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Issues & Ideas: Feeding SLO kids, fire evacuations and carbon neutrality at Camp San Luis

More than 77,000 people have been displaced by the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, and in Santa Cruz County, that’s put a strain on shelter capacity. People and their animals are evacuating due to the River Fire, south of Salinas, as well. Camp San Luis Obispo is on its way to becoming the first military base in America to achieve 100 percent carbon neutrality. San Luis Coastal Unified School District is not only providing students with nutritious food, but aiming to make sure that no local child goes hungry…even in a global pandemic. Monica Grant, of the San Luis Obispo County YMCA, talks about the challenges faced by the Y during the pandemic, and how they are still able to help families.

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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