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Feb. 12 – March 11, 2021

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THIS ISSUE OPINION

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Mission Times Courier readers weigh in on the issues. Page 11

NEWSOM VISITS VACCINATION SUPERSTATION Adam Raby (left with long hair and ponytail) is interviewing Dr. John Redd, chief medical officer for the office of Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Preparedness and Response. (Courtesy photo)

Fighting COVID in El Centro, America's hardest hit city

FOOD & DRINK

Smoke on the water

By JEFF CLEMETSON

New BBQ restaurant opens up on Lake Murray Boulevard. Page 16

Like a lot of filmmakers, La Jolla resident Adam Raby’s film projects in 2020 were put on hold. But on Dec. 31, Empowering

A league of their own

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Mission Trails Lacrosse to begin girls league. Page 18

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EBW is an organization made up of a global network of women leaders who advocate for women’s health and prosperity. Raby SEE EBW TEAM, Page 6

San Diego History Center honors city’s Black heroes

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a Billion Women (EBW, ebw2020. com) connected with Raby for an opportunity to film ground zero in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic — El Centro, California.

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February marks Black History Month and San Diego History Center has launched a new exhibit titled, Celebrate San Diego: Black History & Heritage. Though the center is currently closed to the public, everyone can encounter the exhibit at bit.ly/3aT8rHM. “We’ve experienced wonderful success in collecting community-sourced content through our “Share Your Story” COVID-19 initiative,”

SDHC president/CEO Bill Lawrence said.

A virtual time line celebration acknowledges historical events of African Americans who lived in San Diego County, which includes the following nuggets of interest.

Some of the heroes will also be recognized in a 24-foot wide feature at the Balboa Park SDHC Museum.

I n 1913, Hen r iet ta Goodwin became the first African American graduate from the State Normal School SEE BLACK HISTORY, Page 3

John Henry Turpin on the deck of USS Bennington in the hours following the boiler explosion that took 66 lives. One of only a few Black sailors in the U.S. Navy at the time, Turpin survived two shipboard explosions. (Photo

courtesy San Diego History Center.)

Gov. Gavin Newsom was in San Diego on Feb. 8 to tour the County’s COVID-19 Vaccination Super Station at Petco Park. The site was the first of its kind in the state and the governor lauded the County and its partners for their efforts in vaccinating more than 100,000 San Diegans at the site since it opened last month.

The governor said the Vaccination Super Station at Petco Park helped inspire jurisdictions across the state to initiate similar large-scale vaccination efforts.

Locally, the County has added three additional Vaccination Super Stations and more than a dozen vaccine PODS since Petco Park became operational as a vaccination site. Together, medical professionals at these sites have administered about a half million COVID-19 vaccines to San Diegans eligible to be vaccinated.

The operation in the Tailgate Lot at Petco Park is the result of a partnership between the County, UC San Diego Health, the San Diego Padres and the City of San Diego which owns the property. Speakers from all entities attended a press conference this morning to join the governor in talking about the region’s vaccination efforts.

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of San Diego (now San Diego State University). Goodwin was not listed on the school’s roster of 15 graduates, which is likely why San Diego Union excluded her in its announcement. Let it be known, however, that both an attendance ledger and registration record indicated that this young Black woman entered the school in 1908 and graduated in January 1913.

The Colored Voters Political Club was the first Black bureaucratic organization in San Diego.

By the early 1900s, the city’s Black population swelled dramatically, though still less than one percent of the populace. With this increase, they formed groups to express themselves in ways not permitted in a predominately White setting.

In 1887, Solomon and Cordelia Johnson were instrumental in the formation of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation met in the Johnson home at F and Union streets until funds were raised to secure a church site at 1647 Front St. Remembering San Diego’s 1905 naval disaster brings attention to John Henry Turpin, one of only a few Black sailors in the U.S. Navy at the time. Born in New Jersey in 1876, Turpin enlisted in the Navy in 1896. In 1917 he was promoted as one of the Navy’s first African American chief petty officers.

During Turpin’s 29-year naval career, he survived two shipboard explosions: the first in 1898 on the battleship USS Maine, Havana Harbor, Cuba. The explosion, which contributed to the outbreak

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of the Spanish-American War, killed 260 seamen.

A second explosion, took place in San Diego when two boilers let loose aboard the Navy gunboat, USS Bennington, in July 1905.

One officer and 65 sailors died.

In both incidents, a stunned Turpin rescued a number of injured and dying shipmates, swimming them to shore one by one. Eleven of Bennington’s crew, for similar actions taken,

received the Navy’s highest service award, the Medal of Honor.

Turpin did not!

Our hero transferred to the Fleet Reserve in 1919, also qualified as a master diver, and retired from the U.S. Navy in 1925 to Bremerton, Wash.

Jamaican born Turpin fought for a country that never fully recognized him, until now. (President John Kennedy approved his Medal of Honor nomination for posthumous award in the 1960s, but it went to the government’s back burner. Current efforts are underway.)

In September 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation to rename Washington’s Bremerton Post Office to honor John Henry Turpin.

Let’s all salute San Diego’s Black history, citizens that lived in, and stepped out of, the shadow of what was rightfully theirs.

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Speakers included Newsom, County Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher; Mayor Todd Gloria; Wilma J. Wooten, M.D., M.P.H.; County public health officer; and Erik Greupner, CEO, San Diego Padres.

SUPES CALL FOR $30 MILLION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES Supervisors Terra LawsonRemer and Joel Anderson held a press conference on Feb. 8 calling

for the County to be prepared to implement $30 million in support for small business stimulus relief as soon as federal or state stimulus dollars are received.

“While Supervisor LawsonRemer and I have different political philosophies and represent vastly different districts, we share the common goal of helping the tens of thousands of our fellow residents that are hurting,” said Supervisor Anderson. “Business owners are struggling to keep their doors open and their employees working. While this $30 million stimulus won’t solve all the problems, this is another step towards a better future, and I am

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committed to working together for common solutions that lift everyone in our community.”

“Our message to San Diego County's small businesses is clear: we hear you, we're with you, and more help is on the way,” said Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer.

Joining Supervisors LawsonRemer and Anderson were Joe Paraiso, owner of Brew Coffee Sport in La Mesa, as well as Fernando Hoyos, owner of Club Pilates in Poway. Both hard-working business owners outlined how COVID has SEE NEWS BRIEFS, Page 7

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Addressing the San Diego region’s limited local water supplies with innovative ideas is something the San Diego County Water Authority has become known for.

Using expertise gained from decades of successful planning and projects, the Water Authority is developing strategies to reduce the future cost of water that sustains the economy and quality of life across the county.

Those efforts are ramping up in early 2021, following a Water Authority Board decision to continue assessing the potential for a new aqueduct to transport San Diego’s low-cost, high-priority water supplies from the Colorado

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River to San Diego County. About 50 percent of the region’s current water supplies are from this independent source, and it is the region’s lowest base-cost supply.

The water conveyance project would only be implemented if it’s more cost-effective than the current system, which requires paying the Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to deliver San Diego County’s independent water supplies. A viable project would reduce the cost of water and increase supply reliability, improving affordability of safe, clean water for San Diego County residents. Plus, in the long-term,

it would give San Diego ratepayers more control over costs.

The Water Authority is the long-term water planning agency for metropolitan San Diego County and the region’s wholesale water provider, serving 3.3 million people and a $245 billion economy in partnership with its 24 retail member agencies, which provide supplies to homes and businesses across the region.

The first phase of the Regional Conveyance System Study demonstrated the technical viability and economic competitiveness of two routes for an aqueduct to transport the Water Authority’s high-priority Colorado River water the county.

The second phase focuses on a detailed economic analysis of the two water conveyance route alternatives and further exploring partnerships that could provide significant benefits to an array of stakeholders and potentially reduce the cost of project development. At the end of Phase B, the agency’s 36-member Board – representing all 24 member water agencies – will decide whether to continue with regional conveyance planning.

“These issues are complex and the decisions never easy, but the Board chose to keep all water supply and delivery options on the table in light of future uncertainties,” said Gary Croucher, chair of the Water Authority’s Board of

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Directors. “I look forward to learning from Phase B and working with the Board to decide on next steps when that study phase is done.”

