Woman who searched for husband on billboards says she found love

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Ricardo Tovar

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    CALIFORNIA (KSBW) — Months after making national headlines for advertising her search for a husband on Bay Area billboards, a Salinas native says her story has reached a happy new chapter: she has found love.

Lisa Catalano, a Salinas High School graduate who drew attention in the fall for promoting her dating website, marrylisa.com, on billboards from San Francisco to Santa Clara, recently shared that the effort ultimately helped lead her to the relationship she had been hoping to find.

While she did not meet her boyfriend directly through the billboard campaign or through an application on her website, Catalano said the entire experience played an important role in getting her there.

“I don’t feel like any of it was a waste of time or effort or resources,” Catalano said in an interview with KSBW 8. “All paths led me to where I am now.”

Catalano, 42, launched the campaign after growing frustrated with dating apps and wanting a more intentional path toward marriage and family.

Her website laid out her values, goals and non-negotiables, serving as a deeper filter for compatibility than traditional dating profiles.

Catalano said she received roughly 4,000 applications between September 2025 and May 2026, with 3,221 deemed genuine.

She said many of the responses came from men outside her area or from people who did not meet the basic qualities she was seeking in a partner.

She contacted 20 local men and went on first dates with five of them.

At the same time, Catalano continued using dating apps, often directing matches to her website to help assess compatibility early on.

In January, she matched with a man on a dating app who had also seen one of her billboards. That connection eventually turned into a relationship.

Catalano said the two went on 19 dates over three and a half months before becoming exclusive.

In June she announced on her website that she is now in a relationship with a Bay Area man she described as kind, intelligent, and aligned with the values most important to her.

She said he meets the standards she had been seeking all along, including shared views on marriage, family, lifestyle, religion and politics.

Catalano also revealed more details about the cost of her widely discussed campaign. She said the billboards themselves cost about $967, while the website and taxi-top ads in San Francisco brought the subtotal to about $1,980.

After adding follow-up expenses tied to the attention the campaign received — including wardrobe, makeup and increased security — her total spending came to $4,746.

Despite public speculation that the campaign may have cost tens of thousands of dollars, Catalano said she was strategic in choosing billboard locations and ad timing to stay within budget.

She said she started the process without ever imagining the amount of attention it would receive. Some people speculated that she was doing it for attention or fame, while others supported her. She also faced nasty and hateful comments directed at her efforts. Some even accused her of being AI.

She said she had tried all the traditional approaches, including meeting people in public and using dating apps, but none of them were working, and she was not finding dates.

She even said she turned down offers for Bachelorette-type shows in an effort not to muddy her real goal of finding love.

“I wasn’t getting dates, and I really wanted to find love, get married and have all of that,” she said. “I was like, ‘Okay, my current trajectory on things is not working. How am I going to make this work?’ I had to change something, so I decided to go big on it. And, you know, I didn’t meet my boyfriend off of the website or billboards, but I think the whole combination of everything that happened led me to where I am now.”

She also said she would not necessarily recommend billboards as the answer for everyone, but she does believe in finding creative solutions when something in life is not working.

“I don’t know if I would necessarily recommend going the billboard route per se, but I think that with anything in life, if you have a problem, it can be beneficial to try to think about creative solutions to the problem,” she said. “And that’s essentially what I did in this situation.”

Now, Catalano says she is simply grateful the story ended the way it did.

For a woman who once put her love life on Highway 101, the road appears to have led exactly where she hoped.

She said that despite the costs and effort, she does not regret what she did because it led her to where she is today.

She said she is very optimistic about her future with her new boyfriend and that they are both very happy right now. She would not disclose much about him other than to say he is a 35-year-old Bay Area man who is not bothered by her website or the media attention she has garnered.

She said she is trying to keep details about her relationship private, but added that they have spoken about a future together.

“He’s just way better than I thought I could even find in one person,” she said. “So I’m very lucky. I’m very happy. And he feels the same way about me.”

