SAN DIEGO
San Diego’s elected officials presented award-winning singer and actress Andra Day with the city’s highest ceremonial award on Friday and proclaimed July as “Andra Day Month.”
Mayor Todd Gloria and Councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe presented the San Diego native with a key to the city and a framed city proclamation during a intimate ceremony in City Hall. Day’s achievements send a message to children all over San Diego, Gloria said.
Day grew up in southeastern San Diego and attended San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. She won a Golden Globe in February for her portrayal of jazz singer Billie Holiday in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.”
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Assemblywoman Akilah Weber, MD (D-San Diego), recently presented her first bill, AB 1207, since taking office as the 79th Assembly District representative. AB 1207 establishes the “Pathway through Pandemics Task Force,” which will collect and analyze California’s COVID-19 data and develop a response plan for future pandemics.
Assemblywoman Weber said she was glad to help push for these “long-overdue updates to our current public health processes.” Adding that she, “worked in the hospitals throughout the pandemic, and I witnessed the real lives of people affected by COVID-19. The next pandemic is not a matter of ‘if,’ it is a matter of ‘when.’ I want to ensure we do everything we can to invest in sustainable plans that value the life and health of all Californians during a pandemic.”
La Mesa organizations hope to heal on anniversary of destructive protests
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San Diego County sheriff officers stand guard in front of a burning bank building after a protest over the death of George Floyd, Sunday, May 31, 2020, in La Mesa, Calif. Protests were held in U.S. cities over the death of Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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LA MESA (CNS) - The nonprofit La Mesa Conversations and the community group Envision La Mesa will hold the La Mesa Day of Remembrance Sunday, commemorating the first anniversary of a contentious protest at La Mesa police headquarters sparked by the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the controversial local arrest of Amaurie Johnson.
One year ago Sunday, La Mesa businesses were looted and vandalized and two area banks were burnt to the ground after a protest which started peacefully.