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Singing to save their lives

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It’s always been said that singing is good for the mind and body. A group called the Tremble Clefs, whose members practice at Palisades Presbyterian Church in Allied Gardens, proves this on a whole other level. Originally formed in 1994, Tremble Clefs members are people who have

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been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Clever name, clever concept — and it works. People living with Parkinson’s benefit from the activities in a Tremble Clefs session through the vocalizing, movement, remembering complex song lyrics, timing and harmonics. They also all enjoy the socialization at the weekly practices,

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making friends in a non-judgmental environment.

Marketing manager Jeff Castell explains why singing helps to mitigate the effects of Parkinson’s.

“People living with Parkinson’s can have symptoms of a diminishing voice, loss of facial expression, diminished movement, changes

The 2020 census begins in San Diego and Imperial Counties in mid-March 2020, and community-based organizations in the region have been working together for a year to ensure full participation in the once-a-decade population and housing count.

The census provides vital information about the nation’s growing population and infrastructure, which impacts the everyday lives of all persons

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San Diego City Council District 7 candidate Noli Zosa says the two main assets he would bring to the council are his business sense and grassroots community work experience. Zosa, a partner in the local Dirty Birds restaurant chain, has lived in District 7 neighborhoods of Linda Vista or Mission Valley for over 30 years. In that time, he has served on various local community groups like the Linda Vista Town Council, the District 7 Recreation Council, the Mobility

Board, and as chair of the Linda Vista Planning Group. He said he first got the bug for community service as a student director of a legal resource center in Linda Vista helping low-income residents with housing and legal issues while attending law school at his alma mater University of San Diego.

“That’s really where I discovered my passion for serving the public,” he said, adding that he still does some community service through USD — most recently helping spearhead a program that will allow students to use their campus cards at local businesses and the Linda Vista Farmers Market.

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living in the United States. Census data is used to allocate funding for communities, ensure public safety, and plan new schools and hospitals. People use census data to decide where to open businesses and offices, which create jobs. The 2020 census is the first census to rely heavily on digital response, but will still have phone, mail, and Wi-Fi-enabled kiosk options available before enumerators are sent door-to-door.

Some of the highest rates of “hard-to-count” (HTC) populations have been identified in our region; and the state of California

has undertaken an unprecedented and historic effort to ensure a complete and accurate count. The effort in California is larger than all the states investing in the 2020 census combined and represents the largest mobilization of partners in the state’s history.

HIGH RATES OF HARD-TOCOUNT PERSONS Getting a full and accurate count in San Diego and Imperial Counties (Region 10) is vital for our vibrant, growing region — not only for us, but for future generations to come.

“If everyone in our region is counted, it could help bring more money to our region for transportation, housing, and

community programs,” says Ray Major, SANDAG chief data and analytics officer and chief economist. “In addition, census data helps SANDAG analyze commute patterns and plan for improvements to our region’s transportation network.”

California is investing $187.2 million to outreach and educate the hardest-to-count populations on the 2020 census, funding the efforts of municipalities, nonprofits, and community-based organizations to ensure California’s communities have fair representation and funding as a result of 2020 census participation. This investment pales in comparison to the $115 billion that the state of California stands to gain through

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When compared to the results of the 2010 census, San Diego County is the 21st hardest county to count, and Imperial County is identified as the most undercounted region in the entire state of California. According to data from the state of California, San Diego and Imperial Counties have more than 255,000 individuals who are considered extremely hard to count. However, data from the Advancement Project tells us this number could be even higher, with as many as 783,277 people at risk of not being counted in 2020 in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

The region was awarded more than $4.4 million by the state of California to fund their efforts to increase census participation in the 230 census tracts most at risk of undercount. An additional $400,000 was provided through San Diego Grantmakers.

“Nonprofits and community members, funders, and government agencies have been talking about how to make sure that we reach our hardest-to-count neighbors

for nearly the past two years,” says Megan Thomas, vice president of collaborations and initiatives, at San Diego Grantmakers. “For this once-in-a-decade opportunity to promote fair representation and secure the funds we need to support a thriving San Diego and Imperial region, we are doing our best work, together.”

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Community groups came together to start the non-partisan Count Me 2020 Coalition in early 2019. United Way of San Diego County is the Administrative Community Based Organization (ACBO) for Region 10 that oversees the collaborative work of the Count Me 2020 Coalition, which is a group of more than 150 civic and community-based organizations from San Diego and Imperial Counties. Member organizations are committed to ensuring a complete and accurate count of the 14 populations identified by the state of California as “hard-to-count.”

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St. Therese is calling all prospective teachers who wish to work in the Catholic schools in the Diocese of San Diego to attend a job fair on March 21.

This collaborative job fair, hosted at St. Therese Parish’s Social Center, is a great way to interact and get to know the administrators responsible for hiring at more than 20-plus different Catholic schools throughout San Diego.

School administrators will be on site to answer questions about their school and discuss any preschool through eighth-grade positions available for the 2020-21 school year.

Prospective teachers should bring several copies of their resume and cover letter to the job fair. Preschool, elementary and middle school teaching positions in every content area, along with teacher aide and other support staff positions, may be available. Some schools may require teachers who teach religion to be Catholic.

The Teacher Job Fair will be held March 21, from 9 a.m. to noon at the St. Therese Parish Social Center, 6026 Camino Rico, San Diego.

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The ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter has hired San Diego native and San Carlos resident Melissa McElvain to the newly created position of associate director of development and donor engagement.

Melissa McElvain

McElvain will play an integral role in advancing the mission of the ALS Association by developing non-event-related donor strategies and increasing fundraising opportunities, along with corporate sponsorships and planned giving, according to Steve Becvar, executive director, ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter.

McElvain previously spent the past 18 years (2001-19) as head softball coach at the University of San Diego (USD). With more than 300 game victories, she owns the all-time record for most wins in the history of the USD softball program, which began in 1980.

McElvain graduated from Patrick Henry High School (class of 1995) and then attended Oklahoma State University (OSU) on a softball scholarship. McElvain played on the OSU Cowgirls squad when the team played in the 1998 Women’s College World Series, finishing third. She returned to USD to work as assistant sports information director for a year before leading the school’s softball program.

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refugees, military veterans, the LGTBQ community, seniors, young children, individuals and families experiencing homelessness, and residents of traditionally disadvantaged neighborhoods,” says Michele Silverthorn, project lead, Count Me 2020 Coalition.

“Members of the Count Me 2020 Coalition offer valuable lines of communication to encourage census participation within their respective constituencies and the community as a whole.”

The Count Me 2020 Coalition and its partners are the “on the ground” catalyst to motivate the community to participate. They are committed to lifting the key barriers to census participation, which the Advancement Project says include uncertainty about the purpose and use of census data, uncertainty about who should be included, fear or mistrust of the government, and limited English proficiency.

As part of this local effort, SANDAG will work with Count Me 2020 Coalition members to host “Be Counted” community events throughout the region to encourage everyone in San Diego to be counted.

Additionally, Coalition members host nearly 1,000 of their own events and activities, such as phone-banks, neighborhood walks, and other outreach to encourage census participation.

The groups will provide language translation services and host Wi-Fi and phone-enabled Questionnaire Assistance Kiosks (QAKs) and Questionnaire Assistance Centers (QACs) to answer questions from the community and provide in-person, phone and online access to census survey response.

“Community partners have been working for over a year to inform and engage their communities. They are the most trusted messengers, and understand that it is essential that every person, regardless of their citizenship status, housing, race, economic condition, or age is counted,” says Alan Kaplan of Engage San Diego, the primary data manager for Region 10. “Since the campaign started, Count Me 2020 partners have held over 535 events to make over 475,000 impressions in target communities. This is an unprecedented level of outreach, possible only due to the deep and thoughtful investment from the state of California, and the incredible commitment from community partners.”

HOW TO TAKE THE 2020 CENSUS Starting in mid-March 2020, households will receive an invitation in the mail informing them of the options for filling out the census questionnaire. The invitation will contain a unique ID number to use when filling out the census.

However, if you misplace your number, you can still take the census using your home address.

Once the invitation arrives, you can respond for your home in one of four ways: • Online: Complete the questionnaire at the official website, my2020census.gov on your desktop computer or mobile device, or through Questionnaire Assistance Centers and Kiosks hosted by libraries, governments, and community groups at various locations around the region. A full list of locations will be posted to countme2020.org in the next few weeks. The online self-response form is provided in 12 languages plus English, and 59 other language assistance guides are provided online, including in Braille and large print.

• Phone: Response can be made by phone. Depending on the language preferred (12 languages plus English), there is a toll-free number a resident can call. Call the Census Bureau Customer Service Center at 800-923-8282.

• Paper questionnaire form: If requested, a paper form can be provided in Spanish and English, as part of the update/leave campaign and for those who do not receive mail at their physical address. See map here.

• In-person: In-person home visits by official census enumerators will begin in April 2020 to visit college students who live on campus, people living in senior centers, and others who live among large groups of people. In May 2020, census enumerators will begin visiting homes that haven’t responded to the 2020 census by April 30, 2020, to help make sure everyone is counted.

If you are filling out the census for your residence, you should count everyone who is living there as of April 1, 2020. Be certain to count babies and children (all ages), close or extended family members, people who are not related to you, and people staying with you without a permanent place to live.

Learn more about who to count and any special circumstances at bit.ly/2THmQOL. On March 30 and April 1, 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau will count people who are experiencing homelessness. As part of this process, the Census Bureau counts people in shelters, at soup kitchens and mobile food vans, on the streets, and at non-sheltered,

outdoor locations such as tent encampments. After this period, people experiencing homelessness can visit a community-run center to submit their information, call to respond over the phone, or complete it on their own personal smart device.

Regardless of the participation method, all community members regardless of status are encouraged to self-report and respond early. “Count Me 2020 Coalition members provide outreach education support and access to ensure completion of the census questionnaires, including assistance to individuals in their native language,” says Silverthorn. The U.S. Census Bureau will also support linguistically diverse populations language access, depending on the response format.

INFORMATION COLLECTED IS CONFIDENTIAL The census is known for having one of the strongest guarantees of confidentiality in the federal government. “There are many measures in place to keep census information private,” says David Bennett, San Diego media specialist, U.S. Census Bureau. “It cannot be used for law enforcement purposes, immigration enforcement, or to determine personal eligibility for benefits. Under Title 13 of the U.S. Code, the answers collected are used only to produce statistics and are kept anonymous for 72 years. Security breaches can result in jail time and $250,000 fine if information is shared.”