Today, half of the San Diego region’s water supplies are A Colorado River aqueduct (Courtesy photo) from two landmark 2003 water conservation agree- long-term water supply reliability ments known as the Colorado for the region.”

Phase B will help address quesRiver Quantification Settlement Agreement. Conserved water tions about mitigating short-term from the QSA is transferred to rate impacts of a project, the benSan Diego County from Imperial efits of potential partnerships and Valley using a pipeline that is funding opportunities, developing owned by MWD, which owns the a finance plan and the requireonly facilities available to trans- ments of existing agreements, as port Colorado River water to San well as explore with MWD options Diego County. The cost of using for long-term water deliveries to MWD facilities to deliver San the San Diego region using MWD Diego’s QSA water has increased facilities.

30% over the past five years, so Water Authority staff will alwater leaders are looking to save so begin the process of engaging costs on delivering this critical more formally with stakeholders water supply. on potential mutually beneficial The Water Authority’s agree- partnership projects identified ment with MWD to deliver the in Phase A, including joint-use water lasts until 2047, so the projects in the Imperial Valley, Water Authority is working to public-private-partnerships, develop conveyance alternatives bi-national projects, renewable that manage future cost and risks. energy projects, regional opera“While 2047 may seem distant, tional storage projects, Salton Seamajor water infrastructure proj- related projects, and partnerships ects take decades to develop, plan with tribes, federal and state govand build,” said Croucher. “By ad- ernments, and member agencies. vancing to Phase B of the conveyFor more information, visit ance study, the Water Authority sdcwa.org/colorado-river-supis taking prudent steps to ensure plies-management.

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was activated as part of the EBW network to aid in a public information campaign in El Centro, informing residents about the availability of monoclonal antibody treatments (MABs).

“When President Trump got diagnosed with COVID-19, they took him to Walter Reed in a helicopter and as soon as he landed they gave him this treatment,” Raby said. “It was only available to certain people at that point, it wasn’t available to anybody, really. Now the government wants to use this as a vehicle to lower the hospital rates in because hospitals are overwhelmed. In El Centro,

they got parking lots full of tents with people in them and they’re just trying to find a way to help this community.”

The MAB program that EBW, Raby and his partner Jose Valdez filmed was started by Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Dr. Robert Kadlec and is carried out by HHS and the El Centro Regional Medical Center, a UCSD hospital.

The team’s role was to inform the public about the program, help alleviate fears and fight misinformation about the new treatment.

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“There is a lot of messaging out there that has made this virus and this pandemic even more tragic,” Raby said. “Using EBW to engage the women in this community and say ‘We have something that will help you, don’t be afraid to go get a test, don’t be afraid to go to the hospital, there are resources there that will help you,’ was an important part of this.”

Raby recalled one woman his team interviewed named Laura, a general manager at electrical cooperative, who shared that one of her employees called in to work because she was not feeling well. Laura encouraged her to get tested.

“She also told her, because now she was aware of this, that she should ask her doctor if she meets the requirements for monoclonal antibody treatment. Two hours later she was getting the monoclonal antibody. So that’s the power of sharing the story.”

Another success story was the El Centro fire chief, Cedric Cesena, who had severe symptoms from COVID. “Within 48 hours after the monoclonal treatment, I was at 80% back to normal,” Cesena said.

“My wife’s life was also saved by the infusion. She’s got bronchitis and developed a pneumonia, and without the infusion she probably would’ve died.”

But educating the public about MABs wasn’t the only issue facing the EBW team.

“Our roll in El Centro started with how we galvanize people around knowing about the antibodies,” said EBW founder and CEO Ingrid Vandeveldt. “It has morphed into something far greater than that. How do we simplify for the American public COVID’s five-step progression?”

Vanderveldt said that progression starts with prevention through masks, washing hands and social distancing for people not infected with the virus.

Vaccinating the population is another step. The third step is for people who test positive, and if the virus is caught early enough, to treat them with antibodies which will likely keep them out of the ICU. “But after that, things start to rapidly go downhill,” she said.

“Stage four is you’re in the hospital; stage five is the ICU; and after that is death. “[Health officials] haven’t communicated this five step process well enough — and probably the most important message is to communicate this five step process,” she added.

INFUSION CENTER SUCCESSES The MAB program in El Centro utilizes infusion centers where patients at high risk of severe reaction to COVID are treated within 72 hours of symptoms or after receiving a positive test.

The MAB drugs, like the COVID

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EBW founder and CEO Ingrid Vanderveldt (left) on the ground in El Centro, meeting with other women leaders (Courtesy photo)

vaccines that are now available, are already purchased by the government and are given to qualified patients at no cost.

The program has been so far successful. Of the first 133 patients treated with the infusion, only six later required treatment in an ICU, said El Centro Regional Medical Center CEO Dr. Adolphe Edward.

“That means we avoided hospitalizations for a lot of people – six wound up coming back and were admitted, so there’s a slight chance that you’ll get admitted.

“But what we’re talking about is we’re avoiding hospitalization early; we’re catching the COVID positives early; we’re treating the COVID positives with the monoclonal body early; and we’re getting better results at the end of the day,” he added.

Dr. Edward estimates that one ICU bed is freed up for every 10 patients treated with a MAB infusion. Pre-COVID, the El Centro Regional Medical Center had only 12 ICU beds, but has now expanded to over 60 in the hospital and even in outside tents.

THE FRONTLINES OF A PANDEMIC A s Raby, Va lde z a nd Vanderveldt interviewed local community leaders, healthcare professionals and citizens who shared their stories about the successes of the infusion centers, their backdrop was often the COVID-positive tents where the filmmakers witnessed the around-the-clock battle healthcare workers were engaged in trying to save lives.

“It felt like we were in a war zone,” Raby said. “People weren’t shooting at us but there was the effect of the bodies that were lined up outside the hospital ward because they had nowhere to put the deceased. We had that view. And it was powerful. It was disheartening. It was tragic.”

Dr. Edwards described the situation in El Centro as “a fearful fact.

That is the reality here.”

“We’ve been on the New York [Times] list of bad places with very high concentrations of COVID positives. We’ve been ranked number 1 for 10 weeks, although we’re down to three or four right now, but that’s one of those lists you don’t want to be on,” he said.

After the team finished filming in El Centro, they realized they

had documented more than just a government program.

“The emotions of what I experienced over the last six days hit me and tears just started pouring down my face,” he said. “Because what we were witnessing wasn’t just something about COVID-19, it was about a community. It was about people. It was about a history of the land.

“This was once a desert and because of water it has turned into the fruit and vegetable basket of our country in the winter months.

Along with that comes people who’ve been affected by this pandemic more than most places in the county. I think their positive rate was at 37%.”

The high rate of infection comes from a variety of factors in El Centro, where a sizable portion of the population are migrant workers exposed to environmental pollutants like pesticides and many families live in multi-generational households with little to no ability to quarantine at home.

“These people have been affected for a long period of time and their health is at risk. COVID-19 picks on people who have those kind of health issues and it doesn’t allow them up,” Raby said. “And now, hopefully, the people that were there — HHS, certainly EBW, as well as the Department of Defense that is doing this Operation Warp Speed — they will see this community needs the help. And if we can help this community, we can take this program and help the entire country.”

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As the COVID vaccine becomes more available, the EBW team, as well as the doctors at El Centro Medical Center, envision a new tactic to fight the surge by pairing vaccination stations with infusion centers.

“When EBW first visited here, I encouraged that we marry up the infusion and vaccination together because it helps us at the end of the day,” Dr. Edward said. “We’re been talking about getting more vaccinations down here, it hasn’t happened yet, we’re still waiting for distribution. But avoiding hospitalization, avoiding an ICU bed means a better outcome for the patient, which is a healthier society.”

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The EBW team and Dr. Edward see the one-two punch of infusion and vaccination center as a chance to educate the public about the availability, safety and efficacy of each treatment no matter where a person is in the fivestep process. If a person comes into the tent to get a vaccine, he/ she can be educated on the MAB treatment and then go and encourage family and friends to get the treatment if they get a positive test. If someone comes in for a treatment, he/she will l=find out about the availaibilty of vaccines.

