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Building A Healthy Community In City Heights

By Maureen Cavanaugh / KPBS Midday Edition Co-Host,  Megan Burke / News Editor
Published April 15, 2010 at 5:45 AM PDT
This story was published more than 14 years ago.
Building A Healthy Community In City Heights
First Lady Michelle Obama is in San Diego today. She's here to promote her anti-obesity campaign - but more specifically to help launch an effort to transform more than a dozen California neighborhoods into healthy communities - including City Heights.
The New Roots Community Farm in City Heights welcomed First Lady Michelle Obama on April 15, 2010. Her visit was part of her health campaign to end childhood obesity.
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The New Roots Community Farm in City Heights welcomed First Lady Michelle Obama on April 15, 2010. Her visit was part of her health campaign to end childhood obesity.
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Seen here on April 15, 2010, the New Roots Community Farm is located in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego.
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Seen here on April 15, 2010, the New Roots Community Farm is located in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego.
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First Lady Michelle Obama visited the New Roots Community Farm in City Heights on April 15, 2010. Her visit was part of her health campaign to end childhood obesity.
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First Lady Michelle Obama visited the New Roots Community Farm in City Heights on April 15, 2010. Her visit was part of her health campaign to end childhood obesity.
Ana Tintocalis
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks at the New Roots Community Farm in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego on April 15, 2010. The first lady is promoting her health campaign to end childhood obesity.
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First Lady Michelle Obama speaks at the New Roots Community Farm in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego on April 15, 2010. The first lady is promoting her health campaign to end childhood obesity.
Ana Tintocalis
Sunflowers from the New Roots Community Farm in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego on April 15, 2010.
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Sunflowers from the New Roots Community Farm in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego on April 15, 2010.
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Artwork at the New Roots Community Farm in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego on April 15, 2010.
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Artwork at the New Roots Community Farm in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego on April 15, 2010.
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MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): First Lady Michelle Obama is in San Diego today. She's here to promote her anti-obesity campaign - but more specifically to help launch an effort to transform more than a dozen California neighborhoods into healthy communities.

The Building Healthy Communities Initiative has selected 14 neighborhoods across the state one of them is City Heights here in San Diego. It's a 10-year program aimed at creating healthy places, with access to fresh foods, safe places to exercise and clean air, to help kids get healthy and grow into healthy adults.

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Robert K. Ross, M.D., President and CEO of The California Endowment

Diana Ross, collaborative director of Mid-City CAN

Jose Cervantes, longtime City Heights Resident, and a member of the Mid-City CAN Coordinating Council

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Maureen Cavanaugh
Maureen Cavanaugh has been a familiar voice for KPBS listeners for more than 15 years, serving in a variety of capacities including announcer, host, and producer. As host of KPBS Midday Edition, Maureen has interviewed a wide range of notables, such as comedienne Sandra Bernhardt, actor John Lequizamo, author Chuck Palahniuk, composer Marvin Hamlisch, artist Robert Irwin, and designer Zandra Rhodes. But of all the interviews Maureen has conducted, her most special was with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Before joining KPBS in 1997, she worked as a news anchor for KSDO and KOGO News Radio in San Diego. While working for commercial radio stations in San Diego and in Salt Lake City, Utah, Maureen reported on both hard news and lifestyle features. Maureen has received three "Golden Mike" awards from the Radio and TV News Association of Southern California for economic reporting and breaking news. She has also received a "Best of Show" and “Best Radio Newscast” awards from the San Diego Press Club and the "Flo" Award from Public Radio Program Directors Association for Best Public Radio Announcer in a large market. Maureen is a native of Queens, New York, but after more than 20 years in San Diego she feels she qualifies as a real Southern Californian.
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Megan Burke
Megan Burke is an Emmy-award winning news editor overseeing the environment, health, and racial justice and social equity reporting beats. Prior to her current role as editor, Megan spent more than a decade as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition, a daily radio news magazine and podcast. Other news production credits include KPBS Evening Edition, KPBS Roundtable, and San Diego’s DNA, a two-part documentary highlighting the region’s oldest traditions and culture using personal artifacts and oral histories of San Diegans.
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