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Child Abuse Prevention Heroes Honored

Local heroes who have dedicated their lives to helping abused children were honored at today’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Each received a proclamation for receiving a STARS award, which are given out by the San Diego County Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council every April during Child Abuse Prevention Month. This year’s recipients include three members [...]

Pacific Beach Fitness Training Specialists Join Ambulance Chasers Team in Ragnar Relay to Support Diabetes Charity

The Ambulance Chasers. Pacific Beach fitness training specialists SoCal Fit Body Boot Camp and its Owner, Israel LoBue, have announced that they will be teaming-up with Barbara Laskaris and the Ambulance Chasers to run in the upcoming SoCal Ragnar Relay, scheduled for April 19-20. The Team’s goal is to raise monies and support for Taking [...]

Always Ready: County Hazmat Helps Prepare for Japanese Tsunami Debris

A dock that washed away during the March 2011 tsunami that struck Japan lands on the Oregon Coastline. Credit: Oregon Parks and Recreation San Diego County’s hazardous materials division is working with local lifeguards, firefighters, 911 dispatchers and others to make sure they know how to respond if any suspicious debris starts washing up on [...]

Preuss School Teacher Anne Artz Awarded Einstein Fellowship

Artz will serve an academic year as a Congressional Fellow to promote STEM education Anne Artz, a teacher at The Preuss School UCSD, has been selected as one of only 27 K-12 educators nationwide to be a Congressional Fellow for the 2013-2014 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program, where she will serve for an academic [...]

Want to See the Future Attend Research Expo

Engineers who think like artists, physicists who thinks like dancers, scientists who think like poets, and designers who think like Mother Nature: These are some of the researchers from the University of California, San Diego on display at a public event on Friday, April 12 that will extol and explore the virtues of interdisciplinary collaboration [...]

Melissa Taylor of Bill Howe Heating & Air Follows in Generous Footsteps of Bill and Tina Howe

Melissa Taylor of Bill Howe Heating & Air Bill Howe Plumbing continues to encourage “paying-it-forward” spirit in all employees and plumbers in San Diego, CA. The company started with one man and one truck over 30 years ago and has grown into the Bill Howe Family of Companies serving most of San Diego HVAC, restoration [...]

County Admin Building Reopens for Limited Services After Power Outage

Power has been restored to the County Administration Center at 1600 Pacific Highway in downtown San Diego, following a roughly hour-long outage Friday afternoon. The building is back open to the public, but with limited services for the remainder of the day Friday. The Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk’s office can help people who need vital records and property recording [...]

SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data

UC San Diego/Open Science Grid Collaboration Speeds Quest for Dark Matter Discovery Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processing raw data from almost one billion particle collisions as part of a [...]

County Initiates Regional Childcare Disaster Planning

In a disaster like a wildfire or earthquake, in-home daycare providers and private childcare centers are responsible for the children of working parents. Some of those providers could be in the path of a wildfire, or in the area of an earthquake, and may need to evacuate. The County Office of Emergency Services has created [...]

Team Lloyd Irvin’s Mike “The Hulk” Easton to Battle Pickett at UFC on Fuel TV 9

Mike “The Hulk” Easton Mike “The Hulk” Easton, Washington DC native, will be fighting Brad Pickett this weekend at UFC on Fuel TV 9 in Stockholm, Sweden. Mike will be representing Team Lloyd Irvin in his 5th fight in the UFC. The Hulk is 13-2 (3-1 UFC) in his MMA career with notable wins over [...]

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