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Sunset Neighborhood Help Group

Coping with Covid-19: Keeping one another safe generates flurry of informal, neighborhood mutual-help groups

June 7, 2020 All Posts

Ninety-five-year old Molly McSweeney was recuperating at her daughter Julie’s house in Cole Valley when the Covid-19 shelter-in-place order came through. “My mom had been hospitalized for pneumonia twice since October. I knew I’d be risking her health if I went shopping, I’d feel so guilty if I brought the infection home.” That’s when Julie ...

Coping with Covid-19: A previous disease flattened him; helping create the Sunset Neighborhood Help Group lifted him up

April 23, 2020 All Posts

Covid-19 has changed everyone’s life in some way. But Frank Plughoff’s most life-altering experience dates back two years – to another disease. It was a bad experience. Little did he know that the disease currently ravaging the world would provide him with a good one. Two years ago, a rare neurological illness robbed the 63-year-old ...

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