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Born in 1949 in Hanford Village, an African American neighborhoodon the Near East Side, Shirley Mixon had a childhood right out of a book about 1950s suburbia.

No one worried about leaving doors unlocked or bikes unattended. People took pride in their homes and even had contests for the best-kept lawn. Children played outside and neighbors shared plates of food at dinnertime.

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It was just a close-knit community, said Mixon, 71, who eventually bought her own house in Hanford, where she still lives. When one person hurt, we all hurt.

Hanford was founded as a village in 1909, and was originally bordered by Main Street on the north, Alum Creek on the east, Livingston Avenue on the south and Lilley Avenue on the west. It became a predominantly Black municipality by the 1920sand had its own mayor and police department. (It was annexed to Columbus in 1955.)

Black Out: Shirley Mixon describes the neighborhood she grew up in, divided by the highway

Shirley Mixon describes how Hanford Village was cut by I-70, but survives. She grew up in the mostly Black community.

Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

Beginning in 1946, the Federal Housing Administration financed the construction of 146 Cape Cod homes in the middle class area, marketed to Black veterans as the Hanford Village George Washington Carver Addition. A number of Tuskegee Airmen lived in the community.

Mixons former street, Bowman Avenue, was lined with homes and a storethat housed both a beautician and barber, who gave all the Hanford boys their first haircut, Mixon said.

Shirley Mixon, 71, grew up in the predominantly Black neighborhood Hanford Village and saw it divided by the construction of I-70 in the 1960s.Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

Then, in the 1960s, the I-70 interstate cut off Bowman Avenue, eradicated 60 homes and split the community.

Mixons old house, now inhabited by her sister, is one of only four remaining on the street. From their windows, residents can see the highway not only an eyesore and an inconvenience, but,according to residents, scholars government officials and others, a concrete and colossal example of institutional racism and its harm to Black communities.

Most Hanford Village houses are west of the highway; twoare isolated at Alum Creek Drive and Kent Street on the other side.

I lost a lot of friends, Mixon recalled. They couldve gone through Bexley. Why didnt they go through there?

Bexley, the predominantly white, affluent citynortheast of Hanford Village, remained unscathed by I-70, I-71 and I-670, which destroyed large parts of the predominantly Black Near East Side following the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Numerous reports have chronicled the deliberate destruction of Black neighborhoods throughout the U.S. via the interstate system.

Its just a tragic story, said Jason Reece, an assistant professor of city and regional planning at Ohio State University. (It) played out across many different neighborhoods all the way up the East Side to Milo-Grogan and then to Linden. I-670 wiped out the Flytown neighborhood. And if you look at the old redlining maps of most cities and Columbus is a good example you can pretty much trace the highways right through those areas that were redlined.

In addition to redlining the practice of denying home loans and other resources to Black neighborhoods during segregation the government also targeted the communities for urban renewal. But plans for slum clearance were rarely followed with promised affordable housing, Reece said.

That, combined with the interstate construction, caused many areas to decline.

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You cant imagine that happening to other neighborhoods without the power of prejudice and discrimination, Reece said. It didnt have to be like that. There are many routes you could have taken through the city, but they seemed to almost always exclusively target Black communities.

Mixon said some of her neighbors took drastic measures to stay in Hanford.

One friend of my dads said they werent giving him enough money for his house, she said. Sohe lifted his house and moved it.

According to the application to put the neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places by local historian Rory Krupp approved in 2014 another person was so enraged that he set fire to his home.

Segregation and discriminatory housing policies limited where displaced residents could move. Ultimately, they chose Linden, Driving Park and Southfield, Krupp reported.

According to Mixon, things arent the same at the Hanford neighborhoodpark, now considerably smaller and managed by the city.

You find more people from Bexley and other neighborhoods coming down there, she said. One time, we were having a Hanford reunion, and somebody had already bought and paid for the park, so we had to cancel.

