Community Corner
Dugan Avenue Block Party Celebrates Fourth With Freedom to Play in Street
SDSU math professor Hector Lemus counts block's blessings for second straight year.
Story, photos and video by Ken Stone
Originally posted at 2:45 p.m. July 4, 2013
Cost of La Mesa city permit for street closure: $50. Cost of liability insurance: $119. Total including signs: $220.
Value of letting kids from 20-home block ride bikes and play games in the middle of the street: priceless.
For the second year in a row, Dugan Avenue homeowner Hector Lemus organized and promoted a Fourth of July neighborhood celebration between Stadler and Laird streets in north La Mesa.
A statistics professor at San Diego State, Lemus listed the costs while amplified music played from his front yard.
His sister, Renee Elisalsez, accepted donations for a 50-50 raffle that Lemus, 39, hopes will defray expenses for the 2014 edition.
Dugan Avenue, which boasts residents who moved here in 1955, was to be closed between noon and 9 p.m. for children's and adult games as many residents set up tents and picknicked on their lawns and watched pickup basketball games on a portable hoop.
Originally posted at 2:45 p.m. July 4, 2013
Cost of La Mesa city permit for street closure: $50. Cost of liability insurance: $119. Total including signs: $220.
Value of letting kids from 20-home block ride bikes and play games in the middle of the street: priceless.
For the second year in a row, Dugan Avenue homeowner Hector Lemus organized and promoted a Fourth of July neighborhood celebration between Stadler and Laird streets in north La Mesa.
A statistics professor at San Diego State, Lemus listed the costs while amplified music played from his front yard.
His sister, Renee Elisalsez, accepted donations for a 50-50 raffle that Lemus, 39, hopes will defray expenses for the 2014 edition.
Dugan Avenue, which boasts residents who moved here in 1955, was to be closed between noon and 9 p.m. for children's and adult games as many residents set up tents and picknicked on their lawns and watched pickup basketball games on a portable hoop.
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