🌱 East County Shooting + Back-Country Burn Permits

Good morning, La Mesa-Mount Helix! Here's everything you need to know to get this Tuesday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and pleasant. High: 72 Low: 55.

Here are the top stories in and around La Mesa-Mount Helix today:

1. A shooting in a residential neighborhood in Lemon Grove near Mount Miguel High School left a 29-year-old man wounded. (City News Service)
2. Mark Thursday and Friday, Nov. 18-19, on your calendar. You may want to plan a lunar eclipse party in La Mesa-Mount Helix and watch the full frost moon turn red. (La Mesa-Mount Helix Patch)
3. Cal State San Marcos has received a gift of $200,000 from the Henry L. Guenther Foundation to further develop the university's nursing simulation and skills labs (City News Service).
4. With cooler fall temperatures and higher humidity levels reducing local wildfire threats, a six-month suspension of back-country burn permits in the San Diego area lapsed Monday, officials announced. (City News Service)

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Today in La Mesa-Mount Helix:

• City Council Meeting. (6 p.m.)

La Mesa-Mount Helix Patch Notebook

• County of San Diego: "County Park's Warrior Hike Challenge will take over El Capitan County Preserve on Saturday, Nov. 13." (Instagram)
• San Diego County Library: "Ahead of Veterans Day, check out our list of titles dedicated to those who served our nation throughout the decades." (Facebook)
• San Diego Humane Society: "When we work together, we can save more lives. On Oct. 26 and 27, 18 dogs were transferred to San Diego Humane Society from the Humane Society of Imperial County to help them find homes — and 17 dogs have already been adopted!" (Facebook)

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