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the lot, but the homeless return later or the next day. Union Bank has been contacted about posting “no trespassing” signs and having a letter of agency with SDPD to allow them to take action on

After 20 years serving as the local entity for discussing and improving life in Del Cerro, the Del Cerro Action Council has officially ended.

In a statement to the Mission Times Courier announcing the end of the council, DCAC touted its two decades of providing “Del Cerro and the surrounding communities with outstanding, in-depth, informative, and provocative Town Hall sessions.”

The Del Cerro Action Council (DCAC) formed in 1999 to address a problem of speeding cars on Madra Avenue. The council was envisioned as 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,” according to an article

by DCAC secretary Jay Wilson in the February 2021 issue of Mission Times Courier.

Over the years, DCAC has helped the city install stop signs and other safety precautions at needed locations throughout Del Cerro, including Adobe Falls; helped with funding playground updates at Princess Del Cerro Park; helped secure funds for a “Welcome to Del Cerro” sign; successfully fought an SDSU housing project proposed for 38 acres in Adobe Falls; and organized local cleanups, brushfire prevention and regular town hall meetings.

In recent years, DCAC had reduced its community

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Union Bank has moved out of its building at 6010 El Cajon Blvd. and a struggle to keep the property from becoming a homeless encampment, along with a vacant building across the street at 5987. is taking place.

Resident neighbors to the sites have been vigilant for several weeks now with the help of College Area Business District, the SDPD Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and Terry Hoskins, El Cerrito Community Council (ECCC) Community Relations Officer.

Unfortunately, each time the police visit, get people to vacate the lot and leave, the homeless return.

It's a loop-around problem.

According to a community member, one moves in, then others join, and then it becomes a community growth with transients living in vehicles like some that wanted to take over the 5987 El

The Former Union Bank building on El Cajon Boulevard has become a hotspot for homeless encampments in recent weeks. (Photo by Jeff Clemetson)

Cajon Blvd. property. The owners of that lot are also making calls to get those individuals removed.

They do not want the homeless taking over their vacant property, they are hoping to rent it out soon.

In what has become a cycle for the past few weeks, SDPD clears

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The PNASD board of directors and chair Vivian Sanderlin (top center) are working to improve vaccination rates for Filipinos in San Diego.

COVID pandemic highlights needs of Filipino community

By ELAINE ALFARO

As chair of the Philippine Nurses Association of San Diego (PNASD) and leader in the PNASD’s COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force, Vivian Sanderlin has seen firsthand the hardships and setbacks faced by her fellow nurses in this Asian American community.

“I see the nurses online via Zoom, on board meetings, general membership or education seminars. We are saddened and shocked,” she said. “There are about 1,700 healthcare workers, nurses that are gone due to COVID-19. There’s about 65 to 70 Filipino front-line workers that are being remembered because they passed away. We are always helping PNASD members whose family members who have gone.”

Sanderlin is one of a growing number of Filipino leaders speaking out about the needs of their community in the wake of the COVID pandemic, many of which are preexisting problems that have complicated access to community resources and representation for years.

JoAnn Fields, public relations director of the Asian/Pacific Islander Initiative, feels the

Filipino community is being left behind.

“I hate that we have to prove we exist,” she said. Fields, along with the PNASD, notes that disaggregated data is one of the solutions to proving Filipinos deserve equal access to COVID-19 relief and assistance.

Merlie Ramira, San Diego Vaccination Advisory Board member and PNASD COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force member, recently spoke to the County of San Diego's COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Advisory Group about disaggregated data. She asked the board, “How will you be able to determine the resources you need for the Asian population if you don’t know which group needs more vaccinations?”

To combat disaggregated data, Fields is also advocating for increased community resources and representation. “We need an organization, not an individual. And if it’s me, this is a job,” she said.

Despite the 200,000 Filipinos living in San Diego, there is not a Filipino cultural center (other than the Balboa Park House of Philippines) or a Filipino resource center in the county.

A first step in the direction of creating a resource center happened Dec. 19 when Fields and

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the PNASD stepped into action.

The Vaccination Task Force was formed by PNASD Board members Vivian Sanderlin, Merlie Ramira, Cece Echon, Perly Anguinaldo and president Crisabel Ramos.

Sanderlin explained what the Filipino COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force has accomplished so far.

“Our task force presented to the PNASD members and students an educational series about COVID-19,” she said. “The webinars we had started in January 2021. Then, we started a vaccination program. So far, we have vaccinated 3,000 people across San Diego county.”

Ramos also noted, “The ultimate goal is to support San Diego county and the different organizations we are working with. We are the vaccinators. They need us to provide those vaccines. We are here to support.”

Recently, the PNASD was asked to join the county’s advisory committee for COVID-19. Aguinaldo said that this Filipino representation is bringing about change.

“For Merlie to be chosen to represent PNASD in the advisory group, it really is a big introduction of PNASD to the county,” she said. “It widened our network and resources. The value of our organization to the planning of this COVID-19 response showed that we matter, what we say matters.”

San Diego is not the only Filipino community that has faced problems in the past year.

