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Home > Issues and Ideas > A nonprofit's struggle to reclaim its historic base, a support group for stroke survivors in San Luis Obispo, a UCSB Professor's research on Black linguistic justice, Tom Wilmer's visit to the Steinbeck Center, and celebrating bike month with the Cycling
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A nonprofit's struggle to reclaim its historic base, a support group for stroke survivors in San Luis Obispo, a UCSB Professor's research on Black linguistic justice, Tom Wilmer's visit to the Steinbeck Center, and celebrating bike month with the Cycling
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2025-05-20 19:01:33
Description: KCBX’s Gabriela Fernandez reports on how a longtime nonprofit serving the Latino and immigrant communities on California’s Central Coast is fighting to reclaim its historic headquarters that it lost in 2021 after filing for bankruptcy. Next, May is National Stroke Awareness Month. KCBX's Meher Ali speaks with Maria Irthum, Neuroscience Coordinator at Adventist Health Central Coast and co-lead at the Hope for Stroke Survivors Group, as well as Dave Serverson, a stroke survivor and member of this support group. Both share their experiences and talk about how the group provide a space not only for support, but resource sharing for stroke survivors. And then, from KCSB, UC Santa Barbara's student-run radio station, reporter Christina McDermott's story on Dr. Michelle Petty, an academic at the university, who has won a prestigious award for her research that seeks to bring Black linguistic justice into college classrooms. Next is a segment from our archives! KCBX’s Tom Wilmer traveled to Salinas back in 2013 to visit the Steinbeck Center on the 75th anniversary of John Steinbeck’s celebrated novel “Grapes of Wrath". Last, in celebration of National Bike Month, KCBX's Meher Ali speaks with Rick Ellison, Executive Director of Bike SLO County, and Rose Levinson Wurtz, Program Coordinator for Cycling Without Age to find out about the nonprofit's history, and their latest program that offers free trishaw rides to older adults in San Luis Obispo.
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