PRIDE Industries: A Nonprofit EMS and Staffing Firm Moves Into Mil-aero
PRIDE Industries is a contract manufacturing provider with a twist: The company provides training and coaching for job seekers with disabilities, including service-disabled veterans. If they don’t have openings in their Sacramento facility, they may have a job for you in one of 15 other states.
I recently spoke with Tony Lopez, PRIDE Industries’ vice president of manufacturing and logistics services, and Kat Maudru, public relations and social media manager. They discussed what it’s like operating a nonprofit EMS company, their recent move into the aerospace and defense segments, and how they’ve stuck to their founders’ original tenets since 1966.
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The Heart of a Giant
When it comes to baseball, Dusty Baker plays to win. He s also living proof that the most important stats aren t measured in hits and runs, but in heart and soul.
April 28, 2021
Without a second opinion, Dusty Baker might never have been the star athlete who morphed into one of baseball’s winningest managers. As a teenager in 1966, a benign heart murmur was misdiagnosed as a significantly more serious condition. He was told to quit all strenuous activities particularly football, which he loved. “They told me I’d never play sports again. I was 16,” Baker says, sitting in the empty tasting room closed due to the pandemic of his West Sacramento winery, Baker Family Wines, in early January. His family had just moved to Carmichael from Riverside after his dad landed a job at McClellan Air Force Base, and he’d already made an impression as a touchdown maker at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks. But his father, Johnnie B. Baker Sr. (
Irene B. West Elementary, which was built in 2002, is named after her. Author: KXTV Staff Updated: 11:33 PM PDT April 21, 2021
ELK GROVE, Calif. Irene B. West, the first black teacher in Elk Grove, has died at the age of 88. She is remembered by her children Clifton, Cornel, Cheryl and Cynthia as well as her grandchildren and extended family.
West moved to Elk Grove in the 1960s when her husband was stationed at McClellan Air Force Base. At the time, Elk Grove had virtually no black population. West became a teacher in 1962.
Born and raised in the south in the 1930s, you d think the racial climate of America would make her fearful to go for a teaching job in a place where there were no other black people. But West didn t let that stop her.
Neighborhood Favorite: Aria Afghan Restaurant
A former translator brings Central Asian flavors to North Highlands
Back Web Only Apr 16, 2021 By Jennifer Fergesen “(C)heck for availability, not available always,” the online menu for Aria Afghan Restaurant in North Highlands warns about bolani kachalo, a flatbread stuffed with scallion-flecked mashed potatoes. The same could be said about many of the high-labor, long-simmered items on the menu, typical of this cuisine at the crossroads of South and Central Asia. Qabili palaw, the national dish of Afghanistan, often sells out before 5 p.m. The name translates to well-accomplished pilaf, meaning only skilled cooks can
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