​🌱City Must 'Do More With Less' + SD Drought Status After The Rains

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First, today's weather:

Low clouds, then some sun. High: 70, Low: 63.

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Here are three of the top stories today in San Diego:

1. Right now, there are 5,000 broken streetlights in San Diego. However, there are only eight electricians available to fix them. The average wait time for a light to be fixed is approximately 10 months. Supply chain constraints have caused three-month delays. Also, the streetlight repair division is very understaffed. "We've been asked to do more with less," said Derek Mack, who supervises the city's streetlight repair division. "It's nobody's fault, it's just what we have to deal with right now." To learn more: Click into Parenthesis, then click the link. (KPBS)
2. You have a unique opportunity to support the Ukrainian people. Give blood now through April 5, and the San Diego Blood Bank will donate funds to UNICEF for Ukrainians needing assistance. Won’t you help? To learn more: Click into Parenthesis, then click the link. (KUSI)
3. San Diego has had some rain in March. How did that affect our drought status? Well, for the month of March, we did pretty well. For the year, not too well. We are still short three inches of rain for this time of year. That means we are in a moderate drought. To learn more: Click into Parenthesis, then click the link. (NBC San Diego)

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Today in San Diego:

• La Jolla Kids Poetry Contest Begins — Riford/La Jolla Branch Library. (All Day)
• AARP Tax Assistance — Serra Mesa/Kearny Mesa Branch Library. (10 a.m.)
• Live Interactive Video Preschool/Kindergarten Storytime with Mr. Luan — Linda Vista Branch Library. (10:30 a.m.)
• Paper Airplane Challenge — Pacific Beach/Earl and Birdie Taylor Branch Library. (2 p.m.)
• DYH@L Presents: Camp Chef — Logan Heights Branch Library. (3 p.m.)
• Wizarding World Trivia — County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation. (5 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• San Diego Humane Society: "Wildlife baby season is in full swing, which means our skilled and compassionate Project Wildlife team members are hard at work rehabilitating a wide variety of animals! These young animals — a baby big-eared woodrat, baby finches, a baby fox squirrel, a baby Virginia opossum, a baby long-tailed weasel and a baby gopher — are just a few of the many wild patients currently in our care." (Facebook)
• San Diego Police Department: "*Cue the graduation music* Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the commencement ceremony of our 2022 K9 academy! We promise it’s going to be a short ceremony. We would like to invite our two K9 graduates to the stage to accept their doggy diplomas (made of treats). K9 Sir and K9 Baxter both passed their exams and made the dean’s list at SDPD's K9 Academy. They both were awarded full-ride scholarships to SDPD K9 Academy by the @sandiegopolicefoundation for athletics & academic excellence." (Facebook)
• San Diego County Library: "In preparation for International Trans Day of Visibility tomorrow, learn more about the Trans community with our titles, available now with #LibbyApp https://sdcl.overdrive.com/col... #transdayofvisibility #internationaltrans." (Facebook)
• Old Town San Diego State Historic Park: "This week we start our April Hidden History Talks, beginning on April Fool's Day at 2 p.m. We aren't fooling when we say you can learn a lot and have some fun finding out more about San Diego and the 1800s!" (Facebook)
• San Diego Botanic Garden: "Spring is in the air! Saturday, April 9, we will create beautiful, nature-inspired paper batik prints by using a wax resist process in our Butterfly Watercolor Batik class! We will use oil pastels and watercolor to create the pattern and texture." (Facebook)
• San Diego County Library: "'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle is the undisputed champion of our Literary March Madness. More than 12 million copies of this book have been sold in its original edition, which has been translated into 20 languages." (Facebook)

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— Bettyann Pernice