Last week, after poinsettias were stolen from in front of the Tunaman’s Memorial in Shelter Island, the Port of San Diego planted new poinsettias in hopes of preventing people from taking them.
Each year throughout December, community members place poinsettias, sometimes by the dozens, in front of the Tunaman’s Memorial on Shelter Island. But those plants, placed to honor those lost at sea, were taken last week.
It was a tradition that started more than two decades ago by Lynne Correia…