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Rancho Santa Fe doctor helping bring cancer treatment to ‘next level’ at Scripps Proton Therapy Center

Dr. Huan Giap

Dr. Huan Giap’s path from his native Vietnam to his current job of treating cancer patients with radiation therapy in San Diego took many twists and turns.

Rancho Santa Fe resident thrives in avocation as a news helicopter pilot

Rancho Santa Fe resident Ruben Campos was recently hired as the Chopper 8 pilot. Courtesy photo

“To be up in the air, especially in a helicopter hovering, that’s the ultimate. In an airplane you take off and it can basically fly by itself. In a helicopter, you can’t take your hands off the controls,” Ruben Campos said.

Rancho Santa Fe Foundation thriving under longtime Executive Director Christy Wilson

Organization now launching The Patriots Initiative

San Diego Charger and Rancho Santa Fe resident Quentin Jammer pays it forward to disadvantaged youth

Much of Jammer Family Foundation’s work has centered on San Pasqual Academy

Hershey Felder plays Lincoln’s last doctor in ‘An American Story’

Actor/playwright/composer Hershey Felder brings ‘An American Story’ to Birch North Park Theatre.  Courtesy Photos

Three years past the bicentennial of his birth, Abraham Lincoln is still going strong.

Rancho Santa Fe’s Dr. Brent Eastman ready to tackle leadership role for the American College of Surgeons

Dr. Brent Eastman (third from right) with his wife, Dr. Sarita Eastman, and their family. Photo/ Chuck Giorno

Count on Dr. Brent Eastman to put his own mark on each challenge he tackles

Longtime resident Jennie Collins shares memories from more than 50 years of life in RSF

Jennie Collins with one of her Nigerian goats, Bebe.

Get Jennie Collins talking about her life in Rancho Santa Fe and you stand to learn a lot about the past 50 years or so

Patriot Profiles: Take care of your Marines and they’ll take care of you

Sgt. Travis D. Nessel  Photo/Jeanne McKinney

Sergeant Travis D. Nessel served his first four years in the Marine Corps and got out when his daughter was born

Rancho Santa Fe resident thrilled that road of life brought him to Porsche of San Diego

Watch Joe Allis interact with clients at Porsche of San Diego and you know he means it when he says he’s really in the hospitality business.

Multi-talented Rancho Santa Fe resident helps give deserving entrepreneurs a chance

Doug Giese with his family at daughter Adriene’s recent wedding at Church of the Nativity in RSF: (L-R) Doug, daughter Adriene, wife Debbie, son Michael. Photo/John Riedy Photography

Starting a business, he said, is like being a Mississippi riverboat gambler: It’s a closed community. They don’t bet everything on one roll of the dice and if they don’t play fair, no one will play with them.

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  • Letters to the editor, May 23 issue
    Our local government is criticized, often with good cause, for not being responsive to its citizens. In this case, however, government worked — and worked quickly. A special thank-you to Councilmember Lightner for her initiative and quick action here. […]
  • Paddleboarding added to La Jolla’s Survivor Beach event in June
    The cancer-survivor celebration, Survivor Beach, has always had an “aloha spirit,” but this year there are several new elements to the surf-oriented fundraiser. For the first time, Stand Up Paddleboards (SUP) and paddle surfing will be the vehicle for participants. The event will get underway at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, June 2 at the beach in front of Scripps Insti […]
  • Great plastic surgeons understand ethnic feature differences and beauty trends in plastic surgery
    By Stuart B. Kincaid, MD, FACS “Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.” – David Hume, 18th century Scottish philosopher Trends in plastic surgery come and go, reflecting everything from old Hollywood glamour to the latest in celebrity silhouettes. But the best plastic surgeons stay abreast not only of celebrity fashions, […]