Flowers for Firefighters Volunteers from Flower Empower delivered orchids to local firefighters. Flower Empower is part of Santa Barbara-based Dream Foundation. Volunteers, practicing social distancing, dropped off orchids to fire stations in Montecito, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Goleta. The orchids were donated by Westerlay Orchids in Carpinteria. Volunteers also dropped off flowers to Los Robles […] Continue Reading
Flower Empower Santa Barbara-based Flower Empower brought some cheer to local residents. Flower Empower is part of Dream Foundation and delivers flowers to people in hospitals, hospice care, and anyone in the community who may need some cheer. The Saturday deliveries around the community are on hold for now because of the coronavirus, but this […] Continue Reading
Santa Barbara Organization Gives Patients and Families Opportunities to Fulfill End-of-Life Aspirations In 2016, Jim Mills was informed by doctors that his 53-year-old wife Leeanne Mills’s ocular melanoma was no longer treatable — she had, at best, around a year to live. The news was devastating for the couple, who’d been married for 29 years and had […] Continue Reading
Terminally ill woman makes memories with family on Maui Seeing the delight on the faces of Belmi and Gustavo Tepeque as they explored Iao Valley’s Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens with their two young children last week, it would be easy to think the young couple from Santa Barbara, Calif., didn’t have a care in the world. […] Continue Reading