Broken Hearths
Broken Hearths
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: Out of work, but not out of inspiration
Here’s what Dorothy Nelson knew.
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: Financial lessons come to the classroom
Taryn Kalman has a baby-sitting clientele of 51 children but still found time to line up $11,000 in scholarships for her first year at Cal Poly.
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: Counselors chart a path back
In the early 1990s, David Draggoo’s stress peaked when he lost his job as a draftsman, forcing him to choose another career in social services and his family to downsize to a smaller home.
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: Advice for Mom and Dad is only a phone call away
Bill Spencer has heard a multitude of stories from anxious moms and dads.
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: For a San Miguel single mother of four, furlough brings host of fears
Elisa Becerra, a psychiatric technician at the California Men’s Colony for a decade, is accustomed to a certain level of stress. Each work day, upon stepping through the gates, she comes face to face with some of the prison’s most emotionally troubled inmates. Now, though, that stress...
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: Los Osos family finds light in darkness
Wyatt and Hunter Nelson shrug off the financial troubles that have plagued their family for two years.
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: San Luis Obispo County families are clinging to normal
Let’s keep it normal for the kids’ sake, for family stability, for maintaining one’s place in the community.
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: Tables are turned on Paso Robles family counselor
Katy Griffin has had plenty of practice counseling families about economic uncertainty. As director of family and children’s ministries at the 1,200-member Highlands Church in Paso Robles for the past four years, Griffin, 40, fields phone calls from people who want to discuss job loss and...
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: San Luis Obispo County voices on trying times
Jennifer Maw, unemployed San Luis Obispo mother of three:
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BROKEN HEARTHS
BROKEN HEARTHS: San Luis Obispo County schools cope with spike in student homelessness
This recession is bringing families closer together.