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Strangers come together to help rescue kitten trapped in storm drain

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Jennifer Osting

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    JEFFERSONTOWN, Kentucky (WLKY) — What started out as a cry for help on social media turned into a happy ending for a kitten trapped in a Jeffersontown storm drain.

A Reddit user made a post in the r/Louisville subreddit saying they heard a kitten meowing Wednesday night and found it sitting in a storm drain near the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Jeffersontown.

The user said police and animal control were both called to the scene, but they weren’t able to rescue the cat and said it would likely crawl out on its own.

But by Friday, the kitten could still be heard crying from the storm drain.

“I cannot get to the kitten and don’t know what to do,” the user said in their post.

The post quickly gained attention online, and several people went out to the scene Friday night with pet supplies, lights and rescue equipment.

Two of the people who headed to the scene were Andrew Dharamsey and his wife.

When they got there, they teamed up with about a dozen volunteers and members of a local dive team to search for the kitten.

Dharamsey said the area where the kitten was trapped as a 12-inch drainage pipe about 30 to 40 feet from a collection pit that was about five to six feet deep.

He said one of the volunteers climbed down into the pit while others used recordings of a mother cat calling for her kittens to try and lure the kitten out.

Eventually, they were able to use a animal control grabber tool to pull the kitten closer to them and pull it out of the storm drain.

Dharamsey and his wife, who foster cats through the Humane Society of Oldham County, then took the kitten home.

The couple said they have fostered more than 175 kittens and plan to rescue their newest one, whom they named “Christal” in honor of the other Reddit user whose post first alerted them about the situation.

They added that Christal is recovering well and has already started meeting their new foster siblings.

They also thanked everyone who responded to the post, saying it wouldn’t have been possible without the strangers who showed up in the rain to help save the kitten in distress.

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Maker of vinegar on mission to change minds one sour tastebud at a time

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Doug Meehan

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    WORCESTER, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Vinegar may be a pantry staple, but for most, it may not be something you spend a lot of time thinking about. A Massachusetts entrepreneur thinks about it all the time. That is because he is making a lot of it.

“There is so much more to vinegar than what most people realize,” said Rodrigo Vargas, founder of American Vinegar Works in Worcester.

The Dartmouth-educated former investment banker started his handmade, small-batch vinegar company in 2019. He did so by first asking a question that had opportunity as part of the answer.

“When you’re talking to someone, and you say, ‘What’s your favorite vinegar?’ there is like a blank stare,” Vargas said.

Learning that the public’s perception of the sour liquid was rather sour, Vargas set out to create just the opposite.

Using locally brewed alcohol, like a porter beer from Mayflower Brewing Company in Plymouth, Vargas believes starting with quality ingredients means you finish with a more refined, better-tasting, quality product — a product that can take up to a full year to mature — compared to the two hours or two days it takes for the more mass-produced vinegars.

“Our vinegar, at a minimum, is going to take a month to two months of fermentation. That process changing over alcohol into acetic acid, and then we barrel age all of the vinegars for at least four months and many of them as much as a year,” Vargas said.

Reimagining and redesigning filtration techniques that date back to the early 1800s. American Vinegar Works is producing 6,000 gallons of vinegar a year in a historic 200,000-square-foot manufacturing space.

Vargas said that as the public learns more about what is happening at the facility, the potential growth for this Made in Mass product is massive.

“Vinegar is one of those magical products that have zero of all of the bad things you want. But somehow, (there) is magically this burst of flavors that transforms your dishes,” Vargas said.

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Student with rare disease graduates high school while using telepresence robot

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Cecil Hannibal

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    FAIRFIELD, California (KCRA) — Aaron Phelps, a senior at Rodriguez High School in Fairfield, graduated high school after years of resilience, while attending classes virtually through a telepresence robot.

Phelps was born with Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy, a rare and devastating childhood disease that causes motor neurons to die. His mother, Meri Stratton, recalled the moment she realized something was wrong during a routine checkup when Aaron was 2 months old.

