The Will to Live, The Strength to Change: Overcoming a Death Sentence

Faced with his own mortality, a Redding man had few options: Accept cancer’s death sentence or fight it. With his wife, Afton, by his side, Brandon Fitzgerald, 42, chose to fight.

His journey began in February 2008 when Stage 4 melanoma,…

Montgomery Creek Volunteers Save School District $$$

In this day of education budget cuts and downsizing, one intermountain school district is saving money with the help of community volunteers who’ve contributed thousands of dollars’ worth of repairs and beautification projects.

Hill Country Health & Wellness Center Develops Library

Jo Brogoitti, of Oak Run, volunteers at the Hill Country Health & Wellness Center library in Round Mountain. She is one of seven volunteers from Burney, Oak Run, Montgomery Creek and Round Mountain organizing and logging donated books into a…

Radio Spot on Rural Teen Issues: Isolation, Depression, Drug Abuse

By Loretta Corrico-Russell

One grant, multiple beneficiaries.

With the help of six Shasta County’s intermountain-area teens, Chico’s KFPR/KCHO is focusing on rural teen health issues using grant money awarded to the area.

Last week the teens spent three days at Hill Country Health…