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Time Business News
25-04-2025
- Business
- Time Business News
Homes for Sale in Angwin, CA: A Peaceful Retreat in the Heart of Napa Valley
Angwin, California, is a tranquil and picturesque town nestled in the hills of Napa County. Known for its serene setting, stunning natural beauty, and proximity to Napa Valley's world-famous wineries, Angwin offers an exceptional quality of life for those seeking a peaceful retreat surrounded by nature. Whether you're looking for a charming country home, a spacious estate with vineyard potential, or a secluded getaway, Angwin CA homes for sale offer a variety of options for buyers seeking to experience the best of wine country living. Why Choose Angwin, CA? Angwin provides a unique blend of rural tranquility and easy access to Napa Valley's renowned vineyards and cultural attractions. Here are a few reasons why Angwin is an ideal place to live: Secluded and peaceful living, surrounded by natural beauty, offering a serene escape from the hustle and bustle of city life. Proximity to Napa Valley wineries, providing access to some of the best wines in the world, as well as fine dining and wine-tasting experiences. Stunning views of the surrounding hills and valleys, creating a tranquil backdrop for your home. A tight-knit community, with a relaxed and laid-back atmosphere, perfect for those seeking a quiet lifestyle. Outdoor recreation opportunities, including hiking, biking, and exploring nearby parks and natural preserves. Close to Pacific Union College, one of the oldest Seventh-day Adventist institutions in the United States, adding to the charm and character of the area. Types of Homes for Sale in Angwin, CA Angwin homes for sale offer a range of options, from charming cottages to luxurious estates, making it an ideal destination for buyers who appreciate peaceful living in a beautiful setting. Here are some of the types of homes available in Angwin: Country homes, offering rustic charm, large lots, and easy access to nearby outdoor activities and natural beauty. Luxury estates, with expansive properties, vineyards, and stunning views of Napa Valley's rolling hills. Vintage cottages and cabins, perfect for those seeking a cozy, rustic getaway or a second home in the heart of wine country. Modern homes, blending contemporary design with the natural surroundings, often featuring open floor plans, large windows, and outdoor living spaces to take in the breathtaking views. Multi-acre estates, ideal for buyers seeking privacy, space for gardening or agriculture, or the potential to develop a vineyard. Vacation homes and retreats, great for those seeking a peaceful getaway from the city or a property that can be used as a short-term rental. A Prime Location with Easy Access Angwin offers a peaceful and secluded lifestyle, yet it is still conveniently located within reach of key areas in Napa Valley and beyond. Here's how Angwin connects to the surrounding areas: Napa – About 30 minutes away, offering access to the heart of wine country with wineries, dining, and shopping options. St. Helena – Just 20 minutes for charming shops, excellent restaurants, and wine-tasting experiences. Calistoga – 25 minutes for access to hot springs, spas, and scenic vineyards. Sonoma – About 45 minutes away, offering additional wineries, cultural attractions, and historic sites. San Francisco Bay Area – Roughly an hour and a half drive, making Angwin an ideal retreat for those who work or travel in the city but seek a quieter place to live. Find Your Dream Home in Angwin, CA If you're searching for homes for sale in Angwin CA , now is the perfect time to explore this peaceful and scenic town. With its serene setting, proximity to Napa Valley's vineyards, and diverse real estate options, Angwin offers an exceptional place to live for those seeking tranquility and natural beauty. Let Diamond Real Estate Group help you find the perfect property in Angwin. With our expertise in Napa County real estate, we'll guide you through the home-buying process and help you find the ideal home that suits your needs and lifestyle. Contact us today to start your journey to homeownership in Angwin, California. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
Miami Herald
18-04-2025
- Health
- Miami Herald
What's cooking in that one pot? For these Miami moms, it's a new food world
First, they drop the onions into the pot. Then in go the chickpeas and garlic cloves, all under the watchful eyes of Chef Luis Montoya. For a group of Miami women, mostly moms and grandmas, this one-pot meal can solve a challenge: How do you prepare easy and affordable healthy meals in a community that can be considered a food desert? Inside the Overtown Youth Center, the women slice and dice and squeeze their way through a recipe for chickpea soup with lemon and herbs, a recipe inspired from the Mediterranean, a place known for populations that can live to 100 and more. 'The most difficult part is hitting the pressure button on the pressure cooker,' said Montoya, the South Florida chef leading the class, as the women prep ingredients near the electric pots. A group called Blue Zones, which swoops into communities to find ways to improve the health of residents through changes to the environment and diet, brought the cooking classes to Overtown this spring. Miami Beach is also in the process of undergoing an assessment with Blue Zones to see what changes it can make to become a healthier place to live, work and vacation. 