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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.
Category: Our Well-being
The powerful lessons of the Era of Megafires project
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...
GirlPower event gave WestSide girls a taste of engineering
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...
A conversation with Barbara Rossing: How Holden Village impacts the communities of NCW
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...
Podcast Episode 29: Barbara Rossing and the community-building lessons of Holden Village
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Family Film Festival brings education, inspiration and a sense of community to our valley
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...
Podcast Episode 28: Inside the Family Film Festival with Jamie Howell and Steve Scott
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Wellness Place gala succeeded in giving hope, help to NCW cancer patients
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...
Ernestine Pieper, 90, recalls fleeing Russian bombardments in WWII
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...
Podcast episode 26: Dorry Foster brings creative touch to Wenatchee YMCA
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