Kris Carpenter, a member of Sonora Seventh-day Adventist Church, is an emergency medical technician.
A Sonora man returned at the end of January from two weeks in Haiti and plans to go back to bring relief to thousands of people devastated from the January earthquake and continued aftershocks.
Kris Carpenter, 26, son of Kevin and Colleen Carpenter, flew to Florida on Jan. 14, then the Dominican Republic, and reached Haiti Jan. 17 by Blackhawk helicopter.
Tuolumne County transportation officials are hoping a second multibillion-dollar stimulus bill being mulled in Congress will provide funding for the next phase of the East Sonora Bypass.
The two-mile project, designed to ease traffic congestion along Mono Way, which doubles as Highway 108 in East Sonora, was originally set to be funded largely through state bonds.
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