With original residents getting older, new people moving in and crime rates creeping up, Mixon said Hanford isnt the same as it used to be. But now that the neighborhood is on the National Register of Historic Places, Mixon feels some relief.

I used to think the freeway would come out here and take the rest of the houses, Mixon said. (But) as long as people can maintain their houses, I think its going to be OK.

Black Out: Ann Walker's home razed for highway

Ann Walker and her husband were raising two children in a Jefferson Avenue home on the North Side when it was razed to make way for Interstate 71. She believes minority communities were targeted for the highway construction.

Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

A few miles away on Jefferson Avenue, Ann B. Walker wasnt so lucky.

Back in the 1960s, she and her husband, Linwood, owned a two-family brick home in the present-day King-Lincoln District, currently bounded by I-71 on the west, Atcheson Street on the north, 20th Street on the east, and East Broad Street on the south. Similar to other, thriving African American hubs in Chicago, Los Angeles and Milwaukee, the neighborhood was nicknamed Bronzeville in the 1920s.

Ann Walker was living in the present-day King-Lincoln District when the house was razed to make way for I-71.Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

It was a self-contained community, said Walker, 97, who now lives in Olde Towne East. We elected our own mayor. … People who live on the East Side still think of it as Bronzeville.

There were successful businesses, bars and music venues on Mount Vernon Avenue and Long Street. There also was a sense of camaraderie; Walker said her backyard was a recreational hub for the neighborhood kids.

A wedding day photograph of Ann and Linwood Walker, who had a home together on Jefferson Avenue, which was later razed.Family photograph

But then the construction of I-71 divided and destroyed much of Bronzeville, and the Walkers were forced to give up their home.

We didnt have a choice, she said. We had to either sell or let the city take it. Many of us felt we were not getting the full value for our home.

The Walkers sold for just a couple thousand more than they paid.

The once-bustling Mount Vernon Avenue was cut off at Hamilton Avenue, and Mount Vernonnow feeds into Spring Street, which travels one way over the highway and Downtown to Columbus Community College.

It was deliberate, Walker said. They should have gone through Bexley and they did not. … The businesses had to look for a new location. The doctors and lawyers had to look for a new location. Our schools changed. The population was reduced.

Growing up in the neighborhood, William Richardson also witnessed the devastation firsthand. His father, Marion, owned a bowling alley on Mount Vernon Avenue.

Communities lost: How highways destroyed Black neighborhoods in the 60s

It got pretty clear for community folks that youre doing this to spite us, said Richardson, 76, of the East Side. Why would you take an insignificant street like Spring Street and put a bridge over it and take a thoroughfare such as Mount Vernon Avenue and dead end it unless you were just intent on driving the East Side community under? he said.

Richardsons family moved from Georgia to Columbus in the 1920s as part of the Great Migration of Southern Black families to the North. His mothers family helped construct Shiloh Baptist Churchs building on Mount Vernon Avenue; the congregation had moved a couple times since forming in the 1860s.

This historical photo of the I-71 and I-670 interchange shows where Ann Walker had a Jefferson Avenue home before it was destroyed for freeway construction.Columbus Dispatch

The church sits right at the point where the street was cut off, and Richardson said the city originally wanted to take the building as part of the highway construction.

Shiloh refused to sell, he said of the church, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They saw themselves as being critical to the community.

The highway also reduced traffic into Bronzeville. Prior to its construction, Reita Smith remembers traveling to the neighborhood from her home in the Hilltop.

I would take the trolley car and go to Shiloh for church and Sunday school, said Smith, 84, of the Northwest Side. And then, of course, we spent all our afternoons on Long Street and Mount Vernon.

Richardson spoke fondly of the bowling alley, shops, nightclubs and movie theaters. She said that, overall, the area was safe and friendly.

You lost easy access to the Black community, Smith said. It was like cutting off the blood supply.