For a list of important 2020 census dates, visit censusoutreach. org. In the near future, the Count Me 2020 website will have locations of the Questionnaire Assistance Kiosks and community-run assistance centers, as well as a full list of census-related events and volunteer opportunities in various neighborhoods.

In San Diego and Imperial Counties, the majority of 2020 census efforts are coordinated through the Count Me 2020 Coalition, led by the United Way of San Diego County, with support from SANDAG and the County of Imperial. For additional information on the 2020 census in our region, please visit countme2020. org, californiacensus.org or 2020census.gov.

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in posture, shallow breathing and they can experience isolation and loneliness,” he said. “We encourage people to come ‘test drive’ a session and see what it’s all about. They usually always return because it is a very welcoming, friendly community of like-minded people who support one another.”

Tremble Clefs members have come to the group via referral from a vocal therapist, movement disorder specialist, friends, family or by word of mouth from support groups and exercise classes that they participate in.

“It’s a cross pollination of all the Parkinson’s community.

People also have found us by their searches online leading them to trembleclefs.com and our social media channels on Facebook and Instagram,” Castell said.

San Carlos resident Sharon Zelin said that her husband Ken Sinclair was referred to Tremble Clefs through a member of a support group that they both attend. He had been diagnosed with an atypical Parkinsonian disease called Lewy Body Dementia, which impacts his speaking voice, and he has suffered a few choking spells.

“We weren’t sure we would initially fit into this group, but were very surprised how welcoming the members were,” said Zelin.

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pathologist with degrees in linguistics and communication disorders, established the voice and movement program in 1994 while working at the Scottsdale Memorial Hospital in Arizona. In 2001, additional locations were established in central San Diego, Rancho Bernardo and Encinitas.

Tremble Clefs San Diego, Inc. was incorporated as Matthew Ignacio a nonprofit organization in 2016 and has grown nation- spirit and courage of the individally with additional locations ual members. in Massachusetts, Missouri and “This is still true today, after 25 Washington. years, and continues with each The therapeutic benefits of sing- new chorus that joins the Tremble ing for people with Parkinson’s Clefs family,” Hesley said. emerged from Hesley’s work as Zelin can vouch for this. a speech therapist while pro- “Although Ken does not sing viding the Lee Silverman Voice loudly, nor does he like his singing Treatment (LSVT). Primary voice, he gets the opportunity to exspeech symptoms include low ercise and work his vocal muscles, voice volume and poor articula- and interact with others, which is tion. Singing addresses both of socially a very positive thing,” she these issues, explained Hesley, a said. “We both love the music we San Diego County resident. sing, enjoy the instrumental comHesley explained that she and ponent, and really like our music others soon discovered that the director, Matt. We especially enjoy therapeutic gains of singing went our violinist Francesca.” beyond increasing volume and Sammy Knight, another San Carlos resident who sings with improving articulation.

“Tremble Clefs provides a social Tremble Clefs, was diagnosed with environment which offered the Parkinson’s in September 2014. singers an enjoyable, communal Afterward, his nurse practitioner activity and the motivation to recommended the group. communicate. The success of the “I went to the next practice and initial group was based not only have been going ever since,” he on the therapeutic results, but said.

Castell’s own spouse was diagalso on the joy and power of choral singing and on the amazing nosed in 2012 and had difficulties

understand exactly what we are going through,” he said.

Tremble Clefs is a free program with no auditions and members do not have to know how to sing. At Palisades Presbyterian Church, the weekly practice sessions are Thursdays, 1 to Quartetto Luminoso (Photos Courtesy Tremble Clefs) 3 p.m.

The public is inwith swallowing prior to attend- vited to hear the Tremble Clefs ing TCSD sessions. His vocal ther- perform at a Spring Benefit apist referred him to participate in Concert on March 13, 2020, at the weekly TC sessions.

7 p.m., at Palisades Presbyterian “He has become audibly louder Church, 6301 Birchwood St. The and much clearer to understand. concert will feature Quartetto He also performs in the seasonal Luminoso, a virtuoso classical talent shows as the emcee as well ensemble comprised of clarias reading his own original stories netist Robert Zelickman, vioaloud,” said Castell, who also par- linist Päivikki Nykter, violist Francesca Savage and cellist ticipates in the weekly sessions.

“I love it. I get to spend time Cecilia Kim. Musical works are with my spouse sharing some- to include composers Stamitz, thing we both can do together Sibelius, Piazzolla, Crussell and and having a professional singer others. This marks the fourth and musical director like Matthew year Quartetto Luminoso has Ignacio has surely improved my performed to support Tremble vocal abilities,” he said.

Clefs San Diego and raise awareCastell said that he has enjoyed ness of Parkinson’s. the many friendships made in the For ticket information, call singing group.

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A PUBLIC/PRIVATE PHILOSOPHY When it comes to solving city problems such as homelessness, Zosa said he will look to the private sector to partner with the city in a similar fashion.

“I’m all about out-of-the-box solutions. Government can’t solve all the problems and sometimes it hurts,” he said, adding he would push to develop some types of public/private partnerships like the kind Peter Seidler and others from the business community created when they helped start programs like the Bridge Shelters. “We need to step up with the business community to fund these because we’re all invested in this problem.”

Zosa also sees public/private partnerships as a solution to San Diego’s uncompetitive salaries and looming pension costs and suggested one way to increase revenue without raising taxes is to allow more businesses to operate in Balboa Park.

“Let’s figure out ways to increase revenues to the city where we can afford to pay the pensions of our hard-working city employees, firefighters and police officers and keep that talent in the city,” he said.

Public/private partnerships are not just good for funding solutions to major issues like homelessness or the pension crisis, they are also what Zosa would propose for neighborhood issues, too. One idea he has for this would be to give businesses access to an “Adopt-aNeighborhood” program similar to the Adopt-a-Highway program for state freeways. Ideas like this were born of Zosa’s experience on the Linda Vista Planning Group.

“As chairman of Linda Vista Planning Group, whenever a business or development comes into my community, I say, ‘How are you going to be partners in this community?’ If you really want development and businesses to thrive and the local residents to support you, please invest in our community,” he said, adding that although it was not quid pro quo, he felt compelled to ask Linda Vista’s marijuana businesses what their benefit to the community is and encouraged investment in places like the local library and the Boys & Girls Club.

“There is a disconnect between developers and communities, and that’s why you have a lot of NIMBYs,” he said.

In addition to viewing the disconnect between developers and communities as the cause of resistance to development in the city, Zosa also sees the disconnect between what voters expect from government and what government delivers as the cause of distrust in solutions to issues like the convention center and the climate action plan.

Zosa said that voter rejection of Measure C to raise hotel taxes for the convention center and social programs failed because “unfortunately, the voters of San

Diego do not trust government to spend their dollars when they say, ‘This money is going to homeless.’

That was the argument against Measure C, that you can’t trust the money to go where it’s supposed to.”

He pointed to the money from the Transnet tax being diverted from road repair to the trolley system as an example of why voters mistrust government.

In the absence of support for a public initiative to fund the convention center expansion, Zosa again sees the business community as the likely solution. “We might need to privatize part of the convention center to get it done,” he said. “The city will lose if it is not expanded.”

Another area Zosa sees local government building mistrust is the regional climate action plan.

Although he believes climate change is happening and is manmade, Zosa said the city plan to move to renewables will increase cost on low-income families, at least in short term. But it is the issue of cars versus bikes that has him most fired up.

“I see a misappropriation of funds going to bike lanes that cost $5.6 million per mile, which is very expensive and has very, very low ridership,” he said, adding that the $279 million appropriated for bike lanes in the city would be better spent fixing roads, or adding more solar panels on city buildings.

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the primary — both Democrats.

Wendy Wheatcroft received 19.4% of the vote and Monty McIntyre garnered 13.5%. Added up, it gives the Democrats a 40.9-point advantage going into November.

Zosa maintains he is still in the race for a few reasons — voters outside of Linda Vista still don’t know him, the March primary

had very low turnout in District 7 and because of the presidential primary between main candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, the turnout was heavily Democratic.

“For people who lean to the right side, there wasn’t much reason to turn out in this election and that’s something that’s going to turn around in November,” Zosa

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said, adding that his main strategy to win is to mobilize fellow conservatives to the polls and to get his message and his resume of experience out to voters.

“I’m ready from day one to jump into city government,” he said.

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

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Zosa said he decided to jump into the race for City Council to bring a voice to the city that may go missing come November.

“We need someone who has been in the private sector,” he said. “There’s not too many people who are locally elected, especially on City Council, that have experience in the private sector and there’s going to be even less with Scott Sherman, Barbara Bry, Mark Kersey all going away. You look the current City Council candidates, they don’t have that business experience, which is critical.

We need a balance of voices for good governance.”

In addition to a lack of business candidates, the City Council race after the primary will all but assure a Democratic majority. Zosa said he doesn’t want to see one party rule over the city, Democrats with super majority, and “labor union bosses making all the decisions.”

“If we have just a Democratic mayor and a Democratic super majority City Council, you might as well just put everything on consent, because there’s not going to be any debate,” he added. “That’s not going to be good for the city of San Diego.”

If the March primary results are any guide, Zosa is looking at a tough uphill battle. His challenger in the November runoff, Deputy City Attorney Raul Campillo, received 36.4% of the vote to Zosa’s 30.6%. A roughly 6-point margin doesn’t seem all that surmountable until you look at the results for the other two candidates in

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Covid-19 supply chain disruptions can lead to social, political change

By MATT STOLLER

At the end of February, President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about Covid-19. As he put it, the virus is “under control” in the US and the “whole situation will start working out.” But according to Politico, Trump is privately voicing worries that the impact of the virus will undermine his chances of reelection. His panicked actions of late — including preventing an American from being treated in Alabama, at the request of a fearful Sen. Richard Shelby —c onfirm that this virus is a political event of the first magnitude. While few in Washington have internalized it, the coronavirus is the biggest story in the world and is soon going to smash into our electoral politics in unpredictable ways.

As Jon Stokes notes, we will, in all likelihood, be locking down travel in some areas of the U.S. for several weeks, as they did in China. People may be advised against gathering in large groups. It’s not clear what any of this will mean for campaigning or primary voting, whether most of us will vote by mail or have our votes delayed.

