Monthly Archive: December 2016
This is the third of a series of columns exploring our immigrant community — what they bring to our region and the challenges they face — and how others in our community are responding. ...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of columns about immigrants in our midst and how they and the rest of our community are responding to the possibility of significant changes in...
There has been a changing of the guard at The Nature Conservancy in North Central Washington, with the retirement of Chuck Warner and the hiring of Corrina Hanson as the new lands manager based...
Lighthouse Ministries is getting huge support from our community to meet the $150.00 challenge grant put up by Stemilt Inc. to refurbish a building at 410 S. Columbia St., board president Kyle Hendrickson tells...
It was a magic afternoon at the Lighthouse Ministries soup kitchen on South Wenatchee Ave. today when a dozen youngsters from Joyful Scholars Montessori walked in the front door with six refurbished kids bicycles,...
The second annual Give NCW campaign put on by the Community Foundation of North Central Washington is going gangbusters. The effort has raised more than $119,000 from local citizens and four nonprofit projects have...
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, being grateful for all who walk through the café doors, owner of Lemolo Café and Deli Zeb Postelwait gives away a lot of fresh baked bread. Last year Postelwait gave...
These are anxious days for the immigrant neighbors in our midst and how we choose to treat them as a community will either allow us to see them as human beings worthy of dignity...
In Koni McLean’s AVID College Readiness class at Wenatchee High School, students spend an hour every Thursday morning knitting hats to be given to youngsters who need them in our community. The young men...
Retiring Chelan County Commissioner Ron Walter is wrapping up his work and taking some well-deserved bows for his contributions to fostering collaboration in dealing with challenging issues. On Thursday, the Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery...