by Deborah Cash | May 1, 2019 | Community, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
“Do you live in a house, ” I asked? “No, la calle (the street), ” he said. I knew that without asking. People with disabilities end up desperately poor in countries like Honduras. And poor people end up on the street. It was his lot. He reached for my hand and held it...
by Deborah Cash | May 1, 2019 | Business, Community, Cover story, People, San Luis Obispo
“This community is important to us; we want to leave it better than before we came.” –Ty Safreno When Ty Safreno was asked what motivated him to start his own business—Trust Automation, Inc.—back in the early ’90s, he was pretty upfront. “It was mainly a...
by Deborah Cash | Apr 1, 2019 | Atascadero, Community, People
Women figured strongly in recent local, state and national elected political positions across the country. While that may have seemed like a bit of a sea of change on a macro level, Heather Moreno, winning her mayoral seat in 2018, pointed out that in Atascadero, it...
by Deborah Cash | Mar 1, 2019 | Atascadero, Community, People, San Luis Obispo
As is typical for Christina Lefevre Latner, public policy champ, consultant and lecturer, she points out that “a lot of great people” have supported her in her lifelong journey to become an advocate for humanitarian causes calling for solutions. “Every acquaintance...
by Deborah Cash | Jan 1, 2019 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo
Peg Grady’s satire thread art will make you smile. Peg Grady the person will make you laugh out loud. While she works in a myriad of media—painting, assemblages, collages and other works of art—it’s Peg’s pithy, catchy and sometimes outrageous stitched sayings...
