by April Allman | Dec 11, 2020 | Community, Giving Back
Pet Food Bank Betheny Buster had long been a pet lover and owner of Paws Pet Care when a conversation in 2013 led her to establish My Dog Eats First. While eating at a restaurant in the Highlands, she and her son noticed a homeless man and bought him something to eat....
by April Allman | Dec 10, 2020 | Community, Giving Back
Lavinia Hawkins, Ph.D., and her husband David co-wrote “Greatness Within” to inspire children and their families. Inspiring Greatness For some people, the place where they grow up imprints itself on them and always feels like home. Lavinia Hawkins, Ph.D.,...
by April Allman | Dec 8, 2020 | Christmas, Community, Giving Back, Holiday Celebrations
Karen Aroh says of the MAYA Collection: “WHILE REFUGEE WOMEN HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LEARN SKILLS AND SELL WARES, THEY HAVE ALSO BENEFITED FROM THE FRIENDSHIPS.” MAYA Collection has been around since 2009, but it wasn’t until 2020 that it became an...
by April Allman | Dec 7, 2020 | Community, Giving Back
The Ballet Bound scholarship project has been able to provide one-year scholarships to 15 students, some of whom will receive ongoing scholarships. Photos submitted. Transitioning on Their Toes The performing arts have been hit hard by the limits...
by April Allman | Dec 5, 2020 | Community, Giving Back
When LaToya Whitlock realized that most behavioral problems happened because of lack of reading skills, she and some colleagues started Decode Project. A Path to Reading Literacy Reading is complicated. If we could look into the brains of early readers and see the...
by April Allman | Dec 4, 2020 | Community, Giving Back
Dawn Bianconcini, a co-founder of APRON, says that taking care of our independent restaurants has never been more critical. Granting Survivability to Restaurants When APRON Inc. began in 2011, co-founders Dawn and Luca Bianconcini envisioned it as an organization that...
