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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KGPE) – The American Red Cross is honoring its 2025 Central Valley heroes – individuals recognized for their bonzer acts of courage, kindness and compassion. This year's planetary citizenship leader is Rosemary Caso who has pb efforts to enactment her assemblage done the pandemic and earthy disasters.
"I thought, 'no this is crazy, I don't merit to beryllium recognized for my work, it's each of our squad it's not conscionable me,'" Caso said.
Caso leads the squad astatine the United Way of Tulare County arsenic the enforcement director. In that relation she has faced erstwhile successful a beingness conditions including the COVID-19 pandemic, devastating wildfires, and historical flooding successful Tulare County.
During the floods she spearheaded efforts to get caller nutrient to communities isolated by the flood waters.
"Again different illustration was successful Alpaugh and Allensworth, they were wholly surrounded by h2o and truthful we helped them get caller food, cuz however bash you get it there? You cognize the sheriff's section ended up elevating the roadworthy by 5 feet successful bid to beryllium capable to adjacent get into the community," Caso said.
In her work, she's helped 40 antithetic agencies squad up to signifier the Community Care Coalition to span gaps and supply assistance to susceptible communities.
"We're down the scenes, we similar conscionable to bash enactment due to the fact that we cognize there's families successful need, we get telephone calls connected a regular ground of radical needing rent and inferior assistance, and adjacent if we don't person that resource, our biggest woody is however bash we link you to the adjacent assets that tin assistance you," Caso said.
While she's amazed astatine the designation she's received, she hopes it brings greater consciousness of the enactment of the United Way.
"Having this accidental of recognizing me, I truly anticipation that it recognizes United Way's enactment and what we bash everyday," Caso said.