Despite welcomed changes in pursuit of equity and representation, hardships in the Filipino community remain according to a report from UCD Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies. Poverty and a lack of healthcare support were common among Filipino Americans during this past year.

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involvement, moving its once monthly town hall meetings of to only meeting quarterly. In February, DCAC chair Mark Rawlins stepped down from If you are interested in joining Del Cerro’s the board because he was fresh, inclusive, and transparent moving out of state. community group, please email DCAC also faced criticism voiceofdelcerro@gmail.com recently from the Save Del Cerro group, whose memFIRST MEETING (ZOOM) bers felt the council should Wednesday, April 28th @ 6:30pm have taken a hardline position against the proposed All This group is open to ALL community members interested in shaping the future Peoples Church. Following voice of Del Cerro. Email for details on the announcement of DCAC how to get involved. disbanding, members of Save Del Cerro are now in the process of organizing an official A flyer for the new Voice of Del Cerro group’s first meeting (Courtesy image) entity to replace DCAC. Despite the sometimes contentious criticism of the DCAC board, the community” and will strive “to Wilson said he wishes the new group increase transparency and be inclunothing but luck. sive to all.”

The statement went on to say that “For over two decades, the Del Cerro Action Council successfully worked VODC has already initiated an orgaon a great variety of issues and proj- nizing drive to form a successor orgaects for this community,” he said. nization to the DCAC and is seeking “Now we have an opportunity to pass interested residents to participate in the baton to a new group of enthusias- this effort. Livingston said the new tic Del Cerro residents who are ready organization is “evolving quickly” and willing to roll up their sleeves and and that interested Del Cerro resivolunteer their time and energy for dents should email the group at voithe benefit of our community.” ceofdelcerro@gmail.com for more inIn a statement to the Mission Times formation. A flyer for the new group Courier, Save Del Cerro spokesperson invites the public to get involved at an Michael Livingston described the new initial meeting scheduled for April 28 Voice of Del Cerro (VODC) group as at 6:30 p.m. on the Zoom platform. “a new community group dedicated to keeping all Del Cerro residents in—Reach editor Jeff Clemetson at formed on important issues affecting jeff@sdnews.com.

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having difficulty paying their rents or mortgages, having to cut back on food expenses to save money, or not having enough money.”

As a result, the Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies projected “Given the high numbers of Filipinos in the state of California and the greater Sacramento region, we can anticipate that Filipinos who contract COVID-19 will not be able to get proper medical attention due to their lack of health care coverage” — a direct tie to this impoverished community.

These f inancial hardships can also be seen in San Diego, particularly in elderly Filipinos. At the Bay Terraces Community Park off of Tooma Street (a predominantly Filipino neighborhood), 85 to 100 elderly citizens show up for free groceries every Friday, according to Fields. This is just one neighborhood in San Diego that reflects a narrative common among thousands of people.

To solve problems like the one in Bay Terraces, Fields recognizes that the PNASD as a professional organization can help, but support would be even more effective with presence of a general resource center for Filipinos.

sdnews.com For example, the center would help non-English speakers and those without technology experience who need help setting up vaccination appointments. Fields found that the Filipino community had difficulty in navigating the vaccination information website.

“Is it user-friendly? Can you readily find what you’re looking for? I am supposed to be well-versed in COVID-19 resource websites and I can’t find information right away,” she explained.

Fields said the solution to these problems requires more than short-winded grants or programs. The Filipino Vaccination Task Force is one of these programs and the PNASD noted they the best way to support their work is through donations. However, Fields believes long-term solutions and support are what is needed.

“There are already organizations like the Chicano Federation, The Urban League — all of whom I work with in the community, but they are paid to do what we do,” she said. “We should have staff.

We should be able to hire a Tagalog speaker. But who is going to build that? I am not waiting for Superman.”

Fields has been speaking out to city and county government boards calling for support because she said she, her friends

and her family can’t do it alone.

As of Mar. 30, California's official coronavirus website reported that only 11.8% of Asian Americans in San Diego County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Filipinos make up a small percentage of vaccinations within that at 11.8%. In comparison, 45.9% of the White population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.

“I can show you the texts that I recieve from people who can’t get an appointment for their mom or dad, or lola or lolo,” Fields said. “If we don’t help one segment of the community we’re not going to curb COVID-19, especially if you are not reaching out to the Filipino community.”

To further the progress made by the PNASD Vaccination Task Force, Fields advocates that a Filipino resource center would provide long-term support, beyond the pandemic, to the Filipino community in San Diego. “There is a need for help. They need a trusted voice,” she added.

For now, Filipino activists and leaders like Fields and Sanderlin are working to make the Filipino community as well as it can be with what is available, “We are trying to help each other. That’s how we cope,” Sanderlin said.

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By NANCY L. SASAKI

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that our most marginalized communities are not included in the American Dream. The public health and economic crisis brought on

by COVID-19, combined with the social justice movement sparked the George Floyd tragedy, have illuminated this truth. This past year, San Diego children whose families were already struggling have faced unprecedented challenges and have fallen further behind as the pandemic continues to impact their lives.

It is a known fact that, in order for children to succeed across the education continuum, their basic needs – such as food on the table and a roof over their heads – must be met. United Way of San Diego County (UWSD) brings together community partners so together we can identify barriers to learning and align the solutions to ensure that every student has the opportunity to thrive – regardless of race, ethnicity, income, or zip code.

