SPRINGFIELD — Life is like the yellow brick road, as Alma Fumiko Hesus described. It is a paved path for some people, but there are holes and challenges for others.
“As we go down that pathway, to me, we should all be laying more bricks down,” Hesus said as an analogy to explain how to support the generations after herself.
Hesus said she has a passion for nonprofit work and supporting her community, so she…




