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Kids of So-Cal End 2021 at a High Point
2021 was the year that Kids Fashion Week So-Cal was able to truly shine. We were able to do model workshops, model call, training, and produce our Fashion Week, and also hold the 2nd annual Lemon Grove Toy Drive and Giveaway. December was a truly quick moving month for the Kids of So-Cal Fashion Week. […]
Mission Hills: Abundantly Ours
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2022 By Dixie Hall, President Mission Hills BID and DixiePops Owner I am excited for the start of a brand-new year. It’s a clean slate and all things are possible, and spring will be here before we know it. I have been re-elected president of the Mission Hills […]
A Three-Week-Old Giraffe Calf Gets a Name at the San Diego Zoo
Just in time for the New Year, a newborn giraffe calf at the San Diego Zoo has received the perfect gift—a name. The three-week-old female calf will be called Mawe (pronounced “maw way”), meaning stone in Swahili. She was born to first-time mom Saba; and at birth, she weighed a little under 150 pounds and stood approximately 5 feet, 10 inches tall. Mawe has […]
Teen Writers’ Plays Will Come Alive in Playwrights’ Project’s 37th Season
Playwrights’ Project will present its 37th annual Plays by Young Writers’ Festival showcasing new scripts written by youth across California. This year’s Festival will be presented with filmed performances offered virtually to the public and an in-person screening of the filmed performance at 7 p.m., January 22 at the Museum of Photographic Arts to celebrate the young playwrights. […]
San Diego History Center to Complete Serra Museum Restoration
The Conrad Prebys Foundation, the local philanthropic organization well known for providing vital funds in support of the visual and performing arts, higher education, youth development, healthcare, and medical research, has granted $330,000 to the San Diego History Center for the restoration of the north tower and east façade of the Junípero Serra Museum in […]
A Team Effort to Help the Homeless in Little Italy
Following a recent conversation with Marco LiMandri, chief executive administrator of the Little Italy Association, and Donnie Dee, president and CEO of the San Diego Rescue Mission, I learned of a team approach that they have initiated to support those experiencing homelessness in Little Italy. Their goal is to have fewer people calling the sidewalks of Little […]
Miracle Babies Santa’s Workshop Toy Drive Event
Distroller World, a retail entertainment brand that exists to overwhelm the world with joy by pushing the limits of imagination and creativity through unique experiences and storytelling, will donate 30 Neonate Babies to the Miracle Babies Santa’s Workshop toy drive event on Dec. 13-17, 2021. The event will be held by appointment only at 8745 […]
Mission Hills Artist Wins Second Place
Mission Hills artist Susanne Slater has won second place in the highly competitive November Members Show on display in the San Diego Watercolor Society gallery at 2825 Dewey Road in Liberty Station, San Diego. Slater’s painting, titled “Linus,” and was selected by nationally known juror Barbara Tapp for this honor, out of nearly 300 entries. […]
New Crockpots Donated to Local Military Families in Need
United Way of San Diego County (UWSD), in partnership with Support the Enlisted Project (STEP) hosted an in person drop off event this past November to donate more than 100 new crockpots of benefit local military families in need. The crockpots were collected and purchased through UWSD’s inaugural “Holiday Crockpot Drive” that happened from October 18 through […]
Home Start Exceeds Fundraising Expectations at 14th Annual Fall Festival
Home Start, Inc., a nonprofit child abuse prevention and treatment agency that has strengthened San Diego’s families and communities since 1972, held its 14th Annual Hallo Wine Festival outdoors on Saturday, October 23, 2021, at the Historic Burnham House. The event raised over $50,000 – making it the most successful year in the event’s history. Home Start’s Hallo-Wine Fall Festival is held every October in recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. […]