It’s not just the digital divide, or unequal access to distance learning technology, keeping kids behind either.

In San Diego County, many entrenched systemic barriers have led to racial and economic inequities keeping many families in poverty. Family stability plays a critical role in early childhood development, while adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as longterm parental unemployment cripple their ability to learn and succeed emotionally, socially, and academically.

Some sobering statistics that illustrate the gaps created by these disparities: • 80% of White and Asian third graders read at grade

level, but only 50% of their Brown and Black classmates do.

• Nearly 24,000 students in grades K-12 live in households that are doubled up with family or friends because they are unable to maintain housing on their own. This can be uncomfortable, make it difficult to learn, and can impact education success. It’s not just about a child not reading at grade level. Students are facing challenges like this and if there's instability in the household it can impact a child's ability to learn and thrive.

• Black and Hispanic students are twice as likely as white students to have received no live contact with teachers while learning remotely.

• Students on average could lose five to nine months of learning by the end of June 2021; students of color could be six to 12 months behind, compared with four to eight months for white students.

• 31% of San Diegans are food insecure. When families don't have access to food, that becomes their first priority and daily stressor, making it difficult to focus on other important tasks like finding a job or getting their kids to school.

If parents or guardians don’t know where their next meal is coming from, this can also significantly impact a student’s education success.

These data points are evidence that today’s pandemic has a vastly disproportionate impact on our Black and Brown kids. For the past 100 years, UWSD has been committed to ensuring every child, young adult, and family has the chance to succeed. But for this to happen, it’s clear we must harness every resource available to rebuild the systems that have kept so many kids behind.

That’s why we’ve adopted a new strategy for improving San Diego’s future, “Mind the Gap: EDICT 2030.” EDICT stands for “Ending Disparities In Communities not Thriving.”

At UWSD, our “superpower” is bringing together partners, leveraging their expertise, and using data to find the best ways to support early childhood success and family stability.

However, we need our community’s help to make this vision a reality. Some ways you can help us end systemic inequity include: • Volunteer your time. From packing hygiene kids for families in need to reading virtually to kids, there are so many ways to get involved safely.

• Get your company involved. Become a corporate partner, and harness the power of many employees giving time, talent, and treasure to improving their community.

• Donate. All donations of money are 100% tax deductible and go toward efforts that help children from cradle to career.

As our country works to recover from the pandemic, we must also reimagine our future, and partner to rebuild our communities in ways that ensure a more just and equitable society where all children have the chance to thrive and succeed. EDICT 2030 is a vision of what could be, and we are all going to have to work together to achieve it.

—Nancy L. Sasaki is the president and CEO of United Way of San Diego County. She is a changemaker focused on the immense and complex social challenges within the San Diego region and works to build a positive future for children, young adults, and families experiencing inequities. Learn more about United Way of San Diego County’s work at uwsd.org.

By LAURA CRIVELO

No matter what side of the aisle you are on, this latest bill is appalling. Only 9% of nearly $2 trillion goes to coronavirus relief. The other 91% goes to arts, transportation, abortions, loan forgiveness for students and “socially disadvantaged farmers,” whatever that is. In reality, it is reparations.

One example of egregious spending is for Pelosi’s San Francisco. It will erase her city’s $650 million dollar budget deficit over the next two years, saving the city from making fiscally responsible decisions going forward. $350 billion has been allocated for state and local government. California gets $42.2 billion of the total sum in the form of a bail out, essentially rewarding them for bad policies.

Compare that to Florida, who reopened their economy and has lower unemployment rates compared to the national average. Out of 10 states with the highest unemployment rates, eight are Democrat run. Essentially Floridians are paying for California’s misdeeds.

To call this bill coronavirus relief is disingenuous, it’s mostly pork. $270 million is dedicated to National Endowment of the Arts, $1.5 billion for Amtrak, $20 million to update the disaster that that is called the “Affordable” Care Act and $35 billion for increased Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Democrat lawmakers tout polling numbers that state the majority of Americans approve of the bill.

No, they want their $1,400 payout.

What they don’t realize is that if this bill were only to help with coronavirus relief, every man, woman and child would receive $6,000.

Why are we not paying attention? Free money is not free. This debt will be passed on to many generations.

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By SEAN QUINTAL

Republican office holders across the country are waging a coordinated attack on Americans’ right to participate freely in elections.

In more than half the state legislatures, in excess of 100 bills have been proposed to impose restrictions and limits on this most essential American right.

These legislators are feeding off the lie that Donald Trump started telling before the elections, and that he has continued to tell since. In a February 2021 survey conducted by Quinnipiac, 76% of Republicans polled nationwide said they believe there was “widespread fraud in the 2020 election.”

Of course, there is not now nor has there ever been any evidence to support Trump’s and the Republicans’ lies about the election. November 2020 was the most litigated presidential election in our history. In more than 60 court cases, courts across the country — county, state, federal, even the U.S. Supreme Court — found no credible evidence of influential voting fraud or irregularities to support these claims, none.

