Our group of 20 Rotarians and Rotaractors spent this past Saturday morning doing gardening work at the Living Coast Discovery Center. We planted over 40 shrubs, watered their entire pollinator garden (multiple times due to the dry conditions), cleaned some of their rare plants' leaves - all within an hour and a half! Then, their horticulturist Paul gave us a short tour of their grounds and gave us some very interesting facts about San Diego's biodiversity. Did you know, San Diego County has more biodiversity than any comparable square footage in the continental United States?!?

 

Below are some pictures from the event. And of course, no event in Chula Vista would be complete without a lunch visit to Tacos El Gordo ;)

 

 

And last but not least, the video they made interviewing Sarah about our group for their website and Social Media page:

On February 21 our speakers will be from the Tariq Khamsa Foundation, an organization dedicated to teaching and inspiring peace, hope, and forgiveness in youth and setting them on a path towards opportunity. TKF was founded in 1995, after college student Tariq Khamisa was killed by a 14-year-old gang member, Tony Hicks. Tony was tried as an adult and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Tariq’s father, Azim Khamisa, felt this tragedy created victims on both ends of the gun. Azim, in an act of extraordinary grace and forgiveness, reached out to Tony’s grandfather, Ples Felix. The two men came together in the spirit of healing to end youth violence.