garvin thomas has their story. >> reporter: time is everything in prison. life inside measure simply by how long someone has been in, how long, if ever, until they get out. >> everyone have two words that they use to describe themselves? >> reporter: it makes a certain amount of sense then, for this group. children of parents in prison, time is a powerful gift. one that project avery strives to give. >> the length of relationship is really where we shine. >> reporter: for the past seven years, herb castillo has been executive director of project avery, one of a handful of nonprofits in the country to focus exclusively of children of the incarcerated. >> one more time, breathe to the center, out to the other side. >> reporter: enrolling them as young as 8 years old and staying with them of them for the next ten years of their life no matter where that life takes them. >> the search for affordable housing, the need to be with an incarcerated parent, the breakdown causes this population to move around a lot. >> reporter: what project avery does with the childr

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> that is some serious positive energy going on right there. >> itis. when people are honking at me, they are not sending me love. it's not love i'm feeling. >> get out of my way. >> lets check in with rob mayeda. >> we're seeing cooling changes around the area if you like positivity of sunshine in the forecast, there's plenty of that. eekend, highs close to 90, earlier around concord, livermore, but now down to 81 and 82 degrees respectively. 59 in san francisco, 74 in san jose. if you remind and compare this runningl]÷ cooler in our inland valleys, especially out toward the tri-valley in morgan hill, running 10 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. the sea breeze is starting to pick up. more importantly, in order for the ocean air conditioning to get going you need to see low clouds picking up on the coast. we're starting to see that now, held at bay. inland spots, 80s and 90s. not the case as we head back to the workweek, the same marine layer squished down by high pressure. it's going to start building overnight. the air conditioning is run

nbc bay area's garvin thomas has tonight's bay area proud, and a story of one such person. >> up ande look at dave and it's hard to imagine he's old enough to have been at any job for 18 years. harder still when you learn that teaching season the that job. dave had an almost two decade long career in the newspaper business first. a career but not a passion. >> no. that paid the bills. this is what i really love. >> a physical education teacher is who dave always wanted to be. and now is is. >> i love it. >> maybe because he waited decades to do it, dave was eager to get started making his mark. wasn't quite sure how. until one rainy day last year, dave was asked to pass out a survey to his students on bullying. >> real short, six, seven questions. i was amazed by what i saw, bullying was a big problem. it's just scary. and you think, wow! i can't let this happen. and i have to do something. >> hey, everybody, real quick, i need about ten seconds to talk. >> one thing dave did was to start a public service club at school. to focus the students energy on doing good for others. it's an

garvin thomas has their story. >> reporter: time is everything in prison.side measured simply by how long someone has been in, how long, if ever, until they get out. >> everyone have two words that can describe themselves? territory makes a certain amount of sense then that for this group, children of parents in prison, time is a powerful gift. one that project avery strives to give. >> the length of relationship is really where we shine. >> reporter: for the past seven years, herb castillo has been executive director of project avery. one of just a handful of non-profits in the country to focus exclusively on children of the incarcerated. >> one more time. breathe into the center. out to the other side. >> reporter: enrolling them as young as 8 years old and staying with many of them for the next ten years of their life no matter where that life takes them. >> because the search for affordable housing, they need to be near their incarcerated parent. breakdown caused this population to move around a lot. >> reporter: what project avery does with the childre

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> joining us now, a crossfit customer.or the follow-up. great cause there. jason culepa doing great work overseas. and a little closer to home, you might want to do your exercising indoors tomorrow. things are going to be heating up inland. 80s to near 90 degrees. and one of the signs are going to be in store for a warmer day tomorrow is the fact we're still in the mid-60s inland out towards the east bay. for now, most locations inland still running a little bit warmer. today we saw highs in the mid up toer 80s. now tomorrow very likely as the winds change direction somewhat out of the in order, this is going to dry us out. keep our skies mostly clear. notice what happens by this time tomorrow night. we're going to see the winds come back in off the ocean. during the day, sunny skies, 10:00 and 11:00 tomorrow, the sea breeze comes racing in. and it is going to do a big drop to our temperatures come tuesday. so a one-day taste of summer as our temperatures climb up. and look at the numbers here by noon tomorrow. already by

garvin thomas joins us tonight.oosing the nbc bay area proud story, someone doing good for deed or inspiration. tonight's storyt(ok has all of e elements and more. those who are ati] thelp hart t have story are awful fli cute to watch when>7&rk. >> when dave tells yout( thatál krystle his four 1/2-year-old dog is a good listener, he doesn't just mean she obeys commands. dave means quite literally she is a goodt( listener. so good in fact it'si] what she come to the library on this day to do. á 15 lieb rars andw3w3çó a handf schools around the bay krystle and her friends showçó up absit and listen has children read to them. and it's not just dogs by the way. >> we have aboutÑi 120 animals the programxd itself. we have about seven cats, i think it's three rabbits, a bird and i think there's a minihorse in there too. á-ñ all. when children are learn to reading with the doing it in front of a parent, a teacher or even their peers can bee1 intimidating, embarrassing if they make aok mistake. but make one in front of krys