Yet Republicans across the country have unified behind this coordinated lie, and in states where the GOP controls

the legislature, they are conniving to make it more difficult for Americans to cast their vote.

And while many offer vague claims of “election security,” some Republicans have baldly admitted the real motive behind these voter suppression bills: because the GOP knows they cannot win without preventing many Americans from voting.

In Georgia, a GOP election board member, lamenting Biden’s and the two Senators’ victories in that state, told fellow Republicans that they needed to change election laws. “They don’t have to change all of them,” she declared, “but they’ve got to change the major parts, so that we at least have a shot at winning.”

A conservative lawyer, representing the Republican National Committee in an Arizona voting rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court, was asked by Justice Barrett why the RNC had an interest in preventing people from having their votes counted if they were cast in the wrong precinct. The lawyer did not bother to euphemize in his response: “Because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to Democrats.”

But some Republicans recognize how unAmerican these voter suppression efforts are.

Benjamin Ginsberg, perhaps the GOP’s most prominent election attorney, has criticized this rush to make voting more difficult.

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Just as Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, Merck, Microsoft, Apple, the owner of the Atlanta Falcons and others have voiced criticism and opposition to Georgia’s new law that imposes unnecessary and suppressive requirements on voters, so should all patriotic Americans raise their voices to condemn Republican efforts to oppose democracy. Instead of working to keep people from voting, perhaps the GOP instead might try what the Democrats have done: field better candidates who advocate for policies that most Americans support.

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By JOEL ANDERSON Hello friends. As you may know, I was recently sworn in on Jan. 4 to represent you on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors after the retirement of former Supervisor Dianne Jacob who served our community well.

I wanted to take a moment and let you know of the ways that my office can be of assistance to you.

Many of you may know me from my service as an Assemblyman and State Senator in the California Legislature. I have been a longtime grassroots advocate for issues that I, and many East County San Diegans, care about. In every position I’ve held, I promised my constituents that I was not in office to become a potted plant and, regardless of the political environment I am in, my goal is to make government work for East County residents. With dozens of bills passed, landmark legislation authored, and thousands

of constituent issues resolved, I am proud of the service my team provided and I will continue this same approach serving you now as Supervisor.

In the first three months since being sworn-in, I have built out a wonderful staff and they are ready to serve you. Many are not aware how our office may be of assistance, so I’d like to share an example.

Just days after coming into office, it was brought to my attention that residents of Alpine were being assessed and billed for fire services provided by both the County of San Diego Fire Authority and the Alpine Fire District. I immediately contacted the County Assessor’s office to investigate and act on the issue.

I also sent letters to all the affected constituents, informing them of this situation. As a result, the problem was resolved, and Alpine residents are no longer being taxed twice for the same services.

Since January, my office has been able to assist constituents with several issues and no task is too small, we want to do what we can to help

as quickly as possible. Not only do I represent your concerns at the Supervisors’ board meetings, but my job and priority is to serve as a resource to you. If you have any County issues with which you need assistance, please contact my office as we are here to help. You can contact me using the form on my website at supervisorjoelanderson.com, which I will also keep updated with important information and helpful community resources.

Again, it’s an honor to serve and I look forward to hearing from you.

—Joel Anderson represents District 2 on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.

the property. The homeless are leaving behind belongings and carts each time they clear out.

Neighbors’ suggestions to secure the site include: • Fence off the property completely, to avoid invaders.

• Block the parking lot entrances with chains to avoid vehicles driving in.

• A letter of agency with the SDPD so these people can be evicted with just a phone call from nearby residents.

• The Union Bank needs to hire a security patrolling agency to monitor and patrol the lot until they decide what to do with it.

COMMUNITY BRIEFS ALLIED GARDENS/GRANTVILLE developments along “transit priorCOMMUNITY COUNCIL ity zones” (streets with 15-minute City Council member Raul Campillo spoke at our March 23 town hall meeting. We had about 55 participants from the public.

This was only one of the several meetings he held throughout District 7.

More has come of those meetings than just what we learned from him and what he learned from us. His contacts with our communities draw more of us to an interest in local government and draw in many of us to the business of local law making.

And drawn in we must be at this time — a time when the State Legislature reaches for more control over local zoning and residential development. They say it is all being done to provide more “affordable housing.”

The state has always had a hand in local real estate development, certainly in matters of environmental controls. But a few years ago, Sacramento took the first step directly into regulating what had always been reserved to the city. That state law requires the city to permit development of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) on parcels previously limited to single-family homes. The law left some ADU issues to local government, such as the requirement for an owner to reside on the property and the location of the ADU on the parcel, but our city enacted few of those protections.

The State Legislature is considering a proposal for a comprehensive override of the local zoning of our residential communities. Current law allows builders to provide for reduced parking in multiple-unit housing

intervals of public transit). Under the proposed extension of that law, cities would be required to allow development of “fourplex” units, what the realtors call town houses, along those roadways.

To bring the issue closer to home, consider the development possibilities, townhouse after townhouse, if MTS puts in a 15-minute bus line along Waring Road to the Grantville Trolley Station. We really have to press the question: “Would this sacrifice of our single family residential neighborhood really solve the need for affordable housing or is this it just another profit opportunity for land developers?”

