Like all of the museums in Balboa Park, the San Diego Natural History Museum has been locked down for most of the past year.
The perpetually swinging Foucault pendulum in the lobby hangs still. Glass cases holding rare and antique books are draped with heavy cloths to protect their sensitive pages from light. And the fourth-floor administrative offices have been empty since the pandemic’s arrival last March.
Precious literature is covered by blankets to preserve the pages from damaging light at the Natural History Museum on Monday, Feb. 22.
(Jarrod Valliere / The San Diego Union-Tribune) But a peek through the glass atrium windows into the darkened lobby can be deceiving. Behind the scenes over the past year, the museum’s scientists, staff and volunteers have been as busy as the bees in its Living Lab exhibit.
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A limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine combined with language and technology barriers are keeping many San Diegans of color waiting for their shot at immunity.
Most White San Diegans eligible for the vaccine have gotten a shot, with roughly 551 vaccinated per 1,000 eligible residents, compared to 527 for Latinos, 520 for Asians and 349 for Black San Diegans, according to data on current vaccinations from the county’s vaccine dashboard and eligibility estimates from the San Diego Workforce Partnership.
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Some of the county’s demographic data, posted on its online dashboard, is poorly defined. Roughly 15 percent of those vaccinated are listed as “other race,” and 12 percent did not disclose their race or ethnicity. Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said on Thursday that the county is still looking into the matter, noting that the dashboard combines data reported from various sources.
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Some of San Diego’s most celebrated bayfront destinations Seaport Village and the Coronado Ferry Landing are governed by an unfamiliar entity with power that, in 2021, will prove more consequential than ever.
Formed by the state in 1962, the San Diego Unified Port District spans 34 miles of coastline from Shelter Island to the border. The land was granted to the agency to hold on behalf of the public; it includes tidelands in San Diego, National City, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach and Coronado. It’s a self-funded, non-taxing entity governed by a board of seven commissioners who are appointed by their member cities.
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Cookie lovers who’ve waited all year for their Thin Mints, Samoas and Tagalongs may wonder why Girl Scouts haven’t set up shop outside supermarkets or wheeled their treat wagons through the neighborhood.
Blame the purple tier of the coronavirus pandemic.
Door-to-door and booth sales are banned under health restrictions and most offices are temporarily closed, so Girl Scouts have been forced to go all digital with their cookie pitches this year. They’re using social media, door hangers, Zoom meetings, GrubHub delivery and individual QR code sales pages to connect with customers.
On Tuesday, 11-year-old Danity Valentine of City Heights wrote and presented a five-minute PowerPoint marketing pitch via Zoom to members of Girl Scouts San Diego’s philanthropy committee. The Wilson Middle School sixth-grader is honing her online sales techniques after selling 1,040 packages of cookies last year in the old fashioned way she prefers: face to face.
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