Feeling disconnected from what’s going on in Richmond? In our Meet Your Neighbor series this year, we introduced you to nine local residents.
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Richmond author’s children’s book follows fictional friends separated by Iran war
Richmond author Nikoo Yahyazadeh’s debut picture book captures the bittersweet reality of being forced to flee home through the eyes of two young girls in Iran.
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Rollingwood man finds peace on his mission to clean up creeks
Meet Your Neighbor: Salvador Valle, 46, says pulling out mattresses, electronics and other dumped junk from San Pablo Creek is reconnecting him to nature and lessening his anxiety.
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Local filmmaker crafts a ‘love letter to Richmond,’ the story of a man and a goldfish
Meet Your Neighbor: Award-winning filmmaker Jayson Johnson is in preproduction for his first feature film, a story of perseverance, strength and growth.
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Nobody can break her stride: Meet Richmond’s 73-year-old distance runner
“I’m going to die if I don’t keep moving,” says Sharlet Gilbert, a Hercules High School assistant track coach and former Olympic trial runner.
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Meet Rodney ‘Alamo’ Brown: The soul behind Soulful Softball Sunday
Richmond native inspires community connection through annual softball game fundraisers.
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The Tacos El Rulas story: From an ice cream cart to a taqueria raved about on social media
Meet Your Neighbor: How an immigrant from Mexico went from pushing an ice cream cart around Richmond to owning his own restaurant.
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Richmond school staffer who inspires kids to show up is also uplifting parents
Meet Your Neighbor: Verde K-8 School’s Marta Nieto teaches immigrant moms how to get involved while also improving attendance.
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Sweet on Richmond: Coffee cake recipe reveals stories of city and Peres family
Family spins tales of city’s history while baking a cake once enjoyed by Richmond Hospital patients. The recipe was included in the library’s first community cookbook, published last year.
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Richmond artist ‘Atta’ hopes his new show will inspire others to get creative
Meet your Neighbor: Artist Daniel “Attaboy” Seifert, an East Richmond Heights resident, makes vibrant tropical paradises out of pizza boxes and lightbulbs. He’s showing for the first time in his hometown.
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Building community with storytelling, birding, Tai Chi in the Richmond Annex
Meet Your Neighbor: Former U.S. Forest Service scientist Hao Tran explores being a Vietnamese immigrant in a short story collection.
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Richmond muralist John Wehrle merges city’s past, present on concrete canvases
A retrospective for the prolific artist, 83, is set to open in April at the Richmond Art Center.
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Multicultural Books shows kids a world of faces like theirs
Meet Your Neighbor: Richmond bookstore owner Tamara Shiloh was inspired to curate a store of titles reflecting accomplished people of all races and religions.
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Stop the presses: Ex-newspaper man now devoted to a better Richmond
Since moving to Richmond 32 years ago, former Globe newspaper publisher Vernon Whitmore has tried to change city for the better.
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Comedian, historian reinvents life in Point Richmond
Meet Your Neighbor: Former Senate page, daughter of ex-Mormon reflects on journey from childhood in Haight-Ashbury to Richmond.
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Eastshore resident recalls joys of tadpole fishing, 12-cent Munchy’s burgers
We profile Eastshore resident Victor Harris, whose family came to Richmond, CA., from the South in the 1940s to work in the shipyards.
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Jack London’s legacy lives on in little Richmond house
Author Jack London’s great-grandaughter, a former Richmond librarian, keeps a small collection of his books and family photos.
