By Dianne Anderson Nothing beats a loan that you never have to pay back. Probably one of the harder tasks for Kathy Baker Brann in the coming months will be giving away a cool $30,000 to homeowners that need help fixing up their properties. The main qualification is the homeowner must be low income. Through ...

From twin sister valedictorians who have had nearly every class together since kindergarten to a self-driven Latina who was once afraid to speak English and now plans to become a lawyer, San Bernardino City Unified School District’s Class of 2018 has produced many stellar graduates. There’s Jalen Stevenson, who is making history not because he’s among nine Cajon ...

By Dianne Anderson Across the street from Waterman Gardens where Ray Culberson spent time growing up, there was something oddly familiar about the big box facility that would someday become an answer to his dream. A building that sat as a vacant shell for years is now a full circle experience for Culberson, who thinks ...

Little League® celebrated its 10th year hosting the West Region Challenger Fun Days in San Bernardino, as volunteers and members of Little League Challenger Division® programs in California and Tijuana came together for a weekend of fun on May 19 and 20. The event was free for all participants thanks to the support of Gatorade ...

By Dianne Anderson Years after Aaron Burgess worked his way up to Executive Director at CSU San Bernardino Santos Manuel Student Union, there are more than a few occasions to remind him of how he started out. In the 1980’s, working the late shift as a janitor at CSUSB through several upper management promotions where ...

By Dianne Anderson Kids everywhere have two big things on their minds this time of year — getting out of school for two whole months, and hitting the streets hard. Local programs have equal and opposite concerns – how to keep the kids techy productive, and smartly out of trouble. Arrowhead United Way is way ...

By Dianne Anderson Excitement over this year’s graduating class is running at peak high for Cal State University San Bernardino, alongside its polar opposite around Black student enrollment, which is scraping bottom. As they say, the numbers don’t lie. For Walter Hawkins, a retired CSUSB data analyst, the dwindling numbers of Black students at the ...

Navy Ensign Andrew D. Anderson has completed his first semester of study at the F. Edward  Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md., and is well on  the way to becoming a Navy physician. Last summer, Mr. Anderson took an oath  to support and defend the Constitution of the United States ...

By Dianne Anderson Baseball fans will flock by the thousands to watch the Inland Empire 66ers batter up against Lake Elsinore Storm, and connect with dozens of fun, games and resources at the 2nd annual Home Run for Health. This time around, Riverside County is focused on May, the nationally recognized Water Safety Month with ...

Synergy is created when two or more come together to produce a result greater than the sum of their individual effects. The District held its second Synergy Day recently at San Gorgonio High School in San Bernardino. Synergy Day teaches students how to be more compassionate, build leadership and communication skills, and have a greater ...