Local Heroes 2006
They’re surrounding us, and we don’t even know it. People from all walks of life, doing special deeds to help their fellow human. These are heroes of the highest order, individuals and groups who dedicate their time, money, and skills to helping the less fortunate, empowering the powerless, and teaching the students who require it most. These are Santa Barbara’s Local Heroes, a breed that we at The Independent honor every year with this annual issue.
So here we go again. We give to you 23 individuals and groups who deserve our thanks and praise. Read on and be inspired to do your own works of good.
Click Here to read the Local Heroes Honor Roll 1986-2006
It started out as an innocent evening, with plans to meet a girlfriend for a local book-signing. But when it was over, there were feathers on my chest, lube in my hair, and a new place in my heart for stripper poles.
The columnist brings us the latest news on eating veggies, drinking coffee, low carb diets, why anger makes your heart sick, and how getting checked early and often for lung cancer just might save your life.
From an internet cafe somewhere along the north coast of Panama, where the effectivness of email “depends on the weather,” Liz Clark updates us on her wild ride since returning to the Swell late this summer and setting off on her final months in the northern hemisphere.
When the Wall Street Journal names UCSB one of the country’s eight up-and-coming schools, our columnist can’t help but feel a little pride in her university.
“Why is thinking something women never do? And why is logic never even tried? Straightening up their hair is all they ever do. Why don’t they straighten up the mess that’s inside?” These much beloved lyrics are from Alan Jay Lerner’s My Fair Lady, which poses the immortal question: “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”
