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Field Guide: The Refugee Paradox
By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX Fresh Fund \ˈfresh\ \ˈfresh\ n. A program that doubles food stamps, Women, Infant and Children (WIC) vouchers, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI/Disability) when spent…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…