City remembers Voice of Lincolnville by renaming street in her honor
Historic City News subscribers are invited to join City officials in St Augustine on Saturday, February 20, at 12:00 noon, at the corner of Bravo Street and Weeden Street in Lincolnville for an unveiling ceremony honoring Carrie Johnson, lovingly remembered as the Voice of “Lincolnville”. During its Monday January 13, 2020 meeting, the St Augustine City Commission voted to celebrate Johnson’s life by renaming Bravo Street (between Riberia Street and Sanford Street) to “Carrie Johnson Way”.
The 83-year-old known as “Miss Carrie” to almost everyone who knew her, passed away at 7:00 a.m., November 27, 2018. St Augustine was Carrie Johnson’s hometown, she was born here on February 28, 1935. She lived in Miami for many years, raising a family and working as a teacher’s aide, until Hurricane Andrew struck in August 1992. The Category 5 storm devastated the area where she was living. She retu
If you ask the question of LACC’s homeless college students, too many will answer:
In our cars.
As President of the Rampart Village Neighborhood Council, an area inside of CD13 just south of Los Angeles City College, I am forced to ask the question every day on behalf of these students, even if the rest of City Hall doesn’t.
Many students who attend LACC, and the other eight campuses of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), are the first in their families to attend college. Unfortunately, the pandemic and ensuing economic hardship have forced many students to withdraw from classes. Dropout rates are at an all-time high. To add to this academic horror, many Los Angeles community college students find themselves homeless. The reality is that nearly 20% of LACCD’s student body is homeless according to a District survey taken in 2016.
Ruby Portillo
Housing is so expensive in Santa Cruz County that the possibility of homelessness is a genuine fear for me and some of my fellow students at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Without accurate cost of living estimates and sufficient financial aid, I face the risk of dropping out of school due to the lack of affordable housing. As a student at UC Santa Cruz, Iâve often struggled to afford basic needs, such as housing, because of the overwhelming amount of financial responsibility that I have on top of all of my school expenses.
I am a first-generation college student and housing insecurity has added substantial stress on top of the pressure of figuring out college on my own. I have taken out the maximum amount of student loans every quarter since I started, and I still end up with very little to no money for basic needs once I have paid for all of my course materials and other student fees.
Students are in desperate need of desks and this man is doing something about it
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Like countless other Americans stuck at home during COVID-19, Steven Clark found himself searching for purpose. The 43-year-old man eventually found it in the basement of his century-old home, making desks for students in need.
Woodworking is not Clark s full-time job, but it is where he finds himself between Zoom calls and on weekends. Months into the pandemic, Clark knew he had the tools to do something, and eventually, phone calls to local charities revealed the answer: families in Massachusetts, where Clark lives, were in desperate need of desks.
misrepresentation. there s a particular situation at san jose state university that has a very high number of homeless students. 13%. people don t want to rent to students, they want to rent to other people who will pay much higher dollar for rent, food, the type of restaurants you have, all sorts of things. if you go online, you ll see administrators from these schools saying, the cost of having a place to live especially in places like the san francisco bay area, los angeles, seattle, new york city, boston, massachusetts, is prohibitive in terms of having a normal way of life in the big metropolitan areas, affordability is not something that is a word that s familiar to a lot of these college students. with this kind of now that this information is out there. anybody got a plan to fix it? well, it s so funny. you heard aoc take a lot of grief when she said, people