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Back Issue
September 03, 2004

Low Cost Produce Benefits Local Seniors

EPA Senior Center Produce Market
Celebrates 1st Anniversary

By Laura Savage

With cuts in social services, medical coverage and housing aid for the elderly, it's nice to know that there are programs that look to ease financial pressures for seniors. The local East Palo Alto Senior Center Produce Market, just completing its first year, is one of them.
The Market was established by the Episcopal Homes Foundation, EPA CAN DO and the East Palo Alto Senior Center. However it is now run entirely by Senior Center volunteers led by Mrs. Lorraine Holmes. The objective is to provide seniors with affordable produce in a convenient way, but the Market is also open to the whole community.
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How Block Clubs Can Benefit Residents

Full Representation
in East Palo Alto:
an Overview

West Side Stories
By Maureen Pattarelli
A few months ago One East Palo Alto (OEPA) held a press conference to release the report from a survey by the Community Development Institute on residents' perceptions of crime and public safety. Local headlines trumpeted the findings: EPA residents felt unsafe and their top crime concern was drugs.
This was news? Well, I guess the news was in the numbers: a full 65% of residents felt unsafe or very unsafe in their own neighborhoods. But another more hopeful finding was also documented: 62% of residents who knew about block clubs thought they were good or very good at addressing crime issues.
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By Goro Mitchell
Executive Director,
Community Development Institute
Recently attention has been drawn to the fact that Latinos in East Palo Alto have not been represented on the City Council in proportion to their number in the City. But the issue of representation that fairly reflects demographics goes far beyond East Palo Alto.

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Be Inspired!

City Of EPA Holds Garage Conversion Study Session

Start Up Fall 2004 Entrepreneurship Training
By Loretta Liu

Have you ever thought about working for yourself and don't know how to get started? Make that idea work for you! Start Up is the local small business development organization that can help you turn your business ideas into reality.

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Ciudad de EPA tiene Sessión de Estudio sobre Conversiones
d e Garajes

By / Por Dennis J. Parker
On July 28, 2004, the East Palo Alto City Council held a study session to discuss illegal garage conversions. Although this has been a continuously emotional issue, there was a great deal of consensus by the end of the meeting:

Nobody wants to see people evicted from their homes.

Residents need more information on how to bring their units into compliance.

Residents should not be afraid to seek information from the City.

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