Category: Human Interest
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SOMETHING WONDERFUL HAPPENED TODAY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
By Donna Westfall – July 6, 2021 If you’ve never experienced homelessness, let’s get some basics out of the way. There are four very real insecurities: 1.) Food and shelter 2.) Income 3.) Healthcare 4.) Basic Needs : Let’s start with #4. Water and food are not guaranteed. Warmth and dry clean clothes not guaranteed.…
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Silly and Serious Things
By Donna Westfall – December 11, 2018 – This morning at the Daily Town Hall Meeting that starts at 6 am in Fisherman’s Restaurant, regular attendee, Hank, told the story of British soldiers dying from dysentery during World War II. Take a look at the picture to the left. Looks like briquettes, doesn’t it? It’s…
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Bittersweet clean up on private property
By Donna Westfall – December 9, 2018 – The owners were set to move in after tenants moved out in April, 2018. However, eight days before moving in, the next door neighbor, spotted a fire. His family made sure everybody was out of the structure and the fire department was called. Fire crews arrived around…
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The mixed abortion legacy of President George H.W. Bush
Credit to Carole Novielli, Author at Live Action – December 3, 2018 Our nation’s 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, passed away this past weekend at the age of 94 after battling a form of Parkinson’s disease. He served as leader of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and was the father of America’s 43rd president,…
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National Plant a Flower Day, Girls Scouts Day and Napping Day
By Donna Westfall – March 12, 2018 – When we woke up from our nap this afternoon, wondering if Girl Scout Cookies still had GMO’s in them, we looked over at our truck filled with tall irises. The previous morning had been spent digging up a small part of a friends iris patch. We’ve had…
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An Earthian naked in a lagoon
By Nicki Reddwoodd – September 22, 2017 Before civilization 20 or 30 or maybe 100 000 years ago with early homo sapiens the lagoons and wetlands laid untouched by commerce. It was a pure and pristine landscape of wonderful smells, happy animals and lush vegetation. The lagoons flooded their ways through the wetlands upon their…
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City Council Meeting tonight
WHEN: Monday, May 1, 207 – closed session starts at 5 pm. Open session starts at 6 pm WHERE: Flynn Center, BOS Room, located at 981 H St., Crescent City, Ca.
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Book Review: Sasquatch Resurgence
Check out “Bigfoot/Sasquatch Resurgence of Native American Indian Legends.” A 212-page, 8.5 x 11 inch, Textbook-Sized Book that’s absolutely Filled with Bigfoot/Sasquatch-History; that had actually been Documented By Various Explorers in North America From 1603 to Present. This book is an adventure- in that these old stories also seem to profile and detail…
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Better Than Sleepless In Seattle
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – April 14, 2017 – You just can’t make this stuff up. If you aren’t laughing then you will be crying. A symptom of the times we find ourselves in. Let’s start with the lighter stuff first. As Samuel Clemens who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain once said,…
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month: What to do if CPS is accusing you of abuse or neglect
By Donna Westfall – April 5, 2017 – Child Protection Services (CPS) was established in 1912. For the past 100 years, incidences of abuse and neglect were handled by government agencies called a variety of names, Social Services, Child Welfare Services, but in essence, they were all supposed to do one thing. Protect children. Reunify…