Doing Our Small Part...

Five days before Vladimir Putin’s soldiers invaded Ukraine on Feb. 19, Kyiv native Elena and her three children boarded a plane bound for Los Angeles to visit her younger sister. What had been planned as Elena’s 36th birthday celebration and solo trip to Ojai turned quickly into a narrow escape for her and her three children that — in a lucky twist — landed them in a house on Eric Goode’s Turtle Conservancy in Ojai…