Thanks for Giving 2008: Can you help, Lincoln? (Lincoln Journal Star)

For 25 years, Journal Star readers have helped meet the needs of their neighbors through the newspaper’s Thanks for Giving project. The premise is simple. We ask service providers to share their clients’ needs with us, and we share them with you.

Service dogs are necessary pleasures (Stafford County Sun)

STAFFORD — Imagine you have epilepsy. You are plagued with seizures, maybe not all of the time, but enough that the condition has drastically changed your life.

Local residents raise ‘bail’ for MDA (The Terrell Tribune)

The Muscular Dystrophy Association “arrested” law-abiding community and business leaders Nov. 12 to raise money for MDA’s programs and services. The jailbirds were escorted to a mock jail site at Carmona’s Tex-Mex & Cantina where they received a one-hour sentence to raise $1,600 “bail” for MDA by calling their family, friends, and business associates.

Matt Teague presented the Universal Access Award (Gridley Herald)

Axis Dance Company takes a daring new turn (San Francisco Chronicle)

One of the most riveting Bay Area dances of 2008 starred a tiny, fierce redhead and a brawny, burningly intense man in a wheelchair. In Alex Ketley's duet "To Color Me Different," Axis Dance Company members Sonsheree Giles and Rodney Bell toss themselves...