According to residents and scholars such as Reece, Bronzeville also was devastated by urban renewal policies. Buildings were demolished, driving both people and businesses out of the neighborhood. The population also was reduced during integration, whenresidents were suddenly free to movethroughout the city.

Today, with development of the area ramping up, residents are worried about retaining the culturalidentity of King-Lincoln/Bronzeville amid the risk of more displacement

A current view of Hanford Village, which was divided by the construction of I-70 in the 1960s.Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

Gentrification is occurring throughout all of our African American communities, Smith said. Were right back where we started then, needing affordable housing.

One of the most recent blows to the neighborhood was the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority'sdemolition in 2013 of most of Poindexter Village, which opened in 1940 as one of the countrys first public-housing developments. Two of the 35 buildings were sparedand will be turned in to a museum and cultural learning center.

It was policies, not people, said Smith, who lived in the development in the 1960sand advocated for its preservation. The residents wanted to be there.

Walker is glad there will be some remnant of Poindexter.

I think that is very important because you still have a high percentage of Black people living on the East Side, Walker said. They need to be aware of the history.

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This is part of a nine-story series that exploresthe ways in which prejudice and systemic racism impact Black Americans.

The creation of The Dispatch Black Out seriesstarted with a simple conversation between reporters Erica Thompson and Mike Wagner, who are part of the newspapers Heart of Columbus team. They wanted to show that the agony, frustration and pain felt by Black people in America wasnt just connected to recent killings of Black people by police.

Along with photographer/videographer Doral Chenoweth, the journalists spent months interviewing dozens of Black people throughout central Ohio, and a few beyond, about their personal experiences with racism, prejudice and discrimination.

Their stories are raw and personal. The intent of the stories, photos and videos is to help others understand why Black people often live in fear for their safety andtheir livelihoods, and why they worry about being looked down upon as being inferior to white people. And hopefully that understanding leads to more equality.

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EAST GREENBUSH When Immanuel Church decided it want to build a new 10,000-square foot church off Columbia Turnpike, town officials quickly discovered that the zoning code didnt permit religious institutions along the towns busiest highway.

I think it was a mistake, Adam Yagelski, the towns director of planning and zoning, said Tuesday about the exclusion of churches from the business district that occurred in 2008.

Its clear theres a legal issue with our code, Yagelski said.

The construction of new churches doesnt occur that often in Rensselaer Countys most populous town or throughout the rest of the Capital Region. The town is scrambling to rewrite the zoning rules to permit churches in the 110 acres along Columbia Turnpike, also known as U.S. Routes 9 and 20, and other areas that exclude the buildings from the B-2 business zone.

There are other churches in the zone, such as St. Marys and the Congregational Church on Columbia Turnpike, but they predate the 2008 zoning update. Yagelski said there are issues with the current zoning, pointing out that the St. Marys property is partially in the business zone along Columbia Turnpike while the rear of the property is in an adjoining area zoned residential.

Immanuel Church wants to raise a new church this spring on the 6.5-acre site at Columbia Turnpike to be the new home for its now 200-member congregation that's expected to grow to 350, said Pastor Brad Guenther. The church, which has Baptist roots, will fill a void in the community, the pastor said. The church will move from rented quarters at 1955 Ferndale Road in Schodack.

Beyond there being a dearth of churches in southern Rensselaer County, and believing that churches really do play a role in serving the needs of the area, the East Greenbush area is clearly important in its close vicinity to Albany, great schools, rapid growth, while maintainingthe refreshingly small town feel of a tight knit community, Guenther said.

Supervisor Jack Conway said the church could provide new community space for activities in the town.

The Town Board is scheduled to hold a public hearing on adding churches as a permitted use to the zoning for Columbia Turnpike. That same night, the Immanuel Church intends to appear before the Planning Board to make its initial presentation for site plan review, which is all that would be required with the zoning change.

