On Saturday,September 17, more than twenty local writers spent the day at the Grotto School, a workshop presented by the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto as a fundraiser for …
The Grotto School raises $8,000 for 826 Valencia
Local Heroes: Food, Shelter, and Giving Back
Filling stomachs and placing orphans in homes are the result of one hero's actions – both locally and on the other side of the world.
Local Heroes: Helping the Disabled Take the Reins
Sarah Meakin, who has a very loud and cheerful laugh, blue sparkly eyes, shoulder-length blond hair and a sunburn, helps disabled children every Saturday morning in San Fran…
Local Heroes: Service with a Smile
Raymond Laird is a local hero because he helps the economy by getting customers to keep coming back to the restaurant where he works: the Sausage Factory in San Francisco.
Local Heroes: Opening Doors Through Education
A boy was so interested in education that he asked to switch from his Chinese-language school to an English-language school.
Local Heroes: The Heart of a Nurse
You need the “heart of a nurse” to become the first nurse in your community and to make nursing your life’s career.
Local Heroes: Keeping the Skies Safe
Leo Westhead lives in Scalby, England, and works for a company called Secro, which designs satellites and tracks objects orbiting the earth.
Local Heroes: Art as Sanctuary
What if your neighborhood was your entire world?
Local Heroes: Heroism Runs in the Family
Eric Rapin took care of his family and did well in school in spite of many challenges – such as having to do it all as a kid.
Local Heroes: Cool and Collected in the Face of Danger
When Charlotte Petersen was entertaining friends at her apartment in 2002, she had no idea that the evening would soon be interrupted by the noise of a police siren, followe…
