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Concerns over lack of Hillcrest pride<\/strong><\/p>\n I bought a home in Hillcrest about three years ago. My husband and I live out of state, and for the past three years have been coming to Hillcrest monthly. Our plan is to move here this fall, when we retire.<\/p>\n Unfortunately I have not been happy with what I see as deteriorating conditions here. For example, I have never seen as much dog excrement in the neighborhood as I did this past week. When I first moved here I was amazed, given the number of dogs, how clean the streets were. Well, maybe I was wearing rose-colored glasses at the time, but this is no longer the case. If I had out-of-towners visiting me, I would have been embarrassed to walk them around the neighborhood. It was horrible.<\/p>\n Which leads me to the shopkeepers. In other similar places, shopkeepers take pride in their stores and restaurants, and are diligent in keeping the sidewalks clean. Not here. I walked the gauntlet of street garbage. \u2026<\/p>\n I believe there are solutions and I am willing to be a part of the solution when I move down here full time. I love so much about Hillcrest: the diversity, the restaurants [and] the choice of shopping venues in walking distance. I would like our Pride events to celebrate not just the rich diversity of peoples and cultures, but also to celebrate pride in the city of Hillcrest.<\/p>\n \u2014Ann Rubin, via email<\/em><\/p>\n Steve Lawrence art exhibit a hit<\/strong><\/p>\n I have been to this exhibit and seen Steve\u2019s artwork at Park BLVD Artworks Gallery in University Heights [see \u201cPhilanthropy and art,\u201d Vol. 4 Issue 17]. It is amazing stuff. I love the colors and textures of all his paintings. If you have not gotten a chance to go see it you should check it out!<\/p>\n Great article!<\/p>\n \u2014Dustin, via sduptownnews.com<\/em><\/p>\n Open your mind on Balboa Park plan<\/strong><\/p>\n Jerry Sanders must have hired a PR firm to instruct him what words to use to describe opposition to his and Irwin Jacobs\u2019 plan for Balboa Park [see \u201cSOHO officially files suit against City,\u201d Vol. 4, Issue 17]. Describing what the plan is doing as \u201cimprovements\u201d and \u201cfurther beautifying\u201d the park are some of the key words he\u2019s obviously been instructed to use to describe his plan. While the opposition is described as a \u201cnarrow-minded special interest group\u201d that is \u201cholding \u2026 hostage,\u201d \u201cdelaying\u201d and \u201ctrying to kill\u201d the project.<\/p>\n Maybe the mayor needs to open HIS mind. One man\u2019s \u201cimprovements\u201d can be another man\u2019s eyesore.<\/p>\n \u2014Carol McD, via sduptownnews.com<\/em><\/p>\n Sad to see Whistle Stop closing<\/strong><\/p>\n It saddens me to see this business go [see \u201cWhistle Stop Train Shop comes to a halt,\u201d Vol. 4, Issue 17]. Scott Rhodes is a real gentleman and total professional. With only days left before the closing of his almost empty shop, I saw him handle a very trying patron with grace and compassion, then take time to help a befuddled mother with her little boy\u2019s malfunctioning toy locomotive.<\/p>\n Scott will be working half-Tuesdays at Reed\u2019s Hobby Shop in La Mesa. Whether you\u2019re a beginner or an old-timer, I urge you to drop by during his shift to enjoy his knowledgeable and friendly customer service.<\/p>\n \u2014 Joe Callahan, via sduptownnews.com<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dora\u2019s Story: why California needs AB 2392<\/p>\n By Helen Cox, Interpreting for California<\/p>\n Imagine it\u2019s one of the happiest days of your life: you\u2019re a new mother and your child, born the night before, is lying peacefully in your arms while you\u2019re asleep in your hospital bed. All of a sudden, your baby begins to choke; you don\u2019t know why but she can\u2019t breathe and her whole body begins to go stiff in your arms.<\/p>\n You cry out, \u201cHelp, help, my baby can\u2019t breathe,\u201d but no one comes to your aide. You run through the halls of the hospital, barely clothed, in the hopes that you can find someone to save your baby. After what seems like an eternity, you finally find a nurse, but there\u2019s a problem: she can\u2019t understand you; none of the available providers in the hospital can.<\/p>\n This is Dora Beatrice Lopez-Aguilar\u2019s birth story. Aguilar is a 34-year-old documented immigrant, by way of Mexico, whose family lives and works in San Diego. The day this happened at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego, she was recovering from the birth of her third child.<\/p>\n \u201cI was extremely scared because no one was coming to help me,\u201d Aguilar said. \u201cMy doctor told me to go to this hospital, that it would be fine, but I didn\u2019t know that no one there would be able to help me because of the language barrier. If the cleaning lady had not stopped by my room when she heard me screaming for help and then gone to get a nurse, I don\u2019t know what would have happened to my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n Aguilar\u2019s hospital experience is a terrifying tale for any new mother, but the reality is that it\u2019s not an unusual one. More than six and a half million legal residents in the state of California, or one out of every five residents, speaks English \u201cless than very well\u201d according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Right now there are 2.5 million people in our state healthcare program who aren\u2019t able to communicate with their doctors, and half of the people coming in under the Affordable Care Act won\u2019t be able to either.<\/p>\n This week, the legislature is passing a bill to create an interpreters program to make sure that people can communicate with their doctors, and Gov. Jerry Brown is refusing to sign the bill, leaving millions of federal dollars on the table that could be used to get the state ready for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The governor needs to sign this bill during the next 30 days in order for the state to be ready to meet the needs of the Medi-Cal expansion population in 2014.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a do or die time for getting the state ready to communicate with patients who speak English less than well, and getting them enrolled and avoiding malpractice, liability and unnecessary costs that come from failed communication.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Letters Concerns over lack of Hillcrest pride I bought a home in Hillcrest about three years ago. My husband and I live out of state, and for the past three years have been coming to Hillcrest monthly. Our plan is to move here this fall, when we retire. Unfortunately I have not been happy […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":245339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Opinion Aug 31","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11552,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245338","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\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editorial<\/h3>\n