow killed for financial gain, CONVICTED, B-2 house built in 1853 and now functioning as a museum.

The central attractions are what organizers call living history reproductions of an actual Civil War battle. This years re-enactment will feature reproductions of the 1862 battle of Sharpsburg. More than 250 reenactors will show four phases of the campaign, said Diana Andrews of the American Civil War Society, one of the events sponsors. Confederates named their battles after towns; Union soldiers called this one Antietam. Additional sponsors of the event are the San Diego County Department of Parks and Recreation and the San Diego County Parks Society.

Diana has done so much planning, its amazing, said Ranger Jake Enriquez, who WAR, B-6 6' A- -V-' jor general and chairman of MUSEUM, B-2 il Rancho Guajome Adobe to host event, which will re-create battle of Sharpsburg LETTY LINHART For the North County Timfs VISTA With nine cannons and an authentic mountain howitzer, the Rancho Guajome Adobe Civil War Re-enactment this weekend promises to be a bang-up celebration in keeping with the spirit of Independence Day. The event takes place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Sunday at the adobe, 2210 N. Santa Fe Ave. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for children 5-12 and free to children under 5. The fair raises funds supporting the historic ranch- Marine flight museum in works Booze ban, closed roads planned for July Fourth GIDGET FUENTES Staff Writer JO MORELAND Staff Writer DEL MAR Like most years, law enforcement officials plan to barricade Del Mar roads against outsiders this Fourth of July. New this year is a ban on booze.

Bury it in the sand. Drink it on a rubber raft out on the water. Party on private property. Those are some of the ways people are considering to get around the new alcohol ban at the Del Mar beaches this year for the Fourth of July holiday, said sheriffs Lt. Don Fowler on Wednesday.

Were taking a very calm approach to it and checking MIRAMAR An ambitious plan by a local foundation would transform an outdoor display of vintage warplanes and helicopters at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station into a $20 million museum on the history of Marine Corps aviation. The Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation plans to turn its existing collection displayed in a temporary building into a complex with a museum, research library, IMAX theater, gift shop and aircraft restoration shop on 12 acres of land provided by the Marine Corps. By the time we are done, were looking at something A WALDO NILO Staff PlKrr; i -RAmiR Children inspect a World War ll-vintage F4U-5N Corsair fighter plane on Monday at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. Notes for Tom Morrow can be e-mailed to tmorrownctimes.com, faxed to (760) 757-2072, or call (760) 901-4074. Find his previous columns on the Internet at www.nctimes.net.

like $15 (million) to $20 million for construction, said Bobby Butcher, a retired ma 4 I.