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Jun 9, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Lisa Deaderick Us
Her mother doesn’t understand her change in hairstyle. She wants to be there for her daughter, but she’s deeply afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. They’re both navigating the grief that comes with losing a father and a husband, but what San Diego author Anastasia Zadeik wanted to make clear in her second novel, “The Other Side of Nothing,” is that her characters love each other with a tremendous depth and strength.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
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Brady Farmer started his nonprofit in 2011 because he wanted to help kids and families in need, to give them the kind of help he had desperately needed when he was a child, but didn’t get. He started organizing events and went to culinary school in Seattle while also working with autistic children and those with physical disabilities. “This is where my passion for helping others truly developed. Coming from a poor, sick childhood, I understood firsthand what hunger and need were like,” he says.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
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The story of the prevalence of diabetes in Native American communities is a personal one for Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians tribal member and documentary filmmaker, Ruth-Ann Thorn. “My dad is a diabetic. He almost died during COVID. He’s a pretty strong guy. … He nearly lost his life and he has not recovered 100 percent,” she says. “We lost many of our elders during COVID because they were diabetic.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Lisa Deaderick Us
Jenny Palmiotto calls the idea for the nonprofit she founded, Love & Autism, born from “a professional procrastination.” She was working on her dissertation back in 2013 when it just came to her. “I was taking a shower and dreading making my way to my writing spot and the words ‘love and autism’ just jumped into my mind. I exited the shower and started the nonprofit,” she says. The organization is meant to challenge the false idea that autistic people don’t want or need love and relationships.
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May 26, 2024 | 
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Something was off about the story of the death of a Black man who was traveling on the ferry between Coronado and San Diego in 1946. Initial news accounts at the time said that the man, Alton Collier, argued with a couple of White sailors, slashed one of them with a knife, and when they responded with boat hooks, Collier jumped overboard and subsequently drowned.
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May 25, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Lisa Deaderick Us
What started as a friendly challenge to a game of pool, turned into Nayan Tamrakar’s journey to amateur championship pool player. “We literally were going in to have fun and challenge each other,” he said of the day in 2012 when he walked into the now-closed Lou Jones Inn, down the street from the Adams Avenue Recreation Center, where they had been playing basketball. “Later, as I continued to test my skills, I met someone that posed a challenge.
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May 19, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Lisa Deaderick Us
Most of us tend to agree that we want to see an end to homelessness, that we would prefer to be part of the solution to help people who are unhoused acquire secure, permanent housing. When housing plans and options are suggested for various neighborhoods, though, the loudest response tends to be that we don’t want those options anywhere near us. That’s what happened in Spring Valley earlier this month in response to the building of 150 proposed sleeping cabins on Jamacha Road near state Route 125.
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May 18, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Lisa Deaderick Us
Tyler Tafolla was clear on what he wanted for his birthday last year and made it happen — a live table reading with friends of one of his favorite Muppet movies, “Muppet Treasure Island.” Not much of a surprise for the composer, lyricist, writer, and passionate fan of musical theater. “We all sat at a long table on a makeshift stage in my friend’s backyard. We had scripts and pirate outfits on, and we invited a bunch of friends,” he says.
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May 12, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Lisa Deaderick Us
Within the latest wave of student protests happening on college campuses across the United States and in other countries, there is a historical pattern emerging. “I would say that one of the things to observe is that student protest movements really only come about when there’s a vacuum of moral leadership among the designated officials because the administrators, the politicians, have not assumed power for justice. In not doing that, a moral vacuum is produced,” noted Roderick A.
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May 11, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | Lisa Deaderick |Lisa Deaderick Us
Kristina Grifantini, who writes fiction under the name KC Grifant, found inspiration for her debut novel in the local board game community. She and her husband joined a local game of “Doomtown,” a collectible card game with guns, spells, and mudslinging. “The game immediately captured my imagination with its many diverse and women characters, which I hadn’t really seen in Westerns before,” she says.
