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San Bernardino School Lunch Changes Coming Soon
Dark green, red and orange. These are colors you may be seeing more often on kids’ school lunch trays starting this fall. The new school lunch standards unveiled by first lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in January “will result in healthier meals for kids across the nation,” according to a press release from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Even though french fries are still considered a vegetable, new requirements state that kids must be offered at least one serving of a dark green vegetable, one serving of a red or orange vegetable and one serving of beans or peas each week.
Child Abuse Project Raises Awareness in San Bernardino
"When I walked into the rooms listening to their stories, it felt like I was there, watching everything happen," said Amos Yandell, visitor to an interactive child abuse exhibit recently on display in San Bernardino County.
For the past three months an exhibit has been open to the public called “The Lisa Project” and has been hosted by three local cities in San Bernardino County.
Healthy Community Starts with Safety in San Bernardino
Christina Ingram and Johnny Wright live about eight blocks from Secombe Park in downtown San Bernardino. But when they want to visit a park, they both ride the bus to a park that is six miles away in the nearby city of Highland. They feel that San Bernardino is dangerous. "Police are at the apartments across the street from me all the time, and the other day we heard gunshots," says Ingram.
San Bernardino Dental Patient Receives Care He Needs
A middle-aged Latino man pulls something out of his pocket. In his hand, is a perfectly shaped tooth; a crown that fell out two years ago. He has been carrying it around with him, hoping to get it fixed one day. Without the crown, the tooth is a nub sitting on the gum line and can't be used. With little hope of ever having the money to get his crown re-attached, he carried it with him to a free clinic hosted by the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry.
San Bernardino In-Home Health Care Workers Fired Up
“They are always implementing cuts [and] their target is always the most vulnerable,” says Ramiro Cordoba, regarding the Governor's proposed cuts to health and human services. These cuts could be devastating for in-home health care workers like Cordoba who make between $8 and $11.50 per hour. “If the hours are cut for the client, then there are cuts in our pay.” Cordoba is an organizer for the United Domestic Workers Union (UDW) in Riverside.
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