“Physician Who” exhibit coming to Comedian-Con Museum
Physician Who World of Surprise has traveled the world, together with to New Zealand, earlier than touching down within the U.S. (Photograph by Phoebe Mackenzie Wellington)
It’s time for Whovians to mud off their sonic screwdrivers as a result of San Diego’s Comedian-Con Museum, situated inside historic Balboa Park, has introduced that tickets for the extremely anticipated U.S. premiere of the Physician Who Worlds of Surprise: The place Science Meets Fiction exhibit are on sale now forward of its opening on March 15.
The exhibit options an intensive array of authentic props and units, and a singular assortment of
behind-the-scenes useful resource supplies from the world’s longest-running science fiction present. This multi-sensory exhibit invitations guests to expertise the Physician’s adventures, come head to head with a collection of iconic characters, and discover a number of the worlds visited on display, all whereas studying concerning the real-life science behind the present’s memorable moments. A wealth of scientific “wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey” subjects just like the idea of time journey, synthetic intelligence, DNA manipulation, and cloning could be explored all through the exhibit.
“We’re delighted to be working with BBC Studios and Sarner Worldwide to deliver this fascinating exhibition that merges the worlds of science, fiction, and the favored arts by way of such a celebrated present,” stated Comedian-Con Museum Government Director Rita Vandergaw. “That is the primary time it can ever be proven within the nation, and we are able to’t await followers to expertise it!”
Automotive Museum has supercar exhibit
The San Diego Automotive Museum is thrilled to announce an unique exhibition showcasing a number of the most iconic supercars of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. This one-of-a-kind occasion will present guests with a uncommon alternative to admire and find out about these legendary automobiles, which have outlined the supercar period and proceed to captivate automotive fans worldwide.
Exhibition highlights embrace a1983 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 S and 1995 Ferrari F50. The exhibition is open now by way of March 30. It contains interactive shows, informative panels, and guided excursions by educated docents.
SD Pleasure declares 2025 theme
San Diego Pleasure proudly introduced its 2025 theme: Unbreakable Pleasure. Unshakeable Energy.
This highly effective theme displays the power, solidarity, and willpower of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood to thrive regardless of ongoing challenges.
“It’s a declaration: we’re right here, we’re united, and we’re unbreakable,” stated San Diego Pleasure Government Director Leane Marchese. “As we glance to the long run and prepared ourselves for what lies forward, we’re ready to lean into each other. We reaffirm our dedication to protect fundamental human rights: to make selections about our personal our bodies, search security for ourselves and our households, and obtain gender-affirming care.”
San Diego Pleasure Week runs July 12-20, culminating on the annual pageant Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20. Tickets are on sale now, at sdpride.org/tickets.
Jobs report: Regular employment counters San Diegans’ actuality
For the primary time in a decade, the San Diego unemployment fee hasn’t modified in 5 consecutive months, in accordance with regional knowledge launched by the California Employment Growth Division. The most recent labor market knowledge has been analyzed by San Diego Regional Coverage & Innovation Middle (PIC) Chief Economist, Daniel Enemark, PhD., who adjusted the uncooked knowledge to account for seasonal traits.
This record-setting lack of change is outstanding because it exhibits that not a single sector added or misplaced 1,000 jobs between November and December 2024. December’s unemployment fee sat at a surprisingly secure 4.6%.
“With the unemployment fee traditionally secure – and fairly near full employment – why achieve this many people really feel so negatively concerning the financial system?” stated Dr. Enemark. “The reply is there are many jobs, however not sufficient jobs that present monetary self-sufficiency.”
A report commissioned by the San Diego Basis, PIC discovered that over a 3rd of San Diegans dwell in households not incomes sufficient to cowl the prices of a decrease lifestyle with out authorities help. That fee is twice as excessive for Latinos.
In the present day the median house worth in San Diego County is $935,000. With a 30-year mounted mortgage at present charges plus property taxes, that home will value round $5,900 a month, unaffordable for any family incomes lower than $253,000 a yr, which is most households.
Parking charges doubled
Hourly charges just lately doubled for parking meters within the Metropolis of San Diego. The speed enhance, from $1.25 to $2.50 per hour for many meters, follows a decision by the San Diego Metropolis Council amid an enormous funds deficit.
The decision raises charges for a lot of the metropolis’s parking meters to $2.50 an hour. There are 5,332 parking metered areas within the metropolis, situated within the neighborhoods of Downtown, Uptown, Mid-Metropolis and Pacific Seaside. The overwhelming majority of the meters, greater than 4,400, will cost the utmost $2.50 fee, as permitted by the Municipal Code. The rest of the meters, which beforehand charged 50 cents to $1, will see their charges double, as properly.
Meter charges assist fund upkeep of transportation infrastructure like streets, sidewalks and streetlights in areas with parking meters. It’s been not less than 20 years since parking meter charges have been elevated within the Metropolis of San Diego.
