LOOKING BACK Men’s basketball won the Metro league championship title in 1964.
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Vol. 68, No. 10
March 11 , 2014
COMMUNITY City College students pair with local artist to beautify Barrio Logan
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Food pantry reopens By Diego Lynch City Times San Diego City College Enactus reopened the food pantry on campus in February. Students will be able to pick up a “care package” stocked primarily with canned goods and granola bars once a week, instead of twice a month, which was the case under a previous administration. The San Diego City College Enactus Food Empowerment and Sustainability Center, as the pantry is called, is run by Enactus. It’s an international non-profit organization whose City College chapter partners with the business department to build student entrepreneurial skills. “You don’t have be with CalWorks (food stamp program), vet status, homeless status. You just have to hungry,” stated Chere Smith, a communication major who oversees the food pantry. In addition to providing students with food, the staff will offer See Food, page 2
Local artist Salvador Roberto Torres displays his rendtion for the completed mural project. Below, Torres instructs one of the volunteers while they paint the mural on a wall along East Harbor Drive. Celia Jimenez, City Times
A vision for the future By Diego Lynch City Times Longtime Chicano artist and activist Salvador “Queso” Roberto Torres is partnering with City College students to paint a mural in Barrio Logan depicting San Diego’s maritime history. The colorful mural is going up on a free-standing wall adjacent to Restaurant Depot’s parking lot, across from the trolley station on Harbor Drive and Cesar Chavez Parkway. Torres is a graduate of City College. He was a member of a group of artists who fought for permission to paint murals on the pillars of the Coronado bridge in Chicano Park in 1973. Chicano Park is underneath the Coronado Bridge adjacent to I-5 freeway. According to the Chicano Park Steering Committee website, a defining moment came in 1970 when the state planned to
build a highway patrol station at that site. Frustrated by years of industrial development, residents of Barrio Logan responded by occupying the area. The I-5 freeway, the bridge, heavy industry and junk yards displaced residents and increased pollution, changing
the character of the community. This project is part of Torres’s ongoing effort to culturally enrich the San Diego’s Chicano communities through art. A handful of City students from the Future Leaders Club turned out to help Torres paint the mural on the morning of Feb.
28, and have been returning to work on the project on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. since. “I think it is important to preserve our heritage and our culture and especially our legacies,” said Torres, “that we have been working toward developing since the 1950s.” The mural features many images of sea life and seafood processing when the ocean was at the heart of local industry. Torres states that he wants people to not only remember that history, but have young people take ownership of it. “This mural represents all of the work of past generations that is going to be passed on,” explained CIty College student Tom Brady at the initial session. The mural also features images of See Torres, page 2
Richard Montoya regails guests at the media party for the Latino Film Festival Feb. 27 Celia Jimenez, City Times
Montoya talks filmmaking to City Times
The “Music Doctor”
Heartbreaker
City College jazz improv professor is a renown “doubler.” PAGE 5
Knights bounced from second round. PAGE 7
See Montoya, page 4
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