Lightsabers raised in tribute to Carrie Fisher
San Diego Union-Tribune
Around fifty Star Wars fans gathered at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido on Friday, December 30, 2016, to pay tribute to actress Carrie Fisher by raising their lightsabers. Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies, died on Tuesday.
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Hayne Palmour IV has been working as a newspaper photographer in San Diego County since 1986. During that time he has covered most of the major news and sports events in San Diego County. In between 2003 and 2005 he went on three separate trips to cover the war in Iraq as an embedded journalist with Camp Pendleton Marines. In 2003 the North County Times published a book of Palmour’s photographs, along with text by reporter Darrin Mortenson, on the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq titled “A Thousand Miles to Baghdad.” Hayne has an associates degree in photography from Chowan College, in North Carolina and a BA in psychology from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He joined the U-T in 2012. Hayne lives in Encinitas.