A 17-year-old Anaheim resident and crocheter balances her desire for change with her passion for entrepreneurship. Sometimes, when Graciela Grande is crocheting, her hands get tired and start to hurt. She doesn’t mind. “I like the results,” says Grande. “I like the fulfillment you feel when [you] can see the effort you put into the […]
Mom Power— Giving Birth to Premature Twins During the Pandemic
Local nurse becomes a patient and a mother in the midst of COVID-19. Becoming a working mom is hard enough. Being a nurse is hard enough. Life during the pandemic has been hard enough. Melissa Leite pulled off something like the modern mom hat trick, giving birth to twins at the hospital she works in […]
Building Community
OC Girl Scouts help create dialogue between local police departments and the Muslim community. Trust is a big issue. And there just wasn’t enough of it toward local police in the Anaheim and Cypress communities three Girl Scouts lived in. One side not knowing much about the other leads to miscommunication. Misconceptions. That leads to […]
11-year-old Sells Candy to Raise Money for Black Lives Matter
In the midst of unrest and uncertainty, there’s also hope and inspiration. Nathan Contreras got a powerful lesson about racism in third grade. And it wasn’t from a book. One day, when he tried to defend a couple of kids new to his school and new to the country, another kid tried to strangle him. […]
Helping Health Care Workers With Self-Care
A Ladera Ranch Girl Scout troop made kits for frontline workers with wellness in mind. Making the world a better place is a challenge on a normal day. How do you make it better during a global pandemic? Troop 3743 has an answer. The Ladera Ranch Girl Scout troop would be an otherwise pretty normal […]
Supporting the Frontline
A Tesoro High School student turns 3D printing into a lifesaving resource for frontline workers. The effects of the pandemic took hold quickly. But as the disease sickened and killed people, shut down businesses and closed schools, the frontline workers stayed on. Even with parts of his junior year in high school thrown into limbo, […]
From Survivor to Philanthropist
An Aliso Viejo second-grader and leukemia survivor helps make a wish list for other kids fighting cancer. Bodhi Boul arrived for her first day of second grade at Oak Grove Elementary a little late. Actually, by about a month. When she arrived, the principal was waiting for her. Along with the school dog. Also, a […]
Aaron Cassaro, CEO of The All-American Boys Chorus
All-American Boys Chorus’ CEO continues giving the gift of song through the organization that gave so much to him. The All-American Boys Chorus is a lot like a song. One of those songs that has a light, catchy melody, but the lyrics carry a sly message. Below all the catchy harmonies, the objective of the […]
Viren Mehta is Helping Revive and Reinvigorate Civics in America
An Oxford Academy teen is working to save the planet — and civics — with the help of a new fellowship. A common complaint heard lately is that schools aren’t teaching — and kids aren’t learning —civics anymore. Viren Mehta is spending this school year proving it is very much alive and, could have a […]
Daniel Barrett, Giving the Gift of Giving
Anaheim-resident Daniel Barrett is creating a way kids can give to kids in need. Daniel Barrett (pictured above) remembers his rough childhood all too well. Fortunately, he learned a few things from it and he insists it doesn’t have to be that way for every kid. While he’s not trying to change the world, he […]
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