{"id":421289,"date":"2026-08-02T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421289\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T01:16:14","slug":"community-hosts-100th-birthday-celebration-for-veteran-bob-austin-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421289\/","title":{"rendered":"Community hosts 100th birthday celebration for veteran Bob Austin \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers (right) reads a proclamation from the...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-014.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers (right) reads a proclamation from the city to commemorate Bob Austin\u2019s 100th birthday<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Austin cuts his 100th birthday cake (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-016.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Austin cuts his 100th birthday cake<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Austin, Stacey Halboth (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-004.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Austin, Stacey Halboth<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers with Richard Austin (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-002.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers with Richard Austin<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Austin chats with Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers and friends...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-012.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Austin chats with Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers and friends<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Richard Austin and Carrie Browne (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-001.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Austin and Carrie Browne<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Austin, Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-013.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Austin, Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben and Joe McCrink with Bob Austin (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-008.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben and Joe McCrink with Bob Austin<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Austin\u2019s 100th Birthday cake (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-011.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Austin\u2019s 100th Birthday cake<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Besset family with Bob Austin (Jon Clark)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ENA-L-austin100-26-2607-006.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Besset family with Bob Austin<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 10<\/p>\n<p>Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers (right) reads a proclamation from the city to commemorate Bob Austin\u2019s 100th birthday<br \/>\n(Jon Clark)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many members of the Encinitas community gathered July 23 at a home in Encinitas to celebrate the 100th birthday of veteran Bob Austin, who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Community groups, government officials and more attended the event. A flyer for the event described Austin as \u201cA True Patriot. A Proud Soldier. A Beloved Member Of Our Community\u201d and added that he was being celebrated for \u201cA Century of Life, Love &amp; Service To Our Country And Community.\u201d A note of appreciation on the flyer added \u201cThank you Bob, for your service, your strength, and the legacy you continue to inspire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers (right) reads a proclamation from the city to commemorate Bob Austin\u2019s 100th birthday (Jon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4602,4603,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-421289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-encinitas-advocate","tag-encinitas-advocate-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}