Moreover, the coronavirus is going to introduce economic conditions with which few people in modern America are familiar: the prospect of shortages. After 25 years of offshoring and consolidation, we now rely on overseas production for just about everything. Now in the wake of the coronavirus, China has shut down much of its production; South Korea and Italy will shut down as well. Once the final imports from these countries have worked their way through the supply chains and hit our shores, it could be a while before we get more. This coronavirus will reveal, in other words, a crisis of production — and one that’s coming just in time for a presidential election.

We’ve been through something like this once before. My book “Goliath” describes the 1932 campaign for president, one that was carried out at the depths of the Great Depression and during an era when our productive capacity was shut

down. Though the crisis at that time was caused by a banking collapse, not a pandemic, the political backdrop was analogous. Eighty-eight years ago, “old order” politicians, as they were known, proved unwilling — even in the face of crisis — to have the government apply its power toward the broader public benefit. Their recalcitrance prefigured, in certain ways, the reflexively libertarian thinking of today.

A toxic ideology invited disaster in 1932, as policymakers did little in response to the collapse of thousands of banks and businesses. At the depth of that depression, cotton hit its lowest price in 200 years and steel production fell to 15% of capacity. The situation became so desperate that in just one city, Toledo, Ohio, 60,000 of the 300,000 residents stood in bread lines every day.

Children were competing with rats for food. And thousands were dying of dysentery. The politics too turned desperate, with one labor leader telling Congress that “if the Congress of the United States and this administration do not do something to meet this situation adequately, next winter it will not be a cry to save the hungry, but it will be a cry to save the government.”

And yet, the old order had no answers. Congress held hearings, but businessmen, academics, and bankers proffered only belt-tightening. Within the Republican establishment, President Herbert Hoover worked 18-hour days, exhorting confidence while refusing to take even basic steps such as having the government guarantee bank deposits. Instead, his administration’s army attacked hungry protesters in Washington, D.C., a move that prompted an angry Republican congressman, Fiorello La Guardia of New York, to remind the president: “Soup is cheaper than tear gas bombs.”

Meanwhile on the Democratic side, conservatives and progressives in the party were locked in a bitter battle for the nomination.

Many Democrats agreed with Hoover. Maryland governor

and presidential candidate Albert Ritchie, for instance, argued that we should rely “less on politics, less on laws, less on government.” Another candidate, Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, claimed the greatest threat was the “tendency toward socialism and communism” and pledged a massive cut in government spending, as well as a sales tax increase. Others turned to extreme racism and xenophobia. Only Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who went on to win a contested convention, campaigned on aggressive government involvement in the economy — or as he put it, a “workable program of reconstruction,” which later became the New Deal.

That era’s political desperation is alien to us for a few reasons. First off, we haven’t faced shortages of such magnitude for a very long time. More importantly, we have for decades lived under a political framework known as affluence, a term popularized by economist John Kenneth Galbraith in the 1950s. As an affluent society, America automatically produces a surfeit of jobs and wealth, and the problem is solely one of distributing the bounty.

Under the siren song of affluence, we began offshoring critical production capacity in the 1960s for geopolitical reasons.

In 1971, economist Nicholas Kaldor noted that American financial policies were turning “a nation of creative producers into a community of rentiers increasingly living on others, seeking gratification in ever more useless consumption, with all the debilitating effects of the bread and circuses of imperial Rome.” Still, Bill Clinton and George Bush accelerated this trend throughout the 1990s and 2000s.

Affluence politics is not the politics of being wealthy, though, but rather the politics of not paying attention to what creates wealth in the first place. That is to say, it’s the politics of ignoring our ability to make and distribute the things people need. With the banking collapse in 2008, the election of Trump in 2016 and his mourning of empty factories, and with Bernie Sanders dominating the early primaries, that era may at last be passing. A pandemic disease outbreak would only hasten this progression and force us back into the politics of production.

With potential shortages of goods, and restrictions on people’s movement, both parties are heading into unknown

territory. It is likely Democrats will use this opportunity to further their case for Medicare for All. Pandemic surveillance and medical bureaucracies focused on billing do not mix well — stories about astronomical out-of-pocket costs for Covid-19 testing are already circulating.

Republicans are likely to take a more xenophobic approach, emphasizing restrictions on foreigners and infected Americans. When it comes to managing shortages, however, both parties are split, just as they were in 1932, between their Wall Street factions that assume affluence and the less mature populist factions that seek assertive public power.

The Democratic Party primaries certainly echo those of the Great Depression, with candidates from Bernie Sanders to Amy Klobuchar trying to wrap themselves in FDR’s mantle.

Regardless, the end of affluence politics means focusing on whether medicine is on shelves, not bitter disputes over bloated and wasteful hospital and insurance billing departments. It means caring about bureaucratic competence in government, and accuracy in media, not because these are nice things to have but because they are necessary to avoid immense widespread suffering. It means understanding that pharmaceutical mergers that benefit shareholders while laying off scientists are destructive, not just because they are unfair, but because they make us less resilient to disease. (Shareholders, as it turns out, also have lungs.)

Finally, it means recognizing that wealth, real wealth, is not defined by accounting games on Wall Street, but the ability to meet the needs of our own people.

We came to these realizations once before in 1932, and created a vibrant democratic state over the following few decades — one that rapidly expanded our life spans, defeated the Nazis, and helped create Silicon Valley. The convergence of the Covid-19 outbreak and the presidential election will force us to do it once again.

We’ve lived in the world of unreality for far too long.

As Richmond Federal Reserve Bank president Tom Barkin recently put it, “Central banks can’t come up with vaccines.” It’s time to get ready for what that implies.

—Matt Stoller is director of research for the American Economic Liberties Project. Visit economicliberties.us.

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By TINA RYNBERG and JEFF BENESCH

The board of directors of the La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club has voted to cancel our Campaign Kick-off meeting on April 1. Our May 6th meeting is to be determined at a future time.

“Changing our actions for a short period of time will save the life of one or more people you know,” said Governor Newsom. “That’s the choice before us. Each of us has extraordinary power to slow the spread of this disease. Not holding that concert or community event can have cascading effects — saving dozens of lives and preserving critical health care resources that your family may need a month from now. The people in our lives who are most at risk – seniors and

those with underlying health conditions — are depending on all of us to make the right choice.”

If “Dump Trump” is the clarion call for all Democrats running for national office this fall, then “Our Blue County” is the appropriate slogan for most San Diego area elections this cycle. Democrats dominated the March 3 primaries, with great results from north to south and even out East County way. With a couple of exceptions — the District 2 County Supervisor seat to replace termedout Dianne Jacob will go to a Republican and the 71st Assembly seat shows our Liz Lavertu a tremendous underdog — the election results are pretty darn encouraging. Even Ammar Campa-Najjar in the heavily Republican 50th Congressional District had a great showing, garnering the most votes against two out-of-district, well-funded Trumpers. It’s still

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going to be a very uphill battle, but one has to give him at least a chance against disgraced former Congressman Darrell Issa.

In our immediate backyard, the 53rd Congressional District, vacated by a retiring Rep. Susan Davis, will pit former Obama staffer Sara Jacobs against San Diego City Council President Georgette Gomez.

While Jacobs garnered the most first-place votes, there were many Democrats in this race, so it will be most interesting to see how the votes are allocated in the fall. We are guaranteed to be represented by a great Democrat in either case.

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Navajo Canyon Republican Women of California is pleased to announce our next meeting will be Tuesday, April 14, from 5-8 p.m. and held at the Carlton Oakes Country Club located at 9200 Inwood Drive, Santee.

Liz Wheeler, host of “Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler” on One America News Network, will be the featured speaker. Anyone who has watched the TV series knows that Liz is one of the most outspoken and pithy television personalities and is best known for being no-nonsense and straight talking. In addition to her TV career, she is also an established author and has published her book, “How To Topple The Left’s House of Cards,” in 2019.

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Using California’s Red Flag Law to combat hate crimes City Attorney News

By MARA W. ELLIOTT A 35-year-old Clairemont man threatened on Facebook to “shoot up” a gay bar in Hillcrest and then kill himself. He reiterated those threats to law enforcement after being detained. Our office intervened with Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) to prevent this attack.

This is just one example of more than 300 situations where our office has obtained a GVRO to avert potential gun violence tragedy in San Diego. While the majority of cases referred to our office involve domestic violence or threats of suicide, we’ve also found GVROs to be a valuable tool for preventing hate-fueled violence in our community.

Using California’s Red Flag Law, our office obtains GVROs to safely remove firearms from individuals who pose a danger to themselves or others. They also serve another purpose — preventing the person named in the order from acquiring new guns and ammunition.

We established California’s first GVRO program and are training hundreds of other agencies throughout California on how to use this life-saving tool.

Hate crimes have increased dramatically since their decade-low rate in 2014, and they increasingly target individuals as opposed to property. With this law we protect the most vulnerable populations in our city, particularly those who face discrimination and even threats of violence because of their race, religion, national origin, gender identity or other characteristics.

As city attorney, my job is to ensure all our citizens feel safe in their own communities.

A GVRO was obtained in each of these cases to prevent a potential hate crime: • A 50-year-old man confronted three Muslim women in Little Italy, forcefully bumping one with his shoulder. He pulled the hijab off another woman’s head, and punched the third woman, the victims testified in court. He yelled at them, “Go back to your country!”

When San Diego Police went to his apartment, he answered the door with a handgun in his hand.

The officers observed an AR-15 assault rifle, tactical vests and ammunition inside. He was arrested and charged with three counts of battery and a hate crime. The police confiscated seven long guns (some with scopes), a double-barreled shotgun, two handguns, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

• A 38-year-old Ramona man left disturbing telephone messages referencing bullets and guns at the San Diego offices of an English as a Second Language school, after he got into a political argument on Facebook with the school’s director. When he learned the school was planning a field trip to Ramona he left messages saying he didn’t want “those [expletive] illegals up here” and that his neighborhood was “MAGA territory.”

• A 30-year-old man stated that he wanted to purchase automatic weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines in Arizona, and then commit the largest mass shooting in U.S. history and broadcast it on Instagram. He mentioned a school in the Poway Unified School District, and stated he wanted to kill people based on their race.

These disturbing examples demonstrate how powerful GVROs can be at thwarting hate crimes and preventing gun violence. Our office will remain proactive and vigilant in our effort to prevent this kind of violence, and I want to continue to work together as a community to stamp out hate. I urge community residents to report dangerous conduct to the San Diego Police Department immediately. With your help we can protect all San Diegans, regardless of who they are or where they come from.