garvin thomas joins us with his journey. garvin?dly, one of the legacies of the boston marathon bombings is the number of people who lost limbs as a result. people will face the challenge of learning to live with prosthetics. well, if they are looking for a role model, they couldn't do better than jeff schmidt. failure. it has been said is a far better teacher than success. jeff schmidt will go you one better. failure, he says, is one of the best things that ever happened to him. >> i never expected any of this. never. >> you see, jeff competed in the kona 2012 iron man world championship last year but failed to finish in time, crossing the line 20 minutes too late. his story, though, succeeded in inspiring many others. jeff was a promising high school soccer player until his lower leg was shattered in a violent collision. he struggled for years with pain and immobility, depression and dependency before asking his doctor to cut the leg off. jeff made the most of this second chance, training and tackling triathlons. he was lucky enou

garvin thomas has his journey. >> reporter: failure. a far better teacher than success. jeff schmidt, though, will go you one better. failure he says is one of the best things that ever happened to him. >> i never expected any of this. never. >> reporter: you see, jeff competed in the kona 2012 ironman world championships last year, but failed to finish in time. crossing the line 20 minutes too late. his story, though, succeeded in inspiring many others. jeff was a promising high school soccer player until his lower leg was shattered in a violent collision. he struggled for years with pain and immobility, with depression and dependency before asking his doctor to cut the leg off. jeff made the most of this second chance, training and tackling triathlons. he was lucky enough to win one of a handful of lottery spots to compete at kona, but on that hot, windy, hawaiian day, the course got the better of jeff. during the run, race officials told him he had no chance to finish on time. >> come on, jeff, you got it. >> reporter: but jeff wasn'

let's bring in garvin thomas. >> thank, raj. >> when karen moved from england, it was like taking offtight constrictive sweater. the ex pansiveness of her new home eventually made it into her art. it's what karen has done for a section of the bay area art world that may be her big egs work yet in tonight's bay area proud. the first line of any story is often the toughest one to write, unless that story is about the last eight years of karen's life. for that story she'll write the opening line for you. >> a blond walk into a white house. >> the blond, of course is karen. the white house, the old american steel building on oakland's west side, which, when karen first walked into it in 2005 -- >> i was completely empty. >> it was, though, the perfect place for karen to work. plenty of room for the 5'4" ar this to create skull. ters. her art has been across the west and the world kplanding prices in excess of six figurers. but karen's transformation of steel may actually pale in her transformation of the old steel white house. it is now the opposite of empty. karen responsible for a commu

garvin thomas is here tonight with the bay area proud. >> students were recently asked to take part in an anti-bullying exercise, to write on a post-it note what they ould do if they saw someone being bullied. what's remarkable is 95% of the student body, a high percentage of credit for that goes to the subject of tonight's bay area proud. >> up and over. ready, begin. >> one look at daifds hob son and it's hard to imagine he's old enough to to have been at any job for 18 years. harder still when you learn that teaching isn't that job. no. dave had an almost two decade long career in the newspaper business first, a career, but not a passion. >> no. that paid the bills. but this is what i really love. >> reporter: a physical education teacher is who dave also wanted to be and now is at this middle school in crock et. >> i love it. >> maybe because he waited decades to do it, dave was eager to get started making his mark. although he wasn't quite sure how until one rainy day last year dave wu asked to pass out a survey to his students on bullying. >> real short six, seven questions. i wa

let's bring in garvin thomas with bay area proud. >> there are many schools with histories that stretch back more than 100 years. san francisco's academy is not one of them. a catholic middle school founded just last decade, they had one goal, give the children of the tender loin a chance, one they weren't getting. their milestone this year is tonight's bay area proud. >> today as we mark the completion of san francisco's 114th year -- >> among the 8,738 newly minuted graduates of san francisco state university, bee onka is not unique. >> your adventure is about to begin today. >> there are in fact many others here just like her who are the first in their family to attempt college let alone graduate. what does make her special, though is that she is also among the first to graduate from a different type of family, one that apparently means just as much to her. >> sorry. >> she was part of the 2004 class, the first graduating class of the academy, a catholic middle school in the heart of san francisco's tender loin district. it opened its doors in 2001 with the goal of offering the child

