Remembering days at the races in a very special way Gale Choffin celebrates friends and family with horse races named especially for them. The Tracy resident is one of dozens of locals who have signed up to sponsor a race this year — part of an increasingly popular, three-year-old program at the Alameda County Fair.
An estimated 38,000 African immigrants live in the Bay Area, but creating any kind of service that caters to all of them, or merges their collective clout, has always seemed an impossible challenge to those who have tried.
Besides the support of his family, Dr. Tomás Magaña had few mentors to guide him toward a career in medicine. Nine years ago, he created a program so high school students planning to pursue a health care career won't experience the same isolation.
