🌱 SD Housing/13 Acres + Website Connects Ukraine + 5 Plans/$18M

Good morning, San Diego! It's Sunday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on around San Diego today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and nice. High: 66, Low: 56.

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

1. San Diegans need affordable housing. Now, the SD Board of Supervisors and the MTS have designated nine surplus properties for affordable housing. The 13 acres of land includes parcels in the College area, in Grantville, and in Escondido. Developers may pre-register by mail to present plans to build the affordable units on these properties. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (Times of San Diego)
2. After attending a pro-Ukraine protest in Balboa Park, Avi Schiffman was shaken. He wanted to do something to help. Schiffmann, a 19-year-old student at Harvard University, is good at coding. “I know how to make all these websites and apps and, you know, I felt that nobody was going to do it,” said Schiffmann, a San Diego resident. “So why don't I just do it? So, I made this website.” The website, “Ukraine Take Shelter,” unites refugees with hosts offering spare rooms. “It's like a public bulletin that you can bring with you no matter where you are," said Schiffmann. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (NBC San Diego)
3. If President Biden signs a $1.5 trillion spending plan next week, San Diego will get millions for infrastructure and other building projects. The Del Mar bluffs, UCSD, a 50-bed homeless shelter, the Bayshore Bikeway, and the wastewater infrastructure project are the projects that will benefit. To learn more: Click into parenthesis, then click the link. (NBC San Diego)

Today in San Diego:

• Daylight Savings/Spring Forward — Fletcher. (2 a.m.)
• St. Patrick's Day Lawn Program — House of Ireland. (11 a.m.)
• Paint Your Pet: Fundraiser — Labradors and Friends Dog Rescue Group. (Noon)
• Join the Official Watch Party and Cheer on The San Diego Legion — Ballast Point Miramar. (Noon)
• Winter Concerts/Inspiration Level Ensembles — San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory. (1 p.m.)
• Winter Concerts/Ovation Level Ensembles — San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory.(6 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• YMCA Raintree Ranch: "It's your turn to have the summer of a lifetime. New friends and memories await you at YMCA Overnight Camps Marston, Raintree Ranch & Camp Surf. Reserve your spot today, spots are filling up fast!" (Facebook)
• City of San Diego: "We're hiring! New openings this week include graphic designers: bit.ly/3vUygU3 pool guards: bit.ly/3HUgbaY engineers: bit.ly/3Mti02l grounds maintenance/ laborers: bit.ly/3HSi1Jp Find more career opportunities at: sandiego.gov/CityJobs" (Facebook)
• San Diego Unified School District: "After months of adversity, more than 300 Afghan refugee children recently attended class in the United States for the first time, as San Diego Unified and a coalition of community partners welcomed the new students and their families." (Facebook)
• Feeding San Diego: "We are proud to be a female-founded nonprofit with incredible female leadership across all of our departments and our board. Feeding San Diego's founder, Gwendolyn Sontheim, is still involved and serves as our board chair nearly 15 years after she first founded the organization. On International Women's Day, we celebrate all the women who bring commitment, compassion, and dedicated leadership to our mission." (Facebook)
• San Diego County Library: "Celebrate notorious women in library history with #SDCL! Audre Lorde was an American writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,' who dedicated both her and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia." (Facebook)
• San Diego History Center: "Did you know we have history-related Virtual Discussions on our YouTube channel? Check out this video on Recovering and Restor(y)ing Kumeyaay Women's Role, Agency, and Power from the Oral Tradition." (Facebook)

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