Year: 2011

  • Mid-City Waits Decades for Bus to Come

    City Heights resident Maria Cortez spoke of her nearly three-decade wait for a bus line to be built along Interstate 15. Transit advocates and a handful of residents met at the site of the long-delayed project to ask that SANDAG prioritize transit investments over highway expansions. | Photo Credit: Randy Van Vleck By Adrian Florido…

  • Cultivating Community in Southeast SD

    Diane Moss is executive director of Project New Village, a nonprofit that recently broke ground on its first community garden in Mount Hope. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido For more than 20 years, Diane Moss ran a teen pregnancy prevention program in southeastern San Diego’s low income, largely African-American and Latino neighborhoods.…

  • Despite Farmers Market Success, Some Struggle To Eat Healthy In City Heights

    Latonya Frazier, a mother of two on a fixed income, didn’t know she could double her Women, Infant and Children (WIC) vouchers at the farmers market until being contacted for this story. | Video Credit: Brian Myers By Megan Burks and Brian Myers Programs in City Heights have gained national recognition for bringing fresh fruits…

  • The Refugee Paradox: New Americans Lead the Way to Better Health

    While refugees carried few tangible items with them to the United States, they did bring healthy eating habits and sound family traditions. These foundations have changed the food landscape in City Heights and are setting the example for longtime residents to eat healthier. | Photo Credit: Cuc, 16, Vietnam By Megan Burks Last year, local…

  • Tweet City Heights: Somali Leaders Inspire Community

    By Megan Burks Local Youth Leader Recounts Aid Trip to Somalia Abdumalik Buul, a local Somali leader who recently returned from a trip to deliver aid in Somalia, visited Speak City Heights partner KPBS this week to talk about his experience in the famine-ravaged country. In a radio interview, he described a crumbling Mogadishu filled…