Even with the speed enhance, San Diego’s parking meter charges stay among the many lowest within the state of California. Oakland’s parking meters value as much as $4 an hour, Los Angeles costs as much as $6 an hour, and San Francisco’s meters value as much as $11. Charges won’t change for waterfront parking meters operated by the Port of San Diego, that are already set at $2.50 an hour.
SD Unified: Early retirements cut back layoffs
San Diego Unified College District’s technique to drive down its $112 million projected deficit for subsequent yr is advancing higher than anticipated with some unplanned developments that closely favor SD Unified. Workers deciding to take the Supplemental Early Retirement Plan (SERP) was about 27% larger than initially anticipated. The estimated projection was 755, however 965 filed the SERP paperwork by the Jan. 15 deadline.
SD Unified’s Finances Evaluate Workforce communicated with principals, web site directors and labor companions that the rise in SERP candidates “provides us a chance to develop and implement an attrition mannequin that’s each fiscally aligned and permits us to retain as many workers as doable to keep away from a considerable amount of layoffs.”
County requests state funds for behavioral well being beds
Performing Chair Terra Lawson-Remer joined regional leaders, healthcare suppliers, and neighborhood advocates to announce the County’s help of 31 Proposition 1 funding requests, in search of over $580 million in state funding. If accepted, these initiatives would add greater than 4,000 internet new behavioral well being beds throughout San Diego County, considerably increasing entry to care and addressing the area’s behavioral well being disaster.
California’s behavioral well being system has been underfunded for many years. San Diego County has labored to reverse this pattern. Since 2021, the County has elevated its behavioral well being funds by 40%—including over $300 million to deliver the overall to $1.16 billion in Fiscal Yr 2024-25. These Prop 1 funding requests signify the area’s most formidable effort but to safe extra state assets and construct on this progress.
Supervisor Lawson-Remer introduced the County’s help for 31 initiatives submitted by native healthcare suppliers and the County’s Behavioral Well being Division. These proposed initiatives embrace new amenities, expansions to present companies, and focused investments in underserved communities—all geared toward closing important gaps within the area’s behavioral well being system.
San Diego County is looking on residents to indicate their help by signing a petition urging native governments to prioritize these initiatives.
Residents inspired to get flood insurance coverage
Throughout this wet season, the Metropolis of San Diego is encouraging owners to verify they’re ready and have the suitable insurance coverage to cowl any potential losses from flooding. Because of the Metropolis’s participation within the Group Score System (CRS), hundreds of native property homeowners and renters have entry to a 15% low cost on flood insurance coverage premiums.
Floods can occur in any season, and their impression could be devastating. In keeping with the Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA), one inch of floodwater may cause as much as $25,000 in property injury.
Most householders insurance coverage doesn’t cowl flood injury. Subsequently, to cowl losses from flooding, property homeowners and renters should purchase a separate flood insurance coverage coverage. It’s additionally vital to notice that new flood insurance coverage insurance policies have a 30-day ready interval earlier than they take impact.
Woman Scout cookie season open
On Sunday, Jan. 26, Woman Scouts San Diego (GSSD) kicked off the 2025 Woman Scout Cookie Program in San Diego and Imperial counties.
By way of Sunday, March 9, greater than 9,400 native Woman Scouts will rally their communities, neighbors, and pals to help the world’s largest girl-led entrepreneurial program by buying Woman Scout Cookies.
Because of Woman Scouts San Diego’s new strategic partnership with ABC Bakers (ABC), an formally licensed Woman Scout Cookie baker since 1937, Woman Scout Cookie clients in San Diego and Imperial counties can stay up for a brand new cookie lineup this yr, that includes 9 forms of America’s most beloved cookies—Trefoils®, Skinny Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Caramel Chocolate Chip (gluten-free licensed), Toast-Yay!, Lemonades, and Adventurefuls. Eight cookie varieties can be out there for $6 per package deal; the gluten-free licensed Caramel Chocolate Chip is a specialty cookie that can be bought for $7 per package deal.
All of Woman Scout Cookie Program proceeds keep native, making the magic of Woman Scouting out there and inexpensive in San Diego and Imperial counties.
Mentorship transforms says Massive Brothers Massive Sisters examine
Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of San Diego County (BBBS of SDC) – the preeminent one-to-one youth mentoring group serving the San Diego neighborhood – is sharing case examine data along with the nationwide launch of a groundbreaking examine on the transformative energy of mentorship by dad or mum group Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of America.
This examine, performed by main researchers from Harvard College and the U.S. Division of Treasury, reveals how mentorship applications like Massive Brothers Massive Sisters can assist to cut back socioeconomic disparities over time, shaping younger individuals’s academic, financial, and social trajectories.
