Northwood University

Cassandra Jones shares her faith every day at Cornerstone Baptist Church. But the single mother’s faith was put to the test when she couldn’t pay the rent on her apartment.

Mansfield-area restaurants run in the dining listings on a space-available basis. To list a restaurant or to change a listing, please call Amanda Rogers at (817) 473-4451 or E-mail at arogers@star-telegram.com.

These are the lunch choices for the Mansfield Senior Citizens Center for the week of Jul. 7.

The Mansfield Public Library, 104 S. Wisteria St., is open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Friday and Saturday; and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The library’s Web site is www.mansfield-tx.gov/departments/library, and the phone is (817) 473-4391.

Several volunteer opportunities are available in the Mansfield area.

A bright side to the economic downturn could be keeping Mansfield’s skies dark during the Fourth of July.

A project to give food to underprivileged students is feeling a bit starved for cash.

The demand for her charity work of providing shoes to low-income youths has grown nearly as much as Bernita Tyler-Scott’s commitment to the cause.

I was born in the early ’60s and I can tell you most of the kids I ran with dreamed of growing up to be one of two things: an astronaut or a firefighter.