SAN DIEGO -- The grand reopening of Montclair Park in North Park will be celebrated from noon to 1 p.m. today.

The neighborhood park of about nine acres, located south of Quince Street and next to Interstate 805.

City Councilmember Todd Gloria; Stacey LoMedico, director of the city's Park and Recreation Department; Patti Boekamp, director of the city's Engineering and Capital Projects Department; and North Park community members will participate in the official ceremony this afternoon.

SAN DIEGO -- The Center has received a $20,000 Neighborhood Reinvestment Program grant to help finance a new website and enhanced e-communication tools.

County Supervisor Ron Roberts' office announced the grant today.

“We are grateful to Supervisor Roberts for his support of The Center,” said Jeffrey M. Wergeles, development director at The Center.

SAN DIEGO – Thousands of people will gather in Hillcrest this Sunday for the 26th annual CityFest celebration.

The event, which celebrates the 1984 relighting of the iconic neon Hillcrest sign hanging at Fifth and University avenues, has become one of the largest community street fairs in the county, drawing crowds of up to 150,000 people.

CityFest will begin at noon and officially last until 8 p.m., although many revelers often continue the party throughout the evening, with a number of neighborhood bars and other venues hosting official after-parties.

SAN DIEGO – Several thousand people – families holding hands with their children, couples hugging, folks walking with their dogs, and many chanting slogans extolling equal rights -- flocked to Hillcrest late Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the historic legal ruling that struck down California’s Proposition 8 law banning same-sex marriage.

Many gathered at Sixth and University in the gayborhood for a 6 p.m. march down University to The Center, where a Town Hall meeting was scheduled at 7 p.m. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders was among the dignitaries in attendance.