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  • City Heights Teens: Let MACSD Help You Get on KPBS

    Speak City Heights partner Media Arts Center San Diego is looking for City Heights teens to join its Teen Producers Project. The program introduces area youth to filmmaking as a means of self-expression, covering everything from storyboarding to final credits. The program has produced more than 300 short films since 2001. This time around, participants…

  • Around the Community Table

    Photo Credit: Adam, age 12, Iraq | Courtesy of The AjA Project Craft, organic coffee and specialty produce were once reserved for farmers markets and niche grocers in affluent neighborhoods. In City Heights, however, Agora Bean + Leaf sells specialty tea and coffee in chic packaging from the same row of stalls where refugees sell…

  • Red Tape Turns a Green Farm into an Eyesore

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 30, 2011 on For close to three decades, a group of mostly poor Cambodian refugees eked out a subsistence living by farming a parcel of land at the end of a southeastern San Diego cul-de-sac. The sprawling farm was impressive. Over the years the refugees had…

  • Stalwart Departs a Changing Community He Helped Change

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 25, 2011 on One day last week, Jay Powell drove his turquoise Mini Cooper down a residential street in City Heights and stopped in front of a faded two-story apartment building. Its units faced away from the street, so the only things visible were windows protected…

  • Reducing Food Insecurity In San Diego And Imperial Counties

    By Maureen Cavanaugh and Hank Crook Published May 18, 2011 on How many families in San Diego County go to bed hungry every night? We’ll discuss the latest stats on hunger in the county, and talk about what Feeding America San Diego is doing to reduce the meal gap in our community. Plus, learn about…