At Your Door Car Wash is a locally-based mobile car detailing service and a family-run operation. From left are Jason Cardona, Armando and Jermain Garcia and Gary Alsobrook.
Jermain Garcia will be the first to admit he
might never get richworking at the car wash. But
at the tender age of 22, Garcia isn’t justan
employee washing cars for a living – he owns the
company.
Students from a boarding school in Uganda, left, will soon receive new mattresses thanks to a fundraising program being sponsored through the Orchard Church in Brentwood.
On the final day of a
mission trip to Uganda
last year, a shy little
boy sidled up to Pastor
John McAuley and in a
quiet, tentative voice
asked him for something
most of us take for
granted: a proper
bed.
Most Oakley residents
are happy living in a
small, quiet city with
goodschools and a rural
feel, but they would like
the downtown
areaimproved, more
police, a cleaner
community and more stores
andbusinesses.
Traffic congestion on
Highway 4, Vasco Road and
many other major
thoroughfares in East
County will continue for
decades, despite the
best efforts of local
leaders and more than a
billion dollars being
spent on improvements.
Brentwood native Staff Sgt. Michael Broussard, left, and his teammate Staff Sgt. Shayne Cherry, hold up Colt 45 pistols they were awarded after winning the Army’s Best Ranger competition at Ft. Benning, Ga. on April 21.
In 2001, Michael
Broussard was a skinny
kid who scrambled for
playingtime on the
football team, went to
the wrong parties and
barely passedenough
classes to graduate from
Liberty High School.