Dr. Edward thinks that for every10,000 vaccines administered at an infusion center, they will find 500 at-risk people with COVID to get treated with antibodies and save El Centro Medical Center 50 hospital beds in the process.

Vanderveldt also points out that right now it seems unlikely that the surge will be stopped by vaccines alone.

“Rolling out vaccine distribution without antibody distribution at the same time is a problem because there are not enough vaccines out there,” she said. “Plus, there is still too much doubt about vaccine safety and so the public adoption rate may not be enough to reach herd immunity.”

This is not a plan that will take months to see results. According to Dr. Edward, if the community gets vaccines and their distribution is paired with infusion centers, El Centro could start to turn around in three days.

In the meantime, spreading the word about the MAB infusion treatment is underway. EBW has launched a communications campaign using the Rady’s film images on billboards, flyers to hang on doors in English and Spanish, social media and short-form, podcast-type interviews to educate community members about the MAB program.

EBW and Raby hope the next phase is to tell this story in a documentary form, possibly a series.

That documentary or series, the team imagines, would not only show the devastation of the pandemic in one of America’s hardest hit cities, but also the hope that comes out of people helping people.

“If we come together and put aside some of those differences, put aside those ideas and thoughts the messaging, put that aside and help each other, maybe this is an opportunity to move forward and make some changes in our community where we all help each other — even outside of healthcare.”

“For the first time in history, we’re all focusing on the same issue,” Valdez added. “We’re all focusing on COVID-19 and that’s the comradery of what can bring us together as a society, so hopefully this can be an opportunity.”

adversely affected their business and expressed their support for the Supervisors’ efforts to have additional stimulus grants available for San Diego’s qualified businesses.

“We’re thankful that there are people in our local government that are doing their best to help us, and we are truly appreciative,” said Mr. Paraiso. “Any help we can get would definitely allow us to stay in business.”

The bipartisan effort to further support the region’s economy is dependent upon Congress passing a federal stimulus package, as well as the Board approving a joint Board Letter being offered by Supervisors Lawson-Remer and Anderson tomorrow to prepare for the federal support.

—Reach editor Jeff Clemetson at jeff@sdnews.com.

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STATE ISSUES $45.5 MILLION IN RENT RELIEF FOR SAN DIEGO On the heels of announcing federal rental assistance in late January, Mayor Todd Gloria announced on Feb. 5 that the state will provide more than $45.5 million in assistance for San Diego residents unable to pay rent due to the impacts of COVID-19.

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to nearly $87.9 million in relief for families and individuals who’ve been devastated financially by the pandemic. This is on top of $13.75 million in emergency rental assistance that helped 3,717 San Diego households in 2020.

“Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and the California Legislature really came through for tenants and landlords in our city and across California who have had an incredibly hard time throughout this crisis,” Gloria said. “I will work to get these rent relief dollars out for the benefit of our renters as soon as possible.”

The funding comes as part of Senate Bill 91, which distributes to local agencies funds the state received from the federal government. SB 91 also extended a statewide moratorium on evictions of residential tenants unable to pay rent due to the effects of COVID-19. The moratorium is now effective through June 30.

On Jan. 26, the San Diego City Council approved Gloria’s proposal to extend pandemic-related ban on both residential and commercial evictions. The state’s law supersedes San Diego’s residential eviction moratorium.

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Why community newspapers matter Local newspapers play an important, irreplaceable role in our lives. Local newspapers cover high school and community sports. They keep track of events at schools and weekend gatherings that are what make communities great.

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Fighting to save San Diego’s It’s time to utility undergrounding program recall Gov. Newsom

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For years, the City of San Diego has been working to remove tangles of unsightly overhead power lines, with the goal of beautifying neighborhoods, increasing walkability, and protecting the public from exposed infrastructure.

These widely-supported efforts were nearly derailed by a recent lawsuit. That’s why I’ve dispatched my office’s highly skilled litigators to defend San Diego’s undergrounding program and ensure uninterrupted continuation.

The party bringing the lawsuit is seeking a multimillion dollar payout from a fund specifically set aside to pay for undergrounding overhead lines.

SDG&E ratepayers are likely unaware of the drama playing out in court. Yet it’s at times like this that I am most proud of the quiet work our office does to protect San Diego taxpayers.

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Overhead power lines also create a significant public safety hazard, especially in wildfire-prone areas of the city, where a power line detached by high winds can quickly lead to an out-ofcontrol fire, resulting in terrible losses of lives and property. Even without the threat of fire, a downed power line

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can be extraordinarily dangerous to motorists and pedestrians.

For decades, we all have been paying a surcharge on our SDG&E bills to have these power lines moved underground.

But in 2015 a lawsuit was filed saying this charge was actually an illegal tax and needed to be approved by voters. That isn’t what the law says, however. Our attorneys proved to a San Diego Superior Court Judge that years of undergrounding in San Diego neighborhoods was done properly and legally and there was no reason to shut down the fund or give any of its money to the lawyers who filed the lawsuit.

An appeal was filed and in November the Fourth District Court of Appeal af f irmed the Superior Court’s ruling, and the City once again prevailed. The complainants have now petitioned the California Supreme Court to review their meritless case.

Our goal is to ensure the vital work to underground

overhead utility lines throughout San Diego can continue, rather than spending years bogged down in costly litigation.

The City Attorney’s Office stands ready to protect our City from those who aim to stop progress in its tracks. I consider it our duty to defend taxpayers against baseless lawsuits that waste resources and interfere with important projects that enhance our quality of life.

The ability to go outside to take in the lovely views of our ocean, sunsets, mountains, and canyons has never been more important as we find ways to endure the challenges of this lengthy global pandemic. And now, more San Diegans can look forward to a future without the blight of power poles and overhead utility lines in the picture.

To learn about the utility undergrounding process in your neighborhood, visit sandiego.gov/ undergrounding.

—Mara W. Elliott is the San Diego City Attorney.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the COVID lockdowns, we are finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Seniors and front line workers are being vaccinated and hopefully, very soon, anyone that would like to receive the vaccine will be able to get one.

March will see the end of the 10-month long effort to collect signatures for the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom. As of this writing, we have 1.4 million verified signatures of the 1.5 million needed for a special election. We never could have imagined the response from Democrats and Republicans alike. Newsom has proven to be a horrible leader of our state.

Here are the top eight most egregious offenses of Newsom’s reign: The self-imposed energy crisis: California has abundant energy. Yet California cannot reliably provide energy to the tens of millions of Californians and their businesses. Power shut downs are a regular part of life and its biggest energy provider, PG&E has warned shut downs will be a fact of life for a decade. It is so bad that in 2019 the tech industry sent a warning to Newsom that they will join the many other businesses leaving the state.

Newsom is nowhere with an effort to have industry leaders from around the country get together to solve this problem that has caused so many jobs.

Instead, Newsom blames others.

Wildfire danger: Part of the reason for power shut downs is the wildfire danger caused by decades of a lack of force management and bowing to environmentalists by Newsom and others.

Finally, after deaths and mass destruction, California is putting serious money toward clearing brush. A serious governor would have acted before the tragedies.

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Feb. 12 – March 11, 2021 OPINION / POLITICS Mission Times Courier / College Times Courier sdnews.com Jacobs, UCSD epidemiologist address Dems at meeting

By SEAN QUINTAL

At the February meeting of the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club, members were fortunate to have the opportunity to hear from a sitting U.S. representative, Sara Jacobs (CA-50), and from an internationally renown epidemiologist, Rebecca Fielding-Miler.

Rep. Jacobs described for members her harrowing experience when Trump fanatics, white supremacists and organized seditionists stormed the United States Capitol building. She and other representatives were trapped beneath their seats, and were instructed to don their evacuation hoods, to prevent against airborne chemical toxins. Despite experiencing first-hand a terrifying assault on our government and our democracy, Jacobs acknowledged that some Republican representatives, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14), continue to traffic in the lies, conspiracy theories and fascistic rhetoric that fomented and precipitated the insurrection. In addition to voting to strip Greene of her committee assignments, Jacobs supports an investigation by the evenly-bipartisan Ethics Committee, so

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Water: Californians and businesses are perennially plagued with water shortages caused by man, not the weather. California is experiencing one of it’s wettest centuries in 7,000 years, according to a UC Davis study, yet it refuses to build water storage to solve it’s self-imposed water crisis. Instead, trillions of gallons of water each year are directed toward the ocean to satisfy environmentalists.

