Redondo Beach “Shark Tank” kid gets deal
by Garth Meyer He strode into the “Shark Tank” set in September and gave his pitch, his mom and sixth-grade sister assisting. He sought $100,000 for 10 percent equity. Starting the project when he was eight years old, Nathaniel Wellen was now a freshman at Redondo Union High School, his product a “dual-handle umbrella,” which […]
TRAVEL: San Diego’s Mexico border town, Imperial Beach
During a recent trip to Tijuana, I tried to figure a way I could just walk down the San Diego coastline into Mexico, from the closest town, Imperial Beach, 5 miles away. After all, I could see the Tijuana skyline from the Imperial Beach Pier, and even closer from the four-mile long Tijuana Estuary, home […]