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Good morning, San Diego ⛅️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- Remember when Ocean Beach was an amusement park?
- Millions in biomedical recruitment funding for UCSD was renewed.
- JOEY opens a San Diego location at UTC La Jolla.
Tessa Balc
Audience engagement producer
Top story
‘Where’s the Native American section?’ Rincon entrepreneur Ruth-Ann Thorn talks beauty, health, inclusion
Ruth-Ann Thorn has broken into the beauty industry, the best way she knew how to — by creating something that represented herself and where she came from.
Her skincare line, N8iV beauty, incorporates products sourced from reservation land, consulting the her tribe, the Rincon Band of Payómkawichum or Luiseño Indians, and the greater American Indigenous community on the specific ingredients.
She’s now found that her line is rapidly gaining traction in the beauty world that she once hadn’t seen herself represented in.
But what’s more is that she’s found herself reclaiming land in the city she was raised in. She’s the first Indigenous person to own property — her storefront, Native Star — in the Gaslamp Quarter.
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Stories you should know about
🎶 Live music coming to San Diego this week: Echo and the Bunnymen, Paul Anka and Chickenbone Slim are on the bill.
🏐 San Diego’s pro-volleyball team folds after three seasons: Despite making the postseason two times, the front of office announced an end to the Mojo.
🧑⚖️ Court hearing delayed for man charged with stabbing three guards outside Mavericks in Pacific Beach: The suspect’s attorney is hiring someone to review medical records of the victims’ injuries.
🤝 Everyone wants to revitalize San Diego: Yet another coalition has formed with that goal in mind.
🖼️ Opinion: Fostering art and culture must be considered a basic city service.
⚡️Opinion: SDG&E’s profitable business model works against the public interest
What else we’re reading
🚧 CalTrans has posted signs indicating that a suicide prevention fence on the Coronado Bridge is moving forward. (CBS 8)
💉 As Planned Parenthood has seen a loss of funding from the feds, it’s turning to a new, unexpected revenue source: botox (KPBS)
🗳️ Is California ready to break-up with the “jungle primary?” One Democratic strategist thinks so, and is launching a ballot measure to repeal it. (NY Mag)
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