Newsom is nowhere to be found on this issue either and so Californians, especially farmers, and their likelihoods suffer.

Unemployment fraud: The largest fraud scandal in the history of any state is exploding in California. Apparently controls were so lax that COVID-related benefits were paid to prisoners, people out of state and fraudsters to the tune of anywhere between $11 and $30 billion according to reporting by the Los Angeles Times.

Fiscal danger: California leads all states in debt and infrastructure problems. Years ago we were warned that California was unsustainable because of it’s pension and other public debt. Newsom has done nothing to stave off the impending fiscal nightmare other than making it worse through higher spending.

Job losses: Nothing says job losses like the thousands of

that Americans can learn which members of Congress participated in the preparation and execution of the violent attack on our government.

That need for accountability notwithstanding, Jacobs continues to look for opportunities to accomplish legislative achievements on a bipartisan basis. She singled out Republican representatives Peter Meijer (MI-3) and Blake Moore (UT-1) as examples of thoughtful and principled legislators, who act in good faith on behalf of their constituents, and who are willing to challenge the dangerous and destructive extremist elements in the Republican caucus.

But with regard to the COVID relief bill, Jacobs made it clear that Democrats cannot and will not wait for Republicans to agree to sensible legislative action; the needs of the American people at this moment are too numerous, too great and too urgent to delay relief, simply to appease members of the minority party.

The most important thing the Democrats can do with the mandate they have received from the American people, said Jacobs, is to pass legislation that makes a material difference in the lives of Americans, so many of whom are suffering from the nonfeasance and malfeasance of the previous

presidential administration, and of the previous congress. Every American will need a COVID vaccine, and millions of individuals, as well as countless small businesses, desperately need economic relief. These are the priorities that the Congresswoman maintains will animate the Democrats’ first months in the majority.

On the topic of COVID vaccinations, Jacobs pointed out that Congress has oversight of the unprecedented mobilization to vaccinate America. If any folks in her district are having trouble getting information or assistance from state or county officials, the Congresswoman invited constituents to contact her office.

This offer of assistance from Rep. Jacobs dovetailed neatly with our meeting’s other guest, epidemiologist Rebecca Fielding-Miller, of UCSD’s Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health.

Ms. Fielding-Miller explained in detail to members the innumerable challenges of standing up not just a nationwide vaccination program, but an initiative to vaccinate most everyone on Earth.

She elaborated that the first two approved vaccines, from Pfizer and Moderna, are stunningly effective. But the vaccine requires two doses, given weeks apart, and the vaccines themselves must be maintained at extremely cold

businesses and individuals that have relocated out of California.

It has become legion and fosters headlines like this: “California had the biggest net loss of U-Haul trucks in any state in 2020.”

Businesses and individuals alike know that California Democrats, led by Newsom, won’t be changing their ways without a recall and, instead, will seek to increase taxes and regulations even more. That’s why so many are leaving the state.

COVID response: It has been a disaster. Despite Newsom‘s recent, largely unexplained reopening, California leads the nation in shut down policies and COVID cases.

Add to that Newsom’s expensive, secret mask deal to buy masks from a well-connected Chinese electric car manufacturer.

Arrogance: The world now knows that Gov. Newsom imposed rules against restaurant dining and school shut downs while his children attended private schools and he dined at the most expensive restaurant in California, the French Laundry, with healthcare lobbyists. Newsom then proceeded to lie about whether he was following social protocol while there.

As arrogant as that is, his oneman rule style proves his unworthiness. California needs a leader who collaborates with residence instead of dictating to them as he floats his own COVID-19 rules.

California ignores public records request, keeps coronavirus data hidden — state health officials have said releasing the data would confuse the public. The

geniuses, including Newsom, presiding over the worst COVID record of any state have decided that the citizens are just too dumb to be told the truth.

He must go and now is the time.

Getting the recall on the ballot is only half of the work. We must quickly get behind a candidate and begin campaigning. Please keep in mind that we are in a very liberal state and we will not be able to get a far-right wing candidate elected. It would behoove us to seek out an electable candidate with experience to right the ship.

That being said, please remember that the Democrats are attempting to make our state mailin ballot permanent. Please, when it comes to the special election, do not use mail-in ballots. Let’s fight back against the fraud and go to the polls.

Lastly, we are most excited that we may be able to have our next meeting in person!

The meeting is scheduled for March 9. Our speaker will be Wendy Hauffen from San Diego Gun Owners. She is a project manager for #NotMeSD, an initiative

by SDCGO To stop sexual assault and domestic violence. #NotMeSD is a mentor ship program designed to assist women in the journey to becoming a gun owner. We hope you all will join us and look forward to seeing you in person.

Fingers crossed.

—Laura Crivello writes on behalf of the Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California.

temperatures. These logistical elements would complicate even the most efficient vaccination rollout.

Dr. Fielding-Miller spoke hopefully about the soon-to-be-authorized Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

It is only one dose, and the vaccine does not require cold storage.

While its clinical efficacy rate was proven to be 72% in the U.S., compared to 90%+ for Pfizer and Moderna, Dr. Fielding-Miller speculates that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine may well prove to have the largest beneficial impact on public health, noting that in its clinical trials, there were zero instances of death or serious illness.

Dr. Fielding-Miller pointed out the critical importance of distributing all vaccines equitably, among various communities.

COVID-19 is a highly contagious, airborne virus, so whenever any members of our community remain vulnerable to infection, we are all vulnerable; none of us may feel secure until we achieve a population-wide level of immunity of ~70%. Dr. Fielding-Miller explained that even those who have been infected with COVID still need to be vaccinated, as we do not know how long natural immunity lasts, or how protective it is for any individual.

The epidemiologist acknowledged that many folks remain

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skeptical of vaccines. She sensibly counseled that people are more likely to change their minds, when they are listened to, not when they are berated or yelled at. She herself has listened patiently, and explained calmly, to individuals who are vaccine-hesitant, pointing out to them, for example, that the vaccine does not effect fertility, and that it is impossible to deliver a microchip through the tiny aperture in a hypodermic needle.

In the months ahead, until we achieve herd immunity, Dr. Fielding-Miller reminds us of some basic things we can all do for each other: wear a mask; meeting outside is better than inside; seeing fewer people is better than more people; wash your hands; and help your friends get vaccinated.

Important guests and useful information are standard features of the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club’s monthly meetings. At our next meeting, March 3 at 7 p.m., we will feature a candidate forum of all Democratic contenders for the State Assembly’s 79th District special election. To join the meeting by Zoom, simply follow the invite link on our club’s website, lmfdems.com.

—Sean Quintal writes on behalf of the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club.

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Letters to the editor [Editor’s note: After receiving several letters regarding the headline and subhead of last month’s Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California’s column, the Mission Times Courier has changed them in our online edition. They now read “A call to action” rather than “A call to arms.” The paper has always taken a more hands-off approach to editing the Opinion and Politics page as to not let our our personal biases be reflected in editing other people’s opinions. After some reflection of our own, this policy will be under review and in the meantime all language that could be construed as violent will be edited, after giving the authors a chance to make the corrections themselves. Furthermore, the Politics section that normally includes the political clubs and news from elected officials will from now on fall under the broader section of Opinion. As stated elsewhere, all opinions printed in the paper — wether guest editorials, political columns or letters to the editor — are

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those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the paper, the publisher or the editors.]

A BAD ‘CALL’

Re: “A call to arms and reflection” [Volume 27, Issue 1, or bit.ly/3ro1JQX] I just wanted to share my disbelief and disgust that the Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California chose such an incredibly tone-deaf heading to their article in the Jan. 15- Feb. 11, 2021 paper: “Call to arms and reflection.” After the domestic terrorism we all witnessed on Jan. 6, their use of the phrase "Call to arms...," as well as your paper's willingness to accept the same, is far more than disappointing.