—Mara Elliott is City Attorney for the City of San Diego.

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District 39. Council member Chris Ward is way ahead of another Democrat, Sarah Davis, in the 78th Assembly District race and will face her again come November. And club favorite Lorena Gonzalez has again dominated in her 80th Assembly District race.

And in the San Diego mayor’s race, it looks like Assembly member Todd Gloria will face Republican Scott Sherman in the fall, though fellow Democrat Barbara Bry is not mathematically eliminated as of this writing. Either way, Gloria appears to have an insurmountable lead to become San Diego’s next mayor.

Even more locally, in San Diego’s 7th Council District, club member Raul Campillo out-performed Republican and chicken wing entrepreneur Noli Zosa, and a few fellow Democrats to appear to be the presumptive favorite to win the seat in the fall.

Zosa received less than 31% of the vote, while the Democrats in the contest totaled almost 70% of the votes cast. While the Republicans are sure to pour thousands of dollars into this city race, the math doesn’t look good for them at this time.

There’s a similar scenario playing out in the city’s 5th Council District, so it’s not out of the question that the Democrats

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could see an 8-1 City Council majority and a Democratic mayor — an unprecedented occurrence in San Diego political history. In Districts 1, 3 and 9, all November contestants are Democrats.

This Democratic wave was seen in the South Bay where the Supervisor District 1 race will feature two Democrats squaring off in the fall, and a near sweep of all the Council races in Chula Vista, along with Juan Vargas’ overwhelming showing in Congressional District 51.

To the north, Mike Levin and Scott Peters are comfortably ahead in their respective Congressional races, as is Brian Maienshchein in his Assembly District 77 race. The Board of Supervisors District 3 race shows the two Democrats totaling many more votes than the incumbent Trumper, Kristin Gaspar, and the Newland Sierra measure was soundly defeated by voters.

Even the countywide court contests looked good for our endorsed judicial candidates Alana Wong Robinson and Michelle Ialeggio, both winning their seats outright.

Tim Nader, in Superior Court Office 30, will survive the primary to face a challenger in the fall.

Our County Board of Education seats, along with the Community College and San Diego Unified contests, were largely dominated by endorsed Democratic candidates.

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According to The San Diego Foundation Parks for Everyone

report, 45% of San Diego County’s total land area is green space, yet many low-income, communities of color have a disproportionately lower degree of access to parks and open spaces. This lack of access has decreased community engagement in the outdoors, directly impacting both the mental and physical health of San Diegans.

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In response, The San Diego Foundation’s Opening the Outdoors grant cycle will invest in programs that clearly contribute to system or individual change resulting in opportunities for children and families in the San Diego region to grow, connect and thrive through positive interactions with the outdoors.

To be considered, eligible organizations must submit a proposal by April 6. The San Diego Foundation will prioritize applications with thoughtful collaborations, strategic partnerships and measurable goals. Proposals will be reviewed by foundation staff and a review committee comprised of a diverse group of

community volunteers with expertise in philanthropy and the environment.

While participation is not required in order to apply, interested nonprofits are encouraged to sign up for the Informational Webinar hosted by The San Diego SEE NEWS BRIEFS, Page 20

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The June lunch meeting of Navajo Canyon will feature Trevor Loudon, acclaimed speaker, author and political activist speaking on “Enemies

Within.” Details to be announced soon, but you will want to save the date Tuesday, June 9, to hear this dynamic speaker. Please visit our website at rwcNavajo-Canyon.org and check us out on Facebook at Republican Women of California-Navajo Canyon.

We have been exposed to a whirlwind of political advertisements and promises the past several weeks and, of course, there will be many more to come. Voting in our representative republic/ democracy is a privilege and responsibility, not just to vote,

but to be an educated voter. It is not easy to sort out the truths from the untruths during an election cycle, but please take the time to do some research and make wise choices. If indeed, your vote is your voice, then be aware that an uninformed voice is no better at the ballot box than anywhere else in public life.

When you are being asked to vote for change, you must take into account how much better things are now than just three to four years ago. Our economy is booming, unemployment is at record low levels, middle

class taxes are reduced, our military is stronger, the wall is being built and doing what it was intended to do, and our trade deals are being renegotiated and made fairer to the United States.

The list goes on and on. We don’t need change — we need to continue on the current path and be grateful that we have found our way to a stronger nation and more respected status in the world.

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By JAY WILSON

The two primary projects in Del Cerro continue to be the All Peoples Church (APC) and the proposed Del Cerro Maintenance Assessment District (MAD).

On Monday, March 9, the residents on Marne Avenue, whose backyards border the All Peoples Church, met with staff from the APC along with staff from The Atlantis Group, the land-planning experts assisting APC with development of the project. As a follow-up to the meeting with the residents on Marne, the staff from APC and the Atlantis Group made a full presentation to Navajo Community Planners (NCPI) on March 11.

Following their presentations to the Marne Avenue residents and the NCPI, APC will now be submitting their plans to the city for a second review. This will lead to a second cycles report from city staff following their review of the revised plans. Hopefully the second cycles report will resolve whether or not there will be a signaled intersection leading into the church parking lot and confirm the location of the one-story parking garage.

The Del Cerro MAD is still sitting with the city. It is our understanding the Del Cerro MAD is next in line. The city’s action is to approve the wording for the

petition and to give the green light to move forward, which will allow for property owners to begin signing the petition. It requires 30% of Del Cerro property owners to sign the petition in order to bring the MAD proposal to a vote by property owners.

Youth sports are everywhere within the Navajo Community this time of year. Nearly 2,000 children are playing youth sports this spring. There is Crusaders Soccer, Navajo Girls Fast Pitch Softball, Allied Gardens, San Carlos and Mission Trails Little Leagues, Patriot Baseball, and Mission Trails Lacrosse.

Two new large grass fields have just been added at Gage and Marvin elementary schools.

Virtually every grass and artificial field is in use for practices and Saturday and Sunday games.

Please be cautious as you drive through our community. At any moment, a child may run across the street to get to practice or retrieve the ball that is bouncing and/or rolling across the street.

The next quarterly meeting of the Del Cerro Action Council will be on Thursday, April 23, at 7 p.m., at Temple Emanu-El. —Jay Wilson is secretary of the Del Cerro Action Council, Visit delcerroactioncouncil.org.

March 13 – April 9, 2020 COMMUNITY Mission Times Courier Allied Gardens/Grantville Community Council news

By SHAIN HAUG

For the first time in many years, I was a passenger, rather than a driver, south on state Route 163 through the park, east on Interstate 8, and north on Waring Road. For the first time, I gave my undivided attention to the finger canyons and hillsides along that route. These are only a small sample of canyons and hillsides throughout the city; areas that have avoided development

because of difficult terrain and restricted access.

Because of the good fortune of those limitations, we still have these last vestiges of our wild coastal desert. They are fragmented and often invaded with foreign species, but still we can restore and preserve them as a natural resource for generations to come.

San Diego Canyonlands is dedicated to this essential part of our environment. Its goals

include bringing the canyons back to their natural ecologies by repairing the damage done by our surrounding commercial and residential development.

At the next Allied Gardens/ Grantville Community Council (AGGCC) Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m., at the Benjamin Library (corner of Glenroy Street and Zion Avenue) Clayton Tschudy from SEE AGGCC, Page 20

San Carlos Area Council news

By PATRICIA MOONEY

Hello dear readers, I wrote no column in February because SCAC President Mark Schulze and I were on a cruise from Buenos Aires to Antarctica.

Nobody has apprised me of any recent neighborhood news, so let me share some moments outside our neighborhood.

I feel world travel is healthy, even despite the hype, fears and warnings about the coronavirus disease. Regarding that, make sure you keep your hands clean and don’t touch your face.

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To my surprise, the family-owned business has many more locations than I realized beyond its ground-zero operation in Little Italy and this Grantville spot. In what started out as a grocer in 1950 at 1747 India St., eventually turned into a bustl i ng restau ra nt followed by 13 others spread mainly throughout San Diego County.

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The Grantville location opened in 1982 (Photos by Frank Sabatini Jr.)

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locations with his cousin, Joey Hobby.

The other outposts, Trily added, are operated by either bloodline relatives or those who have married into the family.

As a result, the menus throughout the chain are pretty much the same. Nearly 90% of the food is house-made. And the pizzas carry two signature features: Loads of grade A whole-milk mozzarella cheese (a pound of it per large pizza), and toppings that are always tucked beneath the sinful, cheesy mantle. Be advised that what constitutes as a regular layer of cheese at other pizzerias easily equates to double cheese at Filippi’s.

Some of the owners add their own dishes into the lineup. This location, for example, offers a pepper steak sandwich and a lemon chicken entree.

But we came knocking for pasta and the big, tender meatballs.

Visiting as a twosome, our kickoff was a small antipasto in which you’ll consistently find cubed Provolone, salami, mortadella, beans and veggies contained within a pile of iceberg or romaine lettuce. Dressed in basic vinaigrette, the dish is available in large and extra-large sizes as well.

In any case, their portions are substantial.

Ravioli, lasagna and a meatball

that barely required fork pressure to cut.

The marinara sauce draping the dish tasted better than I remember from past visits. Its acidity and salt levels were exceptionally mild. And the kitchen applied it judiciously, allowing us to actually identify everything sitting underneath.

Filippi’s does linguini and clams with great finesse. Offered with either white or red wine sauce, I chose the former and practically rolled on the floor with excitement over the dish’s tender baby clams, the thin linguine cooked just past the al dente stage, and the sauce’s striking depth of flavor. In every bite, we concurrently tasted Italian herbs, garlic, lemon and the white wine.

A half-size carafe filled to the brim with house chianti wine paired lovingly to our meal. It was a swell bargain for $10.95, considering it evaded the harsh bite that often plagues this varietal.

Similar to the Little Italy location, and sans the Italian food market fronting it, the dining sections feature tables dressed in red-andwhite table c ove r i n g s, plus crystal-clear murals of Italy (or are those photographs?), and hundreds of empty chiThis small antipasto easily feeds two people anti bottles swaddled in straw bottoms dangling Herb-dusted focaccia made from the ceilings. in-house is your complimentary This is family-friendly dintable bread. It’s accompanied by ing beckoning to the days when butter, and it is normally light and Italian restaurants were as unairy. Although in a second basket pretentious as the home kitchwe requested to mop up our pas- ens of paesano grandparents. ta sauces, the bread needed five For the better, nothing much has more minutes in the oven. It was changed here. too doughy in the middle.