The town currently is updating its comprehensive plan, which also requires revising the zoning code. Conway said a review will be conducted to avoid zoning issues such as this one.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misidentified Routes 9 and 20 as New York State highways. They are U.S. highways.

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When Gordianus Setio Lelono served as a neighborhood community chief several years ago, he had a recurring dream.

He saw himself standing in the pulpit of his parish church in Bekasi, in Indonesias West Java province, telling the congregation about the importance of having a sense of belonging to a parish.

St. Michael Catholic Church in the Kranji district of the town was considered illegal because it did not have a building permit.

The parish was established in May 1991 in a province regarded by many as the most intolerant in Indonesia and home to various radical and extremist Muslim groups.

Parishioners were unable to obtain a building permit fortheir church due to strong objections from these hardline groups until one day in 2000 when the parish priest asked Lelono, a local Catholic businessman, to look into the problem.

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He formed a small team called Team 9 and tried to find out the exact reasons behind the objections to the building permit.

We found the root of the problem within three months. It was simply because parishioners separated themselves from others and did not mix as they automatically thought that they were a minority being rejected by the majority. It seemed a ridiculous situation to me, he said.

A few years later, at the parish priests suggestion, he set up a parish body called the Committee of St. Michael Catholic Church Complex Construction, which had about 60 members.

The idea was for the parish to actively seek to build a church, a residence for priests and buildings for charity work, such as a clinic.

The first thing the panel did was to study a joint ministerial decree first issued in 1969 on places of worship.

Issued by the religious affairs and home affairs ministries, the regulation lays out onerous requirements to obtain a permit to build a place of worship.

Church officials must provide a list of the names and signatures of 90 worshipers and get signed support from at least 100 local residents and approval by a village head.

Along with the committees members, Lelono started to visit residents. He also met all neighborhood leaders to try and garner peoples support to allow a building permit to be issued.

I tried to present our case in an open and friendly manner, he says.

Tough challenge

It was not easy, though. Protestations often came from outsiders or hardline Islamic groups that simply continued to reject the existence of churches in the town, claimingthe aim was proselytization.

Despite the obstacles, however, Lelono and his committee succeeded in obtaining a building permit for a church in September 2004 after getting the more than 100 signatures needed from residents, mostly Muslims.

However, soon after that, a stranger came to his house calling him to a meeting with a group of people wanting to speak with him.

I called a few parishioners and asked them to go with me. But they all refused. I was not afraid. I just wanted to have some witnesses, he says.

At the meeting, he was threatened and assaulted and told the parish church must not be built.

I knelt before them, pleading with them to let my parish build a church. I assured them that no proselytization would ever take place, he says.

But they insisted it must not be built and even threatened to kill me if I did not tear up the building permit.

Despite the threat, the parish began construction work and in November 2008 the church was consecrated.

He said he hasnt heard from those who threatened him since.

Another fight

Word of Lelonos success spread. In 2010, a priest from St. Clara Parish, also in Bekasi, asked him for help in obtaining a building permit for a church.

St. Clara Parish was established in August 1998 and, like Lelonos, was facing strong opposition from hardline Islamic groups over building a church.

The two parishes had a similar problem. So, I used the same approach as before. I was lucky that the mayor, Rahmat Effendi, was very understanding. He always says he wants to serve all people in Bekasi no matter their religious background, Lelono said.

St. Clara Parish finally obtained a building permit in July 2015 but opposition from hardliners refused to go away.

Small protests often happened but there were two huge rallies, Lelono said.

The first one took place a month after the parish obtained the permit. More than 1,000 gathered, claiming the parish got it through improper means.

The same claim was made at the second and that the site for the church was in an area where pious Muslims resided which should bar any churches being built in the area.

But local residents were good about it. The opposition was coming from outsiders, which often happens in such cases, he said.

Last year he was asked by another priest to help obtain a permit for a church at St. John Paul II Mission Station in Rawalumbu, also in Bekasi.

This went more smoothly. It only took a year to get, Lelono said.

