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Valencia Park, Golden Hill offer some help to homeless with vacant lots

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Sad San Diego foreclosures and how we got there.

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St. Stephen's Church of God in Christ, Valencia Park

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Valencia Park, Golden Hill offer some help to homeless with vacant lots

Many San Diegans living on the street were not accounted for in the May 19 report released by the Regional Task Force on Homelessness. During the count, some of the ...

Blurt Music News Valencia Park

The Malcolm X Experimental Music Festival

Outsider art and music outpost Stay Strange is taking part in a experimental music festival at the Malcolm X Library (Valencia Park) on Saturday, September 21. “It's been a dream ...

Cover Stories Eastlake Lemon Grove National City Valencia Park

Sad San Diego foreclosures and how we got there.

Mario is a recent immigrant from Mexico, and he's typical of homeowners facing foreclosure. He doesn't want me to use his surname; he's ashamed of getting behind on his payments. ...

Sheep and Goats Valencia Park

St. Stephen's Church of God in Christ, Valencia Park

Denomination: Church of God in Christ Address: 5825 Imperial Avenue, Valencia Park Founded locally: 1962 Senior pastor: Bishop George McKinney Congregation size: 600--700 families Staff size: 12 Sunday school enrollment: ...

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Best of 2003: Best Way To Give Food To The Homeless

Food for the Homeless St. Stephen's Church of God in Christ 619-262-2671 With Pastor Wilkins and colleagues, you're talking about helping people at the bottom. People who can't get into Father Joe's, who haven't made ...

December 25, 2003

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Best of 2000: Best Smothered Chicken

Huffman's Bar-B-Que 5039 Imperial Avenue, Valencia Park (619) 264-3115 Muhammad Ali ate here. So did Jesse Jackson, Roger Hedgecock, George Stevens, Sheriff Bill Kolender, Susan Golding, Tom Bradley, Archie Moore, Jim Brown... Their photos, with ...

December 28, 2000

City Lights Valencia Park

May 22, 1997

Life in Valencia Park is simple

Valerie is an African-American woman living on a hill in Valencia Park. She is 37, but she looks younger. She has a round face surrounded by a curtain of heavy braids and large eyes that ...

City Lights Valencia Park

March 27, 1997

San Diego on $520 a Month

Until December of last year, 51-year-old Jaime Nieto made $10 an hour working for a construction company "doing their ironwork needs. That's my trade - security. Window-guards, rails, gates, fences. But that company works on ...

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November 26, 1987

Southeast San Diego: it's more than mean streets

He turns a corner near 38th and Acacia, where a new auto body shop has been squeezed between two homes. Nielsen shakes his head. "Only in Southeast. Where else would that be allowed to happen?"

Valencia Park Stories

Valencia Park, Golden Hill offer some help to homeless with vacant lots

Sad San Diego foreclosures and how we got there.

St. Stephen's Church of God in Christ, Valencia Park

Valencia Park Stories

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