The Carlsbad Desalination Plant is finally up and running. With this new water source brings changes to North County. In this KOCT Newsbrief, reporter Amy DuPont explains what the Plant does and how it affect you in the future.
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In this KOCT Newsbrief special, we gather together a collection of Newsbriefs from 2015 in one convenient package. We're looking forward to 2016 and the stories waiting to be told!
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The Oceanside Public Library is a jewel of Downtown Oceanside. Every year, The Friends of Oceanside Public Library host fundraisers to raise money for it. The Trivia Bee is one of those fundraisers, bringing people together for a good cause.
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Opening Day for Youth Success week was all about setting things in motion. For 3 years, the Community Alliance for Youth Success, or CAYS, have been coming together to help Oceanside students become successful in their lives, and it all culminated in this week long event. On Opening Day, many speakers came out to show all of the support and love that they’ve poured into this project, including entrepreneur Stedman Graham. With the help of the community, CAYS is aiming to take Youth Success further than just Oceanside and use it as a platform nationwide.
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Students came to the Oceanside Bandshell to perform for their parents and community, closing off a week dedicated to help students with educational goals. CAYS promotes the Oceanside Promise, which is a long term goal of making sure that every Oceanside student is career and college ready when they graduate. Oceanside is dedicated to its youth and the Oceanside Promise is proof of that.
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Celebrating the opening of the new Garrison Creek Nature Trail at El Corazon Park with interviews and images of the new trail.
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KOCT covered the annual Memorial Day Celebration at Eternal Hills Memorial Park. This beautiful event is served to recognize those who have sacrificed their lives for our country.
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This North County NewsBrief focuses on a recent Agritourism Workshop held by Visit Oceanside. The workshop was open to everyone in the community as a way to work together to develop Agritourism in Oceanside.
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The launch of KOCT’s upgraded cablecast department featuring:
Tom Reeser - KOCT Executive Director
Bill Horn - 5th District Supervisor
Jaime Johnson, MBA Director Tri-City Medical Center Marketing, Communications & Public Affairs
Imagine the odds of soccer players in an after school program in an underserved neighborhood winning the National Beach Soccer Championships in Clearwater Florida. That is the story we feature in this NewsBrief.
The young men on the soccer team based out of the Crown Heights Community Center in Oceanside, California, grew up together playing soccer at the after school program funded by North County Lifeline and formed strong friendships.
They made history by making it to the National championships undefeated and went on to snatch victory from a physically bigger team froth East Coast. The team credits the support they received over the years from the staff at Club Crown Heights for helping them maintain focus and for the giving them the confidence that they could achieve their lifelong dream of winning the national championships.
Amnesty International held an event on World Press Freedom Day at Wavelength Brewing Company in Vista, inviting locals to hear about the stories of journalists from around the world who are being censored by their governments because of the words they speak and write.
Jean Guerrero of KPBS was on site to share her stories about her time reporting in Mexico and the risks she faced there.
For more information on the North County chapter of Amnesty International, please visit their Facebook page at https://Facebook.com/Amnesty471
The Vista Strawberry Festival is an annual event held at downtown Vista and sponsored by Tri-City Medical Center.
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In this KOCT Newsbrief, we take a look at some activities offered for Seniors here in Oceanside. At the El Corazon and Country Club Senior Centers, Table Tennis is offered during the week. At Mebla Bishop Park, folks can find the Melba Bishop Pickleball Club playing Pickleball every morning. If you’re a senior looking for some fun, this Newsbrief will show you where to find it!
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A look into the mutually beneficial hiring and intern arrangement that Palomar College and KOCT foster in training the broadcast professionals of the future. Palomar’s award winning Broadcast Arts Dept trains students in radio and television production skills utilizing state of the art facilities. In turn, because of their excellent training in their college program, KOCT is able to provide intern opportunities for Palomar students that give them real world work experience in a professional broadcast production facility and television station.
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A ribbon cutting ceremony was held to celebrate the opening of Oceanside High School’s new Performing Arts Center.
The center has a 502-seat main theater, a black box theater, indoor and outdoor scenery shops, classroom space, a recording studio plus outdoor seating and performance areas.
The ribbon cutting ceremony featured members from the OUSD Board of Directors, OHS Officials, City Officials and other important key players that helped bring this facility to life.
The American Heart Association with local sponsor Tri-City Medical Center hosted the inaugural North County Heart Walk in Oceanside, CA on Saturday September 30, 2017 at the Oceanside Pier!
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MainStreet Oceanside Mural Initiative is proud to present the unveiling of the first of ten murals made by Skye Walker at the Star Theater in downtown Oceanside.
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Undocumenta is a new exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art running through January 28, 2018. Curator Alessandra Moctezuma presents the work of Regional Artists Claudio Cano, Teresita de la Torre, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Dominic Paul Miller, Marcos Ramirez Erre and Omar Pimienta.
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Diving into the KOCT vaults, we take a look at the old Johansen House move! The Johansen House was one of the oldest buildings in Oceanside when it was moved to Heritage Park back in October of 1993.
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