Dr. Roger Scott as a young surgeon. COURTESY PHOTO When he entered a Florida world populated only by about 1.4 million citizens on Nov. 5, 1926, his father ran the sawmill in the now-vanished pine flatwoods of Polk County’s Sumica, and his mother took care of everybody in sight, he used to recall. But unbeknownst
Investments are coming to South L.A. from “Build Back Better,” the Olympics, and other construction projects in the region. Many of these dollars have a local hire component and Pastor Shane Scott, chair of Macedonia Community Development Corporation, wants to make sure that workers in South L.A. can take advantage of these employment opportunities.