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Three vintage clothing stores along Sixth Street may share a customer base, but each store retains a clear identity, which helps foster a certain cohesion and friendship among the shops.

Fabian Bennett is the engagement specialist for Lodestar Day Resource Center in Phoenix. After 10 years as a drug dealer, Bennett reached out for help at the Human Services Campus. He said the services at the campus have given him hope and the opportunity to change his life.

Red Hut Coffee is bouncing back from the negative community response after owner David Marsh posted a photo of him posing with supposed homeless men on Facebook. The experience has inspired Marsh to give back to the community.

Kelley Benham and Tom French had a harrowing experience as parents of a premature newborn who was not expected to live, but Benham's feature series on these events, nominated for a 2013 Pulitzer Prize, shows there can be a happy ending after the most impossible circumstances.

Desiree Crawford is a military veteran and single mother of a 6-year-old girl. After high school, she served as a medical lab technician and medic in the U.S. Army and toward the end of her enlistment, she got married and became pregnant. She moved back to Arizona and decided to enroll in ASU's nursing program with help from a scholarship program.

Torres Marquez Communications was named one of the top 500 Hispanic businesses in the nation in Hispanic Business Magazine. The public relations agency reportedly made a revenue of $1 million last year.

Shoppers gathered for the first Phoenix Flea at Heritage Square Park on Friday and Small Business Saturday to support local vendors and the 100 Club of Arizona.

Shoppers were able to buy locally on Black Friday at CityScape's Alternative Black Friday Vintage Market, but some businesses elected to skip Friday for Small Business Saturday.

CityScape was bustling Saturday in celebration of the ice rink opening and Christmas tree lighting. Both Santa and Mayor Greg Stanton showed up to the event.

After serving for nearly a decade on the Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees, a group that represents and advises the Cronkite School, local lawyer and media law specialist David J. Bodney was named the board's president.