Tag: Food Justice

  • Schools Serving Up Free Lunches Over Winter Break

    By Kyla Calvert For the first time this year, San Diego Unified is serving free lunches at city recreation centers while schools are closed for winter break. The lunches started this week at recreation centers near schools where break has already started. Just over 61 percent of San Diego Unified students qualify for free or…

  • Local Hunger Groups Screen Documentary Challenging Stereotypes About the Poor

    Jennifer Tracy, executive director of the San Diego Hunger Coalition, and Hannah Gravette, lead organizer for The San Diego Organizing Project discuss their screening of “The Line” 6:30 tonight at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at 4227 Fairmount Ave. The film, funded by MacArthur Foundation and produced by Linda Midgett, shares the stories of people living…

  • Election Results: The Ones City Heights Residents Were Watching

    By Megan Burks Yesterday I visited three polling places in City Heights – Church of The Brethren in Fairmount Park, the City Heights Recreation Center and the Mid-City Police Substation – to talk with voters about which candidates and measures motivated them to get out and vote. Below are the results of some of those…

  • Tweet City Heights: Group Seeks Funds to Open Vegan Co-op in City Heights

    By Megan Burks Group Seeking Funds to Open Vegan Co-op in City Heights San Diego CityBeat reported this week Mitch Wallis, the co-owner of Hillcrest’s Evolution Fast Food, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a vegan food co-op in City Heights. A food co-op is a grocery store that customers can buy a stake…

  • SD Unified Serving Up Healthy Lunches

    Gary Petill, director of Food and Nutritional Services at San Diego Unified School District, and Vanessa Zajfen, specialist with the Farm to School program at SDUSD, talk to KPBS about school lunches. By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane, Monaliza Noor, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to the KPBS Midday Edition interview In accordance with…