Physical distancing is necessary during the coronavirus pandemic, but maintaining social connections while being physically distant is absolutely essential. We, humans, are social animals, and isolation is not healthy, after all. Fortunately, we are...
Icicle River Middle School student Charlie Lyons was scanning actress Kristen Bell’s Instagram feed recently and saw that she was partnering with the Ving Project, an online effort inspiring teens to help others. Ving...
This is the time of year when the WSU Chelan-Douglas Master Gardener volunteers are normally busier than bees getting ready for their annual plant sale, tending their gardens on Western Avenue and on the...
Our society has been turned upside down and twisted all around by the coronavirus pandemic that has caused untold suffering and created unprecedented uncertainty about the future. People are dying in isolation in hospital...
Social distancing has been very effective in the Wenatchee Valley at slowing down the spread of the coronavirus and because of that we have avoided overwhelming our medical system and the horrors of mass...
I was curious to learn what lessons might be gleaned from how the Spanish Influenza pandemic impacted the communities of the Wenatchee Valley and North Central Washington in 1918. I dug through the archives...
Caring for our mental health at this particular moment in time is essential to our well-being. The Covid-19 crisis, which has shut down our economy and much of our society and forced so many...
Ken Neher is finding plenty of challenges these days as the administrator at Garden Terrace, a low-income retirement home established by the Brethren-Baptist Church nearly half a century ago. With his unique and varied...
This uniquely stressful time creates an opportunity for us to develop tools to get quiet and learn ways to lean into difficult emotions of grief, anger and fear rather than react in knee-jerk fashion...
Chelan County Commissioner Doug England passed along this beautiful quote from the Belfast, Ireland COVID team. It was so poignant and beautiful that I felt compelled to pass it along. This crisis is going...