Faces of Downtown

Faces of Downtown - Cheryl McDonald

By Jeannine Denholm — June 02, 2008 — 3 Comments

CMcD Ed Fuentes

In the next installment of Faces of Downtown we meet Higgins Building resident Cheryl McDonald who shares her memories of Downtown as a child, her hopes for the future and describes an active urban life that is never boring. — Continued Inside...


Faces of Downtown - Roger Gendron

By Jeannine Denholm — May 11, 2008 — 15 Comments

Roger Gendron Jeannine Denholm

When Peter Y. Hong of the LA Times wrote his March 13, 2008 article titled "Downtown Not the Center of it All," it created a lot of discussion about what was really happening Downtown. Many residents were upset about the portrayal of our growing neighborhoods, and I was one of them.

It seems valuable to spend a little time getting to know some of the varied people who make Downtown their home. Our first mini-profile is of Roger Gendron, a resident of the Historic Core since 2006. — Continued Inside...