Rich Archbold

3 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Rich Archbold

Jean Bixby Smith has helped thousands of youngsters in her lifetime of community service, but she remembers her time with kids at the Long Beach Day Nursery as something special. "I just loved reading to those 3- and four-year-olds and talking to them. That was really a kick," Smith, 87, told an enthusiastic crowd of more than 120 guests at the annual Tea for Tots brunch last weekend at the new Keesal Young & Logan offices at Catalina Landing.

3 days ago | sacbee.com | Rich Archbold

Jean Bakke went to a mountain camp as a teenager and, although that was 70 years ago, she still remembers it "as a treasured memory."Bakke wrote about her camping experience in a note along with her donation to this year's Send-a-Kid-to-Camp campaign.

4 days ago | presstelegram.com | Rich Archbold

Jean Bakke went to a mountain camp as a teenager and, although that was 70 years ago, she still remembers it “as a treasured memory.”Bakke wrote about her camping experience in a note along with her donation to this year’s Send-a-Kid-to-Camp campaign.

4 days ago | presstelegram.com | Rich Archbold

Jean Bixby Smith has helped thousands of youngsters in her lifetime of community service, but she remembers her time with kids at the Long Beach Day Nursery as something special. “I just loved reading to those 3- and four-year-olds and talking to them. That was really a kick,” Smith, 87, told an enthusiastic crowd of more than 120 guests at the annual Tea for Tots brunch last weekend at the new Keesal Young & Logan offices at Catalina Landing.

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Rich Archbold

Columnist's note by Rich Archbold: Today, I am turning over my column space to Kari Cho, vice president of development and marketing for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach and single mother of two daughters she sent to Camp Oakes in the San Bernardino Mountains last year as part of the Press-Telegram's and Grunion Gazette's Send-a-Kid-to-Camp program. This is the 26th year of our campaign in partnership with the Long Beach Community Foundation.