More about Chris Garey

GENERAL

Born in Santa Monica, CA  1946

Moved to Arroyo Grande in 1960 from LA

Army Veteran

Mechanical Engineering background

Leadership Training

Became a Licensed Unity Teacher August 2007

PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS 

The owner of a retail store in Pismo Beach and Computer graphics business in Arroyo Grande. Production manager for 120 person equipment manufacturing shop, General Contractor, mechanical and electrical designer, applications engineer and international sales manager for a manufacturing company. Executive Director for the non-profit Exploration Station. Served as Spiritual Leader for Unity Church-Five Cities from Feb 2007 to March 2018.

PAST COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

President of the Pismo Beach Chamber of Commerce, Director of the Year, Pismo Beach Citizen of the Year, President of the Pismo Beach Business Improvement Group, Chairman of the Pismo Beach Car Show,  Grover Beach Chamber of Commerce President, President of Arroyo Grande Rotary Club, Rotarian of the year, Rotary Assistant District Governor, Exploration Station Board President, Unity Church- Five Cities Board of Trustees, Five Cities Optimist Club President, Grover Beach Citizen of the Year. Chairman for the Rotary Club Chili Festival and Mustang Car raffle fundraisers.

CURRENT COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Arroyo Grande Rotary Club Honorary Member. Church fundraisers and food and school supplies donation programs. Hosting and facilitating classes and workshops. Graphics and website work for Unity-Five Cities and SLO Branch of the NAACP.

Q&A

Who has been your greatest teachers?  My parents and grandparents gave me the basics of how to live and I have learned from some of the world’s great leaders such as, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and John F. Kennedy. Spiritual teaching come from Unity, Conversations with God, A Course in Miracles, A Course of Love, Way of Mastery,Louise Hay, and Eckhart Tolle.

Of what accomplishments are you most proud? Being a leader, mentor and teacher throughout my life since I was Patrol Leader in the Boy Scouts.

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