At 3:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, I drove into the parking lot of my local Community Center. La Mesa is perhaps one of the safest places in San Diego County – if “safe” is measured in the number of communities between your home and a firestorm. The city may not be in harm’s way, yet officials still offered up their largest meeting space for collection of donated goods and as a coordination point to prepare meals for delivery to area evacuation centers.
Councilman Ernie Ewin had indicated he needed very early morning assistance to prepare egg sandwich breakfasts for the displaced hundreds staying six miles away in the gym at Steele Canyon High School . I imagined him trying to scrape together a crew of five to ten volunteers willing to set their alarms for 1:30 a.m., resulting in a short-handed, crazed rush of work prior to the planned 6:00 a.m. food pick up.
I should have known better of my community.
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October 25th, 2007 at 12:00 am
On behalf of the Steele Canyon community and the eavc center, thank you very much for all of the hard work. It has been overwhelming to see the amount of donations, volunteers, and goodwill on behalf of the East County. We truly live in a special place!