A Fond Farewell And A Warm Welcome It is with deep regret that we announce that Shelley Edson’s Lakeside Living column will be her last one. Shelley has written the column for some six months and as we never tired of telling her, she hit the ground running and got even faster with each […]
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Nifty One-Liners Nostalgia is a device that removes the ruts and the potholes from Memory Lane. I just got back from a pleasure trip. I drove my wife to the airport. I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Last night our high school band played Beethoven. Beethoven lost,
From The Grapevine By Robert Kleffel and Noemí Paz Lakeside’s Most Popular Wines (Ed. Note: This marks the debut of this column in the Ojo. Welcome, Robert and Noemi!) We did some statistical research to determine the best-selling wines at Lakeside during the last year. As might be expected, the best-selling wines were
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LAKESIDE LIVING Shelley Edson Phone: 376 – 765 – 4049 Email: Shelley.el.ojo@gmail.com MARCH 2012 LCS Fiesta Latina Past Events The LCS Fiesta Latina was a smashing success, raising more than $100,000 pesos. This money supplements the LCS Community Education Program which includes Children’s Art, the Wilkes Education Center, English as a Second Language
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What Handicap? By Kay Davis BANG! The small child hit the ground, blood oozing from a hole in his head. But he was breathing. Scooped into someone’s arms, he was rushed to a hospital. The hours ticked by. Finally the doctor emerged from the operating room. The boy’s life was spared and it appeared
The Magic Of Isabel Allende By Rosamaria Casas In Isabel Allende’s books, the real world of her family and history and the fictional world of character and plot are inextricably twined. The House of the Spirits meanders through four generations of her own family, its dramas reflecting the social and political changes of her
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The Lay Of The Land By Bob Tennison Mary and Johnny Rivers, after many years of trying and hoping, had just become the parents of a beautiful baby girl. Mary had always wanted a girl, but Johnny didn’t care as long as the baby was healthy (and preferably beautiful, which this one was). Mary
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Chico’s Lakeside Death by Starvation (Almost) By Jim Dickinson Before After When I first saw the thing that cold, predawn January morning I couldn’t tell what it was. It was a dim, shivering gray face with pale bat-like wings, peering out from the blackness under our cargo trailer, hard against one of the
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The Poets’ Niche – March 2012 By Mark Sconce msconce@gmail.com Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) After listening to Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone recite Poe, I couldn’t recall ever hearing anything quite so eerie, so chill. But then, eeriness was Poe’s specialty, and he became the maestro of horror and the morbid. No, I won’t
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Hand To Hand David Bryen I study my hands and recall my father’s middle finger, severed at the first knuckle by a meat grinder. I always wondered what he felt and what he did with the hamburger. I remember the smooth rounded top, like a bald head, and wonder now – though I did
