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Lowrider Bikes in Wenatchee, Foster Kittens in Lewiston and a Discussion on Caregiving: May 7, 2025
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A new program in Wenatchee is looking to keep kids out of trouble and celebrate Chicano culture with a focus on lowrider bikes. Plus, the underdiscussed aspect of caregiving in America is the focus of a new PBS documentary from actor Bradley Cooper, we'll tell you how you can learn more and get involved with a panel discussion on the topic this month in Lewiston.
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Lowrider Bikes in Wenatchee, Foster Kittens in Lewiston and a Discussion on Caregiving: May 7, 2025
5/7/2025 | 2m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
A new program in Wenatchee is looking to keep kids out of trouble and celebrate Chicano culture with a focus on lowrider bikes. Plus, the underdiscussed aspect of caregiving in America is the focus of a new PBS documentary from actor Bradley Cooper, we'll tell you how you can learn more and get involved with a panel discussion on the topic this month in Lewiston.
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A new program is working to keep kids out of gangs with a lowrider bike building program.
Valentin Mendoza recently started working with the “Community for the Advancement of Family Education,” or CAFÉ, to do this.
“It teaches kids so many things besides building a bike.
It teaches them about commodity, it teaches them about respect, it teaches about what does Chicano culture really, truly mean?” Lowrider culture has been associated with gangs.
This program aims to help change that by celebrating Chicano pride and connecting youth with their heritage.
Coming up at the end of May, join us at the Lewiston Public Library for a special NWPB event.
We'll have a screening of part of a new documentary simply titled caregiving, as well as a panel discussion.
Actor Bradley Cooper is behind the film, inspired to highlight the work in the people involved after he spent time caring for his terminally ill father.
Todd Holcomb will be one of the panelists at the screening event.
He says most of the time, people are not planning ahead enough.
“People will plan to retire, but they don't plan to get sick.
They don't plan to get frail.
They don't plan the cost that it takes to have somebody come into your house and start taking care of things around the home.” RSVP for the Lewiston event at NWPB.org.
Kittens aplenty at one northwest nonprofit.
Helping Hands Rescue is based in Lewiston, Idaho, but there are volunteers all over the region.
The organization has about 60 baby cats right now.
A lot of people volunteer as fosters, taking those kittens in, sometimes bottle feeding them every couple of hours even, and hoping they'll get rescued someday.
We talked with Allison Wright, one of those fosters who took in a momma cat who had to have a C-section, and then those little kitties died.
But Wright's got a big heart, and there are lots of kittens needing love.
“Lark, another foster, had had some babies about the same age that she was bottle feeding, and I'm like, ‘hey, do you think I can steal those and see if we can put them with mama?
None of them are biologically hers, but she is the best mama.” Learn more about the nonprofit at NWPB.org.
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