Weapons Of Mall Destruction By Neil McKinnon It started innocently. Early one Wednesday morning Muriel Treppingthwaite, a Vancouver housewife, bundled her three boys, Tim, Horton, Don and her daughter, Cherry into the backseat of her 1993 Saturn Sedan and headed south to pick up cheap granola in a Bellingham shopping mall. Until that Wednesday, […]
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Gringas & Guacamole By Gail Nott Early Childhood Development I have often wondered how I managed to develop past early childhood without pre-nursery, nursery, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and most importantly, an au pair. My first caregiver was a very high, dark mahogany, ornately carved bed, with an enormous feather ticked mattress. Each morning, before sun-up,
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Carmelita Crow By Harriet HartEnglish and EspañolReview by Janice Kimball Carmelita Crow sweeps us up and takes us along with her and her parents and siblings as they fly from a Mexican village across the American border into Los Angeles, leaving behind a world that felt safe and familiar, a place with cousins, aunts
Profiling TepehuaPart One By Moonyeen King The barrio of Tepehua is just West of Chapala. One of five barrio’s, each as poor as the other. The poorest area in Jalisco. Although all snuggled together on the hillside, they are isolated from each other by tribal instinct and a sense of survival. Which poverty always
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Stay Healthy! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D.Internal Medicine & Geriatric SpecialistMdjmcordova1204@yahoo.com The Aging Brain Changing Sleep Patterns: Another change that occurs during the aging process is this: Your need for sleep remains about the same most of your life. If you need about 6 hours nightly now, chances are you´ll need that amount,
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The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconcemsconce@gmail.com Gray Burr (1919-2002) Dear Dad, Several months before you died in 1999, I shared with you my great admiration for the poetry of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Russia’s most famous poet. I even read some of his lines while you lay in that nursing home—perhaps a little scared. When
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Humane Education Alliance It has been two years since people representing four education, science, child welfare and animal advocacy organizations, fostered initially by Lakeside Friends of the Animals, came together to promote and implement principles of Humane Education in pre and elementary schools in the region. The group adopted the name Humane Education Alliance
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2nd ANNUAL LCS FIESTA LATINA 2013 – Ole! By Blue Last year’s Fiesta Latina was such a success, that the Lake Chapala Society decided to make this an annual event. The 2013 Fiesta will be held again in LCS’s gardens on February 2nd from 2:30 until dark. This is the Society’s biggest fundraiser of
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View From The South Shore By Kerry Watsonkerry.r.watson1@gmail.com Experience its Sights and Sounds From my back yard in San Luis Soyatlan I have a panoramic view of all the towns from Jocotepec to Chapala. At night I can see each town’s malecon (board walk) clearly in the twinkling evening light, and fireworks of each
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Front Row Center By Shirley Appelbaum Best WishesBy Bill BarkerDirected By Peggy Lord ChiltonAssisted By Kathleen Neal During the month of December, when thoughts brought us back to family and old memories, Best Wishes was the perfect evening out. Mama has passed away and the children have all gathered together at their childhood home
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