Member spotlight: Ben Thwaits is a natural healer
From the June 2016 issue of The Rotarian
When Ben Thwaits took a job teaching at a residential treatment center for troubled teens called Northwest Passage, the nature photographer and biologist wondered if the students might get as much out of taking photos as he did. So he applied for a small grant and got a few cameras.
Within a few weeks he knew he was on to something. “It wasn’t just the quality of the photos they were producing, which was astonishing,” says Thwaits, a member of the Rotary Club of Siren/Webster, Wis. “But I started to see that spark emerge in them where they would be…
