VIAW Leader Caught in Random Act of Kindness

Injured worker activist Peggy Sugarman has gotten plenty of press attention over the years, but the latest write-up has nothing to do with workers' comp. After reading a newspaper column about the elderly woman's plight, Sugarman and her husband, Ted, opened their home to a 76-year old Nicaraguan immigrant who had been living in a homeless shelter in downtown San Francisco. Since April, Carmen Castillo Dickenson has been occupying a bedroom in the Sugarmans' tidy Oakland home. Chronicle columnist Joan Ryan told readers about the Sugarmans' magnanimity in a column on Thursday titled "Remarkab...