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LIFE Program featured on Metro’s “The Source”

BY INDIA MANDELKERN , MAY 31, 2023 When you work in transportation, you learn that access is everything. In a county as sprawling as Los Angeles, you need wheels to get where you need to go. That’s why Metro launched LIFE –– short for Low Income Fare is Easy, a fare discount program for qualifying individuals –– in 2018. But where did LIFE come from? How does it work? What’s…

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FAME Manor Unveils Literacy Box

What a wonderful time we had yesterday at the unveiling of the Literacy Box at FAME Manor!  Special thanks to Pastor and First Lady Boyd as well as Youth Minister David Price and Jean and Doug Chadwick for planting the seed to read.  Children and youth were blessed with a Literacy box with the Princess and the Frog theme, filled with brand new books to encourage the children to develop an appreciation and desire to read.

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Taking a Stand Against Toxic Secondhand Smoke

By Jazmine Guillen, Program Manager, Tobacco Control Program, FAME Corporations Published March 16, 2017 When secondhand smoke from nearby units began flooding Patricia “Patty” Solano’s apartment, aggravating her asthma condition, her concern wasn’t just for herself but also for her child and grandchild, both under 5, who live with her. “Young kids are vulnerable and extremely impressionable,” she said. “I want them to know smoking is dangerous and is bad…

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