Year: 2011

  • City Heights Man Hands Out Food Aid to Famine Victims in Somalia

    By Amita Sharma A San Diego man delivered aid to 250 families at refugee camps this week. San Diego Somali Youth League leader Abdimalik Buul says he distributed bags of rice, wheat and sugar to people at a camp inside the capital Mogadishu. He also passed out tarp for tents, mats and silverware. Buul says…

  • Tweet City Heights: With Poverty Rates Up, San Diegans Consider Future

    By Megan Burks What Do You Envision for San Diego? Our Greater San Diego Vision has been ramping up efforts to get San Diegans talking about their collective future. What do we want to see here in 50 years? The initiative, launched by the San Diego Foundation, included a series of workshops this week in…

  • New District Lines Divide City Council

    By Katie Orr If this were a normal redistricting cycle the new district boundaries would go into effect in about two weeks. But it’s not a normal cycle, because this time around the city created a new ninth district. The problem? There won’t be a ninth council member to represent that district until the end…

  • Local Somali Youth Leader Heads to Somalia to Help Famine Victims

    By Amita Sharma As the famine in Somalia spreads, a San Diego Somali man leaves for his homeland today to hand deliver aid. His goal is to assess the crisis and work on self-sufficiency. United Nations officials say tens of thousands of Somalis have died in the famine. Many victims are unable to walk to…

  • Crawford on List of Possible Closures

    By Kyla Calvert This week San Diego Unified staff members will start meeting with representatives from 10 of the district’s 16 clusters of schools. The district is hoping that closing or consolidating some of these schools could save about $5 million for the coming school year. A committee of district staff members has been meeting since January…