
Surfer injured at Black’s Beach Surfer Josh Buran, 26, was found facedown in the water, hanging off his board at Black’s Beach on Tuesday, Jan. 12 around noon. Fellow surfers performed CPR on him and then battled the waves to bring him to shore to call 9-1-1. Lifeguards from La Jolla Shores arrived within five minutes, according to Maurice Luque, spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. As of Jan. 1., lifeguards no longer patrol Black’s Beach during the winter months due to budget cuts. Buran had been hit in the chin while surfing. Fellow surfers said he acted strangely afterward and urged him to return to the shore but Buran refused, according to Luque. Buran is the nephew of local pro surfer Joey Buran, who won major surfing tournaments in the 1970s and 1980s and was dubbed the “California Kid.” Buran was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital to be treated for head injuries and hypothermia. Trolley plans on track; open house scheduled Plans continue to bring the Mid-Coast Trolley to University City. The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) will host an open house to discuss the proposed routes and station locations on Saturday, Jan. 16 at 9:15 a.m. at Elijah’s Restaurant, 8861 Villa La Jolla, third room in the La Jolla Village Shopping Center. Coffee will be served. SANDAG plans to extend the trolley from Old Town to University City with stops at Tecolote Road, Clairemont Drive and Balboa Avenue, and then University Center Lane, UCSD West, UCSD East and UTC. For more information contact Janay, (858) 454-0536. For information about the proposed routes and stations visit www.sandag.org/midcoast. Parade, festival celebrate MLK Day Residents will have two ways to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Saturday, Jan. 16: The annual parade in East Village is followed by a multicultural festival in the afternoon. The 30th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Parade will make its way through East Village from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Jan. 16. The parade will honor and remember King’s contributions to civil rights and social harmony. Among the festivities, the parade will feature college and high school bands, drill teams, floats and dance groups. The parade begins at 13th Street, traveling on Imperial Avenue to Park Boulevard. It will pass by Tony Gwynn Drive, Seventh Avenue, J Street and 11th Avenue before concluding on Park Boulevard. The local chapter of black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha coordinates the event. For more information, including a map of the route, visit www.alphazsl.org/mlkdayparade.html. Later in the day, diversity can be celebrated at the Centre City Development Corporation’s family-friendly 12th annual San Diego Multicultural Festival. The free event will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade on Harbor Drive between Market Street and Fourth Avenue. “It started as a celebration of the diversity of San Diego,” said event producer Jacki Taylor Dwyer. “It’s all about the cultural bridging that takes place when we bring a lot of people of different ethnicities together in a festival format.” The festival features numerous booths, most of which have a cultural aspect. The booths range from information and nonprofit organizations to food and other vendors. Education is a central theme of the festival, and at the educational fair area, parents and students can speak with representatives from local schools. For the third straight year, the festival will have a global village exhibit, featuring students from San Diego High’s School of Communication. For more information on the multicultural festival, visit www.ccdc.com.
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