Parks and Rec
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCounty Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Nora Vargas joined the County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation and its partners Thursday to celebrate the arrival of a set of retractable goal posts at Lincoln Acres County Park.
Government
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre you planning to travel out of the country this summer? With passport processing taking 8 to 11 weeks, or 5 to 7 weeks expedited, now is the time to apply for your passport book or card at the County Administration Center downtown.
Animals
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the end, the luck will flow both ways, but it begins with you being a lucky charm for a shelter pet like Miss Piggy, Katie bunny, Starscream kitty, pups Rin and Redford pictured above, or any of our other amazing shelter animals.
Housing
Reading Time: 2 minutesCounty officials want San Diegans to help turn a house―or rather, the County’s draft housing blueprint―into a “home” by filling it with their opinions and advice.
Government
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe County Employees’ Charitable Organization (CECO) distributed $110,252 in grants to 68 local nonprofit programs and the Employee Crisis Fund at its annual awards breakfast at the County Operations Center Friday.
Health
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe County has a new, groundbreaking resource to battle fatal opioid overdoses. A naloxone vending machine is now in operation at the McAlister South Bay Regional Recovery Center in Chula Vista and you don’t have to be a member of the Center to use it.
Health
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 12th Annual Love Your Heart Week of Action took place a few weeks ago and early results show that 3,000 San Diegans got blood pressure checks and 4% of those screened needed an urgent visit to their doctor.
Families
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Behavioral Health Services (BHS) program focused on culturally appropriate programming to strengthen relationships between fathers and their children and bolster fathers’ parenting skills was approved Tuesday by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. This Board approval signals an eight-fold expansion of these services.
Health
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCounty health officials are keeping a close watch over a slight uptick of hepatitis A infection cases among people experiencing homelessness.
Government
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLocal business owners and employers had a chance to learn about the new 2023 labor laws during a webinar Wednesday.