Keeping your health in check is more important now than ever because of the pandemic, and one woman at a Palm Springs yoga studio is helping people reach their health goals. Over at My Yoga Place Palm Springs, owner Cathy Cassetta is bringing the art of yoga to local residents. “The work we’re doing here
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Every year Judy and Micael Sullivan create hand-crafted wooden toys to give to children in need during the holiday season. The toys vary from different vehicles, puzzles, keepsake boxes, and trinkets. The Sullivans spend several days in the year in their wood workshop designing, cutting, and painting each toy. Judy also goes through each toy
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Two elementary school students are making money by crafting their own wooden custom flags. The money they raise is being contributed to Gerald Ford Elementary School to help improve the music and arts program. As brothers Jake and Jason Vasquez followed the “stay at home” orders, they turned some free time into a small business.
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Hispanic Heritage Month is well underway and every year around this time the contributions of LatinX community members are recognized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Among the selected this year are two Coachella Valley essential workers, Cesar Millan and Manuela Ramirez now join the list of recipients of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Chair
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Stitches for Kids is a group formed from the Indio Senior Center that gets together and makes quilts to donate to children who are in need of a little comfort. “The idea was to make cuddle quilts for these children in crisis situations,” said Beth Irish, a member with Stitches for Kids. They were founded
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Kathy Diamond and her husband Gary are retired and living in the Coachella Valley. They volunteer at different organizations every week. Together, they volunteer with Well in the Desert to help serve food to those in need in the community. “Coming here for me is the highlight of my week,” said Mrs. Diamond. They have
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Jade Lopez is 10 years old and a fourth grader in the Coachella Valley. She helped raise hundreds of pounds of food for the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission. The collection of food for donation started with a 40 day Lent challenge. “Her godfather challenged her to raise 400 pounds of non-perishable foods to donate,” said
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“It has two meanings, it’s the heal of the sole and the heal of the soul,” said Darren Smith, the founder of Heal Soles Shoe Ministry. Darren Smith works a typical 9-5 job with SunLine Transit Agency and operates his own pressure washing business. On top of that, he founded Heal Soles Shoe Ministry where
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A student at Indio High School is spending his weekends on a project building a garden that will help the students and the community. Farina Shatavyzadeh is a junior at Indio High School who is spending his free time building a garden on campus. “I think this a great opportunity for people to give back
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The group Citizens on Patrol in Palm Desert is looking for new volunteers to join them in providing support to sheriff’s deputies in the city. The group suspended their operations in March 2020, after cases of Covid-19 were first reported in Riverside County. They resumed patrols in the city in late February, almost one year
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Desert Learning Academy second grader, Luis Arizmendi with the help of his mother Joan Arellano, found a way to donate meals to families while expanding his education. Luis is an avid reader and enjoys reading. Learning A-Z (Raz Kids) is a district program where students can read and accumulate stars, like points. “What Raz kids
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Babette Pelloux is not on the front lines in the war against Covid-19. But she is joining the fight, using her laptop as her weapon of choice while helping others. “I’m just trying to make their lives easier during a hard time,” said Pelloux. Feeling relief after receiving the vaccine herself, she decided to help
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Many students are still distance learning. Some don’t always have the perfect set up to comfortably learn from home. The National Honor Society with Indio High School created an initiative to bring desks to kids who are learning from home in partnership with California Scholarship Federation (CSF) members. The club, faculty and students, built, repurposed,
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A nurse working at the Indio clinic for coronavirus vaccinations is getting recognition from the head of the county health department. The reason? Along with inoculations, the nurse is delivering uplifting messages, by way of simple bandages. Riverside County Health Director Kim Saruwatari shared some images of the nurse, identified only as Nurse Sharee, on
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Jannet Williams was born in the Philippines where she completed her credentials to become a registered nurse. When her father had a heart attack, she moved to the states to take care of him. When she arrived to the states she applied to be a caregiver with Home Instead because she knew that helping others
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A pair of young children are being praised as neighborhood heroes after raising more than $600 in less than a week to help those in need here in the Coachella Valley. The two young neighborhood heroes, Camia and Gage, wanted to help the valley’s homeless. Camia’s older sister, Porsha, told News Channel 3 that they
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Elizabeth Senso is a frontline worker working six days a week during the coronavirus pandemic. She works at Gelson’s grocery store in Rancho Mirage and has been there for over 10 years. “I just marked my 30 years in the grocery business in November,” said Senso. Samantha Wright is Senso’s friend and the one who
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Mike Sullivan and his wife Judy spend their retirement making homemade wooden toys for children. They have been doing this since 2013. Every Christmas these toys are donated to kids in the Coachella Valley that would otherwise maybe not get a gift. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many parents are without jobs. These toys can
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One Future Coachella Valley is an organization that helps Coachella Valley students succeed in college and higher education. Gent’s Alliance is an initiative within that program that was created in 2015 to serve young men in the Coachella Valley. Ernie Rios is the vice president of College of Success with One Future Coachella Valley. He
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Mario’s Italian Café’s has seven locations and all of them have been giving back to the community since 1973. During the coronavirus pandemic, they have stepped up their help in the community. Mario’s Italian Café is primarily run by Mario and his sons Peter and Mathew and other family members. They have given back to the
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