—Susana Whitaker, San Carlos I read with shock and dismay first the title of the article “Call to arms and reflection” by the Navajo Republican Women of

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California and then the article itself. Less than 10 days after an armed invasion of the United States Capitol, these women are issuing a “call to arms.” Is the author endorsing the previous days activity? I read the article to find out if there was any reflection about the events on Jan. 6.

Nothing was mentioned. Instead, the first line pointed to the need to purge dead people from the voter rolls. There has been no evidence that dead people voted in any significant numbers. The purpose of this line was an attempt to delegitimize the November election.

The only so-called reflection in this article was that radical, leftist, socialists are destroying this country and that “spineless and indolent” Republicans are letting this happen. I would like the author to reflect on her words, “We have been bloodied and it’s our charge to rise and take back the America we love” in light of Jan. 6. As has been said many times,

words have consequences. This is the same rhetoric that inspired the storming of the Capitol. In light of Jan. 6, we need to tone down the inflammatory rhetoric and realize that we are all Americans.

—Ron Gardner Jan. 15's Navajo Canyon Republican Women's column was absolutely reprehensible and a total stain on your paper.

The very title is an incitement, and given the recent violent attempted takeover of our Capitol, it's very irresponsible of you to print that. The last thing our nation needs is more armed nut jobs being called to “take back America,” whatever the heck that means.

“No more dead people voting”?

Extensive vetting by election officials has proved this assertion dead wrong, pun intended.

“We have been bloodied”?

It wasn't Democrats fatally

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battering a cop with a fire extinguisher. It wasn't Democrats who crushed to death one of their own supporters in the melee. It wasn't Democrats who took a crap in the Capitol halls and walked it all over the place. It wasn't Democrats who defaced statues and stole lecterns.

Your advertisers should be made aware of the garbage to which you're giving print space.

If you're going to print lies and calls to violence like this one, you should at least put it on the Opinion page and add a notice that it's not based on any facts.

—Callie Mack In light of the recent domestic terrorist attack on our Capitol and on our democratic traditions, Jamesa Selleck might want to rethink titling her option piece “Call to Arms and Reflection”.

I would suggest a better title SEE LETTERS, Page 12

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would have been “A Time for Reflection”.

—Dave Kiley, San Carlos I understand there are two main political parties in this country but especially in light of the events in the nation’s Capitol Jan 6, it was implicit of you and irresponsible to publish an article with a bolded paragraph entitled “A call to arms ...” - No excuse for this! And to allow the inclusion by Ms. Selleck of her salacious false narrative “No more dead people voting” was also enabling.

For her and your edification, there were only three incidents of voter fraud uncovered in the 2020 election and they were all found to be committed by Republicans.

Further, in her penultimate paragraph, you allow Ms. Selleck to further incite violence by printing her words “..it’s our charge to rise and take back the America we love.”

I also ask which form of socialism she is “looking in the eye?”

There are four types. Does she know this? And it seems from the world’s happiness index, the citizens of Scandinavia have chosen one that works quite well. How does Ms. Selleck define “socialism”? The kind when the 1% get a multi-billion dollar tax cut while taxes on the middle class go up and the national debt soars to

pay for it, thereby taking money away from infrastructure, education and health programs? Or perhaps, she means the plans for part of the second stimulus payments to go to restaurant owners so that monies can, in true Romanesque fashion, partially “trickle down” to workers rather than having the payments go directly to workers?

Somewhere the editor of your publication took the day off.

—Bruce Wilbat, Del Cerro

PRO CHURCH PROJECT

Re: “Conflict and confusion over All Peoples Church project” [Volume 26, Issue 11 or bit.ly/3cB52jl] My husband and I are business owners in the Grantville-San Carlos area. We have been members of All People’s Church since 2015. The church has helped me turn my life around. I can now lead my employees in confidence with compassion. With the church’s help, I have seen marriages restored, people come off drugs, trust rebuilt, depression lifted, the poor provided for, single mothers cared for, financial needs met, and a variety of other personal needs met. All of this, plus more, is available to the community through All Peoples Church. Having a church building in Del Cerro means we can put our efforts more fully into supporting and helping the community. I am excited to see the church building become a reality.

—Jamie Conner

OPINION As a resident of the San CarlosNavajo community, I value the importance of our close-knit and hometown demeanor, as well as the spirit of giving back to the community. As a proponent of All Peoples Church, I believe this church would actively give back and bring light and positivity to our community, which is certainly something we need during this time of crisis in our country. Upon hearing about the proposed site, I visited the church to see what it was like. From what I saw, All Peoples prides itself on being a church for all peoples and that includes all nationalities, all sexual orientations and all races. The location will not impact the typical resident on a day-to-day basis.

From an engineering standpoint, looking at the potential impacts of a new church, traffic and noise are unlikely to be a disturbance for a church this size. Our community will benefit from a new church, especially a church like All Peoples.

—Lexi Kammeyer, San Carlos As a resident of Del Cerro, I have been surprised by the opposition to the proposed All Peoples Church building project. Del Cerro is a wonderful community where people appreciate and respect each other's different beliefs and views.

It is made even more wonderful by the presence of places of community worship, service and learning centers. I would claim that these very places are a big part of what makes this community so special.

Schools and places of worship are vital for healthy communities and I strongly support all efforts to increase their presence and influence. In the wake of these special places is hope, healing and help.

This is what is needed more than ever. If we truly care about our community and each other, we will encourage rather than discourage these efforts.

All Peoples Church is a community-sized church (not a “mega” church), similar to St. Therese Catholic Church, with many vital community outreach projects (e.g. teen programs, food drives and financial assistance to those suffering job loss due to COVID-19).

In regard to traffic concerns, Sunday morning is the lightest traffic time of the week so there will be little negative impact on residents. (There will likely be a positive impact on local businesses, though!) Also, a nicely situated and attractive place of worship will improve the aesthetics and abate some of the freeway noise.

For these and many more reasons I strongly support this project.

—Molly Williamson, Del Cerro

DEL CERRO REPRESENTATION? Re: “Letter: Questions about new Save Del Cerro Group, All Peoples Church” [Volume 27, Issue 1 or bit.ly/39MkSpM] I was really disappointed to see Mark Rawlins publish as "news"

sdnews.com from the Del Cerro Action Council on its website the same opinion letter published in the Mission Times Courier. Mark was expressing his own opinion and in no way represents the community of Del Cerro. He is personally an evangelical Christian and sees Save Del Cerro as anti-church, which it is not. This is about land use and for Mark to publish under the banner of DCAC shows he is not interested in presenting the community’s preferences. In fact, we are asking Mark to step down from DCAC as he has attacked Save Del Cerro as spreading “propaganda” and half-truths.

Since he is moving to Idaho, he has no right to make agreements with anyone for our community. His need to relate his history of DCAC from 2007 has no bearing on the situation now. In fact, others who were involved during that time have documents that directly contradict what Mark has claimed, so he may not be the most reliable source.

In his description of the mega-project, for instance, his assertion that installing another traffic light on College (in addition to the five already there) will “mitigate” traffic. Of course it will not do so, but only contribute to the congestion. Additionally, stating that the church and its lobbyist have gone through each step of the approval steps fails to mention that the owner of Atlantis Group was the director SEE LETTERS, Page 13

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District 7 Dispatch

By RAUL A. CAMPILLO First, let me begin by once again thanking the readers and publishers of the Mission Times Courier for allowing me this venue to communicate important updates from my office.

I would like to begin with an update on COVID-19 vaccinations happening in San Diego.

Fortunately, San Diego County is setting California’s pace for vaccinations. We currently have the second-highest percentage of our population vaccinated, and we are only slightly behind Contra Costa for the leading position. As you likely know, San Diegans who are 65 years or older or are healthcare workers are currently eligible to get vaccinated now. We have stood up a number of vaccine “Super Stations” as well as PODs (points of dispensing) throughout the county. I encourage folks to check their eligibility online and make an appointment at bit.ly/3p652ud.