garvin thomas has the details in bay area's proud. >> raj, the family history played a role in the jobis man chose to do. what wasn't so clear is that it was one of his parents hobbies, gardening thatdn would get him some high profile attention. just what it's all tonight, it's tonight's bay area proud. should you ever choose fire fighting like a career, like mike robins did you should be prepare fur two things ff first of course be ready to save lives at any time. when not doing the first, get ade fun of. >> there's not anything you can do around here without getting a ribbing from our guys. >> now what makes mike a bit rare is he's found a way to stop people from running their mouths, namely by putting something in them. in mike's case, freesh vegetables ground in the back of the station. mike started this garden three years ago in what was an overgrown patch of weeds. he wasn't sure what the reception from the bosses would he wasn't sure what the reception from the bosses would be sob so at first he kept things small and quiet. >> i was a little tell think about it and everything wa

let's bring in garvin thomas. >> raj, fair or not, people base their living on being in good physical shape. they think a little too much about themselves at the expense of others. crossfit expert and gym owner puts that notion on it is head and then does some handstand pushups with it. >> let's go. >> this video is just five years old but in the evergrowing world of crossfit, it's now considered something from the old days. it's of jason of san jose competing in the final challenge of the second annual crossfit games in 2008. it was a competition jason not only won, it was a competition that changed his life. >> that kind of indicated what i was going to do for a living. >> in the last five years, he's gone from crossfit champion to crossfit businessman, running six gims, including this one in san jose with ten more in the works. >> okay. on your backs, foot is flat. bridge up. >> now, if you're not familiar with crossfit, it can sometimes be as tough to watch and do. workouts are intense and fast-paced. exercises demand not just strong body but a strong will. ask jason or anyone els

>> here is nbc bay area's garvin thomas. >> thanks for joining us this evening. the bay area proud series on nbc bay area grew out of a conversation we have been having with our viewers for quite a while. where is the news about the good things happening around us, you asked, to balance out all the bad we had to tell you about? well, that's just what "bay area proud" stories are all about. stories like kenna readers. this past january the very morning after kenna's mother robin died of breast cancer. san jose 7-year-old walked into her kitchen with a jar with the money in it. her dad asked what she was doing. the answer was she was going to do something about the disease that took her mother so one day maybe others don't suffer the same loss. >> let's go ahead and get started. >> reporter: it's a thursday night in april and the rae lay for life team captains are meeting at a san jose middle school. there are just a couple weeks left until their annual fund-raising walk for the american cancer society. >> super excited about how we're doing so far this year. >> re

garvin thomas is here with her story. >> she's nothing, if not persistent.years ago she approached the staff at children's hospital and research center oakland about vol ub tiering to teach dance classes to young patients there. they politely said no. the same thing the second and third time she asked. not one to give up, she set her sights on getting an entry level job there, just so she could do the dance classes during her lunch hour. they said they'd let her try it, once. that was seven years ago. ♪ for someone whose life has always centered around dance, vonnie's path has been anything but choreographed. vonnie grew up poor in rio de janeiro, brazil. practicing and studying dance, though, was a way out of poverty, and eventually a way to the united states, where she found work as a dancer. >> dance gave me so much. it's helped me so much. to overcome so much in my life. >> reporter: reason enough she felt to use dance to help others just as it had her.m-k and one day, while biking through the campus of oakland's children's hospital, the way to do it daw

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nbc bay area's garvin thomas joins us tonight with bay area proud. >> stanford university is the kind of place where big ideas are born and raised. there's not a tech giant in silicon valley that doesn't have stanford dna in it somewhere. but one of the university's biggest successes you've likely never heard of. but as you'll see in tonight's bay area proud, they are every bit the world changer. stanford university's freeman foggy institute for rural studies education action program is a mouthful for sure h you should know of all the words you just heard, one is more important than the rest. action. >> that's what we do here. we take action to the field, find evidence-based research of what works and what doesn't and help to try to scale that out successfully. >> reporter: scott rosele is a stanford economics pro-with a lifetime of knowledge about the economy of rural china. still, knowing the region's problems, the poverty, the lack of quality education, wasn't enough for rozelle. he wanted to something about t in 2006, reap, as it's called, was founded. >> how do we take a project

. >> and that was garvin thomas reporting. still ahead onwe have a pet you can read to.. we're going to meet his charming self in just a minute. >>> we want to update you on our developing news. we have a grass fire that is burning right along the border of santa clara county and sant mateo county. palo alto road. no structure's threatened and no one in danger but we're watching that for you this morning because we know sometimes they can take off. >>> we have our special friends from pets in need. lisa simmons here with shawn. and we just saw that therapy dog story. i find that a lot of times when we see therapy dogs or service dogs, they are mixed breed animals. >> shawn's a perfect example. at only four months, he's still a baby, but look how calm he is. >> he's so cute. >> he's very calm. just really loving. a terrier mix. but still, you know, just loves to be held and loves attention. >> i bet he would like to be read too, right? >> i think he would. >> he's reading the teleprompter. if you want to find out more about shawn or other pelts in need, his brothers are w