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MISSION TRAILS iNat Observation of the Month: Cedar waxwing March 13 – April 9, 2020 Mission Times Courier

Once the birds are observed, there to steal? Berries and pomes! they are hard to forget. Cedar An ear-full of waxwings can clear Cedar waxwings are possibly waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) a native toyon (Heteromeles arbutifosome of the most striking birds wear a stylish black mask across lia) of all its pomes in a day or two. one can encounter in San Diego the face and sport an elegant crest Though these birds supplement in the wintertime. Since they above the head. Their plumage their diet with insects in warmer are small (about the size of a ranges from a soft rusty color on months, their favorite food is fruit sparrow) they are often heard the head, fading into pale brown and they are considered true frugibefore they are seen. They travel on the shoulders and back, and vores, meaning they eat the whole in groups (aptly called an “ear- grey on the wings and tail. The fruit, digest the pulp and pass the full” or a “museum”) and com- under belly is pale yellow. The tip seeds intact. This makes them exmunicate with high-pitched of the tail bears a bright yellow cellent propagation tools in the trills and whizzy thin whistles. bar and sometimes, the red waxy environment.

Last year, a flock of cedar waxThey can be heard and seen in wing tips that give the bird its Mission Trails Regional Park like name are visible. wings cleaned out my toyon withWhen cedar waxwings visit my in a couple of days. They chose a the ones in this observation by mhrains posted on iNaturalist at yard, I like to call them “masked high perch over my driveway to bit.ly/2PHcX2A. bandits wings.”

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say, they left a mess on the ground.

But complain I did not! I grabbed a pair of tweezers, proceeded to collect the freshly cleaned seeds and started my own propagation project in my greenhouse. I was amazed at the results: over 90% germination rate when planting

the seeds with no further treatment at room temperature (compared to 50% according to nativeplantnetwork.org).

—Patricia Simpson is a trail guide at Mission Trails Regional Park.

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alternately arranged, with three major veins from the base, and serrated edges. They are shiny on top to reflect the sun, and woolly on the underside to retain moisture. The woody parts are red, especially when new.

Walking through Oak Canyon in January, I saw shrubs with pointed branches which I initially mistook for spiny redberries.

Then I noticed the little clusters of tiny purple flowers and remembered that these hills were blanketed in a purple haze last April. These are Ramona-lilacs (Ceanothus tomentosus), also known as woollyleaf ceanothus, of the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae).

What a pleasure to see the promise of spring’s upcoming floral display!

The Ra monalilac, or “miikell” in Kumeyaay, has its place in the foothills and canyons of Southern and Baja California. It is a nitrogen-fixing plant: Ramona lilac (Photo by Nora Bodrian) its presence increases available nitrogen in poor soils The shrub will go summer through nitrogen-fixing bacteria dormant to conserve energy and in its root nodules. The shrubs drop half of its leaves to make its provide calcium and protein for own mulch. After a brush fire, foraging wildlife, seeds for birds, the plant will re-sprout only from pollen for bees and butterflies, the seed, and not from the base of and provides shade and shelter for the burned stem. This makes it an small creatures. It is not a “lilac” obligate seeder, and the heat of a at all — the name was given due fire is an effective stimulant for to the color of the inflorescence in seed germination. Seedlings will the spring, with purple or some- sprout from the ashes within a times white flowers. few months of a fire, and RamonaTraditional uses by Kumeyaay lilac may eventually dominate its include boiling the leaves and surroundings. However, if fires berries to relieve skin conditions are too frequent or too intense, and making baskets from the then the re-establishment of the branches. Take some of the fresh shrub population is less likely.

Ramona-lilacs are excellent for blossoms, add water, rub, and you will get lather and a mild aroma. a native plant garden, as they are Ramona-lilacs are easy to rec- low maintenance, tolerant of clay ognize in the spring. The shrubs soil, and serve as slope stabilizers. grow 5-10 feet tall on hillsides and in the canyons of the chaparral.

—Nora Bodrian is a trial guide at The small evergreen leaves are Mission Trails Regional Park.

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MISSION TRAILS REGIONAL PARK SPRING CALENDAR*

Nest Box Program Volunteers Richard Griebe, Petra Koellhoffer and Wendy Esterly recognized for their work on the new Nest Box exhibit.

Trail Guide of the Year Bob MacDonald (center) with Ranger Chris Axtmann and Trail Guide President Fred Kramer (Photos courtesy MTRPF)

Mission Trails honors its volunteers

By JENNIFER MORRISSEY

In February, City of San Diego staff and the MTRP Foundation staged the 24th annual Volunteer Awards Celebration, an opportunity to acknowledge the service of the 829 individuals who volunteered at Mission Trails in 2019.

Collectively, the volunteers worked a total of 11,991 hours of service, valued at more than $360,000.

At the Volunteer Awards Celebration event, a dinner hosted by the MTRP Foundation preceded a ceremony where volunteers were recognized for their dedication to the park. Senior Ranger Ryan Robertson provided updates, including the fact that the new Field Station at the East Fortuna Staging Area was to open soon, and that planning related to projects outlined in the updated master plan for the park had commenced.

Rangers presented in their respective focus areas, and the awardees received a certificate from Councilmember Scott Sherman and gift cards from the MTRP Foundation. Volunteers also received certificates marking five, 10, 15, 20 and 25 years of service. To learn about volunteering at Mission Trails, from one-day service projects to longer-term engagements, please visit mtrp.org.

PHOTO CONTEST

Engage with and support Mission Trails Regional Park

(MTRP) by entering the 28th annual Amateur Photography Contest. The MTRP Foundation organizes the contest as a way to encourage photographers of all ages to capture their experiences of MTRP through the lens, and to share their unique perspectives with the community.

Participants may submit up to five entries ($5 fee per entry) and the images can include these categories: plants, animals, people, and landscapes. The contest divisions include children ages 12 and younger, teens (13-17 years), and adults (ages 18+) so photo enthusiasts of all ages can participate.

Photo contest entries will be displayed at the park’s Visitor Center from May 9 through June 19, with an awards reception on Sunday, June 7, from 2-4 p.m. Photo contest entries must be received by mail or dropped off at the MTRP Visitor Center

by April 24. For more information including contest rules, prizes, and an application, visit mtrp.org.

MEMORIAL BENCHES, PLAQUES Do you feel a strong connection to Mission Trails Regional Park and would like to both support the park and recognize your and/or loved ones’ dedication to MTRP? If so, we have an opportunity for you.

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surroundings. Recently, additional spaces for bench placements at the base of Cowles Mountain were approved, and there are five benches spaces currently available for perpetual sponsorship.

In addition to the benches at Cowles Mountain, there are other areas in the park where memorial and commemorative plaque opportunities are available, for both benches and picnic tables. Learn how you can memorialize your family and loved ones through the MTRP Foundation’s Memorial and Commemorative Plaque Program by contacting Kristin Sweeney at ksweeney@mtrp.org or call the 619-668-3280.

—Jennifer Morrissey is executive director of the Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation.

Wildlife Tracking Walk: 8:30 a.m. first Saturday each month – Visitor Center Guided Nature Walks: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday each week – Visitor Center Guided Nature Walks Kumeyaay Lake Campground: 8:30 a.m., second and fourth Saturday each month – KLC Campground West Sycamore Nature Walk: 8 a.m. fourth Sunday each month – Stonebridge Pkwy in Scripps Ranch Bird Walk: 8 a.m. third Saturday each month – March meets at Lake Murray ball fields.

Family Discovery Walk: 3 p.m. fourth Sunday each month – Visitor Center Lake Murray Walk & Talk: 9 a.m. third Tuesday each month – January meet by the boat docks.

Discovery Table Activity: 10 a.m.–1 p.m. second Saturday each month – Visitor Center Live Hawk Talk Activity: 9 a.m.–noon, first Sunday each month, Visitor Center Kids Nature Story & Craft with a Ranger: 10 a.m. third Saturday each month – Meet at KLC Campground Picnic Structure. RSVP to 619-668-3279.

Native American Flute Circle: 1-3 p.m. second Sunday each month – Visitor Center Birding Basics Class: 1-3 p.m., last Saturday each month – Visitor Center Art Exhibits: “Chaparral Dreams,” two artists’ works on exhibit through March 27; “Ain’t Nothin’ Like a Dame,” five artists’ works on exhibit through May 8 – MTRP Visitor Center. Reception on March 29 at 2 p.m.

Stars at Mission Trails: At sunset first Friday each month – KLC Campground Day Use Lot Star Party: 6-9 p.m. March 14 – KLC Campground Day Use Lot Stars at West Sycamore: At sunset third Friday each month Stonebridge Pkwy in Scripps Ranch Stargazing 101 lecture: 7-8:30 p.m., March 12 – Visitor Center, lecture fee $10 Moonlight Photography Lecture: 7-8 p.m. March 26 – Visitor Center, lecture fee $10 *Partial listing of Monthly Events at Mission Trails Park. Please view our mtrp.org website for full calendar of free activities, programs, updates and volunteer opportunities, or call the Visitor Center at 619-668-3281.

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EDUCATION Patrick Henry February Student of the Month Mock Trial Team

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Patrick Henry High School News

By ELIZABETH GILLINGHAM The County of San Diego offers a High School Mock Trial program to promote an understanding and respect for the American legal system.

According to their website, “The program seeks to develop high school students into better citizens by familiarizing them with our Constitution and Bill of Rights through a mock trial competition enhancing students’ ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and work as a team as well as with other members of society.

The San Diego County High School Mock Trial Competition and Program are administered by the San Diego County High School Mock Trial Committee, which is chaired by representatives of the San Diego County Superior Court and the San Diego County Bar Association.

Representing local law agencies and organizations, and the state and federal courts, committee members devote hundreds of hours of volunteer time, as well as resources and expertise, to organize and conduct the annual competition.”

Mr. Kevin Kelly serves as our attorney coach of the PHHS Mock Trial Team and reported that they have just completed the 2019-20 campaign in impressive fashion.

He stated, “The Mock Trial Team competes Henry’s Mock Trial team on a county-wide level and includes approximately 600 won this year an award for students across 32 high schools. Outstanding Pre-Trial Attorney.

