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Published: 8:24 AM December 22, 2020    Updated: 12:07 PM February 3, 2021 Read on to see our full list of winners! - Credit: Archant The Kent Life Food & Drink Awards finalists, as nominated by our readers, are all local heroes in our opinion – meet the 2020 winners We are delighted to announce the winners and highly commended in the Kent Life Food & Drink Awards 2020. And what a difficult decision it was for our judges, who we heartily thank for their diligence. With the impact of the ti...

More Cubs vs. American League pitchers By JohnW53 on Jan 29, 2021, 6:38am CST + The previous posts in this series looked at the success -- or lack thereof -- against American League pitchers in All-Star Games of Cubs greats who never batted in the World Series, and only 1 of whom batted in a handful of interleague games. Five players were featured: Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson. Each post detailed the players performance through the lens of t...

Jan 8, 2021 After being involved in a prison book club with students from Palma School in Salinas, California, some inmates were moved to help a young man get ahead. Jason Bryant, now a former inmate, led the charge after reading “Miracle on the River Kwai,” which is about prisoners of war who shared everything they had. And he was inspired to do the same. Bryant and fellow inmate Ted Gray enlisted others to help a struggling student at Palma pay for the private school’s tuition. Califo...

By Mark Robertson side view of african american prisoner reading book A group of nearly 800 California inmates at Soledad State Prison saved for three years to raise $24,000 from their paltry prison salaries, which had another $8,000 donation added from outside the prison, to put together the $32,000 for a teens school scholarship. Jason Bryant, whos now a former inmate, had been taking part in a prison book club in 2016 with students from Palma School, a private all-boys Catholic school, whe...

By Alexa Rodriguez Jan 8, 2021 California inmates make as little as eight cents an hour sweeping floors, building furniture, and clerking. If they have an industry job, they can do better, making $1 an hour, or around $100 per month, per CBS News. Thats why it took three long years for a group of nearly 800 inmates at Soledad State Prison to amass $32,000–thats $24,000 of their own money, plus an $8,000 donation from outside the prison—which they swiftly gave away. Jason Bryant, now a for...

Friday, January 8th 2021, 11:41 am By: CBS News SALINAS, California - For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called "Exercises In Empathy." Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but would leave with a new perspective on the incarcerated men.  "They go in thinking...

By Alexa Rodriguez Jan 8, 2021 California inmates make as little as eight cents an hour sweeping floors, building furniture, and clerking. If they have an industry job, they can do better, making $1 an hour, or around $100 per month, per CBS News. Thats why it took three long years for a group of nearly 800 inmates at Soledad State Prison to amass $32,000–thats $24,000 of their own money, plus an $8,000 donation from outside the prison—which they swiftly gave away. Jason Bryant, now a for...

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CBS News Inmates work together to raise $32,000 for students tuition For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called "Exercises In Empathy." Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but would leave with a new perspective on the incarcerated men.  "They go in thinking m...

A high school student needed help with tuition, so an unlikely group stepped up: Prison inmates Kellie B. Gormly, The Washington Post Jan. 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Sy Newson Green, center, attended a book club at Californias Soledad State Prison while he was a student at nearby Palma School. Jason Bryant, right, is one of the inmates who led the fundraising for Newson Greens tuition at the Catholic school.Courtesy of CNNShow MoreShow Less 2of5Sy Newson Green, center, at a...