“He was sitting on my lap at the pediatrician’s office in Davis. His arms and legs were just hanging by his side,” Stratton said.

She was referred to a neurologist, who delivered heartbreaking news.

“When he first came into the room, one of the things he mentioned was SMA. He said if you get anything, this is the one you don’t want to have, because 90% of the kids die,” Meri said.

Doctors told Meri her son would not survive.

“They told you your son was going to die?” asked KCRA 3’s Cecil Hannibal.

“Absolutely, without question,” Meri said.

Meri turned to prayer and research, eventually connecting with researchers at Stanford and the University of Utah who were working on an experimental drug. The treatment kept Aaron alive through his first birthday, his first grade and beyond.

Aaron is mentally like any other student, but SMA caused him to lose complete mobility. He’s not immunocompromised, but any virus or infection that affects his lungs could send him to the hospital, according to his mother.

In elementary school, his parents discovered the idea of a telepresence robot through another family whose child has SMA.

Aaron’s journey with SMA inspired him to create a documentary about his life as one of the few SMA survivors his age.

“This is how I go to school. I have always gone to school virtually since kindergarten. During COVID, everybody went to school the way I do, and I didn’t feel so alone,” Aaron said in the film.

The documentary gained international recognition, being shown in Berlin and at the Catalina Film Festival, where a tree was planted in his honor, according to his mother.

Aaron graduated from Rodriguez High School on June 5 and now plans to attend Arizona State University online.

He dreams of working as a disability advocate for Disney.

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Deputy receives donated car as community supports her kidney disease fight

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Bethany Cates

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    GUILFORD COUNTY, North Carolina (WXII) — A Guilford County deputy battling stage 5 kidney disease received a donated car through a GoFundMe campaign, giving her a renewed sense of independence as her community rallies to support her. Austin said it was all thanks to Twin City Automotive in Winston-Salem who fixed up the car free of charge.

Deputy Rajinique Austin shared that her diagnosis forced her to make difficult financial decisions.

“Maybe last year, September, I had to choose between giving up my apartment or my car, and I gave my car up,” Austin said.

Her story inspired someone to make a difference.

“She donated her car that she hadn’t used in a long time to me,” Austin said.

Austin’s friend, who created the GoFundMe page, said the response was surprising.

“So I was like, what in the world is this, and I was reading through it, and someone was talking about how they wanted to donate their car, and it had been their dream car, and they didn’t use it anymore,” he said.

Austin expressed how having her own car again has impacted her life.

“I didn’t feel too burdened with not having my own, but it’s definitely different having your own,” she said.

Despite her demanding schedule, which includes working an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift and spending six hours on dialysis at home, Austin’s community continues to support her.

“It’s just making sure that she’s comfortable, she’s feeling good, that if she’s not having a good day, that we’re still there letting her know, ‘Hey, we’re here if you need to talk, we’re here if you need anything,'” her friend said.

Austin acknowledged the emotional toll of her condition but credited her community for helping her persevere.

“Some days I want to give up, like all the time. I’m constantly saying I don’t want to do this anymore, but I feel like sometimes they care more than me, so that allows me to push forward,” she said.

To raise awareness for Austin’s story, a motorcycle ride is scheduled for Saturday. The event will begin at Rixster Grill in High Point, with registration starting at 9 a.m. and the hour-long ride kicking off at 10:30 a.m.

Austin, who has a B-positive blood type, is still searching for a kidney match from someone with a B or O blood type.

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Jonah Poole gets life in prison in killing of garden shop owner Edward Koza

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Kate Amara

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    ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (WBAL) — A judge sentenced an Anne Arundel County man in the killing of a garden shop owner last year.

Jonah Poole, 19, of Davidsonville, pleaded guilty in March to first-degree murder in the killing of Edward Koza, 67, in May 2025. The guilty plea came months after a judge ruled that Poole was competent to stand trial. Police said Koza, the owner of Tropic Bay Water Gardens, was kidnapped before his killing.

