Help! I got fired!
This is a call that no red truck or uniformed officer can answer in Fresno County. But sometimes seeing your career go up in smoke can feel just as frightening as seeing your house on fire.
Fortunately, people in Fresno County who need help with this or a hundred other everyday urgencies that don't classify as emergencies have a new and simple way to get access to services. Dial 211. Today's editorial gives all the details.
This is the number to dial when you or a friend needs child care or elder care, food for the family, assistance with rent or finding affordable housing, computer lessons, financial training, immigration assistance. Maybe you feel you have no purpose in life. This number can lead you to a volunteer directory.
How do you get to be an illegal? I always had to work when my kids were small. Now I work to pay taxes so they don't have to work.
Huh? Where did Gail's piece mention "illegals"?
I called 2-1-1 and ask if you have to be legal and they said no.