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Phone Call From the MAD Chair

Golden Hill | Neighborhood News | South Park
Published July 30, 2008

The phone rang yesterday evening. It was David Skillman, chairman of the MAD oversight — er, advisory, um, oversory? — committee for greater Golden Hill. Skillman called to say he is to blame for not thoroughly ...

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MAD's a No-Show

Golden Hill | Neighborhood News | South Park
Published July 23, 2008

Five residents of Greater Golden Hill stood outside the clubhouse at the Balboa Park Golf Course on July 21. Some held green mailers with handwritten notes scribbled on both sides of the page. Resident Jim St. ...

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Last in Line for District Three

City Heights | Golden Hill | Hillcrest | Kensington-Talmadge | Neighborhood News | North Park | South Park
Published July 2, 2008

In April, Councilwoman Toni Atkins's office surveyed the communities in her district. She asked 132 residents of District 3 — an area including Hillcrest, South Park, North Park, Golden Hill, Kensington, and City Heights — to ...

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CDC Calls for Mediation with MAD

Golden Hill | Neighborhood News | South Park
Published June 20, 2008

The Greater Golden Hill CDC doesn't want their MAD to be upset with them anymore. Instead, the President of Greater Golden Hill's CDC is calling for a mediation to take place so they can move on ...

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MAD: Advisory or Oversight Committee?

Golden Hill | Neighborhood News | South Park
Published June 17, 2008

The acronym for Greater Golden Hill Maintenance Assessment District, MAD, could be used as a lesson in irony. The monthly meeting, inside the Balboa Park Clubhouse on June 16th, was yet again full of wild disorder ...

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MAD Gets Irate

Golden Hill | Neighborhood News
Published May 21, 2008

At the Greater Golden Hill Maintenance Assessment District (MAD) meeting on May 19th, most of the members spent the entire 90 minutes in protest to the hiring of a project manager without their consent. Some members ...

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MAD about Graffiti

Golden Hill | South Park
Published May 19, 2008

The acronym for Greater Golden Hill’s clean, green and safe program, MAD (Maintenance Assessment District) was extremely fitting when council representative Diana Jurado-Sainz, from Ben Hueso’s office, addressed the community at the Greater Golden Hill Planning ...

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Skater Haters

Golden Hill | Neighborhood News | South Park
Published May 16, 2008

Skateboarding was one of the biggest issues of the night at the Greater Golden Hill Planning Committee meeting on May14th. “Have you heard those skateboarders doing the Kamikaze run on Sunday nights? Apparently they start at ...

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A Night on Mars

Calendar Highlight | Golden Hill
Published Dec. 20, 2007

"Mars has a lot of lava tubes from when it was geologically active. You can go in there, spray plastic on the walls to make it airtight, and you've got a house," says Gerry Williams, co-founder ...

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Willful Blindness To Golden Hill

City Lights | Golden Hill
Published July 26, 2007

Members of the Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation recently discovered a ruse that might help them overcome opposition to assessing their fellow citizens nearly $489,000 in increased taxes. Heretofore the development corporation has not been ...

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Bethel Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, Stockton

Sheep and Goats | Stockton
Published June 1, 2006

Denomination: African Methodist Episcopal Address: 3085 K Street, Stockton, 619-232-0510 Founded locally: 1887 Senior pastor: Reverend Dr. C. Dennis Williams (departing) Congregation size: around 2000 Staff size: 20 Sunday school enrollment: around 60 Annual budget: over ...

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Dingbat Eyesores, Loving Eye

City Heights | City Lights | Golden Hill | South Park
Published March 16, 2006

On a recent Saturday afternoon, Phil Chart and his girlfriend Janice Morten went out to -- what else? -- sketch an old house. "What I like about San Diego is the variety of its neighborhoods," says ...

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Ethical Conflicts Loom for CCDC

City Lights | Grantville | Sherman Heights
Published Dec. 15, 2005

Centre City Development Corporation's board members -- all connected with the real estate industry in their professional lives -- are constantly running into potential conflicts of interest. But there is a broader issue: this developer-friendly board ...

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School vs. Ball Field Re-Ignites Skirmish

City Lights | Golden Hill
Published Nov. 10, 2005

After a two-year cease-fire, shots are again flying in a battle between San Diego City Schools and some Golden Hill residents. The battleground is a section of the urban grid bounded by 32nd and 33rd streets ...

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Best of 2003: Best Soul-Stirring Sermons

Best of San Diego | Sherman Heights
Published Dec. 25, 2003

Calvary Baptist Church 719 Cesar Chavez Parkway, Sherman Heights 619-233-6487 It's in the city's African-American churches that the rhetorical tradition has remained most vibrant, and Reverend W. James Smith, senior pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in ...

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