On Friday, the defense sought a life sentence with all but 30 years suspended and a referral to the Youthful Offenders Program. The Anne Arundel County judge sentenced Poole to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Poole stood and told the court: “I think I deserve whatever I get. I’m sorry because he didn’t have to die and I have no excuses for what I did. I hope that God can forgive me. I don’t expect anyone else to forgive me.”

The Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office released a statement, saying, in part: “Due to the Defendant’s age, the judge will refer him to the Patuxent Youth Facility’s Youthful Offender Program. He was also ordered to forfeit approximately $215,000 stolen from the victim, and a $15,000 truck purchased with additional stolen funds to the victim’s estate.”

In referring Poole to the state’s Youthful Offender Program, the judge indicated that if not for the plea deal, she might have sentenced Poole without parole.

“I think the sentencing went well for us today. I think the judge had a very difficult decision to make and we respect her decision,” said David Fischer, Poole’s defense attorney.

County prosecutors said Poole and his co-defendant and high school girlfriend, Kylee Alyssa Dakes, 19, killed Koza inside his garden shop, leaving behind a knife, a bloody decorative koi pond rock and other evidence.

Prosecutors said the pair then drove Koza’s truck with his body in the back before setting the truck on fire in the shop’s parking lot.

Dakes was charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty. Her trial is scheduled in December and she plans to argue battered spouse syndrome and testify in her own defense.

Prosecutors said they’ve amassed evidence in the case that includes detention center phone calls and visitor logs, data from the couple’s cell phones and their exported chat log from Snapchat.

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Man dies after lawn mower goes off cliff edge, coroner says

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Stephanie Moore

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    PICKENS COUNTY, South Carolina (WYFF) — A well-known and loved man in Pickens County, South Carolina, has died after his lawn mower went off a cliff edge, according to the coroner’s office.

The coroner’s office said Richard Crowe, 68, was on a lawn mower and went over an approximate 15- to 20-foot cliff edge.

This happened about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, on Belle Shoals Road.

“Richard is a well-known and loved individual in this community,” the coroner’s office said. “He has always been known as a dear friend to many and a public servant at heart. Richard recently retired from Pickens County in 2024 as the Director of E-911, where he tirelessly served his community for several years.”

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office also released a statement on social media.

“The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office would like to extend our sincere condolences to the family of retired Pickens County E-911 Coordinator Richard Crowe. PCSO had the honor and privilege of working alongside Richard during his over two decades of service to Pickens County. Richard was highly respected by our deputies and communications specialists alike for his contagious positive disposition and willingness to always respond to assist our employees when needed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family in the coming days.”

Everyone seemed to have a story about Crowe in Pickens County

“Anytime something needed to be done, it didn’t matter if it was there or not. He was there,” said Andrew Wilson, the county coroner.

“He got written up one time because he worked on an ambulance, and they got sent to a call and it was barely over the Greenville County line, but he could see it,” said Megan Lowry, a coworker and friend. “So, he went to it anyway because he said he couldn’t leave those people without help while he was right there.”

Lowry says Crowe leaves behind a legacy of lifesaving in Pickens County.

“It would be storming in the middle of the night, and that man would be working all night long to keep 911 lines running,” she said.

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200 dirt bike riders displayed “dangerous riding behavior” in Baltimore, police say

CNN Newsource on June 29, 2026

By Adam Thompson

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    BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Baltimore police responded to more than 200 dirt bikers “displaying dangerous riding behavior” on Sunday evening, according to city police.

Officers were called around 7:20 p.m. to the 3100 block of Reisterstown Road for reports of dirt bike activity.

Police said the dirt bikers surrounded the officers. More officers responded to the area.

The dirt bike riders left the area. No injuries were reported.

Illegal dirt bike crackdown in Baltimore Baltimore police have been working to crack down on illegal dirt bike riding.

In May, an officer was injured after being struck by a dirt bike in the area of Maryland Avenue and Falls Road. Police were conducting crowd control as a club was letting out.

