Giving Back

Like most bookstores, Rita Collins’s has shelves filled from floor-to-ceiling with books. The store has 600 volumes meticulously organized by genre, as well as plenty of overhead lighting and attractive carpeting. What sets this bookstore apart from most is that it has been to over 30 states and has traveled cross-country three times since 2015. How is this possible? Because St. Rita’s Traveling Bookstore and Textual Apothecary is a bookstore inside her white Sprinter van.

Today’s generation of children will get to know Jane Goodall in a new way – with a Barbie doll of the pioneer and conservationist. Barbie dolls have been around since 1959. The Barbie Inspiring Women Series, one of their newest and most successful lines, puts iconic actresses, leaders, artists, and scientists in Barbie form. In August, they released their latest, commemorating Dr. Jane Goodall, the United Nations Messenger of Peace and the founder of the

Talk about making the grade! Mike Huss was once a student at Ione Elementary School in California. After graduating high school, Huss became one of the school’s janitors. And now? To everyone’s delight and surprise – not least of all his own – he recently became the school principal. Growing up, Huss says, he never saw himself in education. However, his peers and family believed otherwise, seeing something in him that even he didn’t recognize.