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La Maestra Launches Mobile Breast Exam Unit
Community leaders celebrated San Diego’s first mobile mammography coach Monday. It’s a bus outfitted with state-of-the-art imaging equipment and will bring mammograms to women where they live, work and run errands. Susan G. Komen San Diego reports local doctors see slightly more late-stage breast cancer diagnoses than doctors in other parts of the state. La…
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Long-Time Mid-City Business to Become San Diego’s Next Coworking Space
Video Credit: Megan Burks, KPBS By Megan Burks It’s been a lumber store, an office for engineers working on the Atlas Rocket, and supplied San Diego churches with religious goods for 50 years. Now the 3700 block of El Cajon Boulevard will live yet another life. Grasshopper Development is in talks to purchase the O’Connor’s…
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Group Bike Ride Highlights Orange Avenue Bikeway Plans
By Brian Myers More than 100 people met up with bicycles outside Ibarra Elementary School in City Heights Aug. 29 for a community ride along Orange Avenue and nearby high-pedestrian areas. The three-mile bike ride was organized by a collaborative of local transportation advocacy groups, including Environmental Health Coalition and City Heights Community Development Corporation.…
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City Heights Latinos Urged To Register On National Voter Registration Day
Carmen Lopez, Latino outreach coordinator for the San Diego County Registrar of Voters, urges City Heights residents to sign up to vote on Sept. 22, 2015. | Photo Credit: Roland Lizarondo, KPBS By Megan Burks Volunteers and staff with the Registrar of Votersfanned out across San Diego Tuesday for National Voter Registration Day. It’s also…
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East African Girl Scouts Learn Heritage, Female Leadership
Girl Scouts have gotten a lot more diverse since the first troop formed in 1912 Georgia — especially in San Diego. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks It’s a Monday evening in City Heights and Girl Scout Troop 4307 is gathering. But instead of green and brown uniforms,…