Year: 2017
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How Community Members Can Help Their Neighbors Thwart Chronic Diseases
By Tarryn Mento When you are looking for advice, you likely turn to those closest to you. That’s what a nonprofit in San Diego’s City Heights community wants neighbors to do when it comes to their health. Project Concern International’s community health worker program aims to plant knowledgeable neighbors in ethnic communities where rates…
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Refugee Families Forced To Move; Too Many Living In Their Apartments
By Tarryn Mento Three large refugee families that a local nonprofit helped resettle at an El Cajon apartment complex are being asked to move because they have too many people living in their homes. They came forward after KPBS aired an investigation nearly two weeks ago about other refugee families who said the same resettlement agency —…
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Investigation: San Diego Refugees Face Housing Dilemma
The inside of Mostafa Inezan’s two-bedroom apartment in El Cajon was a standard white-walled, brown-carpeted space — except for the hardwood dining area. It was void of knicknacks or family photos, but full of Inezan’s five young sons roughhousing one sunny afternoon. The youngest, a toddler, occasionally waddled around in his unsnapped onesie and tugged…
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Volunteers Bring ‘Free Food Park’ To City Heights
The volunteer group Eat San Diego launched the city’s largest free food park in City Heights on Saturday. Volunteers planted a peach tree, strawberries, kale and other fruits and vegetables. Once the food is ready this fall and winter, it will be available for anyone to pick and eat. Eat San Diego has set up similar curbside…
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Culture Report: New Food Vendors Get Their Feet Wet in City Heights
New business is popping up on an empty lot in City Heights. The Fair@44 pop-up food market on the corner of El Cajon Boulevard and 44th Street launched last year. Part of the plan was to have the outdoor market serve as a launchpad for new food vendors. It took some time, but the international market, which happens…