The mission station got the permit in February this year. The groundbreaking ceremony for the churchs construction will take place in January 2021.

Lelono, who recently received an award from the Union of Christian Media Journalists for his efforts, said that although he has been successful in helping parishes, he had to spend a lot of time, energyand money doing so.

But the whole problem these parishes had to face just for a simple permit concerned me a great deal. I did not do it for an award. I am 67 years old now. I do not consider myself a good person and, believe me, I have sinned. Maybe it was part of a plan God has for me. He wants me to do good things.

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HACKENSACK, N.J. With the holiday season upon us, its no better time to look out for each other. The same should be appliedon the road.

On Monday night, a two-car accident in Hackensack landed one vehicleon the front lawn of a city residence and both drivers in the hospital. Just after 7:30 p.m., a 36-year-old Teaneck man behind the wheel of a 2010 Honda Civic had been traveling westbound on Anderson Street when he proceeded into the intersection and collided with a 67-year-old Maywood woman in a 2009 Nissan Altima who had been traveling south on Summit Avenue. Once the Honda struck the Nissan, both cars spun out the Nissan hit a parked 2017 Toyota Tacoma while the Honda came to ascreeching halt on the front lawn of 471 Summit Avenue, a single-family dwelling.

According to Police Captain Nicole Foley, commanding officer of the Hackensack Police Traffic Bureau, the Teaneck man said he did not see the woman coming until it was too late and a collision was inevitable.

Both drivers were transported to Hackensack University Medical Center for the treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Both vehicles were towed. No summonses were issued by the responding officers.

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JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) Its pretty much back to normal life for one COVID-19 patient from Joliet.

Joseph Ciarlette was among the first to receive a breakthrough therapy. As CBS 2s Steven Graves reported Saturday evening, it is a treatment hospitals continue to lean upon as cases rise.

I feel really good. Got great energy, Ciarlette said. Very grateful that I made it.

Seven months ago, Ciarlette, 54, was confined to a wheelchair. He left Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after surviving COVID using an ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, machine.

It is what saved my life, Ciarlette said. The ECMO gave my lungs a chance to rest.

Back at the time he was diagnosed, the machine which acts as an outside heart to circulate an oxygenate blood was new in the COVID fight. It is an invasive last resort for people who have failed on a ventilator.

For survivors, side effects after such treatment and even recovery time were unknown.

I was extremely weak even sleeping. You know, if you could think about feeling like a bag of bones, thats what it felt like, Ciarlette said. There was just no muscle.

Ciarlette also said he had a low iron count in his blood, but feels back to normal now.

ECMO treatment has evolved as Chicago-area hospitals continue to use it during another spike in hospitalizations.

Rush University Medical Center on average uses the treatment on about half a dozen patients. Northwestern Medicine also uses ECMO to keep those fighting COVID alive as they wait on lung transplants.

Ciarlette, a success story, got to celebrate another birthday. He now gets check-up calls from the hospital to track his progress.

She said, Actually, I have about 18 others call after you, he said. So, thankfully others are recovering, too.

Meanwhile, Ciarlette also got to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Very thankful for my life this year, he said.

Not every hospital has ECMO machines. And unlike ventilators, staff do not usually track the numbers of available devices.

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Jose Garcia, 68, who has been sedated and intubated for COVID-19 since Nov. 13, is visited by his daughter, Carolina Garcia, a nurse at Memorial Medical Center on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Las Cruces. Carolina says she wipes away tears that form after she whispers in his ear.(Photo: Nathan J Fish/Sun-News)

LAS CRUCES Some family members dropto their knees on the lawn outside of Memorial Medical Center while others stand before a window into the intensive care unit.

About 25people in all, spread out, sayprayers in English and Spanish, asking God to use His power to heal their father, Jose Garcia.

The 68-year-old farmworker, intubated and sedated, lie inside the hospital, separated from most of his family since a COVID-19 diagnosis last month.

