The Palm Beach Post launched its annual holiday campaign, Season to Share, in 1995. Each year, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the paper and website tell the stories of more than a dozen struggling families who have been nominated by local charitable organizations. Readers are invited to contribute money, merchandise and services to help them.
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A shy smile crossed Maggie Rose Montez’s face on a Tuesday night in her family’s Boynton Beach living room as she pushed strands from her black and sea green ombre wig away from her eyes. Her sister, Abigail, says Maggie Rose’s wigs are like mood rings. And this one? “This is the one she wears …
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With the sound of every piano key inside a mobile home on a recent November morning, a deep bond is evident between brother and sister. As she plays, he listens. When she smiles, he smiles even bigger. Jeffrey Lopez, 12, was born with cerebral palsy. The condition affects his body movements, muscle control, reflex, posture, learning abilities, …
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Life changes. Quickly. Sometimes, too fast. Ask Terrance Williams — he knows all too well. His mom, Ruth McMahon, died in December at age 60 of congestive heart failure. The death hit hard, like a sucker punch in the gut. “We were so close,” Williams says. Then, five months later, his sister, Joiette Pitts died …
Continue reading "West Palm uncle steps up to raise his late sister’s three kids"
As she watches her three children play on the living room floor, Karina Roblero, 27, smiles. Her family lives in a small, one-bedroom apartment off Broadway Avenue, where passing cars toss their garbage at the footsteps of their home. They don’t have much, just a couple of chairs and a cluttered dining room table that …
Continue reading "Honor roll student has big dreams amid chaotic life"
“Lazy” was the word a doctor used to described Raul Jr. when his mother, Juana Ramirez, brought him in, concerned her son was not developing at the expected pace. Something about the word didn’t sit well with her. How could it be so simple? She had noticed her son was incapable of doing what other …
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Single mother Jocelyne Cius worked two jobs before a 2010 diagnosis of diabetes and hypertension led to the amputations of one hand and five toes and the loss of sight in one eye. At 53, she is on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. “My eyes can barely see,” she said in Haitian creole, …
Continue reading "Generous high school student is ailing mother’s caregiver"
It’s a wonder how a single mom who has three kids with multiple disabilities and illnesses gets any sleep. On a recent night, Kari Safran was awakened when her 3-year-old son spewed vomit all over his sheets and carpets. Jacob, who has bronchiectasis, also needed a nebulizer treatment for a case of chronic coughing. Awake …
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