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South Coast Stories

New online course helps Puente Promoters keep farm workers safe on the job. Nuevo curso en línea ayuda a las promotoras de Puente a mantener seguros a los trabajadores agrícolas en el trabajo

  In the decades before they became ‘Promotoras de Salud’ (community health workers) with Puente, Yolanda Morales and Yesenia Ramirez worked in many Pescadero fields and flower nurseries. Some of their working conditions were illegal, although they didn’t know it at the time. Morales remembers being exposed to toxic pesticides, which made her and her […]

Ruth Shavel, remarkable Puente volunteer, to receive special award.

If you ask Ruth Shavel why she has spent her entire life volunteering for Peninsula nonprofits, including Puente, she will give a simple answer. “I could do it,” she says. “So I did.” Shavel, 87, is as modest as she is generous. For the past eight years, she has been a committed volunteer and the […]

In Pescadero Town Planning Initiative Report, the Community Speaks as One. La Comunidad Une su Voz en el Informe de la Iniciativa de Planificación de Pescadero.

Looking back, one of the most-appreciated and talked-about moments of the Pescadero Town Planning Gathering on March 17 was the extraordinary exercise that kicked it off.  Participants were asked to sort themselves into three groups: monolingual Spanish speakers, monolingual English speakers and those who identified as bilingual. Then, the bilingual participants – about 20 percent […]

Two beloved Puente board members retire. Dos queridas miembras de la junta directiva de Puente se retiran.

  If there are any two locals who are woven deeply into the fabric of Puente and the larger South Coast, it’s Carol Young-Holt and Wendy Wardwell. Both women have served on the Puente Board of Directors for more than 15 years, and they’ve helped Puente grow in ways that are reflected in the larger […]