Education
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Sixty-six graduates of the RichmondBUILD Green Careers Academy were awarded certificates of completion Friday morning at their training facility on 23rd Street. The green academy trains residents in energy-efficient home construction, hybrid automotive technologies, solar installation and environmental literacy
City Council office intern David Gray has used his small opportunity to make a big impact in Richmond.
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and state Assembly Member Nancy Skinner will be featured speakers at Friday’s RichmondBUILD Graduation ceremony.
Oakland A’s all-star starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez and reliever Fautino De Los Santos wowed the kids and parents at “Backpacks 4 Their Future,” an event that helped hand out 500 backpacks filled with binders, pencils, rulers, scissors and other school supplies to Richmond schoolkids.
Two Oakland Athletics baseball players, All-Star starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez and relief pitcher Fautino De Los Santos, will be in Richmond Tuesday, Aug. 16 to hand out backpacks loaded with school supplies to local kids.
Kaiser Permanente wants to HEAL Richmond. Not with expensive medicine or shiny surgical knives, but with good old-fashioned Healthy Eating Active Living, or HEAL Zones, the acronym chosen for a program that will help residents fight obesity through education. The program also includes a small business action plan that will encourage local businesses to promote responsible food and exercise choices. The three-year $10 million HEAL Zones’ initiative is a continuation of Kaiser Permanente’s 2006 Healthy Eating Active Living Community Health…
Funding Adult Day Health Care, which supports the elderly and those with special needs, was cut from the state’s budget this summer, and unless a lawsuit challenging the cuts is successful, the program will disappear at the end of this year.
The city of Richmond will foot the bill to send a track team of local kids to New Orleans.