“Helping others and the staff at St. Joseph’s is what keeps me coming back. It feels so good to help someone and I love the staff at St. Joseph’s, they’re just wonderful people,” said Surgery Information and NICU volunteer, Rita Cordova.

Welcome to the sixth annual STOCKTON BIG VALLEY BLACK EXPO set for Saturday April 6 and Sunday April 7, 2013, hosted by the new African American source of information TODAY’S TIMES NEWSPAPER, the Valley’s only African American minority focused newspaper.

Here are a couple of updates regarding the Interstate 5 (I-5) North Stockton Improvement Project:

To accommodate daytime work required for reconstruction of the Interstate 5/French Camp Road Interchange, one eastbound lane on French Camp Road west of Interstate 5 will be closed between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, April 2, 2013.

After hearing arguments and testimony at a trial lasting just three days, Chief United States Bankruptcy Court Judge Christopher M. Klein approved the City of Stockton's petition for chapter 9 bankruptcy relief, filed on June 28, 2012.

Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry & Christopherson is pleased to announce that Jamie M. Ryker has become an associate with the firm.  Jamie is a 2005 graduate of the University of California, San Diego, with a B.A. in Political Science.

Kerry joined Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry & Christopherson in September 2006, after completion of her J.D. (with Distinction) at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Her undergraduate studies were completed at Western Washington University, earning a B.A. in 1985 and then continuing her education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, earning an M.S. in 1988.

It is hard to imagine this world without the small items in it, such as; rocks, sand, grass, trees, and leaves. Yet we tend to ignore their beauty and presence in our fast pace society.

The City of Stockton is pleased to be operating the Stockton Soccer Complex located at 10055 Highway Frontage Road just north of Morada Lane. The complex is home to 8 soccer fields and is a great resource serving the community’s recreational and competitive sport needs.

San Joaquin Delta College, Board Vice President, Janet Rivera  joined the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund and more than 30 Latino public officials from across the country to examine strategies for Latino student achievement at the NALEO Education Leadership Initiative (NELI) National Task Force meeting.