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Jefferson Award Winner Finds New Career Helping Special Needs Children Learn
When your wife tells you she wants to start a school for special needs children in your house, what do you say? If you’re this week’s Jefferson Award winner, you do more than just say ‘yes.’
Jefferson Award Winner Teaches Others The Values Of Native Plants
May 5, 2013 will be the ninth annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour in the East Bay. What started as one woman’s passion to protect local watersheds has grown to change the way thousands of people look at nature and the value the planting and preserving of native plants.
Jefferson Award Winner Builds Homes For Veterans
Some call this Jefferson Award winner “Wonder Woman” – not because she leaps tall buildings, but because she builds them as homes for veterans.
Jefferson Award Winner Finds Haven For Discarded Horses
This week’s Jefferson award winner learned a love of animals growing up in Wyoming. So it’s not hard to understand why she didn’t hesitate when she found horses in trouble here in the Bay Area.
Jefferson Award Winner Helps Oakland Preschoolers Thrive
In one tough East Bay neighborhood, children are blooming like a beautiful lotus flower grows from the mud. That’s the vision driving this week’s Jefferson Award winner.
Jefferson Award Winner Teaches Fundamentals Of Baseball, Life In Santa Rosa
Young little league players dressed in bright gold and white uniforms piled out of the dugout as Coach John Perry called out their positions for the field with authority. He’s earned it – having coached little league in Santa Rosa for 40 years.
- Jefferson Award Winner Spreads Spirit Of Giving To Hayward’s Needy 2013/03/27
- Jefferson Award Winning SF Teacher Helps Close City’s Achievement Gap 2013/03/20
- Jefferson Award-Winning Sebastopol Teen Creates Culture Of Giving 2013/03/13
- East Bay Jefferson Award Winner Pays It Forward In Cancer Fight 2013/03/06
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