UVA — Celebrating 40 years of Helping Students By Sue Torres How do you measure success? The University Vocational Assistance program AKA UVA has been measuring it “one student at a time” for the past 40 years. The concept of assisting bright but financially challenged Lakeside students began as a quiet act of […]
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CHARLEY AND SANDY: A Dog Story By Robert James Taylor “Dogs have a way of finding people who need them.” It was Springtime—our third year living in San Juan Cosala. One day Anita called us: she had a dog, a Golden retriever that was left overnight, tied to her gate: another abandoned creature she
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Operation Smile This column has covered stories of Operation Smile before, most readers are aware what they do. They transform lives. They turn a tragedy of birth into a step for the future. ‘Instituto Jalisciense de Cirugia Reconstructiva’’ (IJCR), Guadalajara, is a teaching
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“The Corruption Of The Pen” By Fred Mittag H.L. Mencken “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an adage that gives journalism high responsibility. The Society of Professional Journalists recognizes this in the preamble to their code of ethics: “Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner
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Who Knew? By Margaret Van Every Jeanette annually spent a couple of weeks with each of her three granddaughters who lived in different cities across the US. Her youngest and dearest grandchild Danica had recently started middle school in upstate New York and Jeanette was visiting the family during the leaf season. Danica insisted
All The Things Left Unsaid By Bob Strand Lee Coleman was one of the most interesting men I ever worked with on the ranch on which I was raised. And this story about him is probably the saddest story I will ever tell you. Because of the large amount of work to be done
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Not Quite Bible Stories – By Iris Slocombe “First Dog’s Story of Creation” The two Labs, Cocoa the brown female, Shadow the male, were lazing in the hot sun. “Tell me a story, please,” asked Shadow. “My favorite, please.. First Dog’s Story of Creation.” Cocoa sighed. “I’ve told you that one so
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Festive Fundraising At Jaltepec Centro Educativo Jaltepec Centro Educativo held its annual Christmas Dinner and Luncheon November 29th and 30th 2016 and we thank all of the attendees for making this outstanding event a sold out celebration. We would also like to recognize Timothy G. Ruff Welch and the “Taste” of the Los Cantantes
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LANGUISHING IN LALALAND* By Alejandro Grattan (*Lalaland: Code for Hollywood, or a state of mind in which reality occasionally visits, but never stays for long.) I had been in Hollywood for less than a week, staying in a Minus Two-Star motel on Santa Monica Boulevard when an ad in the Classified Section of
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Robert McNamara and the Vietnam War The late Robert McNamara’s best-selling book, In Retrospect, recently went into another printing, which has prompted us to republish our review of the book which originally ran soon after its initial release. The lessons of the Vietnam War are especially relevant now, as
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