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This Shopping Season, Be Like Santa: Check Your Receipts, Check Them Twice!

| 9:15 AM

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Thanksgiving, Black Friday and holiday shopping are here again. This shopping season, be like Santa! Remember to double-check your receipts so you don’t get accidentally overcharged by faulty cash register price scanners.

Health
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The Healing Power of Recreational Therapy

| 8:13 AM

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The San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital has a variety of in-house programs to assist patients in their crisis recovery process. One of the most popular and successful is Recreational Therapy. Whether patients choose painting and ceramics or volleyball and yoga, the joy they feel has real healing power.

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Supervisors Approve Traffic Study to Reduce Air Pollution in Portside Neighborhoods

| 2:42 PM

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The County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan this week to reduce air pollution and improve health in the region’s Portside neighborhoods — Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, Sherman Heights and western National City — by studying the types of trucks and cars driving through them.