17 results for "Autumn Cruz"
I Care: Disabled kids get a ride to help them walk
Monday, October 8, 2012 at 12:00 AMDick Hansen leads a horse slowly around a dusty arena. With silver hair and a gentle smile, he strokes its ear to calm it so that its rider, Emma Ashcraft, 7, who has cerebral palsy, can toss a ball into a target.
Exposures: I Care: A heart for children and families
Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 9:21 AMFor a decade, Dick Hansen has been volunteering with Ride To Walk, which provides horse therapy for young people with disabilities. He knows the stress a child's disability can bring and wants to make it easier for families to stay together.
Volunteers' partnership is one for the books
Monday, October 1, 2012 at 12:00 AMBarbara Carr and Diane Rogers are pricing a rare book donated to Friends of the Sacramento Public Library when one of them asks, "Is it a $50 book or a $2.50 book?" Within seconds, the women in matching blue shirts priced the book in u...
I Care: Teen knows difference a companion dog makes
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe hardest part about raising a puppy for Canine Companions for Independence is not all the training you must do. It's letting the dog go, said Monica Di Nocco, left, a senior at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills. She knows she&...
I CARE: She shares an appetite for eating wisely
Monday, September 17, 2012 at 12:00 AMSweet, sticky peach juice runs down the chins of happy children. Small hands draw pictures of their favorite fruits and vegetables and then are raised high with questions on how to ripen peaches and plums in a bag. "Do you have to use speci...
I Care: Healed as a child, she reaches out to the ailing
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 12:00 AMCindy Scott has tears in her eyes as she says goodbye to her visitor, Merle Wright, at left above, at Mission Carmichael Healthcare Center.
I Care: He crusades for patients' medical marijuana
Monday, September 3, 2012 at 12:00 AMI CARERyan Landers suffers severe pain caused by advanced-stage AIDS and shingles of the brain. His prognosis is grim. "I'm looking at life through terminal eyes," he says.
I-Care: With smile, she toils in a battle to save lives
Monday, August 27, 2012 at 12:00 AM"A fighter like you. Someone could benefit from your heart," Kyla Aquino tells an African American man stopping by her organ-registry booth at a health fair in Oak Park. Her charm disarms him and he changes his "no" to joini...
I Care: Handmade pillowcases help patients fight cancer
Monday, August 20, 2012 at 12:00 AMI CAREWearing hot pink and a smile, Madison Zenker, 13, confidently walks into the Pediatric Infusion Center at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, carrying bags of pillowcases with colorful themes, each as bright as she is. She helps canc...
She honors her slain son and grows in the process
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 12:00 AMA nickel. A feather. A pinwheel. Little red candies. They rest upon a white cross bearing the name of Janet Steinbach's son Adam, stabbed to death on May 31, 2011, at age 29. Where his body was found there blooms a bed of flowers tended by ...
