I very much appreciate the community-building efforts that are a priority for the board and staff at Pybus Public Market. This month, I have been drawn like a magnet to the blackboard sponsored by...
One of the things I greatly appreciate about the Wenatchee Valley is the strong community commitment to inclusion —the notion that everyone belongs and deserves respect.
There are powerful insights we can learn from the Era of Megafires project that could help us craft more effective ways of solving difficult challenges in our communities. In just over a year of...
WestSide High School hosted a very cool event called GirlPower last Wednesday that created an opportunity for groups of girls to work together to identify a community problem and try to solve it. I...
The Lutheran retreat center at Holden Village has quietly been a catalyst for deep community building throughout North Central Washington. This was driven home for my during a conversation with Barbara Rossing, a former...
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I was excited to learn about the upcoming Icicle Creek Family Film Festival that will be held in Leavenworth and Wenatchee from Sep. 29 through Oct. 1. This festival represents a collaboration of North...
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The folks at Wellness Place put on quite the gala fundraiser Saturday night at the Cashmere Riverside Center that raised significant dollars to provide critical support for North Central Washington cancer patients. It was...
I had the opportunity recently to chat with 90-year-old Ernestine Koller Pieper of East Wenatchee and she told me about how she fled from her home in Budapest, Hungary during World War II to...