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East County Happenings, June 5
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Metropolis councils: Lemon Grove, 6 p.m. Tuesday
College boards: La Mesa-Spring Valley College District, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Santee College District, 6 p.m. Tuesday
Schools holding in-person graduations
After two years of digital commencements, Cuyamaca and Grossmont schools will likely be going dwell and in individual for this yr’s ceremonies, with upwards of 500 extra graduates than final yr. Cuyamaca’s commencement will likely be at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in entrance of the Communication and Arts Constructing. Grossmont’s will likely be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Parking Lot 1 outdoors the Performing & Visible Arts Middle. The ceremonies can even be livestreamed: Cuyamaca School at https://youtu.be/Imh9qJEeu8s, and Grossmont School at www.grossmont.edu/graduation.
Chamber hosts Wednesday get-together
The La Mesa Chamber of Commerce hosts a night mixer from 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday at Anthony’s Fish Grotto. Get pleasure from hors d’oeuvres, wine by the glass, and combined and tender drinks at blissful hour costs. Anthony’s Fish Grotto is at 9530 Murray Drive, La Mesa. Free to chamber members; $10 for friends who reserve; $20 on the door. RSVP to https://bit.ly/3x6dMru.
Church gala marks sixtieth anniversary
Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Santee will host a sixtieth anniversary gala June 18, one in every of a number of occasions marking the Diamond Jubilee yr for the parish. The gala will likely be from 6-11 p.m. on the Cathedral Catholic Excessive College Theater, 5555 Del Mar Heights Highway, San Diego. Cocktail apparel. Tickets are $175 and embody dinner, dwell music and dancing. A Mass can even be celebrated at 5 p.m. Final day to purchase tickets is Friday at guardianangelssantee.org. All proceeds profit the Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth & Younger Grownup Constructing Fund. Name (619) 448-1213.
Sheriff’s vols hunted for Santee, Lakeside
The Santee and Lakeside Sheriff stations are looking for males and girl age 50 and as much as be part of their Senior Volunteer Patrols. The volunteers act as a second set of eyes and ears for deputies. They patrol in uniforms (provided) and drive marked sheriff’s autos. Duties embody patrolling residential neighborhoods, buying facilities and colleges, and doing visitors management, dwelling trip and aged welfare checks, citizen assists and dealing at public occasions requiring visitors and/or pedestrian administration. After finishing the 10-day academy, volunteers are requested to commit a minimal of 1 six-hour patrol shift every week and attendance at a one-hour month-to-month assembly. For info and eligibility necessities, go to sdsheriff.gov and click on on “Recruiting,” then “Senior Volunteer Patrol.” Or name the Santee/Lakeside Senior Volunteer Patrol Administrator at (619) 972-6846.
Parkway Plaza hosts anniversary portray
Parkway Plaza is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a particular mural painted dwell by artist Lulu Yueming Qu beginning Wednesday via June 12. The fiftieth anniversary set up will likely be in middle court docket and painted on an 8-foot dice. A hand-painted mural that may inform a narrative via illustrations of Parkway Plaza’s most memorable moments will take up two sides of the dice. Two extra sides can have historic info and images of the neighborhood. Parkway Plaza invitations customers to look at the mural come to life — or participate in portray it. From 2-5 p.m. Saturday and June 12, the buying middle will maintain neighborhood paint days for people so as to add their private touches. Pre-registration will likely be required to take part and is proscribed to ages 8 and up. Join at https://bit.ly/3t91UTg. Parkway Plaza is at 415 Fletcher Pkwy., El Cajon.
Writing workshop provided in La Mesa
“Ebook Publishing 1-2-3,” a writers’ workshop, will likely be provided from 2-3 p.m. Saturday on the out of doors gazebo at Lake Murray Church, 5480 Lake Murray Blvd., La Mesa. This one-hour class offered by native editor Laurie Gibson will present a glimpse of the publishing business, tricks to join with literary brokers, a Q&A, and writing prompts. Value is $20 money or examine on the door. Registration requested however not required to (858) 635-1233 or thesuperioreditor@gmail.com.
Blood drives
The San Diego Blood Financial institution hosts these blood donation alternatives:
- 8 a.m.-1:30 a.m. Saturday, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑day Saints, 1270 S. Orange Ave., El Cajon. Donors will obtain a San Diego Padres Blood Drive T-shirt whereas provides final.