'What we're trying to do is get people to love this food, show them how to make it so they eat it for the long run,' said longevity expert Dan Buettner, who lives in Miami Beach. 'The most important ingredient in any longevity recipe is taste,' he said. 'I could tell you that tofu is healthy or broccoli, but if you don't like it, you aren't going to eat it.' Overtown class cooks the 'Blue Zones' diet The cooking class is part of a pilot program funded by Buettner to encourage a healthier lifestyle and is based on his research and travels through the world's five longevity hot spots, also known as 'Blue Zones.' Research has shown that eating healthier can decrease a person's risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, certain cancers and other chronic conditions. The class is also using fairly affordable ingredients people can get anywhere to show that eating healthy doesn't have to be expensive. For 19-year-old Kayla Smith, who follows a pescatarian diet and loves to cook, the class has been a fun way to learn new types of food she can make at home. 'You learn different ingredients that you can put together that you would have no idea how to put together at home,' the new mom said. All the recipes at the Overtown center's cooking class come from Buettner's cookbook, 'The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100.' Montoya, who wants to open his own restaurant one day, picks healthy recipes from the book. And the class votes on which dish they want to learn how to make. The recipes are inspired from the food Buettner saw people eat in the Blue Zones of the world: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and the Seventh-day Adventist community in Loma Linda, California. Buettner, a National Geographic fellow and New York Times bestselling author, gave viewers a first-hand look at the diet and lifestyles of those living the longest and healthiest lives in an Emmy-award winning Netflix docuseries 'Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,' based on his ongoing worldwide longevity study. In this Blue Zones cooking class, the goal is to make healthy dishes that won't require you to be in the kitchen all day. The class tries to make it easier for working families to cook healthy. The cleanup is fast, too. Finding ways to make healthy meals quickly is also the concept of Buettner's new upcoming cookbook 'The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals: 100 Recipes to Live to 100,' to be released in September. The cookbook features 100 one-pot and one-pan plant-based recipes inspired from the Blue Zones. The longevity expert said he worked with a recipe developer 'to translate handfuls and pinches into teaspoons and cups.' And many recipes can be made in 30 minutes or less. 'What people don't realize — they kind of think, 'Oh, I got to get fresh fruits and vegetables to be healthy.' That's not where you start. You start with beans and rice because people understand beans and rice,' said Buettner, noting that people who live in the world's longevity zones often use grains, beans, onions and other inexpensive vegetables in their cooking. Overtown, one of the oldest historically Black neighborhoods in Miami, just northwest of downtown Miami, is home to more than 13,500 people. About 41% of the people who live in the predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhood are at or below the poverty line, according to a 2024 county report that analyzes changes and trends in housing, healthcare, jobs and other factors across the county's Black neighborhoods. The community has long been considered a 'food desert' due to the lack of nearby affordable fresh food options. But that has slowly changed over the years, starting with the 2016 opening of a Top Value Supermarket. The changing neighborhood now also has a Publix, Aldi and Target. And it has a community garden, where people can go to get fresh fruit, herbs and vegetables, not far from the youth center. 'Our goal serving predominantly marginalized communities is to improve health,' and it only takes one person to make a positive lifestyle change to spark a ripple effect, said Tina Brown, the youth center's CEO. She's hoping to make Blue Zones cooking a regular program at the center. Creating a sense of community It's not just diet and staying physically active that can help people age healthier. All of the world's Blue Zones share another trait: community. Socialization is considered to be a key aspect of healthy aging. And there's plenty of laughs and chatter happening in the cooking class. Sedrika Jacques, 46, a grandmother who has faced many health challenges in her life, said the class has helped her form a group of friends, or her 'Moai' as Buettner calls it, who also live in Liberty City's Buena Vista public housing complex. Moai is a Japanese word that refers to friends who meet frequently to talk, laugh and support each other. In Okinawa, the lifelong support groups people form provide emotional and financial support and are considered a tradition that contributes to longevity. 'I see love, I see compassion, I see women working together. ... I'm so grateful just to be in the position that the Lord has put me in right now,' said Jacques, who has 11 grandchildren and has survived eight strokes and other medical scares. In May, when the 10-week Blue Zones cooking class ends, everyone will have their blood pressure and weight measured and will undergo a longevity test, just like at the beginning of the program in March, to see first-hand if the diet change has improved their health. Some women say they've already lost weight now that they're more mindful of what they eat. 