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Coronado, 4 p.m. Tuesday;
National City, 6 p.m. Tuesday
School boards: Chula Vista Elementary School District, 6 p.m. Wednesday;
Coronado Unified School District, 4 p.m. Thursday,
San Diego Unified School District, 4:15 p.m. Thursday
IB Mayor presents community service awards
Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina recently presented five Mayoral Community Service Awards at this year’s State of the City address. The awards went to people or groups that achieved major accomplishments during the year. They are: The IB Neighborhood Center, led by Executive Director John Griffin-Atil, for their dedication during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizing food drives, blood drives, a food pantry and more; Imperial Beach resident Dr. Ramon Hernandez of the UCSD School of Medicine, who helped the city through the public health crisis and served on the Mayor’s Task Force to provide helpful resources to the city; Ron Chapman, owner of Coronado Brewing Co., for leading by example and following
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego County health officials issued an advisory today about ocean water quality in La Jolla, after extending a three-month beach closure yesterday in Imperial Beach due to sewage contamination in water samples.
The closure in southern San Diego County, which began on Christmas Day, now reaches the northern end of Imperial Beach, north of Carnation Avenue.
County staff collect samples at 81 San Diego County beaches each week.
Warning signs will remain on the Imperial Beach shoreline until weekly samples reveal levels of bacteria have dropped back to safe levels, according to the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health and Quality.
Recent rains send contaminated Tijuana River water farther north
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and last updated 2021-03-31 18:53:29-04
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County health officials issued an advisory Wednesday about ocean water quality in La Jolla, after extending a three-month beach closure Tuesday in Imperial Beach due to sewage contamination in water samples.
The closure in southern San Diego County, which began on Christmas Day, now reaches the northern end of Imperial Beach, north of Carnation Avenue.
County staff collect samples at 81 San Diego County beaches each week.
Warning signs will remain on the Imperial Beach shoreline until weekly samples reveal levels of bacteria have dropped back to safe levels, according to the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health and Quality.
TIJUANA RIVER VALLEY
Jim Usita didn’t have to pay for anything he used to build his community garden his sink, flower pots, drip irrigation system, white picket fence, even his American flag décor.
“That wood came from McDonald’s. McDonald’s was renovating, so I asked if I could take that plywood and I made a flag out of it,” he said, chuckling.
The irony isn’t lost on the 59-year-old contractor from Chula Vista, who advocates for a slower, healthier way of life away from the hustle of the city and fast-food chains. Usita uses apps like OfferUp to find discarded items, and his work in the construction trades as a painter gives him access to material his clients are throwing away.