innovative takes on hometown classics.

I cant think of two people I love or admire more.and the rock that held the family together.

Thats what my dad used to say of Uncle Richard — Dick Masaru Uyehara.He did all the driving and built a successful dental laboratory in Hollywood before upending the family and moving out to Aspen.As a kid I never thought anything of the fact that Uncle Richard didnt have legs.

where Richard went to Compton Junior College.near a VA hospital with a view of the red rocks of the Colorado Monument

Already holding these men in high regard.

which inspired him to write Quiet Heroes.Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm XFree reading of When Yuri Met Malcolm.

Told through the prism of her unlikely friendship with Malcolm X.and blue days in the World War II camps.

she can succeed as long as she picks herself back up and perseveres.an-18 year-old senior at Maui High School and a star athlete.