Fitting people with proper shoes has been the mission for this South Salina Street store Amatullah Yamini and her husband, Hassan, owners of Salina Shoe Salon, Inc., witnessed a man walking to the bus in shoes so grungy that the heels flopped with every step. The couple invited him into their shop, fitted him with a pair of boots and …

Donna Reese said she used to have problems with both her night vision and her peripheral vision, but she didn’t think about it much. Then, one night, driving home from work, she found she had trouble seeing. Reese, former president of Syracuse’s chapter of the NAACP, blamed it on simply being tired.

Workshops and networks help parents decide whether to teach their children at home As local students gear up to go back to school, a growing number won’t make it past their front doors. Instead, they will receive their education right at home. Homeschooling is the education of children under their parents’ general care and replaces full-time attendance in a public …

The Stand’s September 2010 Workshop will cover how to make a video piece. The full-day workshop will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, with a short classroom session followed by an opportunity for participants to venture out into the South Side to make a short video and put their new skills to the test.

A community comes together as thousands of children and families come out to be entertained, eat and receive school supplies. The smell of barbecue, the sound of music filled the air and tons of school supplies stretched across tables located in the Key Bank parking lot, as families filled the corner of South Salina Street and Wood Avenue Saturday, Aug. …

Fact: 1:5 adults in Onondaga County and 1:4 adults in the City of Syracuse have functional literacy needs. Starting in October, a Six-Week Training Workshop on Adult Basic Literacy and English as a Second Language (ESL) will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday mornings at ProLiteracy, 1320 Jamesville Ave., Syracuse. The training begins promptly at 9 a.m. Tuesday, …

The 9th annual Youth Day BBQ will be held at the corner of South Salina Street and Wood Avenue from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, with a parade for youths beginning at 11 a.m. Local students from Pre-K to college will receive donated school supplies they need. Volunteers will hand out backpacks filled with school supplies to …

Another original member of the Mississippi-Syracuse singing group The Friendly Five has recently passed away.

The next Journalism Workshop will be held from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 14, at the South Side Innovation Center, 2610 S. Salina St. It will be taught by Maureen Sieh, who has more than 20 years of newspaper experience and has covered Syracuse’s South Side for The Post-Standard as the former Urban Affairs Editor. The session is free …

A community dialog on local policy around drug use and related health issues, hosted by Syracuse University’s College of Human Ecology, in collaboration with the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), the Drug Policy Alliance and Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment (FREE), was held Monday, Aug. 2, at Syracuse University’s Schine Student Center.