Caren Hicks:  

Hello Class of '75. I was not very involved with High School socially, but would love to see a few old friends and know how they are, like Martha Tonkin and Bernard DeLeon, Shirley Chung, Anne Russell, Toine Sarragosa and several others. I dated Mark Wedlake all through High School, who was 3 years ahead of our class, in a band with older friends and I was always with him, until half way through our Senior year when we broke up. I began playing beach volleyball at Lover's Point every day and fell in love with a guy 12 years my senior and we lived together for a year. Most of that time was in Atascadero (near San Luis Obispo). When we split, I moved back to Pacific Grove and started working at Tillie Gort's Restaurant (Fall of 1976). I got together with a man named Russell, who became my husband and business partner. We started a company called Sweet Earth Natural Foods in 1978, inside the Granary (Health Food Store). We had 3 wonderful kids together, Aaron, Mike and Alissa who are the closest people in the world to me. I adore each of them and am so enjoying them as young adults! Things stayed the same for many years, running a company and raising kids. We couldn't get away from the business for long, so almost every summer vacation was spent camping in Big Sur which made for great family memories. In 2005 Russell and I split up and stayed friends and continued to run the business together. In 2008 we decided to put the business on the market so we could each go our own ways. The first person who loo...Expand for more