Wedding Bells

Radisson Hotel San Diego owner Carroll Davis’ engagement and wedding may be one of the city’s most-public private affairs in years.

The Mission Valley hotel staff issued a news release on Jan. 28 announcing Davis’ engagement to Long Beach contractor Kerry Douglass. Then hundreds of invitations were mailed inviting people--dozens of reporters among them--to the couple’s wedding reception, set for Sunday at the Radisson.

Last week, the hotel issued another news release saying that Davis and Douglass had selected the local Child Abuse Prevention Foundation as “the charity they wish to have their wedding guests make donations to in lieu of gifts.”

Rays of Doubt

Try as some Sun Savings & Loan Assn. observers might, they have been unable to read anything into Sun’s $292,000 notice of default filed late last month on an El Cajon home once owned by ousted Sun chairman Daniel W. Dierdorff.

Dierdorff exchanged the 3,324-square-foot house for one in La Jolla. The partner in the swap was Hojabar Yazdani, who has several outstanding problem loans at Sun.

At first, some Sun observers thought the default notice was in retribution for the board’s firing last month of David Eichten, Sun’s chief legal officer. Some Sun sources have said that Eichten’s dismissal was a “vendetta” by Dierdorff’s supporters on the board.

The irony is that Eichten has been handling the El Cajon loan default.

Quote of the Week

When San Diego Gas & Electric Co. announced its executive reshuffling last week, a utility spokeswoman called ahead to herald the impending announcement.

“There’s nothing sexy going on,” she quipped, “we’re just moving some bodies around.”