'The only way we're going to get America eating healthier is getting them cooking at home,' Buettner said, noting that 'most Americans,' especially people who live in urban areas, are 'set up for failure' when it comes to eating healthy, when many of the fast, easy and affordable nearby options are processed foods. 'It's really almost impossible to ask people to prioritize health over their pocketbook or what tastes good,' which is why Blue Zones seeks to encourage people to 'change their behavior, to change their environment, so the healthy choice is the easy choice,' he said. As the pressure cooker's waft of steam floats through the air at the Overtown center, everyone hurries to taste the soup. Some add a bit more lemon. Others question if it needs more salt. And the voting starts for next week's dish. Should they make frijoles borrachos (drunken beans), a popular Mexican dish, or pasta with tomato, eggplant and sweet potato sauce? It doesn't take long to decide. Everyone loves pasta.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Yahoo
Former Riverside school counselor gets 30 years for producing child porn
A former private school counselor in Riverside County was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography and hiding a camera in bathrooms used by children. Matthew Daniel Johnson, a 34-year-old Texas resident, was discovered to possess 'several videos featuring minor boys engaged in sexual activity' when investigators raided his home in 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. 'The videos depicted victims under the age of 12 and some as young as 3 to 5 years old,' officials added. Former I.E. school counselor pleads guilty to recording boys in bathroom, showers Early reports indicated Johnson possessed more than 600 pieces of child sex abuse material, some of which involved 'sadism.' Johnson told law enforcement officials that 'he had hidden a pen-shaped recording device in a toilet paper holder inside of a school bathroom, across the hall from his office as a school counselor at La Sierra Academy in Riverside.' The academy, a Seventh-day Adventist K-12 school, 'immediately' fired Johnson upon learning of the crimes, Principal Elizabeth Munoz Beard said at the time. 'We are shocked, horrified, and saddened by what this investigation has already revealed,' Beard said in a statement. 'My heart is broken. We love the children and their families that we serve. Their safety and well-being is our highest priority.' Outside of his surreptitious recording at the school, Johnson also recorded videos at a Bible camp for junior high school students where he was serving as a chaperone. 'Johnson further admitted to using and employing a minor victim in January 2020 for the purpose of creating a visual depiction of the victim engaging in sexual conduct,' the release said. Johnson has a restitution hearing scheduled for May 28 and will be placed on lifetime parole after he's released from prison. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Courage to Dream concert coming to Mechanics Hall to celebrate Black History Month
Courage to Dream concert coming to Mechanics Hall to celebrate Black History Month On the night of Feb. 8, Mechanics Hall will fill with song, story and celebratory spirit at the Courage to Dream concert, the centerpiece of Lancaster-based Kingdom Voice & Music's third annual Black History Month Celebration. Celebrated Boston spoken-word artist Amanda Shea will step up to the mic. The a cappella group 5th Blend and children's gospel choir King's Kids will harmonize. Kingdom Voice & Music founder and singer-songwriter Kirosha Sidelca will not only direct two choral performances but will also take a turn in the spotlight herself. Most importantly, actors Jeffrey Dorsey and Leeanis Urbina will recount three stories: that of Peter Rich, who was born enslaved in 1700s Lancaster and went on to become one of Worcester's first Black property owners, and those of two immigrants from Haiti and Liberia who have made it their mission to support their Worcester neighbors since arriving in the city. 'The program is powerful, it's riveting and it's really motivating, so it's a pleasure and an honor to get into this bigger production here,' said Unity Radio 97.9 FM founder and Courage to Dream associate producer Ernest Floyd. 'I hope people appreciate it, because a lot of work goes into it, and right now, more than ever, you need something like this to get people's minds on this.' Musical performers will include King's Kids, Shea, 5th Blend, Ropi Jr., the Jasper dance team, Sidelca and pre-K-12 Seventh-day Adventist school South Lancaster Academy's touring choir. South Lancaster Academy will also be represented during the concert's theatrical portions, as young actor Leeanis Urbina is a student there. Doors will open at 4:15 p.m. for a preshow visual arts exhibition and a market featuring Black artists and food vendors alongside local community organizations, which will remain open until 9 p.m. Performances begin at 6 p.m. 