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Posts Tagged ‘laundry’

East Oakland elementary school opens a laundry service for students

By Lulu Orozco | October 10, 2018
EnCompass Academy in East Oakland opened a free laundry room for students.

Hoping to boost attendance, staff members volunteer weekly to wash their students’ clothes.

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Washio brings on-demand laundry service to Oakland—by phone app

By Sasha Lekach | December 15, 2014 | 4
Mehdi Shokouhi, a Washio driver, delivers laundry to an Oakland customer who ordered the service through an app.

Before the sun is even up, Mehdi Shokouhi, 34, is wide awake, checking the trunk and backseat of his Hyundai Sonata for the black laundry bags he will be bringing to customers, either handing off an early-morning delivery of clean and pressed clothes or picking up a load of dirty laundry. By 6:30 a.m., Shokouhi…

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