The program is an after-school This impressive distinction activity that can be fairly char- brings great honor to himself, acterized as intellectually de- his parents, the team, and PHHS. manding, requiring students to PHHS celebrates the great prepare and take to trial a crim- work of our team and recognizes inal case from pre-trial motions the following students for their to verdict. It requires students to commitment and dedication: research facts, analyze the law, Adia Feigner, Allea Exxum, Alli organize their thoughts, prepare Grimm, Andrea Zayas Conner, witnesses, anticipate opposing Aviel Cleveland, Brandon positions, and present arguments Guerra, Cameron Blakey, Claire to a judge. It is intense, extreme- Sutliff, Dillon Broderick, Hannah ly competitive, and attracts only Murray, Ines Laimenche, Iris the most highly motivated stu- Drake, Jackson Miller, Jonn dents in the San Diego area. In Segovia, Jenny Russell, Kayla a word, the mock trial compe- Duong, Kellen Foster, Kiana tition is hard. As a coach, I am Hawthorne, Kiersten Waters, privileged — alongside co-coach Lily McDonald, Lily Stockdale, Ken Medel and teacher-advisor Maddie Filner, Maddie White, extraordinaire Jenny Ronco — to Matthew Dollman, Miriam work with my team for several Rosen, Samira Hassan, Trenna hours per week from September O’Harran and Via Ruiz. through February.”

For more information, visit Mr. Kelly was proud to report the SD Mock Trial website at: sdPHHS student Dillon Broderick mocktrial.org/.

Sergio Rynard was selected as our Student of the Month for February.

“He is an amazing student and has excelled during his four years at Patrick Henry High School,” stated Vice Principal Bill Miller during the monthly breakfast held by the Allied Gardens Kiwanis club.

Sergio Rynard (Photos courtesy PHHS) Rynard has challenged himself by taking multiple • “We are certainly fortunate AP classes and has been a mem- to have Sergio in class, and he ber of our Associated Student is more than deserving of this Body program during his entire recognition.” tenure at Henry. He serves this • “Sergio is a very kind, caring year as our ASB president and is soul. He is responsible, honest, credited for bringing unity and a trustworthy, and I can only hope positive energy to the team. that my own children will learn Here are some of the great and practice all of the same qualthings that teachers have said ities. Hats off to Sergio!” about Sergio: • “Sergio is a leader in every • “He’s a very gracious and sense of the word. He is dedicated, thoughtful student. He is ex- he has vision, and he never asks tremely active in ASB and takes something of his ASB that he isn’t his leadership position seriously.” willing to do himself (and honest• “Sergio is one of the best ly is doing right alongside them counseling monitors we have ever every step of the way). He sees had — very friendly, helpful and strengths in others and is pasgreat leadership skills.” sionate about helping his fellow • “Sergio brings a unique and ASB to embrace their strengths valued insight to ERWC every and use them for the good of the day. With a voice that is strong class and the school. I cannot sing and powerful, Sergio makes those his praises enough, a few sentencaround him better, challenging es cannot do justice. I cannot them to question the status quo. imagine ASB next year without He is well liked by his peers and him — does he have to be a senior this teacher.” already?!”

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Black History Month was established in 1926 in the United States and was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It began as a way of remembering important people and events in history with the primary goal of teaching lessons about black American history in our nation’s public schools.

In today’s world, I’d like to think we integrate it all year, however this year, our Black Student

Union club (BSU) coordinated some schoolwide activities which fostered this spirit. BSU club president Zyah Cephus and vice president Aeisha Osman wanted to write articles for the broadcast news to air weekly stories about influential people who have made a difference in our country. They also wanted to bring a special presentation for the students SEE PHHS, Page 17

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Patrick Henry Black Student Union members at a club meeting (Courtesy PHHS)

first when I was invited, I didn’t feel welcome but you guys made it a lot easier to cope with others in the room. I went home that day after the presentation and told my mom everything that happened.”

Our BSU club has done a wonderful job in celebrating the outstanding work of others, but more importantly, they are focused on being a positive presence on our campus and on other campuses as well. They have taken on a special partnership with Green Elementary where club members volunteer every late-start Monday, by spending on hour on their campus reading to and mentoring young students selected to participate by the Green principal.

Principal Sandra McClure sent the following shout-out to our students for their support and help. She stated, “For the last few months, our Green students have worked in partnership with Henry’s Black Student Union. The Henry Patriots have been mentors to our Green Geckos. In order to make our meetings possible, our Henry BSU members wake up an hour early on their late-start days

Henry NJROTC wins state competition

By RON FLAHERTY

The first weekend of February, Patrick Henry Naval Junior ROTC attended the Area 11 Superbowl and came out as champions.

The team placed first overall and qualified for nationals.

Congratulations!

An outstanding job to all cadets who attended and helped achieve

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at Henry. They wanted to invite Nate Howard, who spoke at the district’s African American Summit to student leaders across the district, to visit Henry. We emailed him and once he heard who was asking and why, he waived his presentation fee and accepted a small grant (to cover travel expenses from Los Angeles to San Diego) from our PHHS Foundation.

The presentation he gave to a crowd of more than 400 students was about breaking away from stereotypes and writing your own story about who you are. Howard’s positive messages were given through his original poetry and by being a strong presence on the stage encouraging the students to participate in various ways. Students were asked to reflect on moments in their lives that were life changing and how that affects who they are today.

He asked them to consider writing and telling their story rather than allowing others to do so.

Howard is a noted speaker who graduated from USC. He is the founder of an organization named Movement Be and spends time in after-school programs to inspire others to use poetry and writing as a form to express themselves.

After the event, students were encouraged to give the speaker feedback and one student in the crowd wrote, “I wanted to let you know that it was very special hearing you guys speak at Patrick Henry. My skin isn’t of color, so at

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this goal. Thank you, too, to all of the supportive parents who came to cheer on the team and to our amazing cadre that we all love so much!

Feb. 1, 2020. This was the day that it all came down to. The day marked in every cadet’s calendar.

The day we dreamed of with hours SEE NJROTC CHAMPS, Page 18

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to meet with our kids. Together they discuss role models, positive characteristics, and even model exemplary ‘Playground Behavior.’

Our Henry students plan out the lessons and activities, and then come work side by side with our students. This is all done on their own time! We have 24 Green Geckos who have signed up for this opportunity, and there are about 10 Henry mentors who come support us. Our little guys truly look up to their high school mentors, and our mentors have been such an amazing example in so many ways. The Henry team has been so supportive — Mrs. Nix, the BSU advisor, and Listy Gillingham have supported us every step of the way. It truly has been a powerful and meaningful partnership, and I want the Henry Staff and students to know how much we appreciate their support!”

—Elizabeth Gillingham is principal of Patrick Henry High School.

Once again, the Henry Cluster STEMM Foundation was asked

by David Ege, branch manager of the San Carlos Library, to partner with the San Carlos Library for the annual Robotics Showcase Extravaganza on Saturday, Feb. 22.

The weather prediction of possible light showers in the afternoon turned into a 15-minute torrential rainstorm one hour before the event was to begin in the parking lot at the corner of Golfcrest Drive and Jackson Drive. By the 10 a.m. show time, the sun began to peak through and nearly 300 attended this annual event. There were canopies galore to protect the eight displays and the robots in particular.

Eight local schools had their robotics teams involved in the event including the Dailard Mechanical Dolphins, Patrick Henry Patribots and the SDSU Mechatronics. In addition, members of the city of San Diego’s SWAT Team had a display that included a robot which the public could control. The robot brought by the robotics club from SDSU was an underwater robot that won a national competition a couple of years ago.

The fifth Mini Golf Challenge for boys and girls teams K-12, is just around the corner. On Saturday, April 18, teams of two to six members from local schools and organizations will participate in this fun-filled event. This year’s event is being held at the Mission Trails Church, located at 4880 Zion Ave. in Allied Gardens from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Each team will build a single golf hole based on this year’s theme, which is Earth Day. Every team is to work with an adult volunteer such as a parent or teacher. The team is to design and build the hole, set it up on the day of the event, have the team members present to answer about their design and encourage the public to try to sink a golf ball into the hole in their mini golf challenge hole.

The public is always invited to play the course and vote for their “Favorite Hole.” The winning team will be awarded the Henry Cluster STEMM Foundation Mini Golf Challenge trophy. For more information and to register a team, go to hcstemm.org.

—Jay Wilson writes on behalf of the Henry Cluster STEMM Foundation.

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EDUCATION / SPORTS Crusaders Soccer Club to compete in National Premiere League

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of practice, hard work, and dedication. Here’s how the day played out: • 9:30 a.m.: Personnel Inspection (Every question memorized, every uniform made into perfection) • 10 a.m.: Drill Time (Everyone ready to plant, pivot, and step. In unison you can hear every toss of a rifle and stomp of a drill shoe) • Noon: Athletics (Students prepared to break their body down by pushing past their limits) • 12:45 p.m.: Academics (What did the cadets learn, memorize, and study?)

• 4:15 p.m.: Relays (The cadets need to be the fastest, use long strides, and put a win up on the board) These are all things the cadets had heard hundreds of times — the things that they’ve done to prepare for this day. The cadets put everything into this competition because

STATE CHAMPION ACHIEVEMENTS BY CATEGORY

Here is the breakdown of how Henry performed in the various NJROTC competitions: Color Guard: first place Unarmed Basic: second place Armed Basic: first place Unarmed Exhibition: fourth place Armed Exhibition: second place Curl ups: first place Pushups: first place 16×100 Yard Relay: third place 8×200 Meter Relay: second place Academics Exam: fourth place 40-man Inspection: second place Overall Athletics: first place Overall Drill: second place Overall Meet: first place

they wanted to be on top. And for the Patriots NJROTC, it was worth every single bit of dedication, because at 5:30 p.m., the words were spoken: “First place, Patrick Henry!”

History was made and the Henry cadets will continue to make it.

Next stop is Pensacola, Florida for nationals.

Amazing job to all the schools that were part of this Navy League journey. Special congratulations to Paloma Valley Battle Cats and Troy Black Warriors! Henry looks forward to representing the West Coast with you!

The Patrick Henry NJROTC championship team (Courtesy PHHS)

—Ron Flaherty is a Naval Junior ROTC instructor at Patrick Henry High School.

By JAY WILSON

Crusaders Soccer Club President Terry Cords and Director of Coaching Rene Miramontes are very pleased to announce that seven of the club’s top competitive division teams have been invited to join the Southwest Division of the National Premiere League (NPL).

“We have boys and girls teams with birth years of 2002 to 2006 participating at this very high skill level,” Miramontes said. “We will be playing against teams from throughout Southern California.”

