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Loved Twice doubles down on Bay Area babies’ needs

(Photo Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Under low banks of fluorescent lights, around long tables laden with infants’ outfits, office workers at Enterprise Holdings listen closely as Loved Twice founder Lisa Klein tells them why they are there. “Today, you’re ...

Students tend the gardens, share the bounty, in West County

(Photo Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) The hillside garden at Mira Vista Elementary School — filled with kale, milkweed, apples, tomatoes, herbs, pomegranates and flowers overlooking the city and the bay — is more than just a pretty plot of ...

Meals on Wheels brightens days for Alameda County seniors

(Photo Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Macular degeneration has darkened, but not completely taken Caroline Ericksen’s eyesight. And the 95-year-old retired clerical worker’s days brighten when the doorbell of her apartment near Lake Merritt rings in the early afternoon. Ericksen ...

St. Vincent de Paul volunteer the most dedicated role model

(Photo Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) Every weekday, 73-year-old Robert Harris leaves his Antioch home and makes his way to St. Vincent de Paul in Pittsburg. It is an hourlong trip by bus, and Robert is in a wheelchair, ...

Mother and family find new home in Hayward

(Photo Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Maria was 43 years old with five children, unemployed and living in her SUV. She also was seven months pregnant. Just weeks earlier, she was managing an apartment complex and had been regularly employed ...

Opportunity knocked for once-desperate meth addict at Antioch jobs training provider

(Photo Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) Upset over her parents’ divorce and stuck in a drug-infested downtown neighborhood, Rachelle Ducker began using methamphetamine as a way to cope with her unhappiness at the tender age of 12. The young Antioch ...

Monumental Toy Drive helps deliver joy for Concord kids

(Photo Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) Yessica Garcia recalls getting toys from Monumental Toy Drive when she was a child and now is only too happy to help brighten Christmas for today’s children who are living in Concord. “It’s ...

Las Trampas, Inc. lends a big hand to the developmentally disabled

(Photo Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) At Las Trampas, Angie is known as a fiercely independent go-getter — a woman who refuses to let her developmental disability keep her down. Angie, 58, enjoys dancing, bowling, swimming and getting her hair ...

Love A Child Missions offers shelter, boost lives of East Bay homeless women, children

(Photo Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Chelsea Gould didn’t want to be at Love A Child Missions when she first arrived nearly a year ago. “When I got here, it was very hard for me because I’m not used to ...

At Loaves and Fishes, a warm meal is only the beginning

(Photo Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Tina Loyola Cabral is the friendly face dozens of people see when they come to American Legion Hall in Antioch for a warm meal, courtesy of Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa County. She ...
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