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WALNUT CREEK—On November 15, the Berean Christian High School Eagles barely defeated the visiting California School for the Deaf (CSD) team 15-14. This match-up was the first round of the North Coast Section Division V playoffs. With Berean, the seventh seed, trying to make history by taking their team to the second round for the first time ever, CSD...

CYPRESS—The Orange County Deaf Equal Access Foundation (OC–DEAF) will be holding their weekly Deaf Coffee Chat on Wednesday, September 3. The event encourages any ASL user to attend. The event is held every Wednesday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at OC–DEAF, which is located on 6022 Cerritos Avenue in Cypress, California. To ask any questions, OC–DEAF encourages people to...

UNITED STATES—A new app is hitting the age of technology with the capability of following conversations in real time and captioning the words. Crafted by University of San Francisco and Berkley graduate students, the Transcence app utilizes the microphones in the smart phones of the people conversing to caption and assign each speaker a colored bubble. This lets the user...

BEVERLY HILLS—I am one of the many millennials that refer to organic, holistic and more natural approaches to health care. However, there are times when you need real old fashioned medical help. Receiving health care isn't a problem for most because we have laws in place to protect patients from discrimination and being denied health care regardless of your...

SAN FRANCISCO—Deaf Women United (DWU) will be holding a fundraiser for the DWU Conference in 2015 at Mozzeria in San Francisco on September 29. The event is a private dinning gala and is limited to a party of 12 people. The DWU held an earlier fundraiser on August 23 with an admission cost of $10 that allowed anyone to attend in Fremont....

LOS ANGELES—GLAD, the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, Inc., will be hosting their annual World AIDS Day on December 3 at their Los Angeles location. GLAD hosts many deaf events throughout the year, but this one is special as there will be quilts brought in from the Deaf National AIDS Quilt collection. These quilts have been made to represent...

VENTURA—Tri-County Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (TC GLAD) spoke with San Francisco News and shared news aout their agency, how they work, and what they do. TC GLAD is a branch of GLAD where there are three main employees: regional director, Julianna Fjeld, advocate, Hal Hunter-Suddreth, administrative assistant, Jasmine Casey, and interpreter, Mark Robinson. TC GLAD started in 1988...

SAN FRANCISCO—After dancing for 20 years, Hard of Hearing (HoH) dancer, instructor and DJ, Burnie Gipson, was awarded first place at the 2015 American Lindy Hop Championships (ALHC) on Sunday, September 13.  Over the past three years, Gipson, 44, had been both a judge and instructor for the championships; this was his first year as a competitor. Although his background is in authentic Swing...