SAN MARCOS
Eric Sy wasn’t expecting to spend more than a quarter of his college experience inside his family’s home in Rancho Bernardo.
But that’s where the 22-year-old computer science major at Cal State San Marcos spent much of 2020 and 2021, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
So it was a bit surreal for Sy and the several thousand fellow graduates who massed at the university’s track and field site Saturday in their black caps and gowns. The graduation ceremony marked the first time most of the classmates had stepped foot on the campus or gathered in person since before the health emergency shut things down in March 2020.
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Print Vista Community Clinic has been giving out fresh and boxed food to support the health of patients and community members in need through food distributions for more than a decade. Since the onset of the pandemic, food distribution has increased and is offered up to four times a week, based on need, thanks to a number of local groups and nonprofits ranging from Feeding San Diego, Poder Popular and Coastal along with grants to the clinic. Diapers are also currently available, in various sizes. Parents and guardians of babies and young children can request a box of diapers when they call to schedule their food pick-up. To make an appointment, call (760) 631-5000 ext. 7014.
Anyone in need of food assistance can register to take part in this food distribution event made possible by the SWITCHFOOT BRO-AM Foundation, Feed San Diego and Suja Juice.
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In January, I received an email from a frustrated furniture shopper.
“Months ago, my new wife and I ordered a bed frame and headboard for our new top-of-the-line Tempurpedic mattress,” J.B. Harris, a shopper and reader in Florida, lamented. Though they received their mattress within a reasonable time frame, the bed frame and headboard were missing in action. “It’s been an existential nightmare, as confounding as Samuel Beckett’s
Waiting for Godot.”
When I reconnected with Harris in April, he had finally received his shipment after many months of waiting. “West Elm has the worst supply chain issues of any retailer I have ever experienced,” he told me. “My advice to West Elm shoppers: If you cannot buy an item from a showroom floor, expect to wait weeks if not months to receive it.” He and his wife slept on a mattress on the floor fo