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People experiencing homelessness and living in the Sweetwater Riverbed area have new hope for permanent housing. A state grant for $5.1 million and the collaborative work between the County, the City of Chula Vista, National City and California Department of Transportation has led to greater homeless outreach, increasing numbers of people transitioning into housing and regular clean-up opportunities.

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Sweetwater Riverbed Outreach Provides Homeless Fresh Start

Assemblymember David Alvarez, a Democrat and a former San Diego City Council member, is running for re-election to his seat representing California’s 80th Assembly District in South County. To help inform voters, the San Diego Union-Tribune asked all the candidates a series of the same questions about their priorities, positions and campaigns. Their emailed answers have been lightly edited for clarity. Why are you running, and what makes you the…

San Diego Union Tribune

Q&A with David Alvarez, 80th Assembly District candidate

Sweetwater Park is a large recreational park now being developed in Chula Vista, next to San Diego Bay. It extends between G Street and E Street. When completed, the 21-acre park will feature trails, picnic areas, nature and adventure play areas, and scenic overlooks to the bay. Yesterday I discovered that one wide dirt trail is already open. It parallels the paved Bayshore Bikeway, with which it sometimes coincides. The trail begins at the nort…

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Views of future Sweetwater Park in Chula Vista!

A 23-year-old Chula Vista woman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of DUI after allegedly crashing her vehicle on an Interstate 5 off-ramp, killing a pedestrian, the California Highway Patrol said. The incident occurred around 9:10 p.m. on the southbound Imperial Avenue offramp near downtown. The woman was driving her vehicle on the offramp when it veered off the road and struck an embankment and an electrical box, the CHP said in a release. The e…

Chula Vista woman arrested on suspicion of DUI in fatal crash

The USA’s greatest ever representative on the Rugby Sevens stage has called it a career. Perry Baker announced on Monday that he was retiring from the sport after a decade as the face of the Eagles on the World Sevens Series. The 38-year-old recently appeared in his third Olympic Games. Baker was a collegiate football standout at Fairmont State and signed an NFL deal with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011, but was released after suffering a knee i…

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Perry Baker calls time on glittering Rugby Sevens career - Americas Rugby News

Look how gigantic the Gaylord Pacific Resort and Convention Center in Chula Vista has become! I walked around it on Sunday and the main hotel building is positively immense! Because I took photographs from a good distance, it might be hard to visualize exactly how large it is. The resort and convention center, when completed next Spring, will feature 1,600 guest rooms and suites, plus a 4.25-acre water park on the property’s bay side. You can se…

The giant Resort and Convention Center in Chula Vista!

Last month, on Sept. 6, a 34-year-old homeless woman named Elizabeth Marie Torres was pronounced dead of a drug overdose at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista. She’d been found unresponsive in a tent near an industrial park on the west side of town.Deaths like Torres’ mostly wind up forgotten in a county where drugs kill hundreds on the street every year. Torres’ mother, a compact firebrand of a mom named Silvia Irigoyen-Adame, is determined …

Voice of San Diego

Morning Report: ‘Something Has to Change’

When Elizabeth Marie Torres was a child, she could wow family and friends with an uncanny ability to recite her ABCs backward, starting at any letter of the alphabet. “She was really smart,” Torres’ mother, Silvia Irigoyen-Adame, remembers. “People would challenge her and she would say it right away.” Quiet and shy, Torres grew up in Chula Vista, where she was born in 1990 at Scripps Mercy Hospital. Her mostly happy, uneventful childhood ended a…

A Death on the Streets in Chula Vista Highlights Key Obstacle to Helping Homeless

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It’s the most anticipated game of San Diego’s high school football season: No. 1-ranked Lincoln at No. 2 Cathedral Catholic, 7 p.m. today. The game marks just the 16th time since 1954 that San Diego’s top two teams have squared off during the season. But if the polls and rankings are correct, Friday may mark the first of two games this season between Cathedral and Lincoln, longtime Western League rivals. “Certainly this is a big game, but we pla…

‘Game of the year’ between No. 1 Lincoln, No. 2 Cathedral Catholic a San Diego rarity

Taxes may be a certainty of life. But how much you’re taxed the next time you checkout, is now up for a vote. This November election, there are more than 10 ballot measures that could raise sales taxes in local cities and throughout the entire county. The two measures arguably attracting the most attention are Measure E, a 1% increase to the sales tax rate in the City of San Diego, and Measure G, a .05% sales tax increase countywide. The ballot …

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Will you vote to pay more taxes? 12 measures face San Diego County voters

Sweetwater riverbedChula Vista and National CityCalifornia Department of Transportation (CALTRANS)California homelesshomeless encampmentsCounty of San Diego Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable CommunitiesDepartment of Homeless SolutionsNews By Anita Lightfoot, County of San Diego Communications Office   View a video by Andy Tolley   October 17, 2024 (San Diego) -- People experiencing homelessness and living in the Sweetwater Riverbed …

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