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Life skills: Fighting Back Santa Maria is expanding its youth outreach, including focusing on life after incarceration
Looking at Santa Barbara County’s probation routine for formerly incarcerated youth with a fresh pair of eyes, Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley is also providing those juvenile offenders with a new face. “I believe, and research shows, that young people thrive when they have adults who care about them in their lives. So, getting another person into a young person’s life regularly, to listen to their needs, is always a good thing,” Edwin Weaver, executive director of the nonprofit,…
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Life skills: Fighting Back Santa Maria is expanding its youth outreach, including focusing on life after incarceration
Looking at Santa Barbara County’s probation routine for formerly incarcerated youth with a fresh pair of eyes, Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley is also providing those juvenile offenders with a new face. “I believe, and research shows, that young people thrive when they have adults who care about them in their lives.…
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A new member of Gallery Los Olivos shares her love for the Central Coast through paintings
Leading up to Hilda Freyre’s childhood home was a thick canopy of trees. She grew up on a sugarcane plantation in Peru, an environment she was reminded of while on a drive in Los Olivos a few months ago. She saw an archway of leaves blanketing the road from above. “The trees were different, and they were thicker. But it was like that,” Freyre said, comparing her hometown to the Los Olivos scene. “It reminds me of my childhood.”…
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CaliPaso expands along the Central Coast with a tasting room in Solvang
The latest additionCaliPaso Winery’s new tasting room is located at 482 1st St. in Solvang. It’s open Sunday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday to Sunday…
Small production winemakers gather at their crush facility for an open house tasting event
Two presses. One destemmer. Countless barrels of grape juice. At a 15,000-square-foot warehouse on Easy Street in Buellton, seven small-production winemakers share a custom crush facility. Many don’t have official…
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