'We've just got to share this with everyone' 'Courage to Dream' will be Kingdom Voice & Glory's first Black History Month Celebration to take place outside of Sidelca's home church, College Church in Lancaster. Sidelca said when Worcester City Councilor Khrystian King, whose daughter is a member of the King's Kids choir, introduced her to Mechanics Hall's staff, they hit it off immediately. 'We wanted to make (the concert) more accessible and public, without people thinking it's a church activity,' Sidelca said. 'So many people in the community saw the show and told us we had to take it on the road. We've just got to share this with everyone.' Sidelca put together her first Black History Month Celebration in 2023 at College Church as a way to continue the town's tradition of Black History Month concerts. For years, students at the now-closed Atlantic Union College, a Seventh-day Adventist college with a majority-Black student body, would gather every February to sing and honor those who survived American racism in all its various forms. Sidelca, who had just left a 9-to-5 office job, was already planning to work on musical endeavors full time, and a new Black History Month concert at her home church seemed like a perfect project. 'I was just going to do a little concert with my kids' choir and put a group together, maybe ask a few other people to join in, and people started getting really excited,' Sidelca said. 'It evolved and evolved until it became this big production, and everyone started saying, 'This needs to be annual.'' 'That spoke mountains' The 2023 concert, titled 'Courage to Sing,' mixed performances from College Church's choirs with narration that tied together the stories of Black historical figures like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sidelca recalled one particular interaction with an audience member afterward that drove home the significance of that night's performance. 'After that show, one of the gentlemen who was there said he had been to so many Black history events and shows and that this was the best one he'd ever seen. He was super emotional about it. That spoke mountains,' Sidelca said. 'I grew up around immigrants. For a Black American who grew up here to say this was the best show he'd ever been to as a grown man, I was floored.' For the 2024 Black History Month Celebration, titled 'Courage to Persevere,' Kingdom Voice & Music turned the focus to those making history at the moment, honoring several Black female educators in the Worcester area during a key moment in the concert. A focus on Black immigrant history in the making Shortly after that show, while planning ahead, Sidelca and her collaborators decided the 2025 Black History Month concert would include a segment honoring immigrants and their contributions to Central Massachusetts in pursuit of the fabled American dream, prompting this year's 'Courage to Dream' title. 'This year, we decided to stick with the here and now. Who is making history now? We decided to focus on immigration a year ago, not knowing how big a deal it was going to be at this time this year,' Sidelca said. The concert comes amid a right-wing political backlash against immigrants, particularly those who entered the United States without documentation. On Jan. 20, hours after Republican President Donald Trump was inaugurated, his administration overturned previous government policies that prevented the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agencies from conducting raids in public schools and churches. In response, on Jan. 21, Worcester Public Schools Superintendent Rachel Monárrez sent a letter to parents of enrolled students, stating that school staff and administrators had 'received detailed guidance on protecting students' rights' and that in the event of raids at Worcester schools, the district would not 'coordinate' with ICE. 'You see their faces lit up' Sidelca, Floyd and associate producer Samarie Mojica all said one particularly important goal of the annual Black History Month Celebration was to provide children with an opportunity to perform onstage and learn from previous generations. Floyd said for him, the events reminded him of the National Center for Afro-American Artists' annual Black Nativity performances, which he participated in while growing up in Roxbury. 'This show brings back memories of my early childhood and performing in those shows, talking about culture, learning your history, learning who has come before you,' Floyd said. 'It continues that experience.' Mojica said she hoped 'to make a difference, to leave our footprint, and to pave the way and open doors for others to also be a part of this, so it can someday be taken over by the kids and young people participating.' 'For (the King's Kids choir) to be able to grow up and say they were part of the Black History Month Celebration every year at Mechanics Hall, you see their faces lit up with excitement to be singing on that stage,' Sidelca said. 'It warms my heart to be able to be that person for them, because I remember the people who were that for me when I was growing up.' The Courage to Dream Black History Month Celebration will take place 6 p.m. Feb. 8 at Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St., Worcester. Doors will open at 4:15 p.m. for a preshow arts exhibition and market, which will run until 9 p.m. General admission tickets cost $35 per adult and $20 per child. VIP tickets, which include front-row table seating, light refreshments and a themed gift, cost $65 each or $360 for a six-person table. All tickets are available through
