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...Schoolhouse Road, where he grew up. THINKING OF MATT, says the one at Willowville Elementary School, which he attended. Glen Este High School, from which Maupin graduated in 2001, has become a shrine of hope. Hundreds of red, white and blue plastic cups are stuck into chain-link fencing, spelling out his name and framing his picture. The winter weather has taken a toll on the yellow ribbons in town, but residents say replacements will come with the spring, along with nature's yellow displays of daffodils and forsythia. "People have a tendency to forget," concedes Keith Maupin, Matt...
That was the genesis of Barratt's first postretirement venture, Quaker Bolivia Link, a nonprofit founded in 1995 that funds dozens of projects in rural Bolivia, mostly high in the Andes where government funds rarely reach anyone. Most of the projects focus on stabilizing the food and water supply, though the organization takes its direction solely from locals and strives to help them achieve what they need most, be that greenhouses, schools or trees. "We don't really take them out of poverty--we know that," says Barratt. Over the past 10 years, Quaker Bolivia Link has raised...
...recent years, however, with Quaker Bolivia Link fully up and running, Barratt has been raising awareness about poverty closer to home, in San Diego, where she and Ken moved in 2001. Now she pours her creative energies into Street Light, a newspaper for the homeless that she co-edits. Not only are the vendors homeless, so are many of the reporters, writers and board members. "We try to give a voice to this segment of society that is not just ignored but almost treated like untouchables," says Barratt. Her official role at the paper is to find stories and sign...
...helped bring the Soviet Empire down,” said Sharansky. “It helped to link the question of human rights with international relations...
...article in The Daily Free Press yesterday suggested that the students might have gained access to the tracks through holes in a run-down chain-link fence on the property that surrounded the tracks...