City Height Life January 2014

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AZALEA PARK•FAIRMOUNT VILLAGE•HOLLYWOOD PARK•SWAN CANYON•CHEROKEE POINT•RIDGEVIEW•CHOLLAS CREEK

GOING STRONG An ambitious effort involving residents to improve Teralta Park and its surrounding areas has secured funding for a second straight year.

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January 2014 • FREE •

LA VIDA

Volume 3 • Issue 8

CORRIDOR•FAIRMOUNT PARK•COLINA PARK•CASTLE•FOX CANYON•ISLENAIR•BAYRIDGE•TERALTA EAST•TERALTA WEST

Homesteading

in City Heights

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ The state’s DREAM Act allows for students who are living in the country without proper documentation to qualify for college financial aid.

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SNOW DAY Scores of kids were able to romp around in the snow at Colina Park Golf Course in City Heights, thanks to Pro Kids, The First Tee of San Diego.

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IN KEY City Heights Music School is hitting the right notes by making it affordable for neighborhood youth to learn to play a musical instrument.

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A CHANGE OF DIET A growing Muslim community in City Heights is sparking conversations about offering Halal options for students eating at school cafeterias.

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Beth Townsend, a volunteer coordinator at the Peace Garden in Fairmount Village, said she’s seeing increased interest in backyard farming. Beth Townsend, coordinadora de voluntarios de Peace Garden en Fairmount Village, dijo que está viendo un aumento en el interés por la agricultura doméstica. Photo: David Ogul

en City Heights

By David Ogul

“Having a garden is more manageable. You don’t have to go out there with a lawnmower. You just sit back and watch things grow.” Residents wanting to farm their own City Heights is fast becoming a center of San Diego’s growing urban agriculture food received a boost when the city amended its urban agriculture rules in early 2012. movement. “It’s becoming extremely popular,” City Revisions allow most single-family properFarmers Nursery owner Bill Tall said of the ties to have up to five chickens. That number can rise to 15 as long as trend toward raising everycoops are at least 15 feet from thing from chickens to chickJanuary: A fertile the property line, and up to 50 peas in backyards throughout month for planting as long as coops are at least the community. 50 feet away from any resiKen Aeschbacher, who Enero: Un mes fértil dential structure. grew up on a farm in the San para la siembra The old rules were so reJoaquin Valley, two years ago strictive that residents were joined the ranks of those who SEE BACK PAGE effectively banned from leare growing their own food. gally having the birds. “We got tired of wasting waChanges also allow minter on grass, so we said, `Why don’t we raise some vegetables instead?’” iature goats in the yards of single-family He and his wife are tending a crop of kohl- homes. Beekeeping is permitted, too, with rabi, beets, lettuce, radishes, snap peas and some restrictions. The revisions evolved after the Interonions this winter. “There are a lot of people in this neigh- national Rescue Committee encountered borhood who have been living here a long roadblock after roadblock in trying to estime who don’t want to maintain a large lawn anymore,” Aeschbacher continued.

Por David Ogul

City Heights Life

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Hoover High fulfilling college dreams City Heights students looking for a good high school with the resources to help them get into college need to look no further than their own backyard: Hoover High. In fact, administrators at the El Cajon Boulevard campus are now helping families learn about the process of choicing into, instead of out of, the school. More families may be selecting the City Heights school because of the College Avenue Compact, an agreement that guarantees admission

Actividades agrícolas

to San Diego State University for all Hoover students who meet certain benchmarks. For students who prefer to begin their higher education at the community college level, the agreement provides a pathway through San Diego City College before the guaranteed transfer to SDSU. Hoover is the only school in the San Diego Unified School District that has such an agreement. With a record 77,959 applications to San Diego

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City Heights Life

City Heights se está convirtiendo rápidamente en el centro del creciente movimiento agrícola urbano de San Diego “Se está volviendo extremadamente popular”, de acuerdo al propietario del Vivero City Farmers, Bill Tall, acerca de la tendencia de cultivar y criar de todo, desde gallinas hasta garbanzos, en los patios de la comunidad. Ken Aeschbacher, quien creció en una granja en el Valle de San Joaquín, se unió hace dos años a las filas de quienes cultivan su propia comida. “Nos cansamos de malgastar agua regando el césped y pensamos, “¿Por qué no cultivar verduras en lugar de esto?” Él y su esposa cuidan su cosecha de colinabos, remolachas, lechugas, rábanos, guisantes y cebollas durante el invierno. “Muchas personas del vecindario que viven aquí desde hace mucho tiempo no quieren seguir manteniendo un gran pedazo de césped”, continúa Aeschbacher. “Tener un huerto es mucho más manejable. No tienes que cortar el césped. Te puedes sentar a ver cómo crece.” Los residentes que deseen cultivar sus propios alimentos recibieron un gran impulso cuando la ciudad modificó las reglas que regulan la agricultura urbana a principios del 2012. La modificación permite que la mayor parte de

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La Preparatoria Hoover cumple sueños universitarios Los estudiantes de City Heights que buscan una buena preparatoria que les ofrezca recursos para ingresar a la universidad solo tienen que mirar en su propio vecindario: a la Preparatoria Hoover. De hecho, los administrativos del campus de El Cajon Boulevard están ayudando a las familias a aprender más acerca del proceso de escoger, en lugar de evitar, a la escuela. Más familias están eligiendo a la escuela de City Heights debido al programa College Avenue Compact, acuerdo que garantiza el ingreso a la Universidad San Diego State a todo estudiante de Hoover que reúna ciertos requisitos.

Para los estudiantes que prefieren iniciar sus estudios superiores al nivel comunitario, el acuerdo ofrece un camino para ingresar a San Diego City College antes del ingreso garantizado a SDSU. Hoover es la única escuela del Distrito Escolar Unificado de San Diego que cuenta con este acuerdo. Con más de 77,959 aplicaciones a San Diego State para el semestre de otoño del 2014—y una tasa de ingreso menor del 32%—el ingreso garantizado se ha convertido en una importante ventaja, de acuerdo a los funcionarios

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