Heroes:

The sudden onset of vertigo incapacitated Eric Overholt last Saturday as he walked home from the Marin City Library. No longer able to walk and barely able to stand, he grabbed onto a street sign. A woman waiting at the nearby bus stop took Eric's phone number and contacted his wife. She then gave him water and found a man to help her get Eric over to a bench. The pair waited with him until his wife arrived. Although Eric doesn't have their names, he wants to thank the kind people that came to his assistance. "For all the bad press Marin City receives, I am glad that I live in a community where strangers are still willing to help others," said Eric. We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Zeros:
What happened to progressive, tolerant Marin? Last week, a former San Marin High student and his friend allegedly commited a hate crime by spray painting racist graffiti on school walls. This week, an invitation to the Tam High Class of 1980 reunion came our way—the invite uses an image of the school's now-banned American Indian name and mascot—posted onto an Old West "Wanted" poster of all things-- as well as a sexed-up caricature of a female Native American. We hope this insensitivity doesn't become a weekly occurrence in our fine county.

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