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Mujeres y personas con discapacidad, por una movilidad verdaderamente segura e incluyente
Opinión Mariana Gorocica Barrera 14/07/2024 | Mérida, Yucatán Para planificar, desarrollar e implementar un sistema de transporte público eficiente y que se convierta en una alternativa atractiva al automóvil particular, es crucial considerar a los grupos que históricamente han enfrentado limitaciones de acceso y seguridad en su derecho a la movilidad. Al contemplar estas perspectivas, no sólo se beneficia a dichas poblaciones, sino que se construyen comunidades integradas e incluyentes.
Seatrade Cruise Global 2024: Conclusiones
Miami Beach, 1 de mayo de 2024. Durante más de 50 años, Seatrade Cruise Global 2024 convocó a profesionales de cruceros en todo el mundo, proveedores, y esta edición no fue la excepción, ejecutivos, compañías, empresas e interesados en esta industria asistieron a la conferencia de cruceros más grande del mundo.
Halloween Round-up: 4 Makeup Costumes That Won’t Hurt Your Bank
Chris Sanchez poses as a sugar skull for his Halloween costume on a budget. Used on Sanchez was white and black cream makeup, blue and gold pigments, a painter's palette, and brushes. All together this Halloween look costs around $10 - $15 while looking at different prices and bargins among Target, Walgrees, and Spirit Halloween. Photo by Virginia Tieman / Xpress Chris Sanchez poses as a sugar skull for his Halloween costume on a budget.
Senior profile: Local artist with a French touch
Carmel >> When Marie Christine Safford was 6, she saw a man molding a vase on a spinning wheel in Senegal, Africa where she was living. “My father asked me to sit on his knees and put my hands on the pot. I held it for a while, and my hands were slippery from the pot,” said Safford, “When I was finished I thought I had made it, I was very excited.” That was when the now 69-year old Carmel resident said she fell in love with art.
Workshop focuses on unanticipated challenges of retirement
Carmel >> A lot of people dream of the days when they no longer have to wake up early and get to work. But the reality is retirement can be a little tricky. “Retirement is sort of posed in our culture as being a really fun thing all the time. You go play golf, or you sleep in late ...
Pacific Grove woman celebrates memorable 101 years
Pacific Grove >> Lucia Ventimiglia Gruwell has spent nearly all of her 101 years on the Monterey Peninsula. Born in 1915, Gruwell was only 3 when she and her family — including eight brothers and sisters — moved to Monterey. They lived in a two-bedroom house on Abrego Street. She graduated with honors from Monterey High School at the age of 16, then began working at Cal-Pack and Hovden canneries with her sisters.
Operation Christmas Cheer: Providing services for domestic abuse victims
Seaside >> Anna was tired, tired of having to hide her bruises, tired of sleeping with her kids in her car. The tears in her kids eyes made her want to go back to her husband. But she knew it wasn’t worth another broken bone or putting her life at risk. Even though she feared for her life, she knew she was making the right decision.
Operation Christmas Cheer: Child care program blesses working mom
Seaside >> Alin Rios is a jewelry assistant, a house organizer, a house cleaner, and was studying to be a tax preparer. The 27-year-old has so many jobs, she loses track of how many hours she works a week. On top of that, she is a single mother with a 3-year-old boy. Rios spends a lot of her time outside her house and needed someone to care for son Vladimir, but leaving him with baby sitters was never easy for her.
Operation Christmas Cheer: Getting sober and back in control
Seaside >> Michael Stribling has struggled with alcohol addiction since he was a teenager. Many times he unsuccessfully tried going through programs to clean up. Now, at 45 he feels he’s finally regaining control of his life with the help of The Salvation Army.
Operation Christmas Cheer: Suddenly unemployed and homeless, woman rebuilds her life
Seaside >> In 2011 Lisa Senkel, 49, was working for two school districts in the county. She was the department head in one of them, a parent educator in the other, and had just been accepted to grad school. Although she had recently gone through a divorce, she kept a good relationship with the father of her two kids, and her professional life was booming. The future seemed promising. “I loved my home, I had good friends; I had play dates and Halloween parties.
Operation Christmas Cheer: A year later, back and thriving
Seaside >> It has been a little over a year since Eulalia Diaz was helped by The Salvation Army and Operation Christmas Cheer after being left homeless and in need following her divorce. Today she sits in her quaint two-bedroom apartment with the company of her two daughters. The girls run around playing with paper airplanes without a care in their world, but Diaz sits down and recalls how tough her life was, just a year ago.
Big Sur Half Marathon: Autistic runner making new strides
Monterey >> After being diagnosed with autism at age 3, Erik Weber wasn’t expected to learn how to talk, much less write two books. At age 5, doctors suggested Weber be institutionalized. His parents chose not to go that route. Last year, Weber passed the California Bar Exam. On Sunday, the 27-year-old Weber will be competing in the Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay.
Veterans Transition Center expands its food pantry
Marina >> When Air Force veteran Susan Benest, 60, found herself having lost everything this past July, she reached out to the Veterans Transition Center of Monterey County. “I was living in a Motel 6,” said Benest, “I spent every last dime, and I was out literally that Sunday night and this place became available for me the following Monday.” Benest has been staying at one of the 20 housing units available at the transition center since Aug. 17.
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