We had the pleasure of meeting Jay Ento at the last Community Storytelling Day. Jay was born and raised in Oakland, and remembers East Oakland when it was very different. "Everybody looked out for one another. Talk about a Village. We WERE the Village," Jay muses. "If somebody saw you doing something your weren't supposed to be doing a block away, by the time you got home you got what for." Jay also reminised about the abundance of vegetale gardens and fruit trees in her neighborhood on 75th Avenue and sharing fresh food with her neighbors.