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Helping with an uphill battle

GOOD WORKS | Carol McLaughlin If anyone knows what it means to keep going in the face of adversity, it’s Olushade Unger. She grew up shuttling between her mother’s home in the Fillmore district and her father’s place in Hunters Point, where violence and gang activities were commonplace. Unger was in high school, planning on…

Teens are making a difference

By Sarah Armstrong Teenagers have a reputation for sleeping in, getting in trouble and spending a lot of money. But I know we have the potential to do much more. Now 14 and an eighth grader at Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School on Broadway, I have gone to school in Pacific Heights and…