🌱 Midway Rising + Child Care Costs Rising + SD Half-Acre 'Mini Park'

Hello again, neighbors! I'm here with your Thursday edition of the 📰 San Diego Daily, with information you need to know about what's going on locally.

• It's coming to the Midway🏢district, and it's called 'Midway Rising.'
• Child care🧒🏽Crisis in San Diego.
• A new addition in the neighborhood called the 'La Paz🌳Mini Park.'

First, today's weather:

Fog 😶‍🌫️ to sun🌞. High: 81, Low: 69.

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

1. Wondering what's happening with the area around the former sports arena property in the Midway district? There is now a proposal to redevelop the property. It is called Midway Rising. The project would include 4,250 new homes🏠🏠🏠at several price points, a 450,000-square-foot arena with a capacity of up to 16,500 people, a hotel, and 11 acres of park and open space. Mayor Todd Gloria’s recommendation for choice of developer will be presented to the City Council’s Land Use and Housing Committee in a special meeting on Sept. 8, and then go before the full council on Sept. 13. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (San Diego Metropolitan)
2. It was a roundtable discussion to discuss the current crisis in child care. It included local leaders, administrators, and parents who gathered in Cardiff-By-The-Sea. “It’s about $17,000 in California for good🧒🏽🧒🧒🏿child care,” Rep. Mike Levin from North County’s 49th district told FOX 5. “That causes a lot of people that we would otherwise have in the workforce to stay home.” As a single working mom with small children, San Diego County Board of Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer knows how difficult it is to get good child care. “So many families are struggling just to get the child care they need to be able to go to work and put food on the table, but then you add onto that the imperative of ensuring that it’s good child care, that it’s quality child care, and the kids are getting up to thrive and grow,” Lawson-Remer said. The goal is to create legislation that will make childcare available at a reasonable cost. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (FOX 5 San Diego)
3. A neighborhood in Southeast San Diego has seen a dirt lot transformed into a children’s playground. “The La Paz Mini Park has been years in the making, and my administration has been focused on getting it done for Valencia🌳Park,” Mayor Todd Gloria said. “Every neighborhood deserves safe places to get outside, be active, and gather with their loved ones and😊community,” Gloria added. “Investments in projects like this one in Valencia Park will help make that a reality for each and every San Diegan.” The La Paz Mini Park is the third park that the city has created in different neighborhoods in San Diego. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (Times of San Diego)

Today in San Diego:

• Soul Line Dancing: The Basics🕺🏽(à la carte) — San Diego Oasis. (9:30 a.m.)
• How to Work a🖥️Computer — Malcolm X Library and Performing Arts Center. (10 a.m.)
• Hullabaloo🎸Music Show *OUTDOORS* — Point Loma Branch Library. (10:30 a.m.)
• Disney Presents "The Lion King"🦁(Touring) — San Diego Civic Theatre. (1 p.m.)
• Pen to Paper🖋️Writing Group — Riford/La Jolla Branch Library. (1 p.m.)
• Healthy Adventures: Food😋/Kitchen Science — San Diego Public Library, Central. (1 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• San Diego Humane Society: "We'd like to share a huge thanks to our friends at PetSmart Charities for providing a $100,000 grant to support our Community Veterinary🐱🐶Program! This program will help meet a critical need in our community by providing affordable veterinary care and bringing accessible, low-cost services directly to pet families who need it most." (San Diego Humane Society via Facebook)
• San Diego Unified School District: "Now hiring! San Diego Unified is working to recruit qualified applicants for a variety of positions including early childhood educators, teachers👨‍🏫 of all grade levels, food service workers, custodians and landscapers, bus🚌and delivery drivers, clerical staff, technical experts, and more." (San Diego Unified School District via Facebook)
• San Diego Botanic Garden: "Today, Tony shares a few fun facts about these native walnut🌳trees. We all know walnuts to be a delicious food and a beautiful hardwood, but did you know they can be used as a natural dye?" (San Diego Botanic Garden via Facebook)
• Downtown San Diego Partnership: "According to @Forbes, San Diego is home to the country's coolest new concert🎶venue, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park! With its stellar design, location, unique private-public partnership, and celebrity chef driven food and beverage program." (Downtown San Diego Partnership via Facebook)
• Library Foundation SD: "With your help, opportunities for all San Diego children and teens can be engineered ⚙️, downloaded 💻, performed 🎭, or even multiplied 🤓 at their local library." (Library Foundation SD via Facebook)
• San Diego County Library: "In the small town of Xanadu, Wyoming lies the Menagerie, a top-secret facility filled with🦄unicorns, 🐲dragons,🐦phoenixes, and other🧚🏽 fairy tale creatures. At least, it was a secret — until six griffin cubs escaped." (San Diego County Library via Facebook)

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You're officially in the loop for today. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— Bettyann Pernice

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