BUSINESS Balboa Inn begins major renovations Renovations...

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Balboa Inn begins major renovations

Renovations began last week at the Balboa Inn, a landmark hotel

built in 1929 that will get a $1.5 million face lift. The revamped

hotel will include 11 new ocean view suites, a parking area, a pool

to replace the existing one, and a retail space that could become a

coffee shop. The work is expected to wrap up in June.

* The United States Postal Service on Wednesday released a 37-cent

commemorative stamp of legendary actor and former Bayshore resident

John Wayne.

The stamp was released at a ceremony at the Grauman’s Chinese

Theater in Hollywood. Artist Drew Struzan based his painting for the

stamp on a black-and-white publicity still of the actor taken during

the filming of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”