This analysis, rooted in three a long time of information, gives compelling proof that mentorship delivers long-lasting advantages, akin to a 15% enhance in earnings for contributors, a 20% larger chance of faculty attendance, improved habits, decrease absenteeism, fewer faculty suspensions, stronger social bonds, a lowered dependency on social companies, and long-term societal enhancements.
These findings come at a important time for youth and households in San Diego. In 2024, San Diego kids had an 88.3% commencement fee and a 62.9% faculty attendance fee. Additional, the projected native demand for staff within the innovation financial system is ready to double over the following few years.
Feeding San Diego expands faculty pantry program
Feeding San Diego, the area’s solely Feeding America associate meals financial institution, is increasing its College Pantry Program in 2025 in response to excessive want for diet help at colleges throughout the county.
As the price of dwelling in San Diego County and inflation proceed to negatively impression households, mother and father want extra assets. The College Pantry Program is a confirmed, longstanding hunger-relief program that gives nutritious meals to college students and their households on faculty campuses without charge to them. With this system’s enlargement this yr, its attain will go from 41 to 58 colleges all through the county. Even nonetheless, 27 colleges stay on a waitlist to get a college pantry on their campus, representing hundreds of households who want help bringing meals house.
In keeping with a latest survey performed by Feeding San Diego that went out to colleges at present collaborating within the College Pantry Program, 39% of oldsters surveyed revealed that that they had skipped or lowered the scale of their meals within the final yr as a result of there wasn’t sufficient cash for meals. Since receiving meals from Feeding San Diego, 58% of oldsters stated their little one’s grades have improved and 59% of oldsters stated that their little one’s attendance had improved. 80% of oldsters surveyed stated that their household is consuming extra vegatables and fruits since they started receiving meals from the College Pantry Program.
Prebys Basis awards $5.2 million to 59 nonprofits throughout San Diego
The Prebys Basis introduced the launch of its Therapeutic By way of the Arts and Nature initiative, which awarded $5.2 million to 59 nonprofits throughout San Diego.
These grant awards will help applications serving youth, veterans, justice-impacted people, refugees, and traditionally underserved communities, providing proactive methods to boost the standard of life in a post-pandemic world. This effort is rooted in rising proof that non-clinical approaches, akin to spending time in nature and fascinating with the humanities, can cut back social isolation, enhance psychological well being, and foster a stronger sense of neighborhood. The nonprofits receiving recognition and grants interact in playwrighting, horse remedy, climbing, farming, dancing, portray, browsing, and extra.
Metropolis Heights CDC receives $150k for bike, psychological well being companies
Metropolis Heights Group Growth Company (Metropolis Heights CDC) is launching new bicycle and psychological well being companies for the neighborhood, because of a $149,300 grant from the Prebys Basis. Funds from Therapeutic By way of the Arts & Nature Initiative will help Metropolis Heights CDC’s “Aware Miles” undertaking to advertise bodily exercise, enhance psychological well being and create deeper connections to nature for residents, notably youth and households.
Metropolis Heights CDC partnered with Venture AWARE and ESMERA (Escuela. Salud Psychological. Educación. Recursos Academicos.) to ship the programming, geared largely towards youth and households residing in Metropolis Heights. ESMERA, a dad or mum group primarily based in Hoover Excessive College, volunteers will assist join households to Aware Miles.
Aware Miles will begin with a Bike 101 Workshop, the place contributors will be taught protected biking practices, route planning and bike upkeep. Metropolis Heights CDC will work with native bike collectives, together with San Diego Bike Collective, to offer no value bikes and gear.
Guided bike rides will navigate San Diego’s pure scenic areas, akin to Chollas Lake, Balboa Park, Lake Murray and Cesar Chavez Pier. Licensed instructors will lead cyclists of all abilities to make sure protected rides in an city setting. Along with biking, pre- and post-ride workshops led by Venture AWARE will deal with emotional well-being, mindfulness methods and stress administration.
Equality Enterprise Awards introduced
San Diego Equality Enterprise Affiliation celebrated a night of excellent neighborhood leaders and LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs on the Equality Enterprise Awards held on the lovely Westgate Lodge. This award ceremony acknowledged leaders throughout varied sectors, creating an evening stuffed with unity, neighborhood constructing and unimaginable vitality.
Essentially the most notable recognitions went to Moe Girton from Gossip Grill who was awarded the Trailblazer Award for her steady work in the neighborhood. Tonya Torosian received the SDEBA Lifetime Achievement Award for her years for devoted service, management and advocacy for foster youth.
An enormous congratulations to winners SDG&E and Metropolis Heights CDC, as company companions of the yr, small enterprise champion Dapper Boi, neighborhood chief Sarah Buchanan, equality advocate Jen LaBarbera, ally Adriana Brunner, rising enterprise Lambda Rising Soccer Membership, and hospitality associate Wealthy’s.
