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Cleaning up after a party is tough, but someone has to do it.
Back in June, the city of San Diego created a new district to focus its cleaning efforts toward the area around Petco Park. As you can probably imagine, it gets quite dirty over there between the ball games and stadium shows.
Where there used to be 21 people for the whole of East Village — covering 130 blocks — there are now 20 crew members for the entire 22-block area. Just in four months, the new Ballpark District crew collected 160,000 pounds of trash.
While that amount of trash is undoubtedly concerning, it is also a testament to how many people are looking to have some fun with live entertainment.
If you’re in that camp: we have another round-up of concerts coming to town this week. On the roster, there are some special holiday-themed ensembles amid the regularly scheduled tours that bands are in the middle of and wrapping up.
One that caught my eye is an upcoming live-version of Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to the Peanuts “A Charlie Brown Christmas” movie. Beside being a staple for the Christmas season, this is one of my favorites to listen to year-round, just because of how good it is. Let me know if there are any Christmas albums and songs that sneak onto your year-long listening rotation.
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Today’s top story
Petco Park’s 22-block neighborhood now has its own cleaning crew
By Drew Sitton • Times of San Diego
The 22-block area around Petco Park now has its own dedicated crews 15-hour day to make the neighborhood clean and safe.
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Today’s opinion column
Opinion: The long, sad history of deporting Latinos from America
During the Great Depression, politicians struggling to respond to the economic crisis needed a scapegoat, and racialized ideas of who belonged in America.
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