photojournalist bill rohrer captures inspiring people and ideas in our area. he caught up with a group of montgomery county students putting hockey skills to the test. >> they were non-stop for hours as part of marathon to raise money for charity an annual tradition they love being a part of. >> reporter: keith valley middle school's annual flor hockey challenge. for the last 42 years, eighth graders have been tearing up the gym floor with their hockey skills. >> i have looked forward the keith valley challenge since fifth grade. i tol my mom like, mom, eighth grade only four more years or mom, only two more years. mom, it's next week. mom, it's today. i cannot fall asleep last night thinking about. i had my outfit laying on the ground all the stuff i was going wear. really fun experience. >> hockey marathon of sorts. 32 teams will rotate and play every 15 minutes until midnight. >> it's not about the winning or losing just about having the chance to come together as a school and play objection key marathon have a good time, eat food and raise money. >> this y

trent rohrer, executive director, human services agency. i'm going to start actually even though this is the federal select committee with just a few state issues, simply because the potential dollars at stake are so significant. the first is the cost shift in the inhome supportive services program or ihss, implemented through state senate bill 90, which was passed last year. it's an extremely complicate, very complex cost sharing formula that sb-90 implemented. i'm not going to go through that, but the upshot is that through sb-90, the state shifted about $592 million of cost from the state to the counties to fund the ihss program. san francisco's share in the current fiscal year is about 20 million. this is a combination of our increased minimum wage and increase costs or increased wages for ihss workers due to the minimum wage locally, and other factors that we've incurred including caseload management in 2012. the $20 million each year will increase next year for the a couple of reasons. one, the seent includ-- county reduced the state

trent rohrer, director of human services agency. i'll go through the slides and presentation for the department of human services, and then, my colleagues from department of ageing and adult services and office of early case and education will go through theirs. but just as a quick overview, as you know hsa is the single agency that is comprised of three departments: department of human services, department of ageing and adult services, and oace, which is early adult and children education. it supplies public ben mys to meet needs of people through cash assistance, food and nutritiousal support, and other thipgs, and specialized care for seniors, dependant adults and children who are victims of abuse or neglect. it's interesting to note we serve about 250,000 san franciscans every year throughout one of the three departments or a combination of them, which is about 60 is of san francisco san francisco's population. the white section of the pie is the administration that provides all of the infrastructure support for the three depart

knowing where to look, knowing where to find things, knowing who to contact to get things report rohrerick you've his skills to track down the birth father of his dad's grandmother. she'd been given up for adopti adoption. err are ick got a hold of her birth certificate and followed the leads and a few dead ends before tracking down his late great grandfather james. >> it was crazy because it just consumed so much of my life for so many years. trying to track this down and it was just so emotional. >> reporter: that find led eric to other lost family members much his dad's uncle and cousins living in bucks county. they've since met and become facebook friends. >> we owe a lot to eric for that. we really do. i mean, you know, can drive me crazy sometimes, but he's just so passionate about it. >> reporter: eric says finding birth parents are his favorite case glass they're just such unique opportunity to make an impact some unin someone's life. >> reporter: eric does lots of his genealogical research free of charge in fact he's visiting a senior center in marlton a in few weeks to help re

each week fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer goes out into the community to capture inspiring peopleat they're doing in unique focus ton night we look at some of his stories. >> we start way truly ground-breaking coffee shop in south jersey to employees adults with special needs and it inspires pretty much all who walk through its doors. here's bill. >> high neighbor how are you. >> breaking grounds coffee shop in mt. holly, new jersey, has only been open for little over a month. >> your total will be 9.50 for today. >> this coffee shop has already changed the lives of many of its employees. >> i feel very strongly i'm doing exactly what it is i was born today and that's very special gift. >> brandy fishman strive to provide