The group's four main goals: installing free wifi in 57 city recreation centers, renovating the Southcrest Recreation Center, food funding and planting trees.
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It still had several steps to complete before the giant wheel could be installed, temporarily, in the Plaza de Panama as early as Spring.
The idea was to create a way for visitors to dine safely amid the coronavirus pandemic inside one of 36 enclosed gondolas, which would provide sweeping views of San Diego. It would have been operated for three to six months by Sky Views of America and managed by The Cohn Restaurant Group, which owns the iconic Prado Restaurant and Tea Pavilion that are located in the park.
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For the better part of 15 years, five days a week, San Diego Parks & Recreation Department employee America Diaz has set foot at the city’s shoreline parks with one job: to make them look better. For the past eight years, she has been assigned to La Jolla’s Scripps Park and considers it her personal mission to keep it looking as clean and vibrant as possible.
“Me and my workers maintain the trash, pick up litter and would clean the bathrooms as best we could when the bathrooms were open,” she said (Scripps Park’s former restroom facility has been demolished and is being rebuilt). “I like to keep the park clean because it reflects the person I am. If there is trash all over, I’m not doing my job. Because I’m there for most of each day, I feel like it’s my house.”
Updated on January 11, 2021 at 2:28 pm
Jim Grant
For the second time in three years, big waves have damaged San Diego s iconic Ocean Beach Pier.
High surf and a high tide combined on Monday to raise the 10- 12-foot waves up enough to skin at least 100 feet of railing boards off the south side of the pier, a witness told NBC 7. Hammered, hammered! Boards everywhwere, San Diego resident Jim Grant said.
Photos: ‘Hammered : Big Surf Damages OB Pier Again
A spokeswoman for San Diego Fire Rescue confirmed the damage on Monday, adding that they don t know how long [the pier] will be closed because the Parks & Rec Dept. has to send someone to assess once the tide and surf abate.
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, the San Diego Convention Center was established as a temporary homeless shelter.
Last June 18, Gomez-Cervantes was working when he went into the bathroom and noticed a man lying on the floor. He quickly put on his personal protective equipment and directed another individual to call 911 and to notify the onsite firefighters. He performed an assessment by checking the man s pulse and breathing then immediately started performing chest compressions.
An on-site nurse arrived to assist and helped to administer two doses of Naloxone, but the man did not respond. Gomez-Cervantes, with the help of another bystander, resumed chest compressions until Emergency Medical Services personnel arrived on site to stabilize the man.