Thousands Turn Out In San Diego To Support Fight Against AIDS
Saturday's event was the 28th annual edition of the AIDS Walk and Run San Diego, which has raised $10 million since 1989.
The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Community Rallies Behind Survivors, Hails Medical Advances At Annual AIDS Walk
Diagnosed when she was a teenager as HIV-positive, Rebecca Shea has had a tough road to travel for the past 27 years. So covering the four-mile course at Saturday’s AIDS Walk and Run San Diego was something she felt she had to do — even if it came after complications from a vascular condition that resulted in having two hips and one knee surgically replaced. “In the last four years, I’ve been in a wheelchair for the walk,” Shea, a 42-year-old from North Park, said just before the walk began in Hillcrest. “I always said I would never wheel over the finish line. I would get up and walk. And this year, I’m going to do the whole walk.” (Nikolewski, 9/30)
In other news from across the state —
Capital Public Radio:
Mexican Consulate To Offer Bilingual Mental Health Services For Stressed Visitors
A new program at Sacramento’s Mexican Consulate aims to provide mental health check-ups to visitors while they’re waiting for government services. Roughly 1 in 5 Latinos experience mental health challenges in the U.S., and community advocates worry the issue has worsened in light of the recent Mexico earthquake and ongoing immigration raids. (Caiola, 9/29)
Ventura County Star:
Ventura Teen's Three-Year Fight With Cancer Ends
Kate Rose Miguel, who wanted to go to college and maybe become an obstetrics nurse, died Tuesday night at her Ventura home after three years of fighting brain cancer. She was 16. "We were all here," said her brother, Daniel Miguel, of her final moments. "She's without a doubt my hero. I don't know if any one of us could go through what she did with the amount of grace and fortitude that she did." (Kisken, 9/29)
Merced Sun Star:
Healthy Food Can Be Harder To Find In Merced County, Data Shows
If you’re living in Merced County, chances are unhealthy food is going to be a lot easier to find than nutritional food. ...Local health officials found this problem has a direct impact on illnesses that are leading killers in Merced County, like heart disease and diabetes, that are seen as preventable. (Velez, 10/1)
Orange County Register:
Tustin Panel Postpones Decision On Proposed Mental Health Crisis Center After Debate
Exodus Recovery, with locations throughout California, wants to put a clinic — its first in Orange County — in 7,600 square feet of office space in Packers Square at the corner of Irvine Boulevard and Newport Avenue. The clinic, which would be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, would provide short-term treatment to patients in the midst of psychiatric crisis, said Luana Murphy, president of Exodus Recovery. (Goulding, 9/28)
Orange County Register:
School Officials Allege Flutes Used In Children’s Music Program May Have Been Contaminated With Semen
Several school districts across Southern California posted updates Saturday, Sept 30 regarding a state and federal investigation into a person suspected of distributing homemade flutes tainted with a bodily fluid to children in school music programs. An official with the Saugus Union School District said she was told the fluid was semen. (Pimentel and Casiano Jr., 9/30)