{"id":473,"date":"2024-04-03T04:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/?p=473"},"modified":"2024-04-03T04:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T04:26:31","slug":"trustee-ranger-kidwell-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/trustee-ranger-kidwell-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Trustee, Ranger Kidwell-Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"473\" class=\"elementor elementor-473\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-074097d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"074097d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08ae397 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"08ae397\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03d66b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"03d66b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/extractimages_422024_91319.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-463\" alt=\"Trustee, Ranger Kidwell-Ross\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c075a2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9c075a2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-177b0bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"177b0bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Ranger Kidwell-Ross is a Master\u2019s level economist who is president of Skagit County-based American Proofreading Co. Long an advocate of giving back for the greater good, Ranger was a founding member of an early Skagit County-based environmental group,\u00a0<cite>Habitat Watch<\/cite>. He served on the Citizen\u2019s Advisory Board for the Environmental Element of the Washington State Comprehensive Plan, as well as spent a year as a member of the Advisory Board of the\u00a0<em>Skagit Valley Herald<\/em>.<\/p><div id=\"rktext\"><br \/>Ranger has also donated his time to non-profit and charity events as a performance artist for over 35 years. From the mid 1970s to around 2004, he appeared as the clown and magician personality \u201cMr. Turquoise\u201d at non-profit and charity events, as well as participated in dozens of local and regional parades.<br \/><br \/>In the early 1990s, recognizing the importance of ensuring the Earth\u2019s clean water supply, Ranger founded, and then edited for a decade,\u00a0<cite>American Sweeper<\/cite>\u00a0magazine, which was the first U.S. publication to address the negative impacts of storm water runoff pollution generated from pavement and other impervious surfaces. Today, his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsweeper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WorldSweeper.com<\/a>\u00a0website is the world\u2019s leading resource in that field.<br \/><br \/>In addition to actively writing on this topic for his website and other publications, Ranger provides counseling on the subject to businesses and municipal agencies around the U.S. and the world.<br \/><br \/>Ranger\u2019s writing and Internet publishing work have garnered him 19 national APEX Awards for Publication Excellence since 1994, as well as other honors and accolades. He was the author of a book entitled \u201cThe Rise of Bio-Diesel,\u201d which was published in 2008. In 2009 Ranger co-authored, with Dr. Jack Lessinger, a book on current socio-economic theory entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Prosperity-2020-Fall-Whats\/dp\/0578014858\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1288285957&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Great Prosperity of 2020; Fall of \u2018What\u2019s in it for Me?\u2019 \u2014 Rise of \u2018What\u2019s in it for Us?\u2019\u201d<\/a><br \/><br \/>An accomplished percussionist, Ranger has enjoyed a lifetime of wide-ranging musical experiences throughout the Pacific NW and around the world. He has played with numerous bands since the age of 16; currently, he plays with \u201cThe Poor Man\u2019s Jug Band,\u201d which appeared at the 2010 Skagit County Fair. Over time, Ranger has performed in Japan, China and Europe, as well as had a headline appearance in 2007 at Thailand\u2019s 2nd World Music Festival.<br \/><br \/>In addition to his enduring interest in music, Ranger is a sculpture artist who has designed and built a number of large-scale, whimsical sculptures on his wooded Skagit County property. He is also involved in the U.S. art car community, and displays his art truck\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toynota.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cToynota\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at numerous public events throughout the Pacific Northwest.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranger Kidwell-Ross is a Master\u2019s level economist who is president of Skagit County-based American Proofreading Co. Long an advocate of giving back for the greater good, Ranger was a founding member of an early Skagit County-based environmental group, Habitat Watch. He served on the Citizen\u2019s Advisory Board for the Environmental Element of the Washington State Comprehensive Plan, as well as spent a year as a member of the Advisory Board of the Skagit Valley Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meet-the-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.rickeptingfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}