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San Diego woman in Ukraine as Russia launches missile attack
(KGTV) – Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was attacked by Russia Friday morning, prompting emergency power outages.
The extent of the damage isn’t clear, but Ukraine’s Energy-Minister urged people to remain in shelters.
Russia has launched 12 attacks on Ukraine’s power system so far this year, according to Ukraine’s energy operator, and Friday’s was intended to make Ukrainians suffer through the winter season.
One San Diego woman was in Ukraine Friday, delivering humanitarian aid to Ukrainians to help them survive the winter season.
Winnie Huong was in Lviv at a post office at the time the sirens started to sound.
“I was packaging and sending, and then a second intense siren took place,” Huong said.
Huong is the treasurer for the non-profit Shield of Freedom, and she was at the post office trying to send out supplies when the sirens went off.
Huong said the post office told her to quickly take shelter in a hotel parking garage nearby, and she waited there for an hour until it was safe again to come out.
“We didn’t know with so many missiles where it’s gonna hit, where it’s gonna land, and whether life is gonna change from that moment on,” Huong said.
ABC 10News’ Zoom conversation with Huong froze twice because of the rolling blackouts that Ukraine was experiencing following Russia’s attack on the country’s energy sector.
“It was snowing yesterday and today,” Huong said. “So it’s very cold all over Ukraine, and to deliberately target this infrastructure is really inhumane.”
As Huong dealt with the immediate impacts Friday, Ukrainian families back in San Diego frantically checked on loved ones back home.
Krystina Shchelkunova, the executive director for the Slavic Refugee and Immigrant Service organization, helps around 10-thousand Ukrainian refugees in San Diego and said her mother-in-law called her right after the attack.
“My mother-in-law and father-in-law are still in Ukraine, and they live close by where the attack was,” Shchelkunova said.
Shchelkunova said she wishes she could bring her in-laws to the States but said her mother-in-law chooses not to leave.
“I say you are a woman; you’re not fighting,” Shchelkunova said. “She said I can do something, I can feed soldiers, I can provide some help to the soldiers.”
Shchelkunova said she continues to focus on Ukrainians eager to leave their war-torn country, like her good friend Ella Popeneko, who came to San Diego with her family two years ago.
Popeneko said at one point, she and her husband and two kids had to live out of their car in an underground parking lot for a week. That’s when they decided to leave Ukraine.
“In Kharkiv, they can’t go to school, they cannot go for a walk, they cannot go to the playground because all the time sirens in my city so often,” Popeneko said.
Popeneko said she doesn’t regret leaving Ukraine because it was the right thing to do for her children, and six months ago, she helped Shchelkunova bring one more of their closest friends from Ukraine to San Diego to escape the conflict with Russia.
The House of Ukraine will be hosting a ‘Stand For Ukraine’ event on Sunday, December 15th, at 2 p.m. at Balboa Park.
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City considering cutting funding to resource center for those experiencing homelessness
Last week Mayor Todd Gloria released the budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal budget. Protected homeless services is among his top priorities mentioned in the proposal. However, some of the reductions he’s proposing could impact thousands of San Diegans experiencing homelessness.
Located on 17th and K Street, the Neil Good Day Center offers an array of services to nearly seven thousand people experiencing homelessness. The services include giving them a place to shower and do laundry, and connecting them to a case manager, among others.
“These are critical services that are helping people off the streets, but really better their lives and their health and their employment situation as well,” Deacon Vargas with Father Joe’s Villages said.
Deacon Jim Vargas heads Father Joe’s Villages, which runs the center. He said through their prevention and diversion strategies, they’ve managed to keep nearly one thousand individuals from falling into homelessness.
“So by helping them pay rent, or helping them with their utilities, or helping them to reunite with family,” Vargas said.
Right now, the city allocates at least $850,000 per year to the Neil Good Day Center, according to Vargas.
But the future and funding for these services are in limbo because of Mayor Todd Gloria’s proposed budget cuts.
“The impact to those whom we’ve been serving the Daily Center would be very severe,” Deacon Vargas said.
In a statement to NBC 7, Mayor Todd Gloria said in part, “We must find more efficient and cost-effective ways to address this crisis and prioritize funding for programs that provide shelter beds and maximize resources to programs that place people into permanent housing.”
Since it’s still at a proposal stage, Deacon Vargas said it’s unclear how the city will decide to move forward.
However, Deacon Vargas said services would be significantly reduced because they would be forced to operate solely on a budget of about half a million dollars they receive from philanthropy.
“The hours would be cut. Some days would be cut. We would have showers that might be impacted because they’re given seven days a week and we’d close two days a week, then the showers would be five days a week, the case management,” Deacon Vargas said.
Deacon Vargas is certain of one thing.
He would like to continue offering services at the Day Center, even if the city goes through with the funding cuts.
“As we work with individuals at the Day Center and at Father Joe’s Villages, the community becomes healthier as a result of it,” Deacon Vargas said.
The budget also recommends additional cuts to homeless services, but does not give specifics as to where those cuts would be.
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Solans, Luna, Guilavogui help RSL beat slumping San Diego, extend unbeaten streak to 6 games :: WRALSportsFan.com
SANDY, Utah — SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergi Solans had two goals and an assist, Diego Luna added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat San Diego FC 4-2 on Saturday night to extend its unbeaten streak to six games.
Morgan Guilavogui scored his first goal in MLS and had an assist for Real Salt Lake (5-1-1). The 28-year-old designated player has five goal contributions in his first six career games.
RSL hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat at Vancouver in the season opener.
San Diego (3-3-2) has lost three in a row and is winless in five straight.
Luna opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he re-directed a misplayed pass by Duran Ferree, San Diego’s 19-year-old goalkeeper, into the net.
Moments later, Solans headed home a perfectly-placed cross played by Luna from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box to the back post to make it 2-0. Solans, a 23-year-old forward, flicked a header from the center of the area inside the right post and past the outstretched arm of Ferree to make it 3-1 in the 37th minute.
Guilavogui slammed home a first-touch shot to give RSL a three-goal lead in the 45th.
Marcus Ingvartsen scored a goal in the 14th minute and Anders Dreyer converted from the penalty spot in the 66th for San Diego.
Ingvartsen has five goals and an assist this season and has 10 goal contributions (seven goals, three assists) in 16 career MLS appearances.
Rafael Cabral had three saves for RSL.
Ferree finished with five saves.
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