Community Corner
Mama’s Kitchen Celebrates Milestone
The non-profit delivers meals to patients throughout the county. Today volunteers will deliver meal No. 6 million.
Millions of Meals
Mama’s Kitchen, a San Diego-based nonprofit that for years has given free food to HIV/AIDS and cancer patients, will deliver its 6 millionth meal today.
In 2011, Mama’s Kitchen served an average of 953 meals a day to 572 people for an annual total of nearly 348,000 servings, according to the group.
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Nearly 800 volunteers helped take the food around to men, women and children throughout San Diego County.
Mama’s Kitchen recently relocated its headquarters from just north of downtown San Diego to Home Avenue, a little north of state Route 94.
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The organization was launched some 20 years ago by volunteers from the AIDS Assistance Fund after they discovered many people with AIDS were dying from complications of malnutrition because they were low income and too ill, isolated and emotionally devastated to help themselves.
Settlement Reached
A hearing is scheduled in Vista today to announce the details of a settlement in the case of a North County football player who suffered a debilitating head injury during a 2007 high school game. Attorneys for former Mission Hills High School player Scott Eveland claim his coach put him in the game even though he complained of a severe headache. Attorneys for the San Marcos Unified School District maintain the injury was a tragic accident.
California Condor Chick Cam
The San Diego Zoo today is hosting a live video feed on its website of a California condor chick about to hatch.
The egg began to “pip”—the process by which the chick breaks through the shell—on Thursday, according to zoo officials, who say the pipping period generally takes two to three days.
At sandiegozooglobal.org/video/condor-cam, viewers may see the chick’s beak protrude through the egg shell or the parents gently removing broken eggshell fragments to help the offspring emerge.
The zoo is accepting name suggestions for the chick. The public can suggest names for the chick in the Chumash language via postings on the San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy’s wall at facebook.com/sdzglobal or by
tweeting to twitter.com/sdzglobal and using the hashtag CondorName.
-City News Service
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