Since Jose was admitted on Nov. 6, only one family member has been able to have physical contact with him his daughter Carolina Garcia, the fourth oldest of his nine children.She has been anurse at MMCfor 12 years.

Carolinatalks to Jose every day and says she knows hecan hear her voice, even if he is sedated. She's seen tears fall from his eyes as she reassures himthat thefamily is outside, as physically close to him as they can be.

Genoveva Garcia looks through a Memorial Medical Center window at her husband, Jose Garcia, 68, who is being treated for COVID-19 on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Las Cruces.(Photo: Nathan J Fish/Sun-News)

Outside, Jose's wife of 47 years, Genoveva Garcia, is bundled up in several blankets. Her hands are pressed to the glass looking at herhusband lie motionless.

Connie Dominguez,Jose's second oldest child, comforts her mom. She says her father's diagnosis has brought the large family together.

"Not having my dad has been the hardest thing. He's our anchor," Connie said.

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Through Carolina, they have a conduit inside. Carolina is not in the nursing unit assigned to care for her father but still dresses in personal protective equipment to visit him daily.

"It's a blessing to have her there," Conniesaid. "My mom thanks her every day."

Jose hasworked for Cervantes Enterprises Inc. since he was17 years old andhe's still employed for the chile processing enterprise more than 40 yearslater.

Carolina said her father has always been a very clean man who showers every morning, brushes his hair and puts on cologne.

Genoveva gave Carolina her father's Polo cologne to put on him while he's in the hospital. Carolina also trims his hair.

"I had to shave his mustache I am so sorry dad," Carolina said. "That gives mehappiness if I do the things that he would still be doing at home."

Carolina Garcia said that being a nurse at Memorial Medical Center has always kept her very aware of the dangers of the virus, but when her father was admitted to the ICU, sedated and intubated for COVID-19, it became much more real for her and her family.(Photo: Miranda Cyr/Sun-News)

Carolina's eyes wateras she talks about seeing her father like this.

"I'm used to the 12 years that I've been a nurse thatpatients come in, and they're sick, we treat them, we give them what we have, and they get better, and they go home," Carolina said."Now, nurses areseeingthat with COVID,it's not that way. Our nursing has changed to where we don't get that feeling ofwe're doing our joband we're helping people.Because they're doing everything that they can but they're really sick."

The sickest patients areintubated, meaning ventilators help control their breathing. Hospital officials in New Mexico say fewer patients are having to be intubated as treatment for the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus improves.

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But 60 percent of patients now intubated don't survive, according to Dr. David Scrase, the state's health and human services secretary, who provided the statistic Monday during a state press conference.

For the first few days after Jose was intubated on Nov. 13, Carolina saidshe spenta lot of time staring at the monitors in his room, knowing all too well what each statistic meant.

She no longer does thisafter encouragement from her fellow nurses to go home and take care of herself and her two children because that's what her dad would want.

"I saw my dad go through this from being home to being (in the hospital), going to the ICU, seeing my dad getintubated," Carolina said. "I know my dad was really scared. When I (told) him what the doctor said about intubation . He looked at me, and I know Dad was scared. He said in Spanish, he told me: 'Hay que hacer la lucha'meaning let's go on with the fight."

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the majority of the Garcia family has tested positive forCOVID-19. Carolina had the virus in September. As a healthcare professional, she stepped up to be the caretaker for her large family, dropping off medication and oxygen and taking people's temperatures.

"I felt like I was doing home health visits with my family to makesure that theyhad what they needed," Carolina said.

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New Mexico and Doa Ana County, which neighbors hard-hit El Paso, Texas,have seen large spikes of COVID-19 since October. To combat the rise, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has enacted some of the most stringent restrictions in the country. In most of the state, nonessential businesses are closed, big box stores canhave only up to 75 people inside at a time and restaurants are limited to outdoor dining, at 25 percent capacity.

