UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Black or White…or Maybe Gray? When our children were young, my wife taught me a technique for helping them to pick what to wear. I had been making the mistake of asking them, “Well, what do you want to wear today?” which precipitated an exhaustive review of everything […]
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Abraham de Jesús Gamboa Meet one of the most recent children who has come to the attention of Niños Incapacitados —Abraham de Jesús Gamboa Quiñónez. Quite a name for an eight-year-old little guy, no? In fact, Abraham turned eight just three days following his visit to the
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Planting For The Future By Judy Baehr Avoiding the Well-Traveled Lettuce In this hot dry season, lettuces often arrive at our stores warm and tired and somewhat wilted and smelling funny, just like all of us. I often think of those crates of lettuce tooling down the road singing “Five hundred miles, 500 miles,
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood A New World Order Might the global economic crisis, dire as it is, actually set the stage for ushering in a new world order for the benefit of all? The crisis clearly began in America with an ethos that rewarded short term greed and encouraged high risk
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FRONT ROW CENTER By Michael Warren LookingBy Norm FosterDirected by Bob Coull This entertaining comedy by Norm Foster is an ideal community theater production, with four contrasting characters and some humorous and well-written dialogue. Smoothly directed by Bob Coull, Looking gives us an inside view of two pairs of friends and their desperate, yet
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Overweight? Start Reducing Today! An overweight epidemic permeates all age groups. One third of all children between two and nineteen are overweight or obese and over one billion adults are overweight, 300 million obese! While genetics may play a small role in these statistics,
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson Ken Masson has been playing, teaching and writing about bridge for 35 years. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Ken has been living in Toronto since 1967. He and his wife and bridge partner, Rosemarie, are now in their third year wintering in Lakeside. Defense is generally regarded as
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Paul Jackson A Canadian friend shows me a report from the prestigious World Economic Forum that says his country’s banking system is the safest and most secure in the world. Switzerland’s much-fabled banking system is down in the 14th ranking. The United States’ banking system comes in at an alarming
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Op-EdBy Maggie Van OstrandMexico’s Seabiscuit Connection In 1934 during the depths of the Great Depression, horse trainer Tom Smith was living out of a stall at Mexico’s Agua Caliente racetrack. Flat broke, Smith shared the stall with Noble Threewit, who trained horses for a friend of Charles Howard. Howard was seeking a trainer for his
GOD BLESS ANDY RODNEY! (From a recent 60 Minutes TV program) “As I grow in age, I value women who are over 50 most of all. Here are just few reasons why: A woman over 50 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you
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