Category: Featured
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Teen Producers: City Farmers Nursery
By Teen Producers Project Youth filmmakers in the Media Arts Center’s Teen Producers Project create short documentaries with Bill Tall “Farmer Bill” and son Sam Tall of City Farmers Nursery, a local business that supports urban agriculture and surrounding gardens. “City Farmers Nursery supports not only me, but all of my friends and neighbors who…
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D9 Looks to Alpha Project for Homeless Outreach
By Brian Myers San Diego’s homeless epidemic has become more noticeable in City Heights. Bikes carrying trailers of belongings are parked outside the City Heights Library and groups of people with bedding and bags sleep under trees at the Officer Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park. District 9 Councilmember and Council President Pro Tem Marti Emerald says…
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Community Health Worker Academy Targets Latinas
By Brian Myers A weekly public health and leadership training is attempting to fight chronic diseases in low income neighborhoods. The workshops are hosted by Project Concern International (PCI), an organization with programs globally and locally in San Diego. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that chronic diseases in the United…
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Activists Hope To Spotlight Local Police And Community Relations
By Tarryn Mento After the fatal police shootings earlier this week of two African American men, Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, law enforcement’s treatment of minorities is again dominating the national conversation. More violence followed when a man opened fire on law enforcement at a Dallas protest on Thursday, killing five…
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San Diego Improving Pedestrian Safety At Site Of Fatal Hit-And-Run
Traffic cones are lined along a protected bike lane and new sidewalk installed at 54th Street near Chollas Parkway, July 5, 2016. | Photo by Tarryn Mento By Tarryn Mento Orange traffic cones and neon netting near the busy intersection of 54th Street and Chollas Parkway on the border of City Heights are a sign…