http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF6dcuhkuqA After waiting 20 years for a recreation center, the Little Tokyo community will finally be breaking ground on the construction site of the future Terasaki Budokan this August. Funding Budokan started with the Terasaki family,...
Reporting from Wilmington, N.C. The disclosure of the release of harsh chemical GenX into the Cape Fear River from a former Dupont plant has left shocking waves throughout the community. The company—to the people's disappointment—is not committing to stop the...
“They took my life away when they took my keys,” said Donald, a Seccombe Park resident who did not provide a last name due to confidentiality reasons. This is what Donald told me when I started interviewing him in the park. While growing up he said he “always felt...
This past Saturday, one of the most anticipated sporting events in the area, the Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) Tri-Valley Regional Spring Games, was hosted at Crescenta Valley High School. In its eighth consecutive year at the high school, over 300...
I think my ethnicity stands out in my community because I know where everything is in my community. But then I really don’t know what else stands out from me in my community. Sometimes I walk around the neighborhood and see unusual places. For example, there’s this...
The delicious smelling place located in East Los Angeles has been standing since 1956. Tom’s Burgers started from the bottom and still here. It started off when a young Greek immigrant family arrived to Los Angeles. Tom’s Burgers is one of the oldest and the longest...
It was a hot and humid that Friday afternoon. I had just left school and was going to head to Los Cinco Puntos with my Dad. When we got there it smelled like cooking meat and you can hear it sizzling. It wasn’t really busy at the moment. I asked a man in the front who...
Everyone knows how bad it is to get a good haircut and some might even want a haircut for a good price with good service. Alex Barbershop is the place to go. Located in East Los Angeles, you come in and feel like you’re at an old barber because they keep it classy in...
I would explain my identity as caring. I like to help people around my community that are struggling for survival, who have no home, no food and no family, who are all alone in this world without any love. I like to volunteer at local shelters in my community to help...
What stands out to me about my identity is that I am very ambitious but I came a long way for that to happen. I once did not care about school and was getting into some police problems. In freshman year, I would never come to school so my grades were poor. But I...