As of now, the schedule has NPL games at the Pershing Middle School fields on March 14, 15, 22, 28, 29, April 4 and 5, 18, 19 and the finals on April 25, 26 and May 2.

The NPL website states this is a national competition platform created to elevate and change the competitive youth soccer landscape by extending developmental principles espoused by U.S. Soccer into more age groups and clubs; linking competition with player development and identification platforms; and providing meaningful weekly competition culminating in the NPL Finals.

Competitive team tryouts for the Academy, Premier and Elite divisions for boys and girls born between 2002 and 2005 are scheduled in April. The tryouts for the boys are on April 6 and 8 and the tryouts for the girls are on April 7 and 9. All tryouts will be on the Pershing Middle School fields from 4:30 to 6 p.m. To register, go to crusaderssoccer.org.

The 2020 Recreational Division season is underway with more than 550 boys and girls playing Crusaders Soccer on Sundays through April 26 (no games on Easter Sunday).

Because of the increase in the number of players and teams, games are being played on Field No. 1 at Pershing Middle School and on the new grass fields at Gage Elementary School.

“Our recreational division is powered by 60 volunteer coaches and division coordinators,” said Jay Wilson, chief operations officer for Crusaders “It is their dedication to help instill sportsmanship, team play and soccer skills that makes our recreational division so successful.”

As we begin our 2020 recreational season, Ivan Melendez, one of our key competitive

coaches, has been appointed our Recreational Division technical advisor.

“I am 27 years old and I have been playing soccer all my life,” Melendez said. “I have been coaching Crusaders Soccer Club competitive teams for six years and my goal is to work with and help our volunteer recreational coaches and players. I am looking forward in helping train our recreational players and assist our recreational coaches however I can. I will be a resource for our coaches, parents and players.

I will provide information on how to conduct specific drills and/or an entire practice session. I am an open book, and I want to enrich our recreational program experience. I have a strong background with our recreational program as a coach for many of the camps and clinics. In addition to coaching competitive boys and girls 7v7 and 9v9 teams for the Crusaders Soccer Club, I have also coached 11v11 junior varsity high school teams. I have been involved with the entire spectrum of youth soccer.”

—Jay Wilson writes on behalf of Crusaders Soccer Club. Visit crusaderssoccer.org.

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Happy birthday to us! – You are all invited to celebrate the library’s 55th birthday. We have archived pictures from the mid-’60s of the grand opening for viewing. We have also curated a few stationary pieces from that era which are also on display. A birthday cake and light refreshment will be provided for all guest in attendance. Monday, March 23, at 11 a.m.

ABCs of ADUs: Introduction to building an accessory dwelling unit – Have you thought about building an accessory dwelling unit on your property? Would you like more information about the possible cost, permitting process and various design options? If so, please join us for an informational ADU presentation. A representative from San Diego Development Services and several ADU builders will be on hand to talk about the building process from start to finish. To register for this free program, go to tinyurl.com/adu-sdpl.

Saturday, April 11, at 10 a.m.

Free Tax Help – AARP volunteers are on site to assist with tax preparation. This is a free service and geared toward older adults and people with moderate to low income. No need for an appointment as this is a first-come, first-served program. Mondays, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., and Fridays, 12:30-5 p.m. through April 10.

Book Club: ‘Life After Life’

by Kate Atkinson – Join our group of book lovers as they discuss this work by winner of the U.K.’s Whitbread Award, Kate Atkinson. Tuesday, April 14, at 1 p.m.

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This fun challenge will be followed by a Pi-Ku poem and decorating session. All materials as well as light refreshments and snacks will be provided. This program is geared toward older elementary school students and up. Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m.

O n g o i n g Programs – Check out our regularly scheduled youth programming: Baby Storytime on Mondays at 10 a.m.; Toddler Storytime on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.; Yoga Storytime at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays; Preschool Storytime on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.; Friday Free Play for ages 0-3 on Fridays at 10 a.m.

For tweens and teens, we have Tween Scene on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. and Tween Gaming on Thursdays at 3 p.m. All school-age children can get assistance with Homework Help on Mondays, 2-4 p.m., and Wednesdays, 12:30-3 p.m.

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All San Diego Public Library locations will be closed for Cesar Chavez Day on Tuesday, March 31.

—Kathryn Johnson is managing librarian of the Allied Gardens Benjamin Branch Library.

By DAVID EGE

Despite the rain, the Robotics Showcase Extravaganza 2020 was a smashing success that attracted 270 attendees!

Thank you to our participating robotics teams: the Patrick Henry Patribots, Wizalos, Squash, Dailard Mechanical Dolphins, Pretzel Cats and City Critters. Members of the Pershing Atomic Panthers team also came out to show support.

New this year was the Kearny High Blue Tech Club showing off a miniature underwater remote-operated vehicle (ROV) and the SDSU Mechatronics showing off their large underwater ROV. The appearance of SDPD SWAT robot units entertained the crowd and inspired the young robotics teams.

Art show: Tarie Minchak will be showing brightly colored acrylics from March 4-31.

Tarie’s paintings center on figurative subjects, accompanied by symbolism and storytelling elements that draw from her experiences in everyday life, displayed in a vibrant and playful manner. Her reception will be on March 21 from noon to 2 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.

50 best short hikes: Join co-author Don Endicott for a presentation on the revised second edition of “50 Best Short Hikes, San Diego” on March

“The Call” is the story of how SDZG developed, launched, and lived its new strategic plan, setting out on a multi-decade odyssey to lead the fight against extinction.

Poetry open mic: Join People Enjoying Poetry (PEP) on March 28 at their new time from 2-4 p.m. for the bi-monthly poetry open mic. PEP will now be meeting on the fourth Saturday of every other month.

Share your own work or read someone else’s poetry. We’ll collaborate to create a collection of poetry and the group will offer feedback at the poet’s request.

Miniature horse storytime: Get ready for a very special storytime on April 3, at 1011 a.m. The nonprofit animal therapy organization Hearts & Hooves will bring a miniature horse to the library. There will be books, crafts and an opportunity for every child in attendance to pet and interact with the horse.

Challenge Island: Challenge Island encourages creativity, critical thinking, and social skills while instilling a love of science and engineering.

On April 8, from 4-5:15 p.m., kids will learn about author/ illustrator Dav Pilkey and his famous “Captain Underpants” series. They will then create an elastic slingshot for use in a “Captain Underpants”-themed arcade game. Ages 8-12.

Registration required. Call 619527-3430 to sign up.

—David Ege is managing librarian of the San Carlos Library.

Connecting generations through technology 2. Video Chat Video chat makes you feel as though everyone’s in the same room. Use apps like Skype or FaceTime to have a video conversation from virtually any device, and share life events such as graduations or weddings.

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Spring into STEAM program – March kicks off San Diego Public Library’s fourth annual Spring into STEAM program! This year’s theme “Go Wild!” explores the sights, sounds and ecosystems of the rainforest. Free for ages 9–12, Spring into STEAM programs are offered at all 36 city libraries during the months of March, April and May. Kids can build their own mini-rainforests, meet some of the animals that call the rainforest home, and use Minecraft to learn about biodiversity. Participants who finish three or more programs will receive a pair of binoculars. Program dates, times and locations are available on the library’s website. Advanced registration is required.

Celebrate Pi Day! – The library will be hosting a pi memorization competition with prizes for the two people that can recite the most digits of pi by memory.

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Author talk: On March 27, at 2-3 p.m., author Beth Branning will discuss her book “The Call.” In the early 2000s, San Diego Zoo Global (SDZG) reached a crossroad. After decades of helping wildlife, the nonprofit realized that it needed to evolve into a true conservation organization to ensure a future for plants and animals.

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Four easy ways tech can help grandparents bond with younger family members Grandparents: a word often associated with presents, special outings, yummy food and unconditional love. Yet many Americans don’t talk to, or see, their grandparents as often as they’d like.

Here are four ways technology can help you connect with your grandparents.

1. Messaging Apps A recent study revealed that 73% of grandparents own smartphones.

Messaging apps like WhatsApp or Talkatone are a great introduction to texting for grandparents.

With messaging apps, you can send and receive text updates, photos and videos in one place. When there’s time for a longer conversation, you can use these apps to chat for free, as most don’t use cell minutes.

3. Gaming and Creativity Apps Apps like Magisto and PhotoFunia allow you to personalize photos and videos.

Looking for some friendly competition with your grandparents? Try a gaming app like Wheel of Fortune or Minecraft.

Or keep your grandparents updated with an app like Keepy, an interactive platform for sharing school projects and artwork.

Use family tree apps like Ancestry to discover photos and stories together as you navigate your family history.

4. Social Media Start a private Instagram account where you can post photos and videos.

Grandparents have lots to share as well, so encourage them to make their own Instagram handles and record their stories. This can be a unique way to learn about your grandparents’ past, pass down family memories or share family recipes.

Snapchat is another option for sending and receiving custom pictures or videos with a variety of fun filters and lenses.

How to Help Your Grandparents Only 44% of grandparents identify as tech-savvy.

Teaching non-tech-savvy family members how to use video chat and social media can be a bonding experience. You can also set your grandparents up with useful home features like the SURE Universal Remote, which allows them to control their TV and other devices from their smartphone. Less tech-savvy grandparents may not realize they can watch their cable TV content from their mobile device or schedule DVR recordings with apps like Cox Connect.

Giving your elders the power to connect helps build relationships with the people you love most, and that’s priceless at any age.

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San Diego Canyonlands will discuss the Canyon Enhancement Planning process for Navajo Canyon. This area includes Navajo Open Space Park and the Navajo Canyon Trail that runs between Adobe Falls Road and Mound Avenue.

This will be the third in a series of stakeholder meetings that have taken place since November

2019. Suggested improvements for Navajo Canyon include trail maintenance, palm removal for fire safety, and added information kiosks.

This will be the final opportunity for you to learn about and to give your suggestions and support for vitalization of Navajo Canyon.

All of us who live in the surrounding area and all of those who frequent the canyon should try to attend this meeting.

Further information about San Diego Canyonlands can be found at sdcanyonlands.org.

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Foundation on March 11 at 1 p.m.

Register for the webinar at bit. ly/32UzrCC. For more information about The San Diego Foundation’s Opening the Outdoors Program, or to apply for one of the available grants, visit sdfoundation.org/OTO.

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Join us at this town hall meeting and learn how you can support and improve our community back yard, our own Navajo Canyon. Our children deserve this commitment.

