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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

New farmers market aims to fill void in City Heights

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080604-9999-1m4farm.html

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It's no secret that fresh fruits and vegetables are key to good nutrition. For people who live and work in lower-income communities, it's also clear that access to healthy, affordable produce can be difficult.

For more than a year, volunteers and activists have worked to lure a farmers market to City Heights, a diverse central San Diego community where immigrants relocate from all over the world and schools educate a group of students that speaks more than 30 languages.

Their efforts will pay off Saturday, when the neighborhood's first certified farmers market opens for business on Wightman Street in the heart of Urban Village.

Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

San Diego Meets the Blackwaters

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/

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Who are the people in your neighborhood? Just like Sesame Street, San Diego has doctors, teachers and police officers. But the city’s newest group of professionals has not been so readily embraced: military contractors from Blackwater Worldwide.

Indeed, the reception has been so chilly that it fell to a federal judge this week to order the city’s mayor to welcome Blackwater’s new training facility in Otay Mesa, a section of the city near the border with Mexico. Or at least, to tolerate it.