As you can read in the cover story of this week's "print product," Rainn Wilson - Dwight Schrute from The Office - threw a party last month for Aaron Jackson, a local 27-year-old rich kid living as pauper, giving everything he has to orphanages in Haiti. Aaron's charity, Planting Peace, has shelters in Cambodia, Ecuador, and Guatamala; they've initiated efforts to conserve the Amazon, planted trees on barren Haitian hillsides, and organized environmental cleanup programs across the Un
Aaron Jackson, the laid back, scruffy local saint, who just so happens to be the cover boy in this week's print product, has a lot of fans. Among them: Larry King, Rainn Wilson, Charlie Crist, and rock stars and actors all over Hollywood, California.
But none of those famous admirers occupy such a lofty spiritual -- and geographical -- plane as The Buddha,
who offered the Juice an exclusive interview. The icon, it seems, is
less wowed by Aaron's penchant for self-sacrifice as by his steely
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Last night was the premiere of the sixth season of Reno 911 - the best police show since...ever. To celebrate, the cast and crew had a party at Largo on the Coronet, in L.A.
The party was also a fundraiser for New Times' favorite philanthropist, Aaron Jackson, and his charity Planting Peace. We've written about his orphanages and shelters, and his efforts to rid the world (especially children) of intestinal parasites here, here, and here.
It's good to see the good folks at Reno are hel
​Though last night's Planting Peace fundraiser at the Bubble was canceled due to last-second scheduling conflicts, the charity's founder, Aaron Jackson, was in town from Haiti (where Planting Peace has several orphanages), and that gave me the opportunity to ask him about this week's big feature spread in the Sunday edition of the St. Petersburg Times and for him to challenge me to a dance-off.
The newspaper story tells Jackson's riches-to-rags tale, how he started his char
