Brentwood community spreads holiday cheer with ‘Tunnels of Joy’
The traditional winter holiday season has come to an end, however, the joy the different celebrations emit can last long after the new year ball drops. Tunnels of Joy – a festive, decorated holiday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PBS News’ Judy Woodruff shares thoughts on dismantling a polarized nation
From the moment she stepped on stage, legendary broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff captivated several hundred East Bay business leaders – making them burst into boisterous laughter twice within 30...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Building community ties: Lunar New Year celebrated in Concord
As families across China and around the world come together to welcome the Lunar New Year with fireworks, traditional dances, lavish feasts, practices like feng shui, and more, communities across the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lesher Foundation’s speaker series celebrates 20th anniversary
Over the past 20 years, Contra Costa County residents have gathered at the Lesher Center for the Arts to attend the renowned Newsmakers: Lesher Speaker Series, an annual series of events that...
View Article‘We’re losing our humanity’: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox decries the...
Leaders – what it means to be one, what it takes to be an effective one, and how their role has changed over the last two decades, in this country and abroad – was the focus of Vicente Fox’s talk at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Stand up for your rights’: Nonprofit groups, county defend undocumented...
Under the second Trump administration, immigration and deportation policies in the U.S. continue to spark intense debate and have raised fear in undocumented communities throughout the Bay Area....
View ArticleTechnology reshaping agriculture industry, opening up new job opportunities
California is an agricultural powerhouse. However, the state is faced with a crisis of a rapidly declining farming industry with an aging producer population. Statistics show that young people are...
View ArticleWinkler, Matlin bring unique friendship to Newsmakers series
English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said that “friendship is a sheltering tree.” This is more than true for award-winning actors and directors Henry Winkler and Marlee Matlin, who have been close...
View ArticleDonna Brazile, George F. Will bring two ends of the political spectrum to...
Two strong voices in American politics, veteran Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author George F. Will, bring their perspectives to the Lesher Center for...
View Article‘If you will it, it is not a dream’: Henry Winkler, Marlee Matlin stress...
Speaking to a packed house at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek on March 18, Henry Winkler and Marlee Matlin shared the importance of remaining resilient in the face of challenges and...
View Article