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City officials released a draft amendment on De Anza Cove at Mission Bay Park on Tuesday, calling for a balance between visitor accommodations and natural habitat restoration.

San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) is set to host its annual fundraiser, The Garden Party, on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022 from 4 to 8 p.m. The intimate evening of botanical beauty, fabulous food, and bubbly beverages will honor plant biologist and geneticist Dr. Joanne Chory with the 2022 Paul Ecke Jr. Award of Excellence. Tickets are available for purchase here with General Admission (21 and over only) tickets at $300 per person to enjoy exciting entertainment and lively conversation in SDBG's thriving Garden. The event will take place in the Garden’s state-of-the-art, 8,000 square foot, glass-enclosed Dickinson Family Education Conservatory, in the adjacent amphitheater, and throughout surrounding garden paths. The Garden Party will feature live entertainment from musicians Jason Brown, Gilbert Castellanos, and Lee Coulter, as well as a live auction. Partygoers will graze food and beverages stations from Best Pizza and Brew, Continental Catering, Drink Fellows, Hot Bev’s Coffee and Tea, Jaybird Hard Kombucha, Ponce’s Mexican Restaurant, Quigley Fine Wines, and Urban Plates. Visitors will also stroll Garden paths and enjoy lively conversations at information booths highlighting the Garden’s various programs, such as conservation and restoration projects SDBG implements across San Diego County, from Anza Borrego through coastal communities and into the Otay Mountain Wilderness. Visit: https://sdbg.org/the-garden-party/ San Diego Botanic Garden on Facebook + Instagram + @SDBGarden on Twitter

The final mobile homes still standing at De Anza Cove mobile home park on Mission Bay are coming down.

California lawmakers are going to try to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state.

As he nears the halfway mark on his first term, Biden is pointing to legacy-defining achievements on climate change, domestic manufacturing and progress on the pandemic — all accomplished with razor-thin majorities on Capitol Hill and rather dim views from the public.

The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park suffers loss of vegetation and other effects due to climate change, San Diego weighs how to electrify buildings as part of its larger climate goals and new details show where some of the questionable spending was done by SANDAG as part of an internal audit of the regional planning agency.

From 1930 to 1947, poet, artist, and author Marshal South and his family lived on Ghost Mountain—a remote, waterless, windswept mountaintop in Blair Valley on the western edge of the Colorado Desert, now part of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Over a period of nine of those years, South chronicled his family’s controversial primitive and natural lifestyle through monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. His articles were the reality entertainment of the day—a sort of early version of Survivor with thousands of readers awaiting the next installment. Join us as Author and Historian Diana Lindsay delves into the backstory of this fascinating book and shares insight into the South Family’s life on the remote Ghost Mountain. Seating Limited. Visit: https://gaslampfoundation.org/product/history-talks-lecture-marshal-south-and-the-ghost-mountain-chronicles-an-experiment-in-primitive-living/ Davis-Horton House on Instagram

According to the suit, State Parks employees should have known that high heat would endanger volunteers for the count — including 68-year-old Culver City resident Donald White Jr., who died on June 19, 2021, of environmental hypothermia.

Join us Saturday, April 9 as we return to Walk for Lyme San Diego. Bay Area Lyme Foundation and San Diego Lyme Alliance are reviving the annual 5K walk for Lyme and tick-borne disease awareness. Bring the family for this free event with t-shirts, live music, booths, tick bite prevention, Lyme education and giveaways as you walk along beautiful Mission Bay. Location: De Anza Cove, Mission Bay: 3000 N. Mission Bay Drive, San Diego 92109. Time: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. We’re looking forward to jump-starting the local Lyme community! Contact info@bayarealyme.org with questions Bay Area Lyme Foundation is a national, 501c3 non-profit organization based in Silicon Valley and collaborates with world-class scientists and institutions to accelerate medical breakthroughs for Lyme disease. It is also dedicated to providing reliable, fact-based information so that prevention and the importance of early treatment are common knowledge. A pivotal donation from The LaureL STEM Fund covers overhead costs and allows for 100% of all donor contributions to Bay Area Lyme Foundation to go directly to research and prevention programs. Lyme disease is one of the most common vector-borne infectious diseases in the world. It is found in 65 countries and throughout the United States, with over 476,000 new cases each year in the US alone. And yet, Lyme research is significantly underfunded relative to other comparable diseases. Our goal is to fill that void and accelerate the pace of new drug and diagnostic development in order to alleviate the suffering. View this event on Facebook

The Candlewood Arts Festival runs throughout Borrego Springs from March to March 27. Meet the artists at opening weekend March 5-6. Free tickets available here. Artist list: Allison Wiese Sherin Guirguis Noé Olivas Jake Freilich Carlos Ramirez Alison Saars Opening weekend schedule: Find a full schedule here. The unofficial headquarters for the opening weekend will be at Christmas Circle from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Sunday. Maps are available there to begin self-guided tours. Saturday, Mar. 5 at 1:30 - 3 p.m.: Artist talk at the Borrego Springs library Saturday, Mar. 5 at 4-5 p.m.: Performance by Amitis Motevalli in response to Sherin Guiguis' installation at Seley Ranches/Seley Orchards Fruit Stand (free tickets here) Saturday, Mar. 5 at 6-8 p.m.: Opening reception at Candlewood Arts Festival Gallery (reserve free tickets here); The Mall, 610 Palm Canyon Dr., Borrego Springs Sunday, Mar. 6 at 10 am. to 12 p.m.: Meet the artists at their artworks Interactive map of artworks: From the organizers: The Candlewood Arts Festival celebrates the connections between art, community, and our shared environment in the dramatic landscape of Borrego Springs, California. Throughout the month of March 2022, experience newly commissioned site-specific works of art — sculpture, installation, performance, and photography— and family-friendly art-making workshops in this unique community surrounded by the Anza Borrego Desert. Access to all events is free. The Under the Sun Foundation sponsors the Candlewood Arts Festival and the permanent Sky Art sculptures also found on Galleta Meadows in Borrego Springs. Related links: Candlewood Arts Festival on Facebook Candlewood Arts Festival on Instagram