How often do you consider whether the homeless person sleeping in an exposed area is an adolescent? Or that it may have been awhile since that homeless adolescent had a decent meal? That’s where Homeless Backpacks comes in. The nonprofit organization provides weekend food to homeless students. According to Kelly Wilson, Homeless Backpacks chair and founding board member, the … [Read more...] about Homeless Backpacks
Homeless Backpacks
New Owner of Olympic Landscape
Olympic Landscape has been designing, building and servicing outdoor residential and commercial spaces in the South Sound for more than 40 years. As an expert landscape contractor, the company creates beautiful outdoor living spaces, unique gathering spaces and specially-themed gardens for homes and businesses. Now the new owner and CEO, Joe Areyano, plans to continue that … [Read more...] about New Owner of Olympic Landscape
Homeless Backpacks
Here’s how the seed of an idea blossomed into massive results that benefit thousands of students throughout the South Sound. “A group of friends and I were having dinner, and someone brought up an encounter with a homeless person,” recalls Kelly Wilson, a founding board member and chairwoman of Homeless Backpacks. “Then the conversation turned into ‘What can we do?’” The … [Read more...] about Homeless Backpacks