It is my pleasure to announce that our office is currently planning our First 100 Days Town Hall series, which will begin on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. I will be joined by mayoral staff for a presentation, discussion, and questions and comments period as the city prepares to release a bid for the gas and electric utility

franchise later this spring. We want to hear your feedback during this virtual meeting so that we can work effectively to secure the best possible deal for San Diego ratepayers. Please visit bit.ly/3p0dnzJ to register for the forum.

After the franchise event, the series will continue with a Town Hall forum specific to each neighborhood of District 7. Attendance at these virtual events is free of charge, but registration is required. I would strongly encourage residents who would like to have their questions answered and their voices heard on matters of importance to their communities to register for one or more of these events. Once you register for an event, please keep the confirmation email you receive, as it will contain your unique meeting link that you will need to revisit at the time of the forum in order to join us. Schedule is as follows (follow the bitly link to register): • Feb. 18: Linda Vista (bit. ly/36RmOer) • Feb. 23: Mission Valley (bit. ly/3tPdguC) • Feb. 24: Del Cerro (bit. ly/39YXVQ0) • March 1: San Carlos (bit. ly/2YUxDZ4) • March 3: Tierrasanta (bit. ly/3rzpMfD) • March 4: Serra Mesa (bit. ly/3jvaQMG) • March 23: Allied Gardens/ Grantville (bit.ly/36T3opE)

I would like to remind constituents that all of the memos our office submits, including our budget priories memo, are available on our website, and can be viewed at sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd7/ newsroom.

Thank you again for affording me this opportunity to serve. As a reminder, you can always reach my office any time by emailing RaulCampillo@sandiego.gov.

For a Del Cerro-specific issue, please reach Jared Miller-Sclar at JMillerSclar@sandiego.gov. For an issue specific to Grantville, Allied Gardens, or San Carlos, please reach Sanna Loando at SLoando@sandiego.gov.

of the Planning Department and has shown she knows how to pressure current employees to produce the results she promises her clients.

Any and all information about the church and its plans is taken directly from the APC website.

We have tried to communicate with Herber and APC, but they refuse to have even a conversation. Herber has stated that he doesn’t answer emails or phone calls, but “prays” for his opponents. The Atlantis Group and APC have met only with the homeowners on Marne and have not gotten approval for anything

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from them. Eight homeowners should not be determining landuse policy for the community. As you are well aware, meetings of the DCAC and NCPI have become very contentious because the residents do not feel their voices count for anything in this process.

Rawlins does not represent Del Cerro, but rather his own interests. As a member of Friends of Del Cerro he has spear-headed an agreement with the church to “beautify” the College Avenue median. All without notice, discussion, or permission to enter any such agreement.

This mega-project is wrong for the land, wrong for the SEE LETTERS, Page 23

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Love Is Love – Make your favorite drink, grab your Valentine’s chocolates and watch a movie that celebrates love, whether it’s the award-winning “Brokeback Mountain,” a love story between two cowboys, or “Lady Bird,” which focuses on a complicated mother-daughter relationship.

Black Love – February is Black History Month, so celebrate diversity with popular movies such as “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”, “The Bodyguard”, “Love Jones" or the Halle Berry/Eddie Murphy romantic comedy “Boomerang.”

Nancy & Nora – This category features movies written, directed or produced by filmmakers Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron, who are responsible for some of the most beloved romantic movies. Check out Ephron classics like “Sleepless in Seattle,” “When Harry Met Sally” and “You’ve Got Mail” or Meyers films like “Father of the Bride,” “The Parent Trap” and “It’s Complicated.”

Bloody Valentine – You may not want to dim the lights when watching “Carrie” or “House at the End of the Street.” Or maybe a scary movie on Valentine’s Day will bring you closer — literally.

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COMMUNITY BRIEFS NAVAJO PLANNERS ELECTIONS The Navajo Com munity Planners, Inc. (NCPI) will hold its annual elections at its March 10 meeting.

NCPI is the duly authorized planning group that reviews and provides recommendations on land use issues to the San Diego City Council. Elections for community planning groups in San Diego are usually scheduled in early March. This year, the City allowed planning groups to chose alternative voting to in-person elections because of the CODID pandemic.

At it’s Feb. 10 meeting, NCPI decided to hold its elections via the online voting system electionbuddy.com. To cast a vote, residents must submit a proof or eligibility by email to navajoplanners@gmail.com on or before March 5. This email must include voters’ first and last name, email address, eligible address and proof of identity as specified in Article V, Section 2 of the bylaws. The Election Subcommittee will verify eligibility. All eligible voters verified by the Election Subcommittee will receive an electronic ballot via email through the electionbuddy.com platform on March 8 and will be required to cast their votes using the platform on or before March 10 at 6 pm. Results will be announced at the March 10 regular meeting of NCPI.

The following candidates are running for two open seats in each neighborhood: • Allied Gardens: Shain Haug, Chris Galuppo, Dana Cole • Del Cerro: Vince Mikulanis, Donna Valerie, Debra Gonzales, Brian Gile, Iris Fink, Abel Santana • Grantville: David Smith • San Carlos : Mike Murray, Tamar Caspi For more information, visit navajoplanners.org.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DEL CERRO ACTION COUNCIL In a response to questions about what the Del Cerro Action Council is, how long it has been operating, and what they accomplished, the following information is provided: The Del Cerro Action Council (DCAC) was stablished in 1999 when several mothers were tired of speeding cars on Madra Avenue and wanted to have a forum to share ideas and connect with the City of San Diego and other agencies on how to improve the quality of Del Cerro.

They established the purpose of DCAC to increase the cohesion of the Del Cerro Community by promoting and providing its civic, cultural, social, educational and recreational development and improvement, to serve as a clearinghouse to the community, City of San Diego and county and state agencies, as appropriate and

to provide leadership to guide the community. Since then a few of DCAC’s accomplishments: • Worked with the city to put in stop signs at Madra and Crystalaire and other locations.

• White lines on Del Cerro Boulevard and other streets to help reduce speeding in the neighborhood.

•Worked with Council member Jim Madaffer to secure some funding from the City to help upgrade the playground in the Princess Del Cerro Park. DCAC spearheaded a community fundraising drive to add to the funding from the city.

This included selling memorial bricks which are in front of the playground.

• DCAC organized and assisted in community clean-ups on Del Cerro Boulevard, Navajo Canyon and Adobe Falls.

• Worked directly with Council member Jim Madaffer to for a new “Welcome to Del Cerro” community sign which is located on the College Avenue median just north of I-8. The sign design was approved by the city and then implemented by Council member Madaffer throughout other District 7 communities.

• Worked with SDSU to install no trespassing signs for Adobe Falls.

• Successfully fought SDSU regarding the proposed 540 housing units they wanted to construct on their 38 acres surrounding Adobe Falls.

• DCAC continues providing numerous community updates on topics from recycling to water and sewer upgrades, underground utilities, 2020 census, canyon brushfire prevention, and quarterly reports from our police community relations officer, as well as local and state elected representatives and from the Director of Government and Community Relations for SDSU. For many years, DCAC met on a monthly basis, with the exception of December. In recent years, DCAC moved to quarterly meetings. With the reemergence of a possible Maintenance Assessment District for Del Cerro, and assuming it would be decided by the residents within year, DCAC ceased collecting funds for membership.

Our points of communication have been monthly articles in the Mission Times Courier which is delivered to most residences throughout the Navajo Community and is also available online. Information is posted on the website at delcerroactioncouncil.org. Community reports are also presented at the monthly meetings of the Navajo Community Planners, Inc. Mark Rawlins, who has been involved with DCAC in one capacity or another for many years will not be running for any open position and will be stepping down.

He has retired and is moving out of state.

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Regarding the All Peoples Church (APC), there are still three outstanding, and crucial reports due from the city: The environmental report (the public will have 30 days to respond to a Mitigated Negative Declaration and 45 days to respond if the city issues an Environmental Impact Report); the traffic report; and an additional cycles report from the Planning Department.

The city still has some outstanding issues on the project. It is our understanding the APC will be submitting their response to the city’s concerns about the middle of the month. The city will then review the submittal and issue a cycles report. We should anticipate the traffic report will be issued about the same time as the cycles report and shortly after the environmental report should be released for public comment.