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The state also does not permit groups of five ormore people to gather. Still, a large crowd of Jose's family meets on the hospital lawn,awaiting word from Carolina.

The family is asking the community to pray for Jose.

Late Sunday evening,Genoveva and Connie were the only family members who remained outside as the sun began to set. Connie pulled her car around for her mom so they could escape the cold for a bit. They were parked across the street, but in view of Jose's hospital room.

Nearly 30 family members gather in front of Jose Garcia's ICU window on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, for a vigil and prayer. They prayed in English and Spanish that Garcia could heal and find peace through God's will and power.(Photo: Miranda Cyr/Sun-News)

Inside, they watchedCarolina carefor Joseas the sun set behind the hospital. By 6 p.m., the blinds were drawn. Family members will be back at 9 a.m. when nurses inside again raise the blinds allowing the Garcia family to see their loved one and do what they can to let Jose know they are watching.

Veronica Martinezand Algernon D'Ammassa contributed to this reporting.

Miranda Cyr, a Report for America corps member, can be reached atmcyr@lcsun-news.comor@mirandabcyron Twitter. Show your support for the Report for America program athttps://bit.ly/LCSNRFA

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Dec 1, 2020 - The team at ASL Remodeling is pleased to introduce its remodeling services to homeowners and commercial facilities within California. The company has built a stellar reputation for its upgrade and renovation jobs on kitchens, bathrooms, and even entire houses. With all deight, the award-winning company is looking to offer more prospective clients around the bay of California a chance to tap into its years of experience and expertise.

ASL Remodeling Construction Company in Bay Area has a broad and diverse portfolio that includes kitchen, bathroom, and general renovation projects. The company is capable of turning outdated kitchens into more recent and warmer kitchens. Homeowners who are dissatisfied with the outlook and modernity of their kitchens are invited to take advantage of ASL Remodelings home additions and renovations. The companys portfolio on bathroom remodeling features completely overhauled and refitted bathrooms. Irrespective of a clients budget, ASL Remodeling makes sure to do an outstanding job. For anyone searching for bathroom remodelers near me, bathroom remodel contractors or kitchen remodeling near me, ASL is the team to call.

Prospective clients searching through the internet for general contractor Bay area are invited to reach out to ASL Remodeling and take advantage of the companys free estimates. The experienced team at ASL Remodeling also have the expertise to serve clients who have their own templates or want to emulate certain designs from fancy magazines. The team makes sure to keep homeowners in the loop and accommodates custom requests whenever clients offer them.

When you partner with ASL Remodeling construction company, you will not just be able to keep your home looking beautiful. You will also get the support needed to keep the enhanced functionality of your home as well, says Yoni Asulin of ASL Remodeling.

They impressed us with a quick response to my questions and concerns. The manager and his crew were so dedicated to the job and the finish details, each one of the crew was near and extremely qualified in their job, said a recent client of ASL.

As a construction company in the Bay area, ASL has had lots of experience executing home additions, building ADUs, and remodeling rooms. For jobs that require cabinets, the remodeling company supplies its own custom cabinets which have now become the preferred choice for many clients. The team is licensed, insured, and bonded, and has carried out thousands of home remodeling projects. ASL Remodeling serves regions like Cupertino, Palo Alto, San Mateo, Mountain View, Los Altos Hills, San Jose, and many more areas in California. Free consultations and appointments are available.

Prospective clients who are looking through google for construction companies in bay area or construction companies near me can contact ASL Remodeling. The company offers excellent services as a general bay area contractor.

For more information, please visit: https://aslremodeling.com

Media ContactCompany Name: ASL Remodeling construction company in bay areaContact Person: Yoni AsulinEmail: Send EmailPhone: 408-753-0012Address:20s N Santa Cruz Ave Suit 300 City: Los GatosState: CA 95030Country: United StatesWebsite: https://aslremodeling.com/

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