Youre playing right there with the beatles. Look at you heres nbc bay areas garvin thomas. Thank you so much for joining us. The bay area proud series is filled with people going above and beyond to help others. Its what the series is all about. So when we meet someone who blows us away with their generosity, thats saying something. In this case, that someone is Richmond Music teacher tim wilson. One, two, ready, go. As the music teacher, tim wilson spends his day surrounded by music, using it to touch peoples lives. Youre playing right there with the beatles. Look at you its something in a round about way tim has been doing his whole life. A very round about way, we should add. Yes. Youre rocking it. Im here to make a difference with what i think i can offer. Tim was a bit of a trumpet prodigy growing up in scots valley. His talent eventually finding a home for 20 years in the orchestra of the San Francisco opera where tim rose to the position of principal trumpet player. But in 2003, doctors said increasing pressure in his eyes had led to glaucoma. And when he played, that pressure rose. That could be a risk for blindness early in life if you dont stop playing the trumpet. And with that, tims career was over. He spent the next decade focused on raising his two sons, not even picking up his trumpet until years later, while trying to get certified as a music teacher. Tim, not realizing how much he missed it until he had an audience. A woman who had wandered in to watch him practice. I could watch the emotional in her psyche. As i play my concerto to her. And she is just thrilled. And i realize right then what it is to be a musician and to move their hearts. You have a good ear for hearing when it goes up and down. Nice job. And it is just what tim wanted to provide his students when he started teaching. But something was missing. A lot of somethings. No resources to teach the kids what they want. Tim says he was fortunate to find a nonprofit called little kids rock. One that trained him how to teach music that was relevant to students in a way that would get them excited about learning. They also provided 30 free guitars to help him do it. Still, that wasnt enough for each student to take an instrument to home to practice and that wasnt good enough for tim. Its lost. Ill never get the resources that these kids need by the time theyre gone off to high school. Thats not fair to them, so i just bought what i thought we needed right then and there so i didnt have to deal with the red tape. No red tape, just a lot of boxes, because tim has since bought some 80 guitars with amplifiers to match. There are also the keyboards, drums, drum kits. The list goes on. Jim broadstreet is with little kids rock. We all put money in our classrooms, but a level like this, no. Tim wilson has taken to it another level. I dont know the words to adele, but i sure like to listen to her. They deserve every advantage, so i just started showing up, whatever we needed, and i asked myself this question, not out of discipline, out of compassion. If it was my kid, how would i treat that child. All together. Tim says he has been too busy organizing all the gear to stop and count how much he spent. He guesses it is between 50,000 and 100,000 all on a musicians pension and a middle schoolteachers salary. Thats the kind of advantage every one of these kids needs and they dont have it. So if i can provide it, i want to. Our next story is also about a teacher and coach who is paying it forward though not with dollars, but with some nontraditional ideas. Those ideas are to help his players become not just good athletes, but good people. When jake messina took over the head coaching job at sunnyvales Fremont High School two years ago, he was warned that trying to turn around a program that has struggled for years both on and off the field wasnt going to be just difficult. People told me it was utterly impossible at this school, that it couldnt happen and it wouldnt happen. People tell me a lot of things. Well, between the sidelines, coach messina has certainly proven them wrong. Going into last fridays game against rival homestead fremont was undefeated. 90, the best start in the schools history. Which is not what you may be surprised to learn what coach messina is most proud of. Longterm teachers say he has taken a team that was often isolated from the rest of the student body and made it more part of the school than ever. If nothing else, we have succeeded in getting the Football Program reconnected to the school. For evidence of that, look no further than beth, cheering from behind the end zone. In 13 years at fremont, beth had never been to a Football Game. I feel like it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. But then this season, the coach messina suggested to his players that before home games, they give their away jerseys not to a girlfriend or to a cheerleader, but to a teacher who has made a difference in their lives. Senior Alfred Prescott gave his first jersey to beth. I just really reflected on how much she helped me and what she brought me today in the classroom. I thought, oh, wow, maybe he didnt hate me as much as i thought he did. One of my best memories. I have here at fremont, i would say. The motivation character is which ones did we have . Tonya is wearing the jersey this week, the second one she has been given this year. As a teacher, it is mind boggling to get that feedback of knowing you have made a difference in my life is just huge. Teachers and athletes say this simple gesture has improved their relationships as well as the grades. Proving that even some of lifes biggest wins never show up in the record book. Coming up, connecting with others through crochet. Im comforting all those people in the world that need comfort during this hard time. How this bay area woman is helping to heal herself by helping others. Plus, current students and faculty put a twist on honoring alumni song since graduated from a south bay high school. But first, recovering a lost piece of family history. The voice of my grandfather. I never had it for the stories that i told. It was the one missing link. Over a million californians have a gotten something thats beend. Out of reach for far too long. Health insurance. How . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates and benefits. You can compare plans side by side, choose the one that best fits your needs and enroll online. Coveredca. Com is also the place to find Certified Experts in your area who can answer your questions for free, and help you enroll. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. Its based on income, and 4 out of 5 people who have enrolled qualified. If you dont have a health plan, or you do, but you want to make sure its the best plan for you, nows the time to visit coveredca. Com. But to get covered, you gotta get going. To have Health Insurance starting january 1st, you need to enroll by december 15th. Visit coveredca. Com today. Unlocking secrets from the past, using some new and locally created technology. The Technology Makes a digital map of the surface of old recordings and then turns those images into sound. Its been used on some very historic recordings and one very personal one as well. Theres a place in andover, massachusetts, where they are experts at preserving history. The northeast Document Conservation Center is like a hospital for old books, documents, and photographs, a place where they go to get their lives extended, or in the case of this 70yearold 78 rpm broken record, be brought back to life. That matt scria has waited decades to hear. I think im going to have to hold my breath because its going to be emotional. The sound on that record is the voice of matts grandfather, ray. Lieutenant ray skryia, a b24 bombardier. He used to pore over pictures of his grandfather at war, imagining the adventures. And that was good enough, for a kid. When i got older, my curiosity went beyond that and i actually wanted to know some of the facts from beyond just the pictures. Theres no doubt this is a personal search for me. So matt, at the time a Television Reporter in fresno, poured himself into the research. Thats our producer. Eventually producing a twopart tv series about his grandfathers service, yet still lacking something matt would have loved to have had. The voice of my grandfather. It was the one missing link. Number one. Missing until matt found these earlier this year in the garage of his grandmothers home while helping her move. It seems upon returning from the war in 1944, ray sat down for an interview with an omaha, nebraska radio station, an interview they recorded on two 78s. Records matts family had lost track of years and years ago. Now they were so close, literally in his hands, yet still lost in a way. Theres a radio crack on both of them which makes them unplayable. Which led him to andover and Technology Developed at a lab Livermore Berkeley lab where a camera captures High Resolution images of the records grooves, and then a computer processes those pictures into sound. Sound that matt, along with his father, are about to listen to for the first time. What were you doing before the war . I was working in a grocery store, my mothers grocery store. A small piece of American History perhaps, but one that couldnt sound any bigger to one mans ears. This is precious, right . This is it, so it is really nice to finally hear it. Our next story is also about preserving history, but in this case someone elses history just because it is the honorable thing to do. It takes place at the Kings Academy, a private Christian Prep School founded in the early 90s. At kings, they talk a lot about honor and they back it up too. At the Kings Academy in sunnyvale renovations are just about complete on their brandnew quad. New concrete, new awnings, new landscaping, all making it much more attractive. But it is the new screws holding up the old plaques that are the most meaningful. We wanted to make sure those plaques were displayed in a more honorable way. Matt nesbit is director of operations for the Kings Academy. Anything that needs scheduling or building or renovating is probably something that falls into my category. Which is why it was matts job to figure out what to do with the 23 bronze plaques that had been displaced by the renovation, one for each graduating class from 1958 to 1980, but not graduates of this school. Kings academy occupies the campus that was once home to Sunnyvale High School. The district closed that school in the early 80s. They left their plaques and a bench and a sundial behind. The Kings Academy could have ripped all of them up and hand them back. It wasnt their history after all. Correct. We could have given the artifacts right back to their owners, the original owners, the Fremont High School district and said thank you very much. We chose instead to honor the site, the honor those who were part of this campus. They didnt have to preserve someone elses history, but they did. Just like they didnt have to make last fridays Football Game the Sunnyvale High School alumni game. In the stands tonight, the alumni. But they did that too. Of Sunnyvale High School. It was Kings Academy versus so cal between