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There is also a suggestion for Environmental Services to clean up the junk and trash from the location because so much is left behind after every eviction.

During our January meeting, there were comments regarding homeless encampments in the area. If you are noticing problems, the list above could work.

At the very least, have the property owner get a Letter of Agency with the SDPD, available at bit. ly/3fMAnBb. Also, download the Get It Done app to your mobile device; or report non-emergency issues with homeless online at bit.ly/31PPAJw or by calling 619-531-2000.

—Laura Riebau writes on behalf of the El Cerrito Community Council.

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POLITICS sdnews.com Vaccines, event with mayor and addressing hate April 9 – May 14, 2021 Mission Times Courier / College Times Courier

District 7 Dispatch

By RAUL A. CAMPILLO It has been a busy first few months at City Hall, and it is an honor to represent you on the San Diego City Council. We recently passed a significant milestone: 100 days in office. I put together a report (bit.ly/3dGuKlu) to highlight some of what my staff and I have been able to accomplish during our short time in office.

I would like to begin with a quick COVID vaccine update.

In addition to the employment sectors and those with qualifying pre-existing conditions who

were already eligible, all San Diego County adults over the age of 50, the first group in Phase 2, are now eligible to be vaccinated.

For detailed vaccine eligibility information and to schedule an appointment online, please visit sandiegocounty.gov/sdc/.

Governor Newsom recently visited a vaccination station here in the city and commended us for the way San Diego is “leading the way” on vaccine progress in our state. We will continue full speed ahead until everyone who wants a vaccination has had the opportunity to get one. For those who are still not in an eligible category, please rest assured that you will be able to get a shot soon: All San

Diegans over the age of 16 will become eligible on April 15.

Next, I would like to invite all District 7 Residents to join me on the morning of April 17 at 11 a.m. for a virtual discussion about the issues facing our district and our city with Mayor Todd Gloria. Register for the free event: Sandiego.gov/mayorcd7townhall.

STANDING UP AGAINST ANTI-ASIAN HATE AND EXTREMISM Earlier this year at the City Council, I took the common-sense step of voting to condemn all forms of hate and extremism in our city. I have been particularly disturbed by the recent increase

in hate crimes against Asian Americans since the advent of COVID-19.

I recently wrote a letter to District Attorney Summer Stephan to inquire about the recent spate of hate crimes against Asian Americans in our county and unfortunately, in her reply, DA Stephen did confirm to me that San Diego has not been spared from this trend. We have seen a threefold increase in the number of hate crimes against Asian Americans in our county.

My office is prepared to do all we can to assist the DA in her attempts to hold the perpetrators of these heinous crimes accountable, and I call on all members

of the Navajo community to be vigilant. If you witness a hate crime, please report it immediately by calling 911. Together, we will root out hate crime in our communities.

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.

—Raul Campillo represents District 7 on the San Diego City Council.

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Henry resumes in-person learning April 12

Beaming up at Crawford On March 25, the final steel beam for Crawford High School’s new three-story classroom, student services, and performing arts building was hoisted into place. Before it was placed atop the frame of the building, staff, students, and alumni took turns in signing the beam, that was also adorned with an American flag.

The new building at Crawford High School College is part of the Career and Technical Education (CCTE) and Whole Site Modernization project, which began in three construction phases.

Completed in July 2020, the first phase of construction upgraded the automotive CCTE

program with a new building, three new service bays, and a dedicated alignment bay. The existing auto lab received a renovated classroom, an engine lab, and a single bay demonstration lift.

The second phase, completed in August 2020, included renovations to classrooms, security upgrades to fire alarms and emergency communications systems, as well as installation of security lighting and security cameras.

Existing restrooms and the food services area were also renovated.

Now in the final phase, crews demolished the existing auditorium to create a three-story structure that will house 20

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Construction crews hoist the final steel beam for Crawford High's new building.(Courtesy SDUSD)

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By MICHELLE IRWIN On April 12, all schools in San Diego Unified School District will open their doors for in-person learning for all interested students.

We are so very excited to welcome our students back to campus!

Our teachers will simultaneously teach in-person to those students who choose to return and teach on-line to our students who have chosen to wait to return. At Henry, we will be able to offer four days of in-person instruction to all our students who have requested to return. We have approximately 1,250 students who will be returning to campus on April 12.

In order to ensure the highest safety protocols, our classrooms have been prepared to support in-person instruction. We have arranged our student desks to be 6 feet apart, our rooms have PPE equipment such as see-through safety guards, cleansing wipes, disposable masks, two to three air purifiers per classroom, and we will soon receive an HVAC upgrade. We have a specific path of travel for students during passing periods. We also provide voluntary COVID testing by UCSD for all interested students. I firmly believe with these safety precautions our students and faculty will be safe from contracting the COVID virus.

Even though we are doing online learning for a little over a year, several of our students are being acknowledged for their dedication to our community and hard work with their academics.

Abudllahi Muhammed and Zubeyr Muhammed entered a Lions Club speech contest. The speech contest was conducted over Zoom by describing the pros/ cons of distance learning. Both students performed very well and won prize money from the Lions Club. Way to go Patriots!

