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Mercy High School Volunteering Program
Mercy High School Nurtures the Spirit of Volunteerism “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi Spencer Flynn is the student […]
Make Great Gifts Any Time of Year
Bath Salt Bonanza When the time for teacher gifts rolled around again, my daughter and I decided to try our hands at bath salts. And I’m so glad we […]
The Redding Ballet Company: The Nutcracker
The Redding Ballet Company is celebrating 20 years of “The Nutcracker” performing three shows and their school show at the Cascade Theater. From its humble beginnings in 1816 as fairy […]
Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children: CASA in the North State
A profoundly troubling problem kept Judge David W. Soukup awake at night. As a juvenile court judge, Soukup was seeing children in the foster system enduring perpetual transition: attending multiple […]
Life in a Covered Wagon: A Trip to the Past
Taking a Trip to the Past For the past 23 years, David Vixie’s seventh and eighth-grade students at Paradise Adventist Academy in Butte County have taken a trip into the […]
Ballet: A Fairytale Friendship
Jake Bevens wasn’t very interested in ballet at a young age; he favored his activities in gymnastics instead. But when one of his coaches insisted that he try ballet to […]
Foster Care and Adoption – A Family in the Making
With over 400,000 American children in foster care, and nearly 120,000 waiting for adoption, it is clear that families are waiting to be made. November is National Adoption Awareness Month, […]
Azad – Thanksgiving Basket Brigade
Two months after losing her mother to cancer, thirteen-year-old “Emily” lay on her bed, wrapped in blankets of sorrow too heavy to lift. She switched on the radio and heard […]
A Simple Gesture – Neighbors Feeding Neighbors
Small gestures can produce big results. Bob Irvine, the executive director of California Vocations, Inc., knows this firsthand. He is also Volunteer Coordinator for A Simple Gesture, a grassroots food […]
