by Heather Young | Nov 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Community, Nonprofit, Paso Robles, Santa Margarita, Templeton
Atascadero resident, Wendy Lewis, became the CEO/President of the El Camino Homeless Organization (ECHO) in February after spending 10 years working for the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County. Lewis’ most recent position with the Food Bank Coalition was as...
by Heather Young | Oct 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Community, Nonprofit, Paso Robles, People
Maggie Vandergon, 91, is the force behind Atascadero’s annual celebration of its beginnings—Colony Days. Vandergon was born in Paso Robles and raised on a ranch northeast of San Miguel. Her parents’ families came to the United States in the mid to late 1800s;...
by Heather Young | Sep 1, 2018 | Atascadero, Business, Community, People
Manuel Barba opened Traffic Records in downtown Atascadero in March of this year with his partner Dawn Neill because of his love of music. “I didn’t think I’d be opening a record store at all,” Barba said. “I just knew I’d do something with music. When the location in...
by Heather Young | Jul 1, 2018 | Business, Cambria, Community, Food, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo, Templeton
The Wellness Kitchen, 1255 Las Table Road in Templeton, has been helping people treat illness through food. The nonprofit not only provided gluten-free and dairy-free therapeutic foods, but also provides education for prevention and continued wellness. Since its...
by Heather Young | May 1, 2018 | Cambria, Community, People
It’s been nearly two decades since the publication of Pay It Forward—the book that put local author Catherine Ryan Hyde on the map. But even with the success of the movie version (starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment in 2000), and the Pay It...
