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Back Issue
March 18 2005

"We've waited long enough.
EPA deserves a supermarket!"
Coalition holds prayer vigil at City Hall

Prayer Vigil













The twenty-acre lot at Bay and University has been empty over fifteen years. Formerly the lot was the site of the Nairobi Shoping Center. In this city without a supermarket, this property remains the most likely site for a new one.

On Sunday, March 13th, community and faith-based organizations held a prayer vigil in front of City Hall, across the street from the vacant lot, to help speed a new supermarket into existence.

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Kinship Support Network
 
East Palo Alto
Digital Village
Falope Fatunmise
 
East Palo Alto Digital Village
Preserving families by assisting kin caregivers

By Yvette De Andreis
Community Relations Coordinator,
Edgewood Center for Children and Families

When Falope Fatunmise was seven years old, his mother died and he was suddenly homeless. If his aunt and uncle hadn't offered to take him in, he would have been sent to a foster home.

Falope has never forgotten this kindness and has dedicated himself to helping other kin caregivers who want to keep families together. Today Falope is the Director of Edgewood's Kinship Support Network (KSN) which serves families at sites in East Palo Alto, South San Francisco, and San Francisco.

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Community Interact!
Project Launch Event

By Nadine Watson
Community Interact!
Project Coordinator

East Palo Alto Digital Village (EPADV) invited residents to attend a Launch Celebration for Community Interact! (CI), which was held Thursday, March 10th, 2005, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., at East Palo Alto City Hall Council Chambers & Community Room, located at 2415 University Avenue, on the first floor.










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Tet
 
Gertrude Wilks:
Stories from My Life
TET
 
Gertrude Wilks
New Years at the
Vietnamese Buddhist Temple
Photos and story
by Stefanie Bass

A small warm woman by the name of Ivy greeted me downstairs in the room where the food was prepared. She told me I could photograph inside the temple on this last day of Tet, the Vietnamese New Years.








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Selections from an autobiography-in-progress

Many things done in my childhood led me to where I am now. Every day of your life counts. You can't play at living. You have to plan what will make things better for you. You have to make a record for yourself.







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