The Navajo Community Planners has scheduled a special meeting on Monday, Aug. 21 for a presentation and then to vote on, the All Peoples Church. The church wants to build a structure on land it owns near I-8 and College Avenue.

The meeting will be held at The Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Carlos from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Enter the parking lot from Tommy Street which is at the very west end of Tommy Drive.

Jackie O’Connor, the president of the Friends of Del Cerro (FODC) reports the street sign at Margerum and Navajo Road has been replaced.

This is another “Get It Done” request submitted to the city by the FODC on behalf of a resident of Del Cerro.

O’Connor stated, “We have three more pending; Replacement of two faded street signs on Adobe Falls Road, removal of a dead tree in the median on Del Cerro Blvd. just west of College Avenue, and a sidewalk repair on Arno Drive. If you have a city related item which needs to be reported, you may submit it yourself using the city’s “Get It Done” app or emailing the matter to FODC at [email protected].”

The FODC are continuing to expand their partnership with SDSU.

We have been asked to submit projects we are considering which would benefit from having an intern from SDSU work with us to gather useful information and provide an opportunity for students to hone their skills relating to their professional goals. These will be directed to enhance our efforts to improve the safety of Del Cerro and continuing our efforts of beautification and community cohesiveness.

In the May issue, we asked you to let us know what you would like to see improved in Del Cerro.

The most responses were for the improvement of the medians on College Avenue. The community improvement committee for the FODC is exploring options which we will be presenting to the community in the next few months.

On July 15, the “vintage mothers of Hearst Elementary” held a garage sale to benefit the firefighters of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department’s Engine Company 31 in Del Cerro. The city’s Fire-Rescue Department is on a mission to provide a special tourniquet device for each firefighter to carry with them out in the field, saving time and lives.

The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) has issued the following statement. “The department has come a long way in its approach to wild-land firefighting, but the tactics used to establish perimeter control lines around fires can still put firefighters at risk. Thankfully, they’ve undergone training in tourniquet application to better protect themselves and their fellow firefighters. But every second counts in an emergency, which is why supplying every firefighter with a combat application tourniquet could be a crucial and potentially life-saving measure. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation aims to purchase 1,000 of these tourniquets to ensure that every SDFD firefighter has one on hand during wild-land firefighting operations to mitigate the risk of serious injury or death. Our firefighters do so much for us, it’s time we invested in their safety as well.”

This community fundraiser benefitting the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department was put together by Pam Stafford, Mary Roberts, Jane Klofkorn, and Jackie O’Connor. Klofkorn and O’Connor are members of the FODC. The garage sale raised $700.00, and all the money was donated to the San Diego Fire Rescue Department to purchase the special tourniquets for the firefighters at Engine Company 31 in Del Cerro.

The next free First Friday summer concert on the lawn at the Allied Gardens Recreation Center will feature BETA MAXX “The ‘80’s never go out of style!” from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 1.

For more information on the summer concert series, visit their website at agfirstfridays.com.