My fellow supervisors recently joined me in easing county regulations on beekeeping.<\/p>\n We’ve taken similar steps in recent years with wineries and equine businesses, and are looking at ways to encourage craft breweries. It’s part of a broader effort to boost our regional economy and backcountry business. Or, as I call it, the \u2013 three Bs: Bees, beer and burgundy.<\/p>\n Fire preparedness<\/strong><\/p>\n As we all know, wildfire is a year-round threat in East County, but particularly this time of year due to the dry conditions across our backcountry and the annual Santa Ana winds.<\/p>\n Over the past dozen years, the county has invested more than $320 million on fire protection improvements. These include new fire stations, equipment and better trained firefighters.<\/p>\n Improvements made within the past year include a new station in Boulevard, an expanded aerial firefighting fleet and more County Fire Authority active reserves.<\/p>\n A major wildfire will strike again someday and when it does we want to make sure we\u2019re as prepared as we can be.<\/p>\n Alzheimer\u2019s alert<\/strong><\/p>\n The county recently launched a new type of alert to help find seniors with Alzheimer\u2019s disease and others who are reported missing and in danger.<\/p>\n Local law enforcement agencies can now notify the public via email and cell phone text message when a person with dementia or other impairment goes missing in the region.<\/p>\n Wandering is a huge concern for families dealing with Alzheimer\u2019s and this new alert could bring real peace of mind and save lives. I encourage you to sign up to receive the alerts by going to readysandiego.org.<\/p>\n For more District 2 news, go to diannejacob.com<\/a> or follow me on Facebook and Twitter. If I can assist with a county issue, please call my office at 619-531-5522 or email dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n Have a great East County day!<\/p>\n \u2013Dianne Jacob is the San Diego County Supervisor for District 2.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Dianne Jacob Buzzworthy My fellow supervisors recently joined me in easing county regulations on beekeeping.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":221873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Dianne\u2019s Corner: News, notes from county board \u2013 Sept. 24, 2015","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dianne](\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dianne_Jacob_Photo.jpg\")
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