Month: October 2017
Women Sailors Lost At Sea Blissful By Navy Rescue
Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava stood with the USS Ashland’s commanding officer and others high on the bridgeway when the ship arrived at White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa Monday, October 30, local time in Japan.
Five days earlier, the U.S. Navy’s USS Ashland rescued the two women and their two dogs from their shark and storm-battered sailboat 900 miles southeast of Japan.
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Walk In The Shoes Of A Refugee At Forced From Home Exhibit
Many refugees live in the San Francisco Bay Area, but not many people know the journey that refugees, asylum seekers, and people fleeing violence in their home countries take to seek a safe home.
A traveling interactive exhibit, Forced From Home, coming to Oakland’s Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center parking lot (east side) October 30 through November 5, will give local residents a simulated guided experience to better understand the journey people escaping horrific conditions in their home countries undertake.
Black Travelers Warned To Be On Alert When Flying America Airlines
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People issued a travel advisory warning for African Americans traveling on American Airlines citing a pattern of “disrespectful” and “discriminatory” behavior by airline employees October 24.
The warning suggests that American Airlines’ has a “corporate culture of racial insensitivity and possible racial bias.”
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Did Paralyzed Hiker Lie? Hikers Say, ‘Yes.’
It was a story that was too good to be true.
Hikers piecing together paralyzed hiker Stacey Kozel’s story about completing the Pacific Crest Trail called her bluff after her story aired on ABC World News with David Muir September 18.
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Women Of Napa Valley Book Raises Funds For Wildfire Relief
Book Celebrates Women Of Napa And Raises Support In The Wake Of The Northern California Wildfires That Devastated Napa And Sonoma Valleys by Heather Cassell Napa is strong and so is its women. A new coffee table book, “Wine Country Women of Napa Valley,” coming to bookstores October 24, celebrates the diverse and empowering community […]
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LGBTs Begin Returning Home After Fires
North Bay LGBTs hit hard by the firestorm that ripped through the heart of wine country began returning home as evacuation orders were lifted and firefighters gained control more than a week after what has now become the worst fires in California’s history.
As of Wednesday, the death toll stood at 42, officials said, and includes one person who died at a hospital of smoke inhalation.
LGBTs caught in horrific N. Bay fires
Fast-moving wildfires fueled by dry brush and Diablo winds roared through the hillsides and vineyards in Napa and Sonoma counties starting late Sunday night and continued to burn out of control.
LGBT winery owners and other community members were among the evacuees and those who lost homes or had businesses damaged.
Paralyzed Hiker Stacey Kozel Conquers Great Peaks
Paralyzed hiker Stacey Kozel completed her solo journey on the Pacific Crest Trail, that runs from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Canadian border last month.
“It’s hard to believe I’m actually standing here at the U.S.A.-Canadian border,” Stacey says in a video from the trail posted on Facebook after finishing the 2,650 miles at the Canadian border. “Feels good!”
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‘An American In Paris’ Is A Stunning Theatrical Triumph
It was a magical evening from the moment the curtain rose revealing the art deco, cubism, modernism, postmodern images paired with jazzy rifts that took me to a place and time in history, post-World War II France.
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Two Women Stabbed To Death By Terrorist At French Train Station
Two young women and a suspected terrorist are dead after two attacks at Marseille’s Saint Charles train station October 1.
A man in his late-20s or early 30’s of what appeared to be of North African descent was shot dead by French soldiers on guard at Marseille’s main train station while shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is Greatest) witnesses told reporters, reported the Los Angeles Times.
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