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Christopher Doll, SALIDA, CALIF...
Even those who crave a trip into the rustic beyond (like the very popular five-day Continental Divide tour offered by the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Center in Salida, Colo.) are treated to delicious meals cooked in a Dutch oven, tents and cots set up for them by support staff--and just about anything extra they're willing to pay for. "If someone wants a masseuse waiting at the next campsite in the middle of nowhere," says RMOC owner Ray Kitson, "or a certain kind of camp chair, we arrange...
...saying Kenneth Russell is an angel. The 16-year-old high school junior from Salida, Calif., is a C student with a filthy mouth who has been known to saunter into class on his own schedule. And, yes, as Russell readily admits, after a bout of name-calling with a white classmate last fall, he threw the first punch in a fistfight that left him battered and his adversary with five stitches over his left...
...charitable causes by a for-profit firm called Pallotta Teamworks. In the 1990s, Pallotta elevated the folksy fund-raising trend to a well-marketed mass movement with glossy brochures and inspirational videos. But that kind of approach is turning off do-gooders like Carol Peeples, 44, a teacher in Salida, Colo., who raised $2,500 for a Pallotta-run Avon Breast Cancer Walk last year. Peeples and other walkers received a coffee-table-book-size color catalog promoting various Pallotta causes, like a suicide-prevention walk in Washington; they were required to watch a "safety video" that some described...
...morning in Modesto, Calif. (pop. 127,700), a group of farmers, some of whom had been in their nearby fields since 5 a.m., gathered around the tables at the Salida Kitchen coffee shop. Farmers with varied interests, from fruits and vegetables to dairy cattle and almonds, depend less on federal subsidies than elsewhere. But they, too, are worried...