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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TODD STONG, PhD, PEON LAKESIDE INFRASTRUCTURE By Kay Davis On April 5, Todd Stong answered questions at Open Circle with the direct, yet oddly oblique, responses so common of Casey Stengel, long time manager of the New York Yankees. Not that Todd was trying to evade answers. It’s just that sometimes the answer involves
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: The ACLU won a case in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act for the release of dozens of photographs held by the Department of Defense. These pictures are not more of the same from Abu Ghraib, but are from several other prisons. More prison locations indicate
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Howard and Helen Play House By James Tipton Helen had not been the same since Howard had hit her in the head with a can of tuna. Yes, that was Howard as in “husband” Howard, the same Howard who liked to tell Helen that she needed to change her hair, that he wanted her
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PAW PRINTS ON MY HEART By Gudrun Jones, Co-Founder & President of the Lakeside Spay & Neuter Center There are times when I wonder how my heart can keep on beating, it has been broken so many times that I think the cracks will make it crumble and it will no longer function. Sometimes
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Havoc In Motion By Jay White When Mama was eleven years old she taught her pet chicken to walk backward. It was a black, bandy hen with delicate curly-down feathers from its elbows to its toenails, which items Mama had painted with pink fingernail polish. Grampaw and I were down at the tank fishing
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THE OLD MAN AND THE DOG By Catherine Moore Dad had been a lumberjack. He had entered grueling lumberjack competitions, and the shelves in his house were filled with trophies that attested to his prowess. The years marched on relentlessly. The first time he couldn’t lift a heavy log, he joked about it; but
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