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Great Views In Spring Valley

SPRING VALLEY -- Real estate listings of note in the La Mesa area:

Glorious mountain views! Indoor and outdoor California living at its best! This 3-bedroom, 2-bath house is nestled in the desired Canterbury Hills neighborhood. A…

Grossmont Center hosting Health Fair Saturday

LA MESA -- The San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce will present “Health Fair Saturday,” one of the…

Six gifted San Diego area high school musicians, appearing in concert, will vie for scholarship honors in a new program to be featured annually as part of La Mesa’s popular Valerie Victor* Concert Series.  The featured finalists are Derek Savage, West Hills High – Guitar; Lydia Schmidt, Carlsbad High – Soprano; Mikel Ibaibarriaga, St. Augustine High – Baritone; Jacob Francisco, Montgomery High – Baritone Saxophone; Andrew Hendrix, Steel Canyon High – Alto Saxophone and Kartik Sundaram,…

Mr. Ybarra goes to Washington,

La Mesa man with ALS disease to meet with D.C. politicos

It began with unexplainable fatigue then weakness in his left arm and shoulder for Jessy Ybarra of La Mesa. “I regularly worked out with my trainer 3 days a week…

New Park Gets National Notice 

LA MESA -- Vista La Mesa Park has gained national recognition. The newly renovated park was redesigned to maximize park usage and encourage children and families to be more active together and has been designated as a National Demonstration…

Military families invited for

free food at La Mesa Chick-fil-A

on Wednesday, May 22nd

The 14 Chick-fil-A restaurants in San Diego County, including the Grossmont…

Austria…Australia…Ireland…Iceland…

Carnegie Hall…Lincoln Center…the Sydney Opera House

“Waternight”…“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”… “N’Sync Medley”…

From Borrego’s Clark Dry Lake, where they filmed their first video – the haunting “You Ruined Me” – to singing the mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, the young singers of Chamber Bravura have brought a cappella magic to audiences around the world.

And now these middle and senior high students from throughout the San…

La Mesa resident, Legendary NBA Coach

Don Casey to be honored at ALS Association’s

2019 ALS Fiesta, fundraising dinner May 23

The ALS Association Greater San Diego Chapter will…

Concert Features Songs Of Civil War

LA MESA -- From the rousing “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to African-American spirituals, the folk songs of Stephen Foster and the heartfelt hope of  “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again,” the music of the Civil War era  reflected the lives, faith, dreams…

Anderson Running For Supervisor

LA MESA -- Joel Anderson, former State Assemblyman and State Senator, has officially announced his candidacy for the District 2 seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors in the 2020 election. District 2…

Free Breakfast At Chick-Fil-A

LA MESA -- The 14 Chick-fil-A® restaurants in San Diego County will offer a free breakfast entrée this week to guests who create or log in to their Chick-fil-A App account. From March 25 to…

Diocese Move To Remove Beloved Principal

CASA DE ORO – For much of the last 30 years, a small elementary school just beyond the south side of…

From Beauty and the Beast’s hauntingly melancholic “If I Can’t Love Her” to the impassioned spirituality of Vaughn-Williams “Five Mystical Songs,” noted baritone Bill Marshall “sings it all!”  Think the exuberant “They Call the Wind Maria” from Paint Your Wagon and Theodore Roethke’s disturbing tale, “My Papa’s Waltz.”

All these – and more, much more, will be showcased when Marshall, accompanied by Jim Tompkins-MacLaine,  appears as featured artist in program eight…

New Health Care District Maps Released

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) has taken the next step as part of its future transition from district-wide to zone-based elections…

Through The Eyes Of A 10-Year-Old

LA MESA -- The Dr. William C. Herrick Community Health Care Library, a consumer health library at 9001 Wakarusa St. in La Mesa, is now presenting its Winter Art Exhibit featuring 15 paintings by 10-year-old Mia Bruso of …

Mixing Medicines Has Its Risks

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District’s Dr. William C. Herrick Community Health Care Library, 9001 Wakarusa St. in La Mesa, will host “A Healthy Outlook on Aging, Medicines,…

Daddy And Daughter Night Planned

LA MESA -- Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the 14 Chick-fil-A restaurants in San Diego County, including the Grossmont Chick-fil-A restaurant at 8200 Fletcher Parkway,…

Health Care District To Honor Heroes

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD) is seeking nominees for its 2019 Healthcare Heroes awards. Now in its 13th…

How is Your Brain Fitness?

LA MESA -- The Grossmont Healthcare District’s Dr. William C. Herrick Community Health Care Library, 9001 Wakarusa St. in La Mesa, will host “Keeping Your Brain Fit,”…

 Harp: Tasha Smith Godinez in Concert

“’T is believ’d that this harp which I wake now for thee

Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.”

 ~ Thomas Moore,  The Origin of the Harp

  Alluring…enticing…seductive:  words used alike for mythological sirens of old…