Police arrested Mautice Greene, 30, in connection with the incident. He was charged with attempting to elude police. Police said that during a brief struggle, Greene bit an officer in the forearm.

Another officer called to assist was allegedly struck by another dirt biker.

Police said in May that a 37-year-old man riding a dirt bike was killed in a collision with an SUV. The SUV driver was not charged, according to police.

Police Commissioner Richard Worley said during a city budget hearing last month that his department is committed to getting every illegal dirt bike off the street.

“Driving dirt bikes in that manner is extremely dangerous,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said last month. “Dirt bike culture is here, and it’s not going anywhere. This is why we say that you can’t be doing these things.”

Within the past few months, three off-road vehicles were seized by police in Baltimore’s Cameron Village. During another investigation, investigators seized 11 dirt bikes during an enforcement event.

Stopping dirt bike riders at the gas pumps In another crackdown effort, police say gas station owners could face up to $1,000 in fines or even 90 days in jail if they allow dirt bike riders to fill up at their pumps.

Earlier this month, a gas station near W. Cold Spring Lane told CBS News Baltimore that they were told to turn off their fuel lines if they hear or see dirt bikes coming down their street. This means lost business because it takes a few minutes for the pumps to turn back on.

“When dirt bikes come through our road, like we just shut all the pumps,” a gas station manager said. “It impacts our business a lot. When there are three or four customers at our station, if we shut down the pumps, they will be in trouble, and they come here and say, ‘Give me a refund,’ or something like that.”

Baltimore residents with information about dirt bikes, where they are stored, and who is supplying them fuel can contact police through the Dirt Bike Tipline at 443-902-4474 or by emailing DirtBikeTips@baltimorepolice.org.

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Driver survives rockslide: “I’m still alive”

CNN Newsource on June 28, 2026

By Logan Smith

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    GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (KCNC) — Mike Chavez of Grand Junction is still amazed at his good timing.

“It was quite the ordeal,” he told CBS Colorado. “One second ahead and the cab is crushed. One second behind, I would’ve hit boulders head-on.”

Chavez drove into a rockslide Tuesday in western Colorado – near Calamity Mesa, as luck would have it – and walked away.

Chavez described rounding a corner on State Highway 141, a roadway he has driven once a week for a decade now. It was just after sunrise. He left Grand Junction an hour earlier en route to a real estate assignment near Nucla.

A dust cloud was the first sign of trouble.

The more concerning sign was a boulder taller than his truck bounding across the highway “like a bouncey ball.” The boulder rolled in front of his pickup and dropped off the shoulder toward the Dolores River.

Other boulders then struck the passenger side of Chavez’s pickup.

“Then a 2nd (sic) massive blow and then a third blow which caused all of the airbags to deploy which made the whole cab of the truck very dark,” Chavez wrote in a social media post about the experience. “In that moment of feeling the impact from the rockslide I went into shock. I could still hear and feel more rocks coming down onto the road and some hitting the truck but nowhere like the other ones.”

The truck was pushed into the other lane of traffic, the rear of it spun toward the river, too.

But it was driveable. Chavez, fearing other vehicles would hit him, maneuvered the truck beyond the slide around and parked on the shoulder.

“After that, the reality of what happened started to sink in and the adrenaline started to wear off,” Chavez wrote. “I stood there starting to feel the pain and at that moment I was very upset! Quite a bit of time went by before anyone came by which allowed me to realize that I was still alive and not dead.”

As he set out orange cones to guide traffic through the area, Chavez heard what he thought were gunshots. He thought, “Why are people hunting ducks this early in the morning?”

It was later when a state trooper told him the sound was likely more rocks fracturing on the hillside above him.

Chavez considers himself fortunate more boulders didn’t come down while he was walking on the road. “How stupid was that!” he wrote. Only small debris fell from the hillside for four or five minutes after the initial slide. Some of those splashed into the river. Dust hung in the air for half an hour.

The highway was closed for several hours, according to the Colorado State Patrol.

