One of the most powerful community-building efforts in our region is Give NCW, the grass roots fundraising campaign initiated by the Community Foundation of North Central Washington. This ingenious effort builds on the foundation’s...
The City of Wenatchee is seeking nominations for Civil Rights and Social Justice awards with the deadline coming up on Dec. 8. The awards, organized by the city’s Diversity Advisory Council, honor individuals, groups...
One of the best ways we can build community while feeding the hungry is to more fully develop a gleaning program in North Central Washington. In a gleaning program, volunteers harvest leftover fruits and...
The collaborative community building being fostered by conservation organizations like the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust, the Methow Conservancy and similar organizations is getting national attention. The national Land Trust Alliance and the Washington Association of...
A fascinating discussion was held recently between the Wenatchee Diversity Advisory Council and Chelan County Sheriff Brian Burnett and Wenatchee Police Chief Steve Crown.Burnett and Crown were invited by the council to build relationships...
Reducing generational poverty is the single most important community challenge we have in the Wenatchee Valley and North Central Washington, and the good news is that is a community-based solution that has proven effective...
Kyle Hendrickson and his team at Caffe Mela are taking their business to the next level with a major expansion. They’ve opened a 4,000-square-foot roasting and shipping facility at the Corner of Columbia Street...
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story ran in the Good Life magazine. By Ken Anderson In the spring of 2014, my wife, Shirley, and I attended a concert in Wenatchee. As people...
I asked Jamie Howell of Icicle Creek Center for the Arts to reflect on his creative talents and community-building efforts in North Central Washington. Here’s what he wrote: When I hired Oly Mingo back in...
I very much appreciate folks in town who go the extra mile to preserve unique features of historic buildings. Dan and Cheryl Van Polen, the owners of Performance Footwear in Wenatchee, found such a...