by Will Jones | Jan 1, 2019 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo
The day after the 2016 elections, Noha Kolkailah had an insight that led, in less than two years, to the creation of the Peace Academy of Sciences and Arts, a summer enrichment program for children, which delivered a four-week curriculum to fifty students, ages 6-9,...
by Will Jones | Dec 1, 2018 | Community, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
Being a teacher, even a retired teacher, has many rewards. Some of them are delayed, like hearing from a former student who has gone on to create a rich adult life. Such was the case when I recently received a Facebook message from Gold Concept co-owner and City...
by Will Jones | Oct 1, 2018 | Community, Morro Bay, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo
Two definitions of the term social justice seem to apply to the principles of Dawn Addis, educator, Women’s March organizer and candidate for the Morro Bay City Council: the concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society; the capacity to...
by Will Jones | Aug 1, 2018 | Community, People, San Luis Obispo
There’s something amazing about taking a lump of clay in the morning and, by the end of the day, having a beautiful creation. Born in 1961, Kenny Standhardt grew up on a Pennsylvania Dutch farm near Boyertown, forty miles northwest of Philadelphia. “My family was the...
by Will Jones | Jul 1, 2018 | Community, San Luis Obispo
As Mike Godsey, the new director of community life for the San Luis Obispo Classical Academy, sees it his educational vision has come full circle. He chose English as a major at Cal Poly when he entered in 1993, “because I wanted to become wiser, to learn more about...
