One of the most vital human services in our community in these troubled times is the PowerHouse Ministry Center in East Wenatchee, which offers people experiencing homelessness a place to warm up during winter...
In the last 20 years, the Washington Apple Education Foundation has developed an innovative and highly effective educational program that changes the lives of students whose parents work in the industry. WAEF is one...
In the early 2000s, a small group of individuals in the information technology team at Chelan County Public Utility District put their careers on the line to expose abuses when the utility was led...
The insightful columnist David Brooks recently observed that teaching is a human endeavor — that students learn from people they love. There is a clear connection between the emotional connection kids have with their...
Some situations in life are so disturbing they shake our confidence in human beings. While at first it seems the problem is caused by the bad actions of some “other” person, it is rarely...
Despite the highly contentious and emotion-driven political atmosphere that is ripping apart the social fabric in America, one can still find information sources based on rational discussion and mutual respect that invite us to...
There is something magical about dahlias, those otherworldly-looking flowers, that causes ordinary people to develop a cult-like obsession with them — an obsession that knits together people from all walks of life. Linda DeRooy...
Wenatchee native Erin Murray was recently crowned the World’s Strongest Woman in her weight class, but what she accomplished was as much the result of developing inner strength and resilience as building physical strength....
(Editor’s note: This is the third and final column focusing on the book: Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream by WSU sociologist Jennnifer Sherman) We all have blind spots. We see...
(Editor’s note: This is the second of three columns focusing on the book: Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream by WSU sociologist Jennnifer Sherman) In an increasingly challenging social environment of...