Once all the information is available there will be a Zoom meeting for Del Cerro resident to discuss the pros and cons of the project. All concerns and support will then be given to the Navajo Community Planners (NCPI) when the APC project is an action item for NCPI. Please note, there is always an opportunity for public comment when the project is an action item at NCPI, the Planning Commission and City Council.

—By DCAC secretary Jay Wilson

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Under our PALS community programs, we offer classes such as our Senior Fitness Class, our Alvarado Balance Class, and the “Back Nine” Senior Golf Program, which is led by a PGA professional and licensed recreation and physical therapists. All are designed to sharpen your motor skills and strengthen your body.

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Officer elections are conducted at the April meeting which is scheduled for April 22. An update will be published in the March issue of the Mission Times Courier and posted on the delcerroactioncouncil.org website.

Our Jan. 26 Town Hall Meeting was directed to the work done by the San Diego River Conservancy.

The Conservancy is an independent, non-regulatory state agency established to preserve, restore, and enhance the San Diego River and littoral. The Conservancy's 17-member governing board consists of both state and local representatives, creating a diverse partnership dedicated to conserving this highly valued resource of statewide significance.

Dustin Harrison, an environmental scientist with the organization, described the progress and goal of the Conservancy to establish a hiking trail from the mouth of the river at the ocean to its headwaters at Volcan Mountain.

More information about the organization and opportunities to participate in their work will be found at sdrc.ca.gov. We hope to get a recording of the meeting to our website sometime soon.

At our Tuesday, March 23 Town Hall Meeting the primary speaker will be Council District 7 Council SEE COMMUNITY BRIEFS, Page 23

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emergency declaration is lifted, it will become effective on July 1 if the City is still under a state of emergency.

The state legislation does not protect commercial tenants. San

Diego’s ban on commercial evictions will last until June 30, or 60 days after the City’s emergency declaration is lifted, whichever comes first.

Gloria announced on Jan. 21 that the City had received more than $42.3 million in direct federal funding for rent and utility payment assistance.

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An online portal is available now on the San Diego Housing Commission’s website for city residents interested in receiving information about the application process for the upcoming program.

Those interested should visit bit. ly/3p8Hwgf Signing up to receive information is not an application for the

program and will not affect any determinations of eligibility for the program.

VACCINATION STATION NEEDS VOLUNTEERS UC San Diego Health is partnering with San Diego County and the San Diego Padres to

operate the Vaccination Super Station near Petco Park. The partnership welcomes community support and volunteers.

Details on the types of volunteers that are currently needed can be found at health.ucsd.edu/ vaccine-volunteer.

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Why open a new restaurant in the middle of a pandemic? Because we need comfort. Comfort food calms the soul.

We have all been driving by this restaurant for months wondering what is going on behind the canvas walls. Now we know! Smokey and the Brisket has moved into the neighborhood and we are lucky.

BBQ is an art form and art takes time. No one knows that better than a pit boss. Smokey’s pit boss works around the clock for our enjoyment.

He is busy smoking all the traditional meats and some unique sausages.

Chef/owner Alberto Morreale, from the Farmer’s Table and Farmer’s Bottega, is all about feeding La Mesa residents good food.

Designers have been busy too, creating a clever motorcycle and automotive theme. The front counter is made of the red toolboxes that all of you gear heads have in your garage. Also, a 1960’s

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The beer taps resemble motorcycle gas tanks. Booths and chairs have racing stripes and the armrests have illuminated taillights, and of course, an old gas pump and a motorcycle grace the dining area.

On the menu, you will find the full range of meats that everyone knows and loves brisket, pulled pork, rotisserie chicken, both pork and beef spare ribs and Texas

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smoked sausage links. If you just can’t live without a hamburger, you’re in luck — and it is good.

If you want a whole or half chicken, they have three different options: herb, habanero and Alabama chicken with a white Alabama BBQ sauce.

Lest you think the menu is all meat, there is a nice selection of salads such as Burnt Carrots and Cauliflower Salad with Arugula, goat cheese and cilantro-lime

vinaigrette and a Smoked Pulled Chicken Salad topped with Fritos.

The menu also includes an “Ooey Gooey” jalapeno mac ‘n cheese featuring brisket burnt ends. Try some of the delicious side dishes like Brussels sprouts, cowboy caviar, mashed potatoes and cornbread. They offer four different flatbreads with handcrafted 48-hour rising dough.

Kids love BBQ too and they are not forgotten with cheeseburgers,

chicken tenders, and other sandwiches with fries.

If you are feeding an army, they offer a meal for four to six and another for 12 to 14.

Currently all orders are to go, but you can sit on the patio and eat your food. When we are able to eat indoors again, you can enjoy televised motorsports such as NASCAR, motocross and monster truck events.

Smokey and the Brisket is open for lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. or sold out, whichever comes first. Don’t delay in ordering as they sell out quickly.

You will find them at 5465 Lake Murray Blvd. Call to order food for pick up 619-439-6544. Check out their menu and order online at smokeyandthebrisketsd.com.

—Robin Dohrn-Simpson is a San Diego-based freelance travel and food writer.

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There is a wide range of youth male lacrosse programs available to young athletes across San Diego County. But, did you know that youth female lacrosse programs are relatively new? Despite the pandemic and its regulations, Mission Trails Lacrosse Club will be starting its first female lacrosse program, led and coached by Alicia Durante.

Practices are scheduled to start end of February and conclude in May/June, while game schedules are “to be determined” at the moment. It is valid to question how sports operate in a pandemic, let alone in a completely brand new program. Coach Durante, however, is confident that there is a need in the community for this program.

Durante shared from her personal involvement in the sport as an experienced lacrosse player, coach, and parent that the resources for female lacrosse players have historically been limited. There are currently no girls programs serving the communities in Navajo neighborhoods, and surrounding areas (other than high school level athletics).

As a parent of a lacrosse player, Durante said, “I have been looking for options for my daughter to play the game for years. We have had to look in neighborhoods outside of our own to find a program,” and, “most of the girls I worked with and coached didn’t play in San Diego.

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play through travel club teams or out of state.”

Mission Trails Lacrosse Club wants to end the search for female programs and make the sport more accessible for every lacrosse player. When asked why it is the right time to pilot this program Andrew O’Neill, president of the Mission Trails Lacrosse Club, explained, “Our girls program has been something we've wanted to do for a few years. The boys’ game and girls’ game are similar, but different sports. One of the barriers we've always had is finding the right person to come in and lead and direct the girls program and we believe we have right person with Alicia Durante.”

Despite having the right coach, the setbacks of the pandemic also had to be reckoned with. O’Neill explained, “2020 was tough on a lot of players. We had a few strong teams that felt they had finally worked to get to a better competition level and staying motivated for the next unknown opportunity is difficult.”

But in taking steps to move forward with reopening the boys program and kickstarting the female program, coaches remain hopeful for the future of the lacrosse programs at the Mission Trails Lacrosse Club.

“Over the last few years we've had tremendous growth and adding a girls program continues to show SEE LACROSSE, Page 20

Coach Durante (right) teaching some stick techniques. (Courtesy photo)

Due to the current situation with COVID-19 cases, our district has delayed the reopening of our schools for Phase 2. In a few weeks, we may have more information in allowing more students to return to school under Phase 1. There are many factors to reopen which include the utmost safety conditions, agreements between our district and our employee unions and implementation of PPE equipment at every school.

Later this month, principals will be reaching out to our school communities to get feedback and input on the 2021-22 school budget.

We will seek your input and advice on how to invest our school funding to support the children who attend our Henry Cluster schools.

Even though we are doing online learning and we haven’t been able to engage with our students on campus, several of our students are being acknowledged for their dedication to our community and hard work with their academics. I’m very proud of these Henry Patriots: Donte Wyatt, a Henry sophomore, was selected to participate in the Youth Ambassador/ Jacobs Community Scholar Program at UC San Diego. The Youth Ambassador/Scholars Program is a year-long initiative designed to train local 10th and 11th graders in the best practices of community oversight of law enforcement; to plan outreach and engagement events within the Scholars’ own communities; and to collaborate on policy proposals aimed to improve public safety for all community members in San Diego. We are so proud of Donte’s dedication to our community!

Benjamin Broudy, a Henry sophomore, won the 2020 Congressional App Challenge.

The C ong re s siona l App Challenge — the official student coding competition of the U.S. House of Representatives — is an initiative encouraging

American students to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

“Urging students to pursue these careers is important not only because of the COVID-19 crisis, but because we are also facing a larger competitiveness and innovation crisis in America” said Rep. Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and Rep. French Hill (AR-02) in a joint statement. “The Congressional App Challenge inspires students and workers to pursue these technology careers.”

Benjamin will receive official recognition from our member of Congress, and his app will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year.

Patrick Henry High School sophomore Audrey Freeman ha s b e en ele ct e d nex t Lieutenant Governor of Key Club Division 21. In the selection process, Audrey called upon her Key Club peers to take the time to understand others, including foster children who face challenges unique to their situation, and those who may be questioning their gender identity or transitioning to a new lifestyle. She appealed for other Key Club members to be more than just volunteers, but to sympathize with those less fortunate.

Now in her second year as a member of Key Club, Freeman spent the last year as Patrick Henry’s Kiwanis Family chair, focusing mainly on outreach to her club’s service partners in the SDSU Circle K club and the Grantville-Allied Gardens Kiwanis Club. She also served as the Division Spirit Coordinator for the 2020-21 term.

As Lieutenant Governor next year, she will be responsible for the oversight of 13 Key Clubs from Point Loma to Patrick Henry, ranging as far north as La Jolla, Mira Mesa, and Scripps Ranch.

Patrick Henry High School sophomore Linh Truong was elected last month to serve as the 2021-22 President of the PHHS Key Club. She will

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officially take office on April 11, upon the conclusion of the Cali fornia-Nevada-Hawaii District Key Club Convention.

Linh has served for the last year as the club's Fundraising Chair, and has attending most of the club's projects and activities since joining in 2019. She cites the “Trunk or Treat” event at Palisades Presbyterian Church as her favorite Key Club service project so far.

There are f ive Patrick Henry seniors who are being recognized on San Diego County Office of Education’s website for Career Technical Engineering month. They are Ainslie Mellinger, Chloe Klein, Olivia Van Houten, Alexander Renard and Evan Patocka.

Our students completed an engineering project called "Architecture for All," in which they redesigned our San Diego airport terminal 1 to be more inclusive, particularly considering the following groups: people with disabilities, people who are transgender, non gender binary or otherwise non cisgender, and caretakers of the young and elderly. Please visit the SDCOE website to read about our students’ projects at cte.innovatesd.org/ctemonth.html Please remember to visit the Patrick Henry website for up to date information about our school and district at patrickhenryhs.net. On behalf of the Patrick Henry High School Faculty, we want to thank you for being our partner in education so we can ensure all students graduate with integrity, purpose, and options.

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More specifically, for the future of the female lacrosse program, Durante said “My long term goal is to have lacrosse programs be affordable. We are not a for-profit program.

To the extent I can, I want to reduce the fees so the kids can play.”

For this opening season, registration fees range from $225-350 depending on the age group and to add onto the costs, players have to buy personal equipment like the lacrosse stick and headgear. It is clear the costs add up; but according to Durante, the reward is so much more.

“It’s the fastest game on two feet and the fasted growing program out there. Don’t be scared by the name or by being unfamiliar with it. It’s fantastic for building confidence, improving coordination, and just having fun,” she said.

As far as COVID-19 guidelines and safety precautions, Mission Trails Lacrosse Club is following the county guidelines and drafting some safety precautions of their own, tailored to the sport.

“The majority of potential risk would come as players congregate on the sidelines or within a huddle,” O’Neil said. “By reducing shared equipment and setting up our spaces on the sideline to limit close contact interaction, we feel we can safely enjoy the game together on the field again.”

But this time, boys and girls will both be represented on the field with their own programs.

For more information about Mission Trails Lacrosse Club, visit missiontrailslax.com.

—Lainie Alfaro is an editorial intern for San Diego Community News Group.

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member Raul Campillo. We will begin with presentations by our San Diego Police Department Community Service Officer and folks with the offices of our elective officials.

As chair of the Economic Development and Intergovern­ mental Relations Subcommittee; as the Vice Chair of the Rules Subcommittee and of the Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee; as a member of the Budget and Government Efficiency Committee; as a representative on SANDAG; and as the Council representative for Mission Trails Park and the San Diego River Conservancy, Council member Campillo will have a lot to pass on to us. Time will be set aside for questions, but the Campillo would like to know about your specific concerns so he can concentrate on your interests. Please go to our website, aggccouncil.org, navigate to “Contact Us,” and use the form to advise us of what you want to hear from your elected representative.

Our May 25 Town Hall meeting will feature a presentation by San Diego Canyonlands, an organization that is dedicated to restoration of our many canyons to their natural conditions. This presentation will initiate our efforts to involve our community in the restoration of Navajo Canyon. There is much demanding and rewarding work to be done.

A couple of Sundays ago we worked on our Zion Avenue trees by trimming, mulching, and fertilizing. The trees look a little stressed just now, the heat had been pretty severe this Summer, but with cooler weather and rain we hope for full recovery. Let us know through the website “Contact Us” page if you will adopt a tree.

By the time this paper is published, our first SDG&E utilities box painting should be finished. It is located on the south side of Zion Avenue across from Mission Trails Church. Our thanks to Christine Carino for her design and execution. Is there a box near you that could use beautification?

We sent out notices to our email contact lists of the upcoming election of officers to the Navajo Community Planners, Inc. (NCPI) board. NCPI is the community’s voice to and point of contact with the Planning Commission and the City Council on matters relating to the character of our neighborhoods.

If you are not on the list and want to know more about this important part of the land development process you can reach us by way of the “Contact Us” page on our website.

At monthly meetings of the AGGCC Board of Directors community members implement important projects. Use the “Contact Us” page at aggccouncil.org to get on our email contact list, to receive notices of the activities of our Community Council and the Navajo Community Planning Group, Inc., and to let us know how we can help you support our neighborhood. Our next board meeting will be on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. by Zoom. The public is encouraged to attend.

—By AGGCC president Shain Haug

SAN CARLOS AREA COUNCIL TO RESUME MEETINGS San Carlos Area Council is excited to report that we are resuming our monthly meetings beginning Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom, so mark your calendars. Going forward, our meetings will now occur on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Contact us for the Zoom link at patty@ crystalpyramid.com or look for it at our Facebook page, facebook. com/sancarlosareacouncil.

Newly-elected District 7 City Council member Raul Campillo has reached out to us and promised that high on his list of priorities for San Carlos is the “new” library. As we observed the fast-paced razing of Jack Murphy Stadium this past month, we couldn’t help but wonder about the library, construction of which has been held up for over 20 years! This last year, during which all libraries were closed due to COVID, would have been the perfect time to begin construction of our new library.

After the beating we have all taken from the pandemic, both psychologically and physically, here’s a piece of good news that will give you a smile. San Carlos resident Paul Grisham had his lost wallet returned to him. Thing is, the wallet was lost in Antarctica in the 1960s. It took a series of people who were unrelenting in their search for Mr. Grisham to track him down and return it to him — 53 years after he lost it. You can find the story at the San Diego Union Tribune.

And one more piece of good news that we would like to share: Happy 40th anniversary to Crystal Pyramid Productions. It was the year 1981 when SCAC President Mark Schulze started his company which is now San Diego’s longest-standing video production services company.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all.

Please remember that we have all been through quite a time with a raging pandemic that has thrown a major wrench in our lives and livelihoods. Let’s take the time to love one another. (Mark and I met on Valentine’s Day in 1982).

If you have a San Carlos story to share, or would like to get involved in your community, please contact Patricia Mooney at patty@crystalpyramid.com.

—By San Carlos Area Council vive president Patricia Mooney

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—Mardine Davis, Del Cerro You would think that the Del Cerro Action Council would represent the residents of Del Cerro, but the president of this committee, Mark Rawlins, has instead made it a platform for his views on the All People’s Church coming to Del Cerro.

His opinion that was written in the Times Courier is actually a betrayal to the community that I thought he would represent.

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