Allied Community Gardens, located just behind Ascension Lutheran Church at 5106 Zion Ave., has a few beds available for seasoned gardeners or folks looking to try their hand at gardening starting in April 2020.

The water fee for a one-year commitment is $100 and all and a flair for drama. We witnessed penguins in Ushuaia, Argentina carrying on in conversation. We sailed past Antarctica on Feb. 9, when unusually warm temperatures were recorded there as glaciers melted. But most importantly, a few days later, on Valentine’s Day — 38 years since the day we

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gardeners are asked to share their harvest with the monthly food distribution event when able. For more information or to sign up for a bed, please contact Chris Stoneberg at christinestoneberg@gmail.com or 619-987-3280.

Renewals of your subscription to our newsletter are due in March 2020. The form for new subscriptions is found on our website at the AGGCC Newsletter page. Don’t miss out on this valuable source of information.

Our website is located at aggccouncil.org. Give us your suggestions for what is of value to you.

The AGGCC Board of Directors meetings are open to the public.

We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Benjamin Library. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, April 7.

—Shain Haug is the President of the Allied Gardens/Grantville Community Council. Reach him at aggccshain@yahoo.com and let him add you to our email contact list.

met — President Schulze and I renewed our vows aboard the Celebrity Eclipse, with a ceremony conducted by Captain Leo. Our next SCAC meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 3, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. at the San Carlos library, 7265 Jackson Drive. If you wish to be added to the Interested Persons List, have Penguins in Argentina a topic you would like to learn or give a presentation about, please —Patricia Mooney is vice presicontact me at patty@crystalpyr- dent of the San Carlos Area Council. amid.com.

Email patty@crystalpyramid.com.

San Diego Blood Bank continues its efforts to monitor and respond to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) with the safety of the U.S. blood supply and blood donors as its top priority, according to a press statement issued on March 4. “There is no known risk to the safety of the nation’s blood (l to r) SCAC president Mark Shulze and vice president Patricia Mooney

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COMMUNITY AND ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR EDITOR'S NOTE Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and precautions taken regarding public gatherings, many of these events listed in this month's calendar may be postponed or canceled. Please check with the websites or phone numbers listed in the event descriptions before deciding to attend. As a suggestion, we urge arts patrons to purchase merchandise from musicians or buy season tickets to theater companies or purchase books from authors or donate money to nonprofits that may be relying on these events as fundraisers.

Many authors, actors, musicians and performers will be adversely affected by these event postponements and cancellations. Most importantly, stay safe and think of your health.

ONGOING EVENTS

format, the play explores how gun violence affects people on both sides of Second Amendment issues. In addition to the play itself, many performances will also include discussion on gun issues, student activism related to school shootings and more. Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays 2 and 7 p.m. at Moxie Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd., Suite N. Tickets are $40. To purchase ticket and get more information about special discussions, visit bit.ly/37AMUQL.

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‘Clybourne Park’ Through March 21 Spanning 50 years, this insightful, satirical drama from playwright Bruce Norris is a witty exploration of race relations, the "ownership" of neighborhoods, and the breakdown of communication in American society. Borrowing a character from Lorraine Hansberry's classic play “A Raisin in the Sun,” the play opens in 1959 with Bev and Russ selling their house to the first African American family in the neighborhood, causing discomfort among some of their white neighbors. Act 2 turns the tables by jumping to 2009, where the same house is being sold by a white couple who, oblivious to the wishes of their African American neighbors, plan to tear it down and rebuild it. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and additional Saturday performance at 2 p.m. at Stagehouse Theatre, 8800 Grossmont College Drive, El Cajon. $12/$15 tickets available at bit.ly/2S2yaUL.

‘The Hollow’ Through March 29 Lamplighters Community Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s comic mystery about an unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader that explodes into murder at the home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr. Cristow, the Harley Street lothario, is at the center of the trouble when we find his dull but devoted wife Gerda, his mistress and prominent sculptor Henrietta, and his former lover and Hollywood film star Veronica. Also visiting are Edward and Midge, whose romantic assertions are likewise thrown into the mix. As the list of romantic associations grows, so does the list of potential suspects when Cristow is shot dead. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. at Lamplighters Theatre, 5915 Severin Drive, La Mesa. Tickets range $18-$23, available at lamplighterslamesa.com. ‘gUnTOPIA’ Through March 29 Moxie Theatre presents “gUnTOPIA” — a dark comedy by Will Cooper about America’s obsession with gun culture. Set in a 1950s-esque television show

Quartetto Luminoso & Matthew Ignacio Tremble Clefs San Diego welcomes back Quartetto Luminoso for a live classical music concert to benefit people living with Parkinson's. Also featured will be guest vocalist Matthew Ignacio. Meet the artists after the performance and enjoy fine refreshments. All donations will be used to support the Tremble Clefs therapeutic singing program. 7 to 9 p.m. at Palisades Presbyterian Church, 6301 Birchwood St. $10-$50 tickets and information at trembleclefs.com.

by members of the historic Sacred Expedition to establish Spain’s presence in California from 1769 to 1774.Visit the sites of the Spanish camp, which contained California’s first Spanish fort and mission, as well as a military field hospital and adjacent cemetery, which reportedly still contains the unmarked graves of at least 30 of San Diego’s first “Unknown Soldiers.”

Visit other modern memorial markers to the Serra Palm and the nearby La Playa Trail and Derby Dike. Free. RSVP to the House of Spain at rsvp2hos@ gmail.com.

Lecture: March 15, 5-6:30 p.m. at House of Spain, 2168 Pan American Road East in the Balboa Park Palisades area. Free parking is located across the street in the Spreckels Organ Pavilion parking lot.

Historic Walk: Saturday, March 21, 9-11 a.m. at the foot of Presidio Hill, at the corner of Taylor Street and Presidio Drive.

‘Ethical Dilemmas in the ICU’ This program will explore the complex decisions that families and providers grapple with in intensive care unit (ICU) settings. Decisions are often time-critical, such as in the case of a brain bleed.

Families are often asked for guidance regarding aggressive care, e.g., tracheostomy, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), craniectomy, etc. Speakers include Jamie LaBuzetta, M.D., UCSD ICU Neurologist, and Bethany Turner, Ed.D., Kaiser Permanente Chaplain. 1:30-3 p.m. at Vision, 4780 Mission Gorge Place, Suite H. Free program and free parking.

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Waipuna - A Dedication to the Mauna Hawaiian trio Waipuna — Kale Hannahs, Matt Sproat and David Kamakahi — bring their award-winning Polynesian music to San Diego. 5-11 p.m. at the San Diego Performing Arts Center, 4579 Mission Gorge

Place. Tickets range $30-$35; available at bit.ly/38PNvyQ.

Wednesday, March 25

‘Peter Pan’ Through March 28 Peter Pan Jr. Theater presents its namesake play, “Peter Pan.” Flying boy Peter Pan and his fairy companion Tinkerbell encounter Wendy and her brothers when flying through London searching for Peter’s shadow.

When Wendy helps Peter sew it back on, he offers to take them all to his home in Neverland where they meet the Lost Boys and encounter the evil Captain Hook. The conflict between Peter and Hook takes center stage as the magical adventure turns dangerous and teaches everyone the true power of friendship. Shows are at 7 p.m. and an additional 1 p.m. show on Saturday. At the Ray and Joan Kroc Salvation Army Performing Arts Center, 6611 University Ave., San Diego. $17 tickets and information found at ppjt.org.

Guitars. Acts to perform are: Riston Diggs & Sly Beats, Wicked Echoes, Nights Like Thieves, Alvino & The Dwells, The Hiroshima Mockingbirds, and Spice Pistols. 7 p.m. at Navajo Live, 8515 Navajo Road. No cover charge. Free parking. 21 and up. For more information about SDMA week events, visit sandiegomusicawards.com.

Deadbrokedown Deadbrokedown is a solo acoustic act playing a fun and rowdy brand of originals, Americana and blues. Dave Deakman is a veteran guitar player and songwriter and was selected as a finalist and performed in the 2018 San Diego Fair songwriter competition. Deadbrokedown plays all over San Diego County and has opened up for national acts as they travel through Southern California.

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2020 SDMA Nominee Showcase As part of the 29th annual San Diego Music Awards, the SDMA Week 2020 Nominee Showcases are a way of presenting the 2020 nominees, while supporting the San Diego Music Foundation Guitars in Schools Program. Proceeds from the San Diego Music Awards help to purchase guitars for San Diego County schools, via a partnership between the San Diego Music Foundation and Taylor

Brew Community Market The Brew Community Market brings the community together by creating this diverse venue of local artisans, craft home goods, hand-made jewelry, bath soaps, scented candles, and more. The Brew Community Market is located in the parking lot to the side of the Brew Coffee Spot building, 6101 Lake Murray Blvd. in La Mesa, and hosts up to 25 different vendors.

This is a monthly event. Come shop 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from many local businesses in the community. For more information, visit brewcoffeespot.com.

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Featuring performances by 10 large ensembles and orchestras, the concerts will also host winners of SDYS’ annual Concerto Competition as featured soloists, backed by their own orchestras. Also, two outstanding music educators will be honored with the youth symphony’s Profiles in Music Education Award at the opening of the concerts, and all San Diego county music educators are invited to attend the concerts free of charge by requesting tickets at sdys.org/educator.

One of the music educators to be honored is Allied Gardens resident Crystal Pridmore, who teaches music at Finney Elementary in the Chula Vista Elementary School District.

She is the recipient of the 2019 CMEA Southern Border Section Elementary Music Specialist Fortissimo Award and was a Grammy semi-finalist in 2020. She holds a BA in Music Education and an MA in teaching from Point Loma Nazarene University, and a California single subject teaching credential in music. Pridmore will be honored at the March 15 showcase performance at 6 p.m.

She frequently performs throughout San Diego as a soloist and choir member and is the creator and co-host of the “Chaotic Harmony” podcast, chronicling the reestablishment of music programs in Chula Vista Elementary School District after a 30-year absence of arts education.

The other recipient is Serafin Paredes, who has been a music educator in the San Diego Unified School District since 1999. He is currently developing the music program at Memorial Preparatory Academy for Scholars and Athletes and serves as the Mariachi Director at the University of San Diego.

San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory’s Celebration of Music Education Concerts at Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall Sunday will be held March 15, 2020, at 1 and 6 p.m. and on Sunday, April 19, 2020, at 4 p.m. Visit sdys.org for tickets and information.

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