The San Diego Council on Literacy says about a quarter of the county’s population over 25 is reading at or below the third-grade level. For the last 25 years, Oceanside Reads has been striving to change that.
There’s already a homeless camping ban in place in the cities of San Diego and Poway, and now, San Diego County is moving forward with a similar ban. In other news, 20 years ago today, a lost hunter in East San Diego County lit a small campfire that became one of the biggest wildfires in California history. Residents and firefighters look back at the Cedar Fire and the lessons it taught us. Plus, how an organization in Oceanside is striving to increase literacy in the county.