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On June 25th, 2022, St. Isidore Historical Chapel and Plaza celebrated the achievement of their decades-long goal of State and Federal historical designation for the little chapel in Los Alamitos that has served the local community for 100 years. This video captures the ceremony and the...
Mary's Kitchen
An impending termination notice issued by the City of Orange to long-standing homeless service center Mary’s Kitchen threatens to close its gates and leave hundreds of the unhoused and hungry on the streets without the daily support Mary’s has provided for decades in Orange...
There is no closer bond among first responders than among those of the firefighting community. This allegiance to their own is indisputable. And nowhere is this more...
In this program we address the emerging chronic medical maladies that remain in some recovering COVID-19 sufferers long after the acute phase of...
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The last days of Mary’s Kitchen were rife with sadness, urgency, and fear of what is to come for hundreds of Mary’s displaced patrons.
It all seemed to be going so well in the summer of 2019. Mary’s Kitchen, a daily provider of hot meals to the walk-up homeless of Orange, had just...
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St. Isidore Historical Plaza & Chapel in Los Alamitos, Ca. joined the many organizations and service clubs across the nation celebrating our vets in...
Between 1960 and 1962 over 14,000 Cuban children were spirited out of that country’s revolutionary new communist regime under Fidel Castro. Their stories...
St Isidore Historical Plaza is a revered and cherished cultural center in old Los Alamitos California. The chapel on the grounds is the oldest public building...
St Isidore Plaza Today | Backstory In West Orange County California there is a center of arts and culture developing around a historic little mission-style...
St. Isidore Concert Series | Romero Y Perez Explosive new Flamenco-fusion duo captured live performing in the old mission style chapel at St. Isidore...
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Even as law enforcement across Orange County attempts to drive the homeless into hastily conceived and assembled mass shelters, many of the homeless themselves are opting for the streets, the railroad tracks, and the even darker corners of the county to evade the increasingly limited...
In the summer of 2018 then Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer declared that the Bridges at Kraemer Place mass homeless shelter would be “the model” for...
In the early hours of December 21, 2018 over 75 Anaheim law enforcement, public works and contracted outreach workers descended on Maxwell Park in West Anaheim...
Homeless in OC | Backstory Reporters share experiences of walking and filing daily stories from the homeless evictions on the Santa Ana Riverbed and its aftermath.
Host producer John Underwood takes a deeper dive into the student driven gun safety and gun control movement with two Orange County organizers.. . one a student . . .one...
Vietnam Revisited | Backstory Vietnam from the ground level perspective of two AmeriCal Division officers, one a helicopter pilot and the other a company commander who...
On July 1 2017 in California the solar billing process will change. How will the new billing structure affect consumers and their incentives for “going green...