A Nucla ambulance crew driving back from a patient delivery in Grand Junction arrived on scene. Then a Montrose County sheriff’s deputy.

“Throughout the day I heard over and over how it could have been worse. Seems like the story of my life!” Chavez wrote. “As more and more emergency personnel showed up the more and more I realized how fortunate I was. It finally made sense why so many people where shocked at what had happened because none of the CDOT workers or the emergency personnel had never seen anyone ever be hit by a rockslide in all their years of living in the area.”

Six hours later, a tow truck still hadn’t shown up. So Chavez asked the deputy if he attempt to drive the truck home. The deputy gave his approval. Chavez cut away the deflated airbags and returned to Grand Junction. The trooper followed part of the way.

“During the drive all I can think of is how blessed I was to make it out alive and it made me think of a cowboy all shot up and his trusty steed getting him home,” Chavez wrote. “At some point I needed some music for a distraction and I found a station on Sirius XM and the 2nd song that played was: What if today was the only day I have left. Is that a coincidence? I don’t believe so!”

Days later, Chavez told CBS Colorado his back is still sore and his truck is under repair.

“It’s a Chevy. It’s built like a rock,” he said, with irony. “That thing took a beating but it drove straight all the way. The truck wasn’t squirrely at all.”

He also cherishes every sunrise, even if he finds himself driving in a canyon again.

“You never know. It’s Colorado, right? Things can change in a moment. But I’m still alive.”

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Grandmother with nonemergency transport service asks public for help replacing failing vehicle

CNN Newsource on June 28, 2026

By Veronica Ortega

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    DETROIT (WWJ) — Lawanda Williams, a Detroit grandmother dedicated to honoring her daughter’s memory needs the public’s help.

After starting a transportation business to support her family, her vehicle is breaking down and she needs a new one to continue the service.

“Leesa J Transportation is a nonemergency transportation for people that needs to go to the doctor, pick up prescriptions, needs to go to the grocery store. I even transport children back and forth to school,” Williams said.

Customers only pay what they can afford, which in some cases is nothing.

“We were in that position once upon a time, where we couldn’t afford to pay for a ride. So, the lord put it where I was able to be to help these people out,” Williams said.

Her reason rests close to her heart.

A necklace she has bears the ashes and image of her daughter, Jaleesa.

“She was diagnosed with cancer in January of 2019. My daughter only lived 10 months. She died October of 2019,” Williams said.

In between that time, they didn’t have a vehicle and relied on state transportation to get her to and from appointments.

“We would call them to come pick her up. They’re two or three hours late, they don’t show up, they cancel the ride,” Williams said.

A few months later, she faced hardship again when her husband also needed treatment for cancer.

“Our van broke down, so now we’re back using state transportation. So we went through the same identical thing with him,” Williams said.

Her husband is now in remission, but that’s when she decided to do more for her community.

“I need to do something to help these people that’s going through what they’re going through, and then sitting down there at the cancer institute and seeing all the people that sit out there waiting on a ride, waiting for their transportation. They went through radiation and chemo; they don’t want to go sit there like that. So that’s what inspired me to do this,” Williams said.

Leesa J Transportation has been operating successfully for the past three years in Detroit. However, her used vehicle is starting to fail.

“The car is really on its last leg. I don’t know how long the transmission is going to last,” Williams said.

A GoFundMe has been started to help pay for her dream vehicle, a van. It will allow her to take on more clients and make fewer trips to schools.

“If anyone can help us get a van, it would be truly appreciated, because I have a lot of people that depend on this transportation,” Williams said.

Her daughter passed away at the age of 31. She’s raising her grandchildren now.

“It was really hard for them at first, but as you know, time will heal,” Williams said.

The business is her daughter’s legacy, and she needs your help to keep it going.

“I know it’s a lot of transportation companies out there. I’m aware of that. But mine’s a little different because I charge what they can pay, and I also will put in the time to go in with any senior that needs to go into the clinic or wherever they need to go,” Williams said.

It’s a promise to continue her unwavering dedication to serve.

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