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On the day Sidney Poitier died at age 94, the Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, an African American theologian, wrote me about what a life-a...

(RNS) — Sir Sidney Poitier changed the film world on the way to changing the larger world.

The Echo Mountain Fire Relief Fund, North Lincoln County’s only nonprofit dedicated solely to assisting fire survivors, has appointed a new executive director, Bethany Grace Howe. Howe, who began her work in fire relief in mid-October as the Wildfire Resource Navigator working through the Olalla Center for Children and Families, began in her new role on Dec. 16. It’s a job her experience since the fire has taught her is needed. “When Echo Mountain Fire Relief was founded, we had a simple goal: to raise as much money as possible as quickly as possible,” Howe said. “But...