Several news stories in and around San Mateo County have broken this week, and these are the local news stories for July 16-22 to know to stay up to date.
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Redwood City maintains a Stage 2 water shortage emergency, which means residential customers have an indoor allocation of 45 gallons per person per day and an outdoor reduction for irrigation of 35 percent.
Thus, to prevent unreasonable use and promote the conservation of the vital liquid, the Water Board prohibited the use of potable water for non-functional lawn irrigation in commercial, industrial and institutional sites, which also includes common areas for homeowners' associations, but not family residential areas.
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Healthcare and support workers at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City went on strike last Monday, demanding better working conditions and a new contract.
The strike broke out on July 18 at 6:00 a.m. at the hospital located at 170 Alameda de las Pulgas, after it was authorized on July 7 when 95 percent of the union members voted in favor of taking action.
Thus, nursing assistants, assistants, surgical technicians, respiratory therapists, cooks and others who participated in the demonstration demanded better working conditions, higher salaries, better benefits and increased staffing.
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On Monday morning, a San Mateo Police officer arrested a man after he approached him and confessed to being responsible for stealing a carpool vehicle on the night of Sunday, July 17.
According to the report, Randy Jay admitted to detectives that he "was a bad person and needed to go to jail" because he was responsible for the carjacking incident. During the search of his person, fentanyl and a knife that had been used during the robbery were discovered.
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The Pacifica City Police Department requested assistance following a hate incident in the community where a doll was branded with a swastika at a local school.
Last July 13, local police officers responded to a report of theft at Oceana High School, where they learned that a pride flag was taken from the pole in front of the gymnasium.
While on July 14, officers responded to the City of Pacifica's after-school care program located on the Sunset Ridge School campus to conduct a theft investigation.
Inside the ransacked classroom, said the authority, the officers located a doll of a child with a swastika inscribed on its forehead. The staff reported the theft of several electronic and computer items.
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The Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Center in San Mateo County, which is operated by StarVista, began receiving calls to the 988 number this week as part of the national 988 network.
Local callers to 988 will receive free and confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the StarVista Crisis Center hotline program.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) called the 988 number a first step toward a transformed crisis care system in the United States.
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San Mateo County farmworkers will soon be able to access health care resources via a double-decker bus, thanks to a new program launched by local advocacy groups and backed by major life sciences companies like Genentech.
The program to be launched in September, Farmworker Equity Express, will be equipped with computers and the Internet to help farmworkers connect virtually with health care providers, mental health resources, online tutoring and classes for adults in community college programs.
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San Francisco supervisors on Thursday criticized the public health response to the ongoing global outbreak of "monkey "pox, calling for better communication with at-risk groups and an influx of vaccine doses.
San Francisco currently has 141 confirmed cases, more than half of the 266 confirmed statewide as of Tuesday.
The vast majority of the city's cases have been confirmed in gay or bisexual men between the ages of 25 and 54, and about 42 percent of the confirmed cases have been in Asian, African-descent or Hispanic residents.
Stephanie Cohen, M.D., medical director of the San Francisco City Clinic said the city requested a conservative estimate of 35,000 doses of simian smallpox vaccine, but only received approximately 7,700 doses.
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