SKID ROW WOMEN EMPOWERED TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

More than 200 women facing homelessness and extreme poverty gathered on Friday, May 18^th in Elysian Park to participate in Women’s Day in the Park, providing them with tools to improve their physical and mental health. Activities included health screenings, dance workshops, yoga classes and a fashion show.  The event was part of National Women’s Health Week, an observance coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, and was sponsored by the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) which provides permanent housing and supportive services to 4300 homeless women in LA’s Skid Row annually.

AT&T Wireless has equipped DWC with technology to conduct health assessments at the park and enroll women into wellness programs. The technology – including data collecting and tracking ability, wireless service, and iPads -  will allow more women in need to easily enroll in health programs and measure their results, such as nutrition intake and BMI calculations. Additionally, data can be aggregated to measure the program’s success.

Other sponsors included Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN), and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA). Participating agencies include Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Healthy Way LA, JWCH, League of Women Voters, and more.

AT&T Offering Free Mother’s Day Calls in Local Stores

 

AT&T Offering Free Mother’s Day Calls in Local Stores

Call Mom in Mexico or anywhere in the world & talk free for up to 10 Minutes.  AT&T is offering free Mother’s Day calls on May 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at participating Southern California stores:

Downey Store

8420 Firestone Blvd.

Huntington Park Store

6833 Pacific Blvd.

Paramount Town Center West

16279 Paramount Blvd. Unit C

Santa Ana

3839 W 1^st Street Suite B-4

Panorama City

14500 Roscoe Blvd. Unit 3

Anyone can talk to mom free for up to 10 minutes.  AT&T will have five calling areas set up inside the store.  AT&T recognizes that being separated from loved ones can be very difficult on a holiday like Mother’s Day so it is providing a way to bring people together for some special moments of sharing.  AT&T invested more than $1.7 billion in the 10 counties in the Southland from 2009 through 2011 with a focus on improving the company’s mobile Internet coverage and overall performance of its networks. During 2011, AT&T made nearly 2,250 wireless network upgrades in the region.

WIRELESS WEEK HONORS AT&T FOR WI-FI LEADERSHIP AND GROWTH AS CUSTOMER CONNECTIONS TRIPLE YEAR-OVER-YEAR

With the AT&T Wi-Fi network continuing to scale and consumers making record a record number of Wi-Fi connections, Wireless Week honored AT&T with an industry leadership award for its Wi-Fi strategy, innovation and growth at their 15th Annual Leadership Awards ceremony Tuesday, May 8 at CTIA in New Orleans.  

Wireless Week also recognized AT&T for its record number of connections and network traffic made on the AT&T Wi-Fi network, which continued to grow in the first quarter of 2012:

•  626.4 million AT&T Wi-Fi connections made in the first quarter of 2012, more than half of the 1.2 billion connections made in all of 2011.
• Quadrupled monthly Wi-Fi data uploads from mobile devices in first quarter 2012 versus first quarter 2011
• Tripled AT&T Wi-Fi network traffic in first quarter 2012 versus network traffic for first quarter 2011.  

• More than 79 connections per second made to more than 30,000 AT&T operated Wi-Fi Hot Spots.  

 

New Truck Lanes to Bring Congestion Relief, Enhanced Safety to I-5 Corridor

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today broke ground on a $72 million truck lanes project on the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5) that will significantly reduce congestion, improve goods movement, and enhance safety in the heavily traveled corridor.

The project will add a truck lane to I-5 in both directions by paving the median area and outside shoulder, and shifting the mixed-flow lanes inward. The southbound truck lane will extend from Pico Canyon Road/Lyons Avenue to State Route 14 (3.7 miles), while the northbound lane will run from SR-14 to Gavin Canyon (1.4 miles). New median and outside retaining walls will be built to accommodate the widening. The project will be completed in early 2014.

More than 216,000 vehicles use this segment of I-5 every day, including 19,000 trucks, many of them traveling to or from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Separating freeway truck traffic from passenger vehicles enhances safety, particularly on freeways with steep grades. Other benefits include reduces congestion. greater mobility, improved air quality, and more efficient goods movement.

This project is the result of a unique Public-Private partnership with the Golden State Gateway Coalition as the private sector partner.

Images from the groundbreaking:

LA County Supervisor Michael Antonovich said new truck lanes are vital to economy of Southern California.

Supervisor Antonovich (3rd from left) joins officials of CalTrans and Metro in symbolic groundbreaking.

Members of the Golden State Gateway Coalition who contributed to funding for new I-5 truck lanes take a turn at turning dirt.

A Taste of Spring- Saturday, May 12

When you think of cancer-fighting foods, sure, pomegranate, blueberry and grape may come to mind, but mushrooms and cinnamon?  According to City of Hope researchers, these popular ingredients can be added to the list of “super foods” that may help fight cancer.  

Saturday, May 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Americana at Brand in Glendale will host their first-ever “A Taste of Spring” event presented by Citi in which L.A.’s top chefs and culinary minds will entertain the crowd with cooking demos, a panel discussion, restaurant samplings along The Green and a Super Food Recipe Challenge.  Leading up to the event, the public is invited to submit a recipe using any of the five super foods (pomegranate, blueberry, grape, mushroom and Cinnamon) and the winner will be announced on stage at The Americana at Brand.  On-hand will be local Chef Neal Fraser, chef and culinary ambassador to City of Hope Katie Chin, popular foodie and blogger Claire Thomas and more.  Open to the public, guests will be able to explore the exciting culinary landscape of Los Angeles and maybe even pick up some inspiration for a homemade Mother’s Day brunch.  


For more information:

www.americanaatbrand.com