Local Nonprofit Connects the Dots Between Food Waste and Hunger

While the rest of us are just getting ready for the day, enjoying our morning coffee, or commuting to work, volunteers at a small workshop garage in Or…

Know Your Rights: Sisters of the Sea President, Samantha Ryan

“Know Your Rights” is a semi-regular column featuring profiles of and conversations with local surfers whose love for the ocean fuels their passion, in…

Do Good Spotlight: The Performers Academy

Ebony Payne-English, managing director of The Performers Academy describes the organization's headquarters as “the labyrinth.” As she leads me on a tou…

Do Good. Not Bad: Inside our November Issue

I can still remember the elation in King David’s brown eyes. His nervous grip on my shoulder as I walked us further out to greet the incoming tide. …

A Daniel Kids’ Christmas

For Kaitlyn, 15, Christmas is going to be different this year. She is not excitedly waking up first thing in the morning at her house. She is not going…

Featured Local: Benjamin Swanson

There are very few people in life that take the phrase, “Be the change you want to see in the world,” to the same dimension that Benjamin Swanson does.…