By Dianne Anderson Ida Marie Briggs is pushing her old Boss sewing machine – a straight stitch and overlap from another era – to the max, creating dozens of personalized comforters for local kids just in time for Christmas. It is a labor of love that she knows will be nonstop in the days ahead. ...

By Dianne Anderson Making women look great is one aspect of Brenda Couser’s main mission in life, and as a hairstylist, she is usually just one step away from another important role. In the days before COVID-19, her clients would relax in the chair to feel beautiful and pampered, talking about things that only the ...

By Dianne Anderson At her home away from home, when Joyce Payne looks at the Home of Neighborly Services building, she sees Westside’s majestic structure, perhaps more beautiful today than the day it was built nearly 100 years ago. To her, it is San Bernardino’s “Gray Lady” of historic proportions, one that simply can’t be ...

By Dianne Anderson Awards are paying off for one local nonprofit in its quest to move women in crises, caught deep in the system, to a place that they now call home. Time for Change Foundation recently won a federal grant for $425,000 per year for the next five years, totaling $2.1 million that will ...