Posts Tagged ‘community’
PG&E to incorporate safety initiatives, remove obstructing trees
After the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion five years ago, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. launched a statewide upgrade to its gas safety program. Richmond will receive its PG&E pipeline safety makeover in the upcoming weeks. PG&E said it was introducing its Community Pipeline Safety Initiative to improve access to transmission lines for first responders…
Read MoreAttorney General hopes to make Richmond a national model
U.S Attorney General Loretta Lynch is coming to Richmond on Friday to highlight the city as a national example of how to repair trust between citizens and the police.
Read MoreMichael Banks: A firefighter for 34 years, a husband for 40
Retiring Richmond Fire Chief Michael Banks has dedicated his life to protecting his home city from fires, and caring for his family. “What’s important is trying to go in and help people,” he said.
Read MoreRich City Rides bike recovery program: Reuniting bikers and their stolen bikes
Najari Smith launched a bike recovery program as executive director of Rich City Rides. For him, the business of hunting down stolen bikes is personal.
Read MoreNorth Richmond project transforms gardens — and gardeners, too
The Davis Chapel community garden in North Richmond didn’t always look like this: twenty members of the community planting and digging in the angled November sunlight.
Read MoreRichmond, young and old, comes together at one polling station
In the dark morning hours of Nov. 4, Election Day, Enrique Suarez del Solar quietly seals the envelope of his wife’s birthday card and places her present on the table. Then del Solar heads out to volunteer at the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church as a poll worker.
Read MoreAmbassador Andrew Young draws hundreds to a Richmond community dinner
In the second visit by a national political figure in a week, Richmond was host to former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young. The dinner, sponsored by the Chevron backed nonprofit, For Richmond, drew about 450 people to the Lavonya DeJean Middle School.
Read MoreCommunity gathers to prevent violence in wake of recent homicide
Calling for an end to the deadly violence that flared in Richmond in recent weeks, a small group of community volunteers from Ceasefire marched through Pullman Point Friday night. “We’ve been working tirelessly in the community to reduce gun violence,” activist Tamisha Walker said. The effort is part of a broader push by the community…
Read MoreRichmond Art Center provides a blank canvas for community creativity and learning
“Pinch and pull, pinch and pull” was the constant mantra of 12 kids molding their clay on a sunny afternoon. Each student was given a block of clay, water, molding tools and freedom to make their own clay birds.
Read MoreRobert Rodgers, driver and friend to Richmond’s elderly
“Could you stay until my birthday?” the passenger kept asking her driver. The rider, an elderly woman with short gray hair and a faint voice, didn’t want Robert Rodgers to leave the driver’s seat of her daily van. But Rodgers had his future planned: he would retire from the van service when he turned 62.…
Read More“Innocent Until – Why Black and Brown Lives Matter” unites youth and art
Young Richmond and Oakland artists came together at the RYSE Center on Friday to deliver their brand of poetic expression in response to community violence, particularly the deaths of young black and brown men at the hands of law enforcement. “It’s a necessary event,” said Josh Healey, an activist and artist. “Whenever you can have…
Read MoreRichmond students prepare for countywide Poetry Out Loud contest
It was less than two weeks until Contra Costa’s Poetry Out Loud recitation contest and 9th grader Allyson Gayoso, a 14-year-old from Richmond’s Salesian High School, was reciting a poem from memory with the confidence of a seasoned orator. Inside a small, quiet office, Gayoso practiced the words of “On an Unsociable Family,” an 18th…
Read MoreVideo: Disco single saves lives
Who would’ve thought that the 1970s disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” would one day literally help people stay alive?
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