Used by permission, this rather comprehensive look at Lake Hodges, Del Dios Highway and sites far and wide, first appeared at Postcards and Passports, San Diego resident Tami Zehrung Wilcox’s extensive travel blog. Only a few weeks ago, I took a day to discover Lake Hodges and the area surrounding it. I was astounded at all that it has to offer — especially its peaceful…
The bureaucrats of San Diego, in a moment of fevered clarity, decided to unleash a savage little social experiment: take the lost and the damned—the people clawing their way out of homelessness—and drop them knee-deep into the city’s green-bin garbage. Yes, comrades, the “Follow the Compost Pile” pilot program, a two-week stint at the Miramar Greenery, where the new laborers were tasked with pawing through…
Sept. 11, 2001: Local ironworker Paul Pursley spent 10 weeks at “Ground Zero” following the terrorist attack. His major complaint in the years following concerned his inability to get correct, and affordable, treatment due to the costs involved, costs that Congress finally agreed to add funding to the 9/11 First Responders fund almost 18 years later. “Ironworkers worked every day,” Pursley said. “We went on 12-hour shifts…
The California Department of Food and Agriculture declared a new citrus quarantine in northern San Diego County and part of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Sept. 9. State officials declared the quarantine after finding Huanglongbing, a bacterial disease that is fatal to citrus trees, in one citrus tree in a residential neighborhood in the San Clemente area during regular inspections. Huanglongbing (HLB) is also known…