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Please Spread the Word: Gloria Fuentes Has Been Found!

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Please spread the word: After 5 days of searching Gloria Fuentes was found by her daughter on the evening of January 1st and is now reunited with her family.

Thanks to everyone for their part in bringing her home! It’s always good to see our community shine after a dark night, in this case four of them. Gloria’s daughter also called her mom’s rescue a New Year’s Miracle. Amen to it!

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Por favor, pasa la palabra: Después de 5 días de búsqueda, Gloria Fuentes fue encontrada por su hija en la tarde 1 de Enero y ahora se ha reunido con su familia.

¡Gracias a todos por su parte para traerla a casa! Siempre es bueno ver brillar a nuestro vecindario después de una noche oscura, en este caso a cuatro de ellas. La hija de Gloria también calificó el rescate de su madre como un milagro de Año Nuevo. ¡Amén!

J.T.

CAN A HOTEL ROOM BE A HOME?

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A few weeks ago, Ali Rachel Pearl and I went to the grand opening of a new housing project in our neighborhood, the Avenida. Last week, on August 4th, we had a conversation in the recording studio at the Robinson Space where we reflected on this specific housing project. More specifically we discussed what, exactly, constitutes a home or a community when it comes to housing those most in need in our city. To subscribe to Making a Neighborhood, please visit our Substack page here. And if you’re not subscribed to J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast yet, it’s about that time, Los Angeles.

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BUY THE NEIGHBORHOOD BACK

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“Fweago,” “Don Cee” and “Forbs24K” of the V.V’s stop by to chat about the local Family Arcade, the gentrification of Virgil avenue, and even the state of hip hop for Latino rap stars today, among other things. Forbs and Fweago also share a microphone in this session due to J.T.’s mishap! To see the video recording of this discussion and more, visit patreon.com/jimbotimes and sign up for the new seven-day free trial.

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