When I joined Rotary back in 2014, I didn’t fully understand what it was all about and I didn’t know how much Rotary impacted people around the world. Did you know that Polio is expected to be completely eradicated (like, on the entire earth) over the next few years? That is largely because of the […]
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month. All of us will know someone who has been touched by miscarriage. Maybe it’s you. Maybe it’s a friend, your mother or your sister. You might not even know that someone close to you has experienced this, but when the reality is that 1 in 4 women […]
Taylor Reyes thinks she might work for NASA someday. Or maybe, since she really likes geometry, she’ll become an architect — using computers to compose beautiful, intricate digital blueprints. No matter what this Foothills Middle School eighth grader chooses to do when she grows up, Taylor knows she’s already on the right path toward achieving […]
I want to share a little bit about my experience working as a Mentor Coordinator at the YMCA. So far I have had the privilege to meet some amazing kids and generous mentors. One match that really stands out in my mind is Ed and Tyson. Ed is a retired teacher who knows how to […]
The picture on the front page of the paper that morning caught my attention. It was Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, and there on the cover of The Wenatchee World was the image of a woman dressed in a long, black judge’s robe, smiling, her two young daughters wrapped up in her arms and her husband […]
This post if the first in a series of three about the 3 R’s: reduce, reuse, & recycle. (Check out my previous blog about how they’re not all created equal.) The first — REDUCE — is often the best one to start with when trying to limit your family’s impact on the environment. Reducing is […]