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Be Like Santa, Double-Check Your Receipts

| 10:26 AM

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The holiday season is the perfect time to remind everyone to remember to always, always double-check your receipts to make sure you’re not accidentally overcharged by faulty cash registers and price scanners.

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The Thanksgiving Cook-Safely Quiz is Back!

| 11:22 AM

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Thanksgiving, our biggest day of feast is back! And if you’re cooking, the last thing you want to do is serve your family and friends plentiful platefuls of salmonella, listeria or other dangerous bacteria. Here’s our annual quiz to help keep your cooking safe!

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Tips to Reduce Food Waste This Happy Holiday Season

| 10:06 AM

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The holidays are the season for—food! And the County of San Diego wants to give you some tips to help make sure you don’t waste a single bite.

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County LEEDing the Way

| 1:45 PM

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When the County broke ground last month on its seventh Crisis Stabilization Unit—a place to give people in the midst of crisis a calm place to recover—it wasn’t just a boon for behavioral health.
It was also a boost for the environment, sustainability and thwarting climate change in San Diego County.

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County to Hand Spray for Mosquitoes in Mt. Hope Area

| 2:19 PM

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County Vector Control crews plan to hand-spray a neighborhood in the Mt. Hope area this week to keep mosquitoes from potentially spreading the dengue virus after mosquitoes were found near a person who contracted dengue outside the U.S.  

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County Breaks Ground on East County Crisis Stabilization Unit

| 3:29 PM

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The County of San Diego and partner agencies broke ground on the region’s seventh Crisis Stabilization Unit Thursday. The “CSUs” are designed to give many people who are in the midst of a behavioral health crisis a calm and better place to become stable and recover than emergency rooms, hospitals or jails.