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San Diego County resident Kathryn Muñoz has had her hands in a lot of service organizations: the women’s philanthropy group Las Patronas, and the mother-daughter philanthropy group National Charity League, to name a few. She is continuing her community service in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting area restaurants and frontline workers through a program called Feed the Fight SD, through which she raises funds to purchase meals from local eateries and deliver them to local medical facilities.
Note: All Souls’ Episcopal Church is temporarily not holding any in-person gatherings due to coronavirus concerns, but offering online worship services through live-streaming via Zoom video at allsoulspointloma.org As All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma (1475 Catalina Blvd.) is enjoying another year of its respected music program; its reputation for excellence draws congregants, audiences and participants from all over San Diego County.
La Jolla resident Scott Flavell was grappling with his own coronavirus-caused problem: laying off workers in his Kearny Mesa factory. It manufactured postural correction products for the chiropractic industry — not exactly an essential business. As Flavell left a local market and seeing grocery employees working closely with others, a simultaneous solution to both problems suddenly dawned on him. His factory would switch to manufacturing face masks and donate them to grocery stores. He shifted production and made 10,000 masks at an initial cost of $3,000, but offering them for free.
Even with coronavirus upheaval, San Diego housing analysts have been bullish on the market because of low loan rates
Here’s how to file for unemployment benefits in California if you’ve lost work because of the coronavirus outbreak. Read this explainer for eligibility requirements and how the program works.
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Multiple aid programs are being launched for restaurants, their employees, other businesses
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San Diego region’s median home price was up 7 percent in a year in February
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Children’s health experts warn against too much screen time, encourage setting a daily routine
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No criminal charges will be pursued against a U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed an Ocean Beach woman during the January insurrection at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the Department of Justice announced April 14.
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A man who stabbed a San Diego police dog during an altercation with officers in the Midway District pleaded guilty April 13 to charges of animal cruelty and resisting arrest.
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A fugitive suspected of shooting at private investigators and police twice within the past month is dead following an overnight standoff with police in downtown San Diego.
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It happened on Voltaire Street.
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Athenaeum Music & Arts Library will present “Raphael,” a five-week lecture series by art historian Victoria Martino, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death. Lectures begin 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, March 31, April 7, 14, 21 and 28, at 1008 Wall St., La Jolla. Martino, is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and the University of California. She will provide an in-depth look at the life, work and legacy of the great Renaissance master whose far-reaching influence on art and aesthetics still makes itself felt.
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Against the novel coronavirus called COVID-19, no one is immune, a UCSD medical professor explains. “Everyone can get sick and everyone can spread the disease.”
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County officials announced Monday new emergency regulations to help slow the spread of COVID-19 including a ban on all gatherings of 50 people or more, the immediate closure of all adult entertainment establishments that serve alcohol and restrictions on in-dining options.
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The two campuses collectively house about 17,000 people
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From schools and entertainment to sports and conventions, here’s a roundup of what has been affected
