Today, we celebrate the living and recognize ChrisAnna Mink, M.D. She joined The Modesto Bee about two years ago through a new position funded by the nonprofit Report for America project, the Stanislaus County Office of Education and the Stanislaus Community Foundation. Chris joined The Bee to cover child healthcare issues in the Northern San Joaquin Valley. Chris, a trained and accomplished pediatrician in Southern California, had served her community for 30 years, including working as the medical director of the KIDS Foster Care Clinic at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and as a clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.