Author: Heather Cassell
American Airlines Tackles Diversity Issues With Massive Overhaul
American Airline employees will have to undergo mandatory anti-discrimination and ongoing implicit-bias training starting at the beginning of 2018, the airline announced.
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Shark Kills Philanthropist In Costa Rica
A Wall Street Executive Diving At A Word Renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site In The Cocos Island National Park Met With An Untimely Vicious Fate
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Oh The Audacity! Date Night That Will Make Both Of You Happy In San Jose
On our weekly date night, I dared to venture out and suggest something new. Babes was up for it. We hadn’t explored San Pedro Square in San Jose, California beyond the San Pedro Square Market, so, I made a reservation at the Firehouse No. 1 Gastropub (69 North San Pedro Street, 408-287-6969, , firehouse1.com).
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Woman Died Aboard United Flight From Tel Aviv To San Francisco
Marcia Louise O’Leary of Spokane, Washington died on a United Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to San Francisco December 1.
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Plane Makes Emergency Landing Due to Hysterical Cheated Woman
Qatar Airways was forced into an emergency landing mid-way to Bali, Indonesia in India after a drunk woman discovered her husband was cheating on her and became hysterical Sunday.
The unidentified woman allegedly secretly used her sleeping husband’s finger to unlock his phone where she discovered he was cheating on her.
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Experts Question Two Women Lost At Sea Story
Experts have been seriously questioning two women’s story of being lost in the South Pacific following the Navy’s harrowing rescue last month as they started pulling apart, examining and finding fallacies in their story.
Under closer scrutiny, their tale at sea immediately started to fall apart and sound more like a tall tale of being lost at sea. The women are defending their version of what happened on the high seas.
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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.