Please remember to visit the Patrick Henry website for up to date information about our school and district 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.

—Michelle Irwin is principal of Patrick Henry High School.

EDUCATION sdnews.com Robotics teams continue tournament success

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Innovating sidewalks for seniors with ‘bots

By JAY WILSON

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Last month we wrote about the success of several of the FIRST LEGO League teams which are comprised of students attending schools within the Patrick Henry Cluster boundaries. On March 27 and 28, our teams did very well in the FIRST Tech Challenge San Diego Qualifying Tournament.

The Dapper RoboNoodles (#18365) is a local community FIRST Tech Challenge team.

They are rookies to FIRST Tech Challenge. However all but two of their teammates competed each year in FIRST Lego League starting as fourth graders at Dailard

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The Dapper RoboNoodles team (Courtesy photos)

Elementary. They are now four eighth graders from Pershing Middle School: Kacie Hernandez, Sophie Miller, Brady Quinn, Saranzaya Rice-Connor, and three seventh graders from Lewis Middle School: Kelsey Gunter, Allyson Mangahis, and Ben Xavier.

The team designed dual linear actuators with a two-sided claw attached to move and lift rings as part of their goal. The claw opened and closed with a servo motor which also helped move other parts of the game field

around. The claw was a custom made 3D printer piece by one of our teammates. A standout of their robot is the googly eye stickers. Not just for a fun aesthetic, but the stickers served a purpose so the driver could keep their “eyes” on the linear actuators to prevent overworking the gears.

They competed in the FTC San Diego Qualifying tournament and their team was awarded Ptolemy League’s first place in robot design.

Another local community FIRST Tech Challenge team, The Wizalos (#14129), also competed in the 2021 “Ultimate

My friends and I are elementary school students, and we are the FIRST LEGO League #50899 Mechanical Meatloaf (with a slice of pickles) robotics team.

Mechanical Meatloaf team at work (Courtesy photo) I live in Alvarado Estates and many of you have that they would like the cars to seen a few of my friends and I be slower and roads to be safer. in the garage working when Some of the more active seniors you pass by our house. We are said that they are not personally working on a robotics competi- afraid of uneven sidewalks, but tion. As part of this competition, other people might have a harder we needed to come up with an time and trip. They would also innovation idea on how to help like to see more nature and anisenior people come outdoors mals with more exercise stations more often. We surveyed the for seniors. people of the neighborhood with Our idea started out as five questions: How often do you “smooth senior sidewalks” but walk? What would you like to see as time passed, we decided to more of? Do you enjoy walking? create an innovation idea to Is there anything that concerns make exciting outdoor spacyou about walking on the street? es for seniors. We just had our What are some of the reasons qualifying robotics tournament that you come out to walk? on March 6 and that idea won Most senior people come out the innovation project award. mostly for fresh air and exer- We are advancing to the southcise. Some people also said they ern California championship on would like to see more sidewalks. April 10. Wish us luck!

People said they also would like to see more animals. Some peo—Jason Poliak is a resident of ple in the neighborhood said Alvarado Estates.

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MISSION TRAILS sdnews.com Endangered plant project at Mission Trails Park April 9 – May 14, 2021 Mission Times Courier / College Times Courier

By MARK BERNINGER and MARK DODERO

The City of San Diego is home to some of the most rare and special plants in the Southern California region. One of those rare plants is San Diego Thornmint (Acanthomintha Ilicifolia).

The city started monitoring these plants more that 20 years ago as part of a groundbreaking Rare Plant Monitoring Program, which is part of the Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP), enacted in 1997 to preserve habitat and help conserve the region’s spectacular biodiversity.

The Mission Trails Regional Park (MTRP) Foundation has been a critical partner in the MSCP, and they partnered with the city once again to help improve habitat and increase the park’s populations of San Diego Thornmint. The MTRP Foundation applied and was awarded a grant from the TransNet Program at SANDAG, and these funds allowed the Foundation to engage local rare plant expert Mark Dodero and RECON Environmental to expand the park’s San Diego Thornmint populations. After three years, the project reached the end of grant funding and it was a smashing success! The population of plants

that once numbered under 100 individuals in 2017 blossomed to over 800 plants in spring of 2020.

This is great news for this population at Mission Trails, but the work is far from over. Preserving each population and their genetic diversity is critical for a robust regional conservation effort.

The partnership that the MTRP Foundation has with the City of San Diego is a great example of the collaboration it will take to bring San Diego Thornmint and other rare and endemic plants back from the brink of extinction.

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The initial focus San Diego Thornmint Expansion Project in 2017 was to get the non-native weeds under control so that the Thornmint plants would have less competition for light and water. Also, during that first year, the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research’s Native Seed Bank began growing out additional Thornmint plants to produce as many seeds as possible.

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continued and the first lot of bulked Thornmint seed was provided for dispersal. Fenced cages were constructed at the site to protect the seedlings from rabbits and rodents. The seeds were dispersed a few days prior to heavy rainfall, grew well and flowered in the spring. A total of 374 Thornmint flowered and set seeds successfully. Of those 374 plants 319 plants were found in the natural population and 55 plants were found in the seeded plots. Each year of the project, weeding reduced the cover of non-native species and this led to an increase in flowering native species.

