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Plans for a 52-mile trail system along the San Diego River are moving ahead through a new county task force of local nonprofit, tribal and government officials.
The goal of the San Diego River Park Task Force is “to accelerate the vision of an interconnected walk and bike system from Ocean Beach all the way to the mountains,” Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said in an interview Wednesday.
The task force met for the first time in March, when members identified priorities for the park, and again on Wednesday, to discuss funding for the plan. In coming months the group will set the route for a linear park along the waterway, decide on amenities, and propose a funding system for the improvements.
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On their first day of shop class at Point Loma High School in the mid-1960s, students were asked what they wanted to build. While most scribbled down: shelf units, tables or chests, senior
Brian D. Thomas wrote: “Two sabots.”
After class his teacher warned him that he had set an extremely lofty goal. In 20 years of teaching shop, he said that no student had ever finished even one sabot in an entire year.
One month later, though, Thomas had his boat off the shop class jig and took it home to work on it.
“I built four boats that year in wood shop,” recalls Thomas, who, after serving a year as commodore of the San Diego Yacht Club, became junior staff commodore last December.
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Encampments along the San Diego River will be cleared away and people living in them will find permanent homes under a new partnership between an environmental group and a homeless-service provider.
Under the new effort, the San Diego River Park Foundation will work with People Assisting the Homeless, more commonly known as PATH, to connect 40 homeless people now living in the brush alongside the river with services and housing by the end of the year.
San Diego River Park Foundation Chief Associate Director Sarah Hutmacher said the partnership is one that she’s been working toward for some time.