EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.–Once a week, Altagracia Hernandez boards a bus near her tiny two-bedroom apartment in East Palo Alto, Calif., and heads to the Ecumenical Hunger Program (EHP) on Puglas Road to stock up on a three-day supply of canned foods and fresh produce.
Everyone look out your window, a new hero is here! Larry Powell is not a superhero, but his generous sacrifice of his own income (in total, around $800,000) to give back to schools certainly was heroic.
Youth from Fresno’s Building Healthy Communities worked for over five hours on Saturday, Sept. 10 to create a new path in Romain Park.
The path is a project of Every Neighborhood Partnership, Fresno’s Parks, After School, Recreation and Community Services, and Building Healthy Communities.
Many of The Know’s writers are teens or young adults, but 10 years ago, they experienced 9/11 as children. Here are their memories of that day.
One thing that keep me up at night is my deep need to talk to someone. There’s just an urge to express what’s going through my mind. My greatest fear is that if I told someone, they’d think that I’m just feeling sorry for myself or I want pity. But it’s just the opposite. I just want someone to listen.