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Roseville Today

Disabilities

Welcome to Roseville Today’s section on disabilities. Featuring a combination of original content, guest posts, inspiring stories, and practical tips. We hope you’ll find this section useful and informative. May it lift you with encouragement, empower you with empathy, and fuel you with compassion.

Blind Friend Caught in the Web

My friend, who I'll call Tony (a pseudonym), age 35, said he had been able as a child to see shapes and colors, but now could sense only light

French Inspires Others to Change Thinking

We both had been drinking. We fell forward and hit the pavement with his body on top of me. I broke my neck at the sixth vertebra.

Faith Plays Big Role with Mom

Every now and then, a person featured here attributes faith as pivotal in their being able to cope with disability-one in themselves or family members.

Bullied Child Becomes Successful Leader

As a University of Dayton student over 30 years ago, I was friends with Jim Kebe, now of Bexley, Ohio. Recently, I emailed to say hello and asked as an aside if he had cerebral palsy.

Traffic Accidents Led to Arthritis

Lisa and David Michaels (not their real names) both have had trouble over years managing pain and arthritis caused by old traffic accident injuries, and much more.

Traumatic Brain Injury changed a community

On December 1, 1995, a large van accidentally hit pedestrian Sharon Gieseke on a busy street in downtown New Ulm, Minnesota. She immediately blacked...

Depression: Woman Winning Lifelong Fight

I will call her "Melissa." Living outside Bloomington, Indiana, she regularly reads this column in the Spencer Evening World and for privacy reasons wants...

Eric Duquette: Part 2

Last week, I featured Judy and son Eric Duquette. In the mid-'90s, a physician diagnosed then 3-year-old Eric with autism, which meant he had...

Jana’s Happiness Secret

Jana Jackson of Grass Valley, California, doesn't remember the morning of February 28, 1993, when she was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway toward...

Memory Loss

Mary Milbrath, a registered nurse, is director of nursing and housing director of Laurels Edge Assisted Living in Mankato, Minnesota. Its memory loss unit...

๐Ÿ’ซ Business Spotlight

Stanford Ranch Family Dentistry in Rocklin serving the local community since...

Rocklin, Calif.- For nearly 24 years, Jason and Heather have grown their successful Stanford Ranch Family Dentistry practice by faithfully serving patients throughout the Rocklin, Roseville, and greater South Placer County region. Their business has grown to now employ over a dozen employees which helps them meet the growing demands of a successful local business.

Welcome to the Brighter Side

Roseville Venture Lab business accelerator and incubator

The City of Roseville, in partnership with the Growth Factory, is launching Roseville Venture Lab in Downtown Roseville. City Council approved plans for the business accelerator and incubator at the May 18 meeting.