In the project’s final year, additional Thornmint seeds were produced by the San Diego Zoo, and seed collected by the project biologists from the seeded and natural population were dispersed throughout the area. Because of dry conditions, the project biologist and maintenance crew gave supplemental water to the seedlings. This supplemental water allowed the seedlings an opportunity to survive until natural rainfall began again, enabling the plants to grow and successfully flower in the spring of 2020. A total of 846 Thornmint plants grew at the site in 2020. This represented an increase of over 800 plants from the beginning of the project.

Through partnerships between public agencies such as the City of San Diego and SANDAG and private groups like the Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation and San Diego Zoo, good conservation outcomes are possible.

For more Mission Trails news and features, visit missiontimescourier.com.

—Mark Berninger is Natural Resources Manager for the City of San Diego and Mark W. Dodero is Senior Restoration Specialist at RECON Environmental.

LEARN MORE about the San Diego Thornmint Restoration Project at Mission Trails by watching a presentation with Mark Berninger about the project on the YouTube channel of the Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation, or through the MTRP website, or by visiting youtu.be/ OJXZ21Q9T8g.

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What will this leave for commuter parking and how much of that parking space will be used by SDSU students?

Our Council member is our voice. Give his voice greater strength by our participation.

Join our Spring Spruce Up Community Cleanup from Saturday, April 17 through Sunday, April 25 in honor of Earth Day. Participate by: • Picking up trash during your walks • Properly disposing of pet waste • Ensuring that trash bins are fully closed • Replacing trash bins and lids that are damaged or missing • Cleaning up after using public spaces • Keeping yards and sidewalks clean and maintained Post a selfie on social media using #AGGBeautiful for a chance to be featured on our website, Facebook, and Instagram! Ask your neighbors to join in keeping Allied Gardens and Grantville beautiful!

We just heard from the folks who run the First Friday Concerts about this summer. They emailed the following: “We are keeping a close eye on city and county regulations. We would love nothing more than to get a few concerts in this season but it is all contingent on securing proper permits.” Let’s hope that this great tradition can continue.

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 Monday, May 3 at 6:30 p.m. by Zoom. The public is encouraged to attend.

—By Allied Gardens/Grantville Community Council president Shain Haug

SAN CARLOS AREA COUNCIL

Welcome Spring! Some facts about the month of April: Its name is derived from the Latin word “aperit,” which means to open.

It’s the month of the growing season when trees and flowers begin to “open.” Some believe that the month is named after the Greek goddess, Aphrodite (Aphros).

Other themes include resurrection and redemption. So there’s a lot packed into this month. Those of us who have sheltered from COVID for over a year can see now see light at the end of this tunnel. April brings all of us hope for a brighter future.

Keep your eyes open for the orange poppies along our highways, and if you have not visited the San Carlos Community Garden yet, do it.

You’ll be glad you did.

At our latest meeting, the San Carlos Area Council received the following updates: The police report for the month of February included zero violent crimes, 17 property crimes, nine

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thefts from vehicles, one residential burglary, two motor vehicle thefts and five thefts. There were 30 citations issues and 17 arrests in the San Carlos area.

The DEA National Prescription Take-Back Program will occur on Saturday April 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 9225 Aero Drive, San Diego, 92115 where you can drop off your expired or unwanted prescription drugs. Please don’t flush your old drugs down the toilet or add them to the landfill.

Mike McBride, San Diego Fire & Rescue Fire Chief, advised us to make it a habit of changing out our home’s smoke detector battery when Daylight Savings Time occurs. Make sure the smoke detector and CO2 detector are operating correctly. Mike mentioned that coming this May, you may notice that Fire & Rescue teams will be practicing their skills at Mission Trails Regional Park with fire trucks, engines and a helicopter. Mike also spoke about brush management and how we all need 100 feet of defensible space around our properties. Toward that end, we’d like to direct you to the San Diego Fire & Rescue Brush Management Video which was produced by Crystal Pyramid Productions in 2012 and features beloved newsman Loren Nancarrow who volunteered his time as a spokesperson for this important educational video. View at youtu.be/T1DUk7OB_9E. If you would like to become more involved in your community SEE COMMUNITY BRIEFS, Page 17

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Whe n t he S z e chua n Mandarin Restaurant closed a while back, it was like losing a limb for San Diegans who grew up dining there. It was the cornerstone of Mission Gorge Road and Interstate 8 for 40 years.

Mark Sun sold the restaurant 20 years ago and now he finds himself back in the kitchen with his new passion project, Fish Grub, which held its official grand opening on March 31.

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If you want just a bite, there the bolder flavors. are tavern bites offered. Oyster This restaurant will become shooters, peppery calamari, the new cornerstone on Mission sesame crusted seared Ahi, or Gorge Road. Try them now befish tacos. fore the lines are out the door, Craft beers pair nicely with which they will be once the sefish and Fish Grub offers 13 cret is out. different local or nearby brews.

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or simply learn more about what’s going on, then join us at our San Carlos Area Council meeting Wednesday, April 21 at 6:30–8 p.m.. Your presence would be our present! Membership is free. Our community representatives from city, state, county along with police and fire liaisons will be available to answer your questions and address your concerns.

