Program To Bring Free Health Education To Impoverished Neighborhoods
"Education is the key," says Kortney Lucero, an assistant nurse manager who is participating in the community nursing program.
Sacramento Bee:
Community Nursing Corps Launches In Sacramento Promise Zone
Nurses are working with local health leaders to bring free health education directly to a city-designated “promise zone” of Sacramento’s most impoverished neighborhoods, officials announced Friday during a kickoff of the community nursing program. The corridor of struggling neighborhoods stretching from Del Paso Heights down to Florin Road will receive federal funding over the next 10 years to improve health, schooling and employment opportunities. Starting this month, they’ll also receive education on diabetes, prenatal care and healthy life choices from a new community nursing corps. (Caiola, 1/6)
In other news from across the state —
KQED:
Air District Says Chevron Refinery In Richmond Probably Caused Mysterious S.F. Odors
The Chevron oil company will most likely face a series of fines in connection with malfunctions at its Richmond refinery and high levels of a toxic gas that were measured near the facility last week, according to a top local air district official. Air regulators believe that the abnormally high amounts of hydrogen sulfide detected by one of the company’s air monitors moments after flaring incidents at the refinery most likely caused two days of a sulfurlike smell in San Francisco, said John Gioia, the Contra Costa County supervisor who represents the area where the refinery is located and is a member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Board of Directors. (Goldberg, 1/6)
The Orange County Register:
Pot Dispensaries Are Already – Illegally – Selling Recreational Marijuana
Green Light District in Anaheim. Mr Nice Guy in Downtown Los Angeles. Smoking Loud Society in Highland. They’re among the dozens of pot shops throughout California advertising that, since voters legalized recreational marijuana under Proposition 64 two months ago, they’ll now sell cannabis without the doctor’s recommendations that have been required under the state’s medical marijuana law for 20 years. Many of these shops are billing themselves as being “compliant” or “friendly” with Prop. 64, which made it legal as of Nov. 9 for Californians 21 and older to consume marijuana in private, carry an ounce of weed and grow six pot plants per home. However, Prop. 64 also makes it clear that businesses can’t start selling recreational cannabis until the state establishes a licensing system, which is expected to take until Jan. 1, 2018. (Edwards Staggs, 1/6)