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USOC December 22, 2011 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Today the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) announced that more than $4.4 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been awarded to 95 community-based organizations in support of Paralympic sport and physical activity programs for disabled Veterans and disabled members of the Armed Forces. [...]
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injured veterans and others ignite their ‘spark’
By Barbara Wood
Special to the Almanac
Troy Williams, a pony-tailed military veteran who grew up in Menlo Park and now lives in Redwood City, says he came home from military duty six years [...]
Written by Richard Rapaport
“Each kill site is different, but we treat them all like crime scenes,” biologist Ken Clarkson notes as he hunches over a dead sandpiper. He is surrounded by an intent clot of students from Katie Kling’s fourth-grade class at the East Palo Alto Charter School. Twenty-six nine-year-olds [...]
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3oo guest joined together at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton to raise funds for the Riekes Center for Human Enhancement in Menlo Park and to fete Founder Gary Riekes.
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Imagine this: a place dedicated to the enhancement of the individual. A place where people are challenged to set personal goals and a community has been established to help them pursue those dreams – free from judgment by others and reinforced by mutual respect. Sounds pretty good, right? It is.
For a lucky community of [...]
Continue Reading →It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon in East Menlo Park,and the Riekes Center for Human Enhancement is filling up with its usual after-school crowd. Kids of varying ages, ethnicities, and abilities are heading in for a pickup game of basketball on the courts. In the adjacent “Film Barn,” a few students edit video [...]
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