the sidelines, but a sunnyvale reunion everywhere else. These alumni may no longer have a school, but thanks to the kindness of others, theyll always have a home. God bless them, you know. Theyre really terrific people. And i thank them from the bottom of my heart. And so do the rest of us, all of us cats are just so touched. Still ahead, a san jose room woman and recent College Graduate steps it up in a big way to honor and support navy s. E. A. L. S. And she is doing it one step at a time. I love this new sirachi burger. Its siracha. Sluracha . No. Sirahchah. Siriracha. No. Watch how i say it. Sirahcha. Thats not helping. Bam thats jacks new spicy Sriracha Burger comin in all hot and melty with jalapenos and bacon but the best part . Its not just sriracha sauce, its creamy srirah. Slurrah cha. Whatever its called, its awesome sauce. Imagine running a marathon every day for more than four months. Its an epic journey, one kristina lee recently completed. One that gained more meaning each time she hit the road. After more than four months on the road, after crossing a dozen states, after covering more than 2700 miles, kristina lee has just a few hundred left to go. You might be tempted to tell kristina it is all downhill from here. Just dont do it on her first day in the sierra mountains. Oh, no, no its not. In fact, it is straight uphill. You can blame it on the bucket list, kristina says. The one she wrote a couple of years ago while in college in new york. The 23yearold from san jose wanted some big challenges in there, so running across the country new york to San Francisco all by yourself made the list. There was, in her mind, no turning back after that. Because once i wrote it down, i was going to do it. Theres no halvesies on the bucket list. You put it there. Youre going to do it. After graduation this year, kristina decided to run home without too much of a plan, but with a purpose. A lifelong supporter of the military, kristina planned to raise money along the way for the navy seal foundation. She began the run thinking of all the seals who served. She is finishing, though, focused on one in particular. The one whose widow reached out to her one week into the journey. She sent me this email and said these people really changed my life. Jennifer collins went on to tell kristina about her husband david, about the traumatic brain injury the navy seal suffered while serving overseas, how the 45yearold wound up taking his own life, and the help the foundation has given to jennifer and their two children. Cristina says thinking of davids service and sacrifice has made any troubles she faced along the way much less troubling. Whenever im tempted to complain, i think they had it so much worse. It is also why she is more convinced than ever she made the right choice to go big while going home. Im going to have thrown everything i had at this run and i can walk away completely at peace knowing i did everything i could, everything in my power. Still ahead, making a difference stitch by stitch and square by square. Meet the bay area woman who gives warmth and comfort to others at a time when they need it most. Our final story tonight starts with a question. How do you put together 24 squares and come out with one big heart . Well, in searching for a way to honor her late mother, one cupertino woman figured out just how. So at 59 years old, stage 4 is rather scary. Over the past two years, nicole has had a lot of practice telling her mothers story, though practice in this case doesnt make perfect. Try not to cry, because i still its very hard. Nicole grew up in northeast pennsylvania. Her mom, marianne, a single mother raising two kids, working and always listened. Listening is all nicole could do three years ago when a doctor gave marianne some bad news. I get goose bumps remembering that image. Everywhere you see yellow, thats cancer. And it was from her head to her toes and it looked like her body was on fire. It was yellow everywhere. Marianne died in november of 2012. Nicole, now a mom herself, fell into a depression. It is her husband who suggested taking a class to take her mind somewhere else. When i saw that crochet class, i just knew that was my connection back to my mom. So i just finished the border on this blanket. Crochet because it was something her mom used to do. Crochet because it was something nicole thought she could do to help others going through what her mother just did. Nicole by the way never took that class. Instead she opened a laptop and began teaching herself. Five hours later, she had a single square and a big idea. How about we get the world involved . Project chemo crochet was born. Im comforting all those people in the world that need comfort during this hard time. Her husband created a website asking others to crochet squares that nicole and friends would sew together into blankets for people battling cancer. Within two weeks, the first squares starting coming in and less than two years nicole and her team has stitched close to 700 blankets all over the country with no idea of slowing down now. I know people want to help, and im not asking for money. Im asking for your time. Im asking for a piece of you to be a part of something bigger. Thanks again for joining us for this bay area proud special. You can see any stories every tuesday and thursday evenings in our 5 00 newscast and all the reports are on our website. Just go to nbcbayarea. Com and scroll down to the bay area proud segment. And if you wonder where we get these stories, we get many of them from you, our viewers. 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