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SLO County District Attorney Dan Dow: A life of duel careers

SLO County District Attorney Dan Dow: A life of duel careers

by Aprll Charlton | Jun 1, 2020 | Community, Cover story, People, San Luis Obispo, Templeton

Unlike most fifth-graders, San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow spent time penning letters to prospective law schools in California, reading the United States Constitution and learning about the country’s founding principles to educate himself on what it...
Living a life of food and family in Pismo Beach: The Doug and Shannon MacMillan story

Living a life of food and family in Pismo Beach: The Doug and Shannon MacMillan story

by Aprll Charlton | Mar 1, 2020 | Business, Community, Cover story, Food, People, Pismo Beach

Longtime Pismo Beach chef and restauranteur Doug MacMillan didn’t choose cooking as his life’s work. He was born into it. His wife, Shannon, on the other hand, married into the restaurant industry when she and MacMillan said, ‘I do.’ And for the past two-plus decades,...
Tarren Collins: Dedicating her life to advocacy and protecting the environment

Tarren Collins: Dedicating her life to advocacy and protecting the environment

by Aprll Charlton | Feb 1, 2020 | Business, Community, People, San Luis Obispo, San Simeon

San Luis Obispo native Tarren Collins was born to be an advocate, standing up for what she believes is right and just, even if it means bucking the status quo. “I have always had an aversion to bullies,” Collins said. “I want the playing field to be level and fair. So...
Humankind Store SLO’s one and only fair trade retail store celebrates 10 years downtown

Humankind Store SLO’s one and only fair trade retail store celebrates 10 years downtown

by Aprll Charlton | Aug 1, 2019 | Business, Community, Nonprofit, San Luis Obispo

WHAT STARTED MORE THAN A DECADE AGO as a few individuals selling fair trade products at church-sponsored holiday craft fairs has blossomed over the years into a full-scale retail operation with a brick-and-mortar store—HumanKind Fair Trade— that just celebrated its...
Pismo Beach’s La Bodega Tapas

Pismo Beach’s La Bodega Tapas

by Aprll Charlton | Jun 1, 2019 | Business, Community, Food, People, Pismo Beach

There are two types of people in the world: those who dream and those who make their dreams come true. Recent Pismo Beach transplant Teresa Cordeiro, 56, is most definitely the latter type. Having spent her entire adult life working in the medical field— Cordeiro is a...
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