Tag: COVID-19 San Diego County
Worship and workouts: The Board of Supervisors recently approved my proposal to open up our county parks to worship services and fitness-related businesses.
We streamlined the permit process and are waiving fees related to reserving park space. This is not a new idea. Poway pioneered it with its recent SOS initiative, proposed by Mayor Steve Vaus.
East County locations with reservable...
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Business owners cannot predict what the future holds, but many are hopeful that the 2020 holiday retail season will provide a much-needed boost to their bottom lines. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in late 2019 and early 2020 led to plunging revenues for small businesses across the globe, forcing some to close their doors for...
Collegiate baseball doesn’t end with the College World Series in June. It’s only a starting point for the next season.
Summer leagues across the country — most notably in Alaska and Cape Cod — have long been popular destinations for offseason competition among college-age ball players who are trying to get a leg up on the competition.
San Diego can now...
California state senator Brian Jones said the county of San Diego is moving in the right direction in its efforts to restart the economy, but he doesn’t think officials are moving fast enough.
“I still think that some of the regulations that they are coming in with are not based on science or epidemiology,” Jones said. “They are based on...
During a May 13 meeting, Santee City Council members hashed out where to allocate $247,493 in available funding to best help the community as it begins to recover from the COVID pandemic.
That funding has two sources: $85,389 in 2019 Debt Service Reserve funds that can be allocated for coronavirus response at the discretion of the city council, and $162,104...
Omelette Factory Manager Diane Campbell says they decided to treat COVID-19 social distancing as a chance to try something new and are now offering dinner items with extended hours of business.
“Our chef, Oscar Gonzalez was working here all day, then going down to National City to cook at a second restaurant but they had to temporarily close. Our owner...
Over the course of the next four weeks, San Diego and El Cajon citizens and elderly will receive over $62,500 in groceries and essential items as a result of a donation from the LA Chargers, a funding initiative from the city of El Cajon and a partnership with Rock Church, ElderHelp of San Diego and Leave It To Us.
“The...
San Ysidro Health is committed and continues to provide high quality, compassionate, accessible and affordable health care services for vulnerable families across San Diego County.
Effective April 1, 2020, San Ysidro Health and Mountain Health has formally merged their operations, creating a system of health care for more than 105,000 individuals in Southern Central and Eastern San Diego County....
Due to the constant change in needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, check with each organization’s website to see updates on volunteer assistance needed. If you are aware of volunteer opportunities and would like to see them listed, send them to editor@eccalifornian.com.
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San Diego Food Bank: The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the North County Food Bank...
Small businesses in the unincorporated communities in San Diego County with less than 50 employees will be able to apply for loans of up to $50,000 each — from the County. On April 21, the Board of supervisors unanimously voted to launch a $5 million loan program to help restrain the small business losses related to the coronavirus epidemic....
