"The more you test, the more [positive cases] you may find. We were ready, we were prepared and excited to be able to offer this opportunity [COVID-19 testing]," said Victoria Flores, director of student support services at the Sacramento City Unified School District.
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Ray Charles, shown here in an OBSERVER file photo, passed away this week. He was 92. Charles was Sacramento’s first Black fire chief.
Raymond J. Charles didn’t initially envision a career with the Sacramento Fire Department and was talked into completing an application by friends. He applied himself and would go on to rise through the ranks and become the city’s first African American fire chief. There have only ever been two others since. The pioneering civil servant died on December 15. He was 92.
Charles was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 23, 1928 to parents Philip and Irene Charles. The family moved to the Oak Park area of Sacramento in 1942. Ray Charles graduated from C.K. McClatchy High School.
Teen builds food pantries for people in need
“I wanted to do something for the community,” said 18-year-old C.K. McClatchy High School student Ashley Jun.
For her senior project, which is a graduation requirement for all seniors in the Sacramento City Unified School District, Jun decided to help people who may be going hungry during the pandemic.
“Basically people can see it, they can walk up, they can look for something that they want, maybe something that looks tasty to them, and then they can just take it home,” Jun explained.
Jun knew she couldn’t build the boxes on her own, so she recruited her dad for help. He also drives her around town to replenish the shelves each night. He said he’s extremely proud of her.
What is a ChurWaffle, the signature product of twin brothers, food entrepreneurs and public servants Jonathan and Matthew Burgess (a firefighter and a law enforcement officer, respectively)? One might expect it to be something between a churro and a waffle and the original, baked in the Burgesses’ trademarked ChurWaffle iron and tossed in cinnamon sugar, bears a resemblance to both. But the ChurWaffle in practice is something broader and more ambitious. The ChurWaffle mix, inspired by the brothers’ grandmother’s cornbread, has made its way from Sacramento into fritters and black bean corn cakes in the dining halls of Harvard University.