Senior Escort: JOYCE JOHNSON HONORED FOR 25 YEARS OF SENIOR OUTREACH
BAY POINT After 25 years of helping to ensure that Contra Costa County seniors get a good meal, the lunch tables were turned on Joyce Johnson recently and the sandwiches along with a little champagne were served in her honor.Family, friends and colleagues gathered at the Ambrose Recreation Center to celebrate the silver anniversary of Johnson's work with the senior nutrition program. "Joyce is an exceptional individual," said Loren Cole, executive...
Senior Escort: Charities benefit from tribe's 'good fortune'
Agua Calientes dole out about $1 million By Jennifer Liebrum The Desert Sun PALM SPRINGS It's 8:40 a.m. on a Friday and Ethel Prather waits patiently in the passenger side of a car parked in front of Longs Drug Store in the Smoketree Shopping Center.Fred Guerra hops from behind the wheel of the white Chevy Lumina and liberates a red shopping cart from the row out front. He gathers Prather's purse, shopping bag and cane, settling them in the cart before...
Senior Escort: BOARDWATCH
At their weekly meeting yesterday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors: Approved: -- Two anti-graffiti measures, including an amendment to the police code requiring store owners to keep aerosol paint and marker pens in locked cases. Conroy, principal sponsor of the measures, said this would prevent theft. Store owners not in compliance with the measure could face fines. The other measure urged the Municipal Court to impose stiffer fines for graffiti offenses and make parents...
$300,000 Left to Senior Escort
Battle Over S.F. Widow's Will
When Lillian Hyman, a Noe Valley widow, died at the age of 92 in October, she left a will giving almost all of her $300,000 estate to a city crime-prevention worker she called "my angel." The friend was Edward Montoya, who met Hyman in 1983 through his work for the police-run Senior Escort-Outreach Program.Montoya was one of the few regular visitors to Hyman's home in her last lonely years, running errands and taking her to lunch at Bruno's...
Senior Escort: CADETS AT CAPE MAY BASE TO MOURN CLASSMATE
While more than 80 Sea Cadets will graduate Friday from the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, they will also mourn the death of a 16-year-old trainee who died four days earlier during a routine training exercise.It is still unclear what killed Shawn D. Jackson of Horsham, Pa., who was attending a two-week training session at the Coast Guard Training Center. Jackson was pronounced dead at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital in Cape May Court House. Coast Guard officials reported that...