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Simply put, current real estate prices are not in equilibrium.

When it comes to a hot stock, the stock price may increase by 50% over just a couple of months and with gasoline prices we have all experienced a 25% increase in a matter of weeks. However, home prices do not quickly adjust to the equilibrium point! There are many reasons for this including appraisers who are slow to move the value up or down and banks who lend on conservative values. But currently demand is greatly outstripping supply, causing prices to push upward as fast as they are able.

Many sellers are holding off with placing their property on the market in anticipation of higher prices a year from now while with buyers, it’s exactly the opposite. The expectation of higher prices is causing a mad dash to buy a property as soon as possible.

Some thought that after last year’s spike in home prices, this year would bring just moderate increases. However, year to date home prices continue their significant upward climb.

Several factors explain this phenomenon. The government is massively increasing the money supply and increasing the nation’s debt in unprecedented ways. Fundamental economics dictates the consequence of this action is weakening the nation’s dollar which directly causes the price of nearly everything to go up. This is happening with the stock market, the price of gas, food, and of course home prices.

Additionally, the work-fromhome issue is causing many renters to reach the tipping

point all at once and begin the search for a property. Renters have been told for years by their elders to “buy a home!” and are finally acting on it. Other homeowners are moving out of smaller properties and up to larger properties. San Diego has very little land left on which to build so the supply of housing cannot quickly increase. Also, it is wildly expensive and difficult for contractors and developers to build homes these days, which slows down the process of increasing supply.

Another interesting factor is that homes are an excellent investment because you can put little money down to own a high value property and then rent it to pay the mortgage. For example, buy a $700,000 home for $200,000 down and wait 10 years for prices to double to $1,400,000. You just made almost a million dollars and had renters paying most or all of your mortgage the whole time!

We put a property on the market last week in Mira Mesa and had nearly 30 offers in three days, many from investors! I just read in The Wall Street Journal that large Wall Street funds are buying up hundreds of thousands of homes across this nation and renting them out for the longterm. The article stated that in Houston, Texas nearly 25% of all home sales are sold to investors!

The article had one example where a hedge fund purchased an entire neighborhood under construction.

If you still do not own a property, I strongly believe prices will continue their upward trajectory for some time. I recently saw that Washington D.C. is now trying to pass yet another $2

trillion in stimulus. Something has to give and as long as the nation’s debt continues to rise, and the dollar continues to get weaker, expect home prices to continue rising. Purchasing real estate in the world’s finest city with limited buildable land, is a low-risk proposition and has the potential to build substantial equity.

If you are still renting and have decent income, contact me at your earliest convenience. I am a specialist in getting buyer’s offers accepted in this current market. I use many tools including exceedingly clean offers with fully approved loans and direct communication with agents.

Also, I continue to handle listings all over San Diego county. If you are thinking about selling, reach out and I will guide you on the home selling process to ensure you get top dollar with the fewest days on market.

MARKET SUMMARY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES 92115 College Area: the year over year median home price is up 16% to $739,500 and with only 13 homes on the market compared to typically over 50.

92119 San Carlos: The year over year median home price is up 12% to $827,500 and with only six homes on the market for the entire zip code!

92120 Del Cerro/Allied Gardens: The median home price is up 9% to $873,750 and with just 12 homes on the market currently.

—Sarah Ward is a realtor with Fine & Coastal Real Estate. Reach her at sarah@fineandcoastal.com, or 858-431-6043.

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For the first time in 14 months, on Saturday and Sunday, March 27 and 28, the competitive teams from the Crusaders Soccer Club were allowed to play games against teams from other soccer clubs throughout San Diego County. Thus, began the first of up to 10 weeks of weekend games for this unusual spring season for competitive teams.

“It was a great weekend to see our teams playing real games against teams from throughout San Diego. Every week our teams are playing Shelby Harden shows her skills (Courtesy CSC) games on our fields throughout San Diego County,” and made the leap up to the comsaid Rene Miramontes, director of petitive level. coaching for Crusaders Soccer Club.

In addition to all the competitive “Our players and coaches have been games, 46 recreational division diligently training two and three teams continue with their very suctimes a week since June and to see cessful spring season which plays them actually playing a real game on Sundays through May 2. was just outstanding.”

A special thanks to Mark Dirkes, A competitive spring season is a Crusaders competitive coachunusual for the soccer clubs affiliat- es and owner of MD Coating & ed with the Presidio Soccer League. Specialty Finishes, for donating The competitive season is scheduled the manpower, paint and the large to run through May. Crusaders letters and logo now All you have to do is look at featured on the south side of the the faces of the players. You can Crusaders cargo container on the see the excitement on their faces. Pershing Middle School field.

After hours and hours of practice, For more information about the they finally have an opportunity Crusaders Soccer Club, visit our to play real games against teams website at crusaderssocer.org or from other clubs. For several of the follow on Facebook, Twitter and Crusaders competitive teams it was Instagram. their first competitive game because last fall they were playing in —Jay Wilson writes on behalf of the Crusaders recreational division Crusaders Soccer Club.

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