The worst is watching her suffer the indignities of the cancer treatment. It doesn’t help matters that he’s forced to drive six hours to the nearest hospital. He must cross the border four times on the return trip, and there is always a wait at customs, in addition to interrogating questions, while his sick mother, [...]

Longtime volunteer and trustee Lenore Puleo was re-elected as chair of the board.
* Jim Caldarella, a senior consultant for i-flex Consulting, has spent much of his 37-year career developing wholesale funds transfer systems for Citibank.
* Dr. Rick Chou, a physician with a family practice in Brooklyn, has a daughter attending the school-age program on [...]

Retired Navy Capt. Earl Buckwalter, 87, of Austin, Texas, and formerly of Annapolis, died Aug. 6.
Capt. Buckwalter was born Oct. 1, 1920, in West Chester, Pa., to the late Charles and Katherine Buckwalter. He attended West Chester High School and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1943.
He served in the Navy for 30 years, with [...]

Nursing home workers at Windsor Skyline Care Center and Windsor Ridge Care Center will hold a joint demonstration today asking their employer to make needed improvements in resident safety.
Salinas City Councilmember Sergio Sanchez, Democratic Assembly nominee Bill Monning, nursing home workers, SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West, and community allies will take part in the rally at [...]