Lori Burkart Frank interviews Kristie Laine, Executive Director of Brunswick Village. Kristie is a lifelong resident in the area, growing up off the grid outside of Camptonville. Kristie and her staff create a sense of family for residents of Brunswick Village Senior Living and Memory Care and their families. Her career is the perfect place for her to meet her goal of making people smile.

Mike started his Fire Service commitment in 1982 as a volunteer firefighter, finding a home and a career with the Gold Flat Fire District (later Nevada County Consolidated) in 1985. Having grown up literally on the South Yuba River, Mike quickly gravitated toward river and rope rescue, first studying and later teaching all over California.

In 2008 Mike switched things up and took a Crew Captain position with CalFire running inmate fire crews, first in Fort Bragg, then here at Washington Ridge Camp, retiring in 2017.

Mike became the Volunteer Fire Chief for his hometown of Washington in 2004, and continues to serve in that role.

He and his wife of 36 years, Kim, have two sons, Colin 20 who is following his father’s footsteps as a USFS Firefighter, and Branden 18 who is building a career in the music industry.

Tonight on The Sages Among Us, host Kimberly Ewing invites Holly Mitten, the Executive Director of Grass Valley's The Northstar House to the show. They talk of her life as a lawyer, owning her own law firm, and then her community work with SYRCL, Sierra Gold Parks Foundation, and now Julia Morgan's The North Star House.