These 17 and older, weighing at the very least 114 kilos and in good well being could also be eligible to donate blood. A great meal and loads of fluids are advisable earlier than donating. Appointments strongly inspired. Picture ID required. Name (800) 469-7322 or go to SanDiegoBloodBank.org.
Please ship objects to fyi.east@sduniontribune.com at the very least two weeks earlier than occasions are to happen.
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City of San Diego must heed Supreme Court ruling on homelessness
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Re “Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside” (June 28): If San Diego officials go forward with the staggeringly expensive Kettner homeless shelter after the Supreme Court ruling, the taxpayers of San Diego should revolt.
The funds should go to infrastructure spending and/or increased funding for housing administered by the San Diego Housing Commission. With additional funding, the Housing Commission can use its existing programs to provide permanent housing to more people.Money spent on more shelters just seems to go down a rathole.
— Sandra Rubalcaba, Point Loma
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The Jazz Lounge Third Anniversary Weekend
Paul Simon and Pat Metheny have not performed at The Jazz Lounge, the intimate San Diego music venue that celebrates its third anniversary this weekend with two talent-packed concerts. But their presence has been felt at the all-ages club.
Simon has traded emails with award-winning vocalist Leonard Patton, The Jazz Lounge’s founder/owner, to suggest songs for Patton’s annual Paul Simon tribute concerts. And Metheny, whose music Patton has also performed annually at The Jazz Lounge, is such an ardent admirer that he had the versatile singer-songwriter join him for a 2022 Orange County concert that also featured San Diego guitar great Peter Sprague.
So, don’t be surprised if Patton and Sprague include a Metheny favorite or two when they perform Saturday on the second night of the venue’s third anniversary weekend concerts. It will be preceded by tonight’s show by a band co-led by Patton and ex-San Diego trumpet dynamo Curtis Taylor.
As for Simon, his music will be saluted at a pair of July 30 Jazz Lounge concerts at which Patton will celebrate the release of the first album by his Paul Simon Project group.
“I like the way you play,” Simon wrote to Patton. “A lot.”
All told, the Jazz Lounge will host 21 concerts in July. They include a July 16-20 residency by the superb pianist and composer Joshua White, a former San Diegan.
Other likely highlights include a July 16 gig by Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sara Gazarek and two July 24 shows saluting the pioneering jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross that will team Patton with Maggie Roberston and Santino Sgambelluri.
And there’s more.
From 8 a.m. Aug. 7 to midnight Aug. 11, The Jazz Lounge will host dozens of artists as Patton tries for a new Guinness World Records mark in the Longest Acoustic Livestream category.
The current record, set in London in February, is 26 hours, 18 minutes and 57 seconds. The Jazz Lounge is shooting for 100 hours.
“If you’re going to break a record, really go for it,” said Patton, who in 2017 set a Guinness Record when he and his band performed in 70 San Diego County venues in 24 hours.
The Jazz Lounge Third Anniversary Weekend, with Leonard Patton & Curtis Taylor, 6:15 p.m. today, and Leonard Patton & Peter Sprague, 6:15 p.m. Saturday. The Jazz Lounge, 6618 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. $65 with dinner, $40 without. thejazzlounge.live
Harry Connick Jr.
Triple Grammy Award-winner Harry Connick Jr. and his band will perform at The Shell following a three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Since the New Orleans native’s performance here will be orchestra-free, expect a more swinging and freewheeling affair. And to see him in a very different light, you can catch the debonair jazz, big band, Dixieland and pop crooner and pianist playing a brooding, tattooed rock star in “Find Me Falling,” the new rom-com film he stars in, which debuts July 19 on Netflix.
7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Shell, 222 Marina Park Way, downtown. $46-$225. theshell.org
The Aristocrats
Dazzling musicianship, pinpoint dynamic control and quirky humor have long been the hallmarks of The Aristocrats, whose concerts often inspire smiles and awe.
Featuring English guitarist Guthrie Govan, American bassist Bryan Beller and German drum wiz Marco Minnemann, this rock-and-way-beyond power trio achieves musical velocity and nuance in equal measure.
Their latest release, “Duck,” is a concept album about “a web-footed Antarctic Island native fleeing a penguin policeman all the way to New York City.” The fact that The Aristocrats are an all-instrumental band makes this concept even more intriguing.
7 p.m. Thursday. Ramona Mainstage, 626 Main Street, Ramona. $28. (760) 789-7008, ramonamainstage.com
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