I recently won a housing lottery through St. Mary’s Center and will be moving into a one-bedroom apartment in Berkeley soon, very close to where I grew up on Browning Street.

"Hello everyone, this is Vernon Dailey. This is a story of an adolescent kid growing into a teenage boy and then eventually a young man growing up in Berkeley, into adulthood."

Street Spirit is back. We done it with your help and we are still doing it, but it don’t stop here.

Vernon Dailey sells the paper in Fairfax and at Berkeley Bowl West.