Great news. The San Carlos Area Council – your town council – will be meeting once again in person.

After two years of an in-and-out quarantine, we are all looking forward to seeing our friends and neighbors at the San Carlos Library, 7265 Jackson Drive on Wednesday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m.

We are discussing a “Hybrid” meeting; that is, we’ll try and rig up Zoom on the projection screen so that people who cannot meet in person can still join us. If this comes to fruition, we’ll post the Zoom link on our Facebook page. (facebook.com/sancarlosareacouncil)

This meeting will focus on the election of our president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. If you have attended two meetings, then you are eligible to participate as an officer on the SCAC board. Get involved in your community.

In other news, spring has sprung, and we are all cautioned to prepare our homes and property for another relentless fire season. Make sure you have at least 100 feet of defensible space around your home, remove any dry brush and protect the attic entries of your homes from potential embers. One small ember can travel six miles, land inside your attic and take down your home. That’s exactly how the Witch Fire of 2017 spread so fast, leading to the evacuation of 500,000 San Diegans.

The crime in our community seems to be predominantly thefts of opportunity, so if you aren’t able to park your car in your garage, make sure it’s locked. And surveillance cameras pointed around the perimeter of your property make good sense, especially with the slew of porch pirates out and about.

And in Patrick Henry High School news, according to San Diego 7 News: More than 150 parents and district representatives gathered virtually to address Patrick Henry High School’s plan to eliminate eight advanced and honors classes from its offerings, including advanced English, history and biology.

On Tuesday, Area Superintendent Erin Richison said that 11th grade honors courses of Honors American Literature and Honors U.S. History were being restored to the 2022-23 curriculum. She also said, “In addition, we will be collaborating with our district curriculum teams to develop honors courses at the 9th and 10th grade levels open to any interested student for the 2022-23 school year.”

SCAC holds town council meetings every other month. See you on May 18 at the San Carlos Library. The next meeting after that will be Wednesday, July 13.

If you have a San Carlos story to share, or would like to get involved in your town council, contact San Carlos Area Council VP Patricia Mooney at [email protected].

Patricia “Patty” Mooney is an award-winning San Diego video producer and partner at San Diego’s longest-serving video production company, Crystal Pyramid Productions.