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Dave Corley is a numbers man. As a navigation and operations officer in the U.S. Navy, he was responsible for reviewing and recording as many as 400 gauge readings every hour of his shift during different assignments on three nuclear submarines.

Cristo Vazquez, 20, spent most of his childhood battling asthma and leukemia. But with hard work and help from mentors, he was able to complete honors classes while undergoing treatment and he graduated from Plano West High School.

LaKeicee Turner-Sazy says that the mission started on her son Jaxson’s tenth birthday in February. Jaxson is her second child.

Transitioning to a new area can be difficult, and no one understands better than Newcomer Friends of Greater Plano (NFGP) Publicity Chair Marcia Stout. She moved to Texas from Ohio three years ago. Stout is not alone. According to the U.S.

When Harry LaRosiliere became Plano mayor in 2013, he wanted to feed Collin County’s children who struggled with food insecurity. “People don’t think it is needed in a wealthy area like Plano,” he says.

When Lisa Montgomery thinks about giving, she thinks about her mother. Lisa grew up in Fair Park, part of a large family, and her parents were working poor. "My mom wasn’t a woman or means, but she could cook and she could sew," she recalls.

Plano-native Maile McQuaid spent nearly two years training for the Texas 4000 bike ride from Austin to Anchorage.

It’s been called a surge. Nearly 31 million unemployed, with nearly 4 million of those filing in one week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported at April’s end. That’s nearly 19 percent of the workforce.

Courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Fifteen years ago, Patricia Forest-Acy was living on the streets in New Orleans. She was trapped in a cycle of substance abuse.

Courtesy of Citychurch The east side of Hwy 5 in McKinney was the place to avoid. Violent crime was the expectation. A poverty ridden area was the reality. Carol Wood had heard the rumors, the warnings to avoid that side of town .