Category: Human Interest
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Music at the Senior Center
Submitted by Jaime Yarbrough – February 14, 2017 – Keith Jones and his Dixieland Rangers entertained at the Del Norte Senior Center from 9 am to 11 this morning featuring a mix of Dixieland and swing tunes. A special treat for Valentines Day.
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Guns & Hoses Softball Tournament
Erik Apperson’s facebook posting from October 22, 2016: The Inaugural Guns & Hoses Softball Tournament is all wrapped up. Four teams consisting of our local public safety heroes met at Pykes Field today. Club rosters were filled by firefighters and law enforcement officers. All of the proceeds generated will be donated to Del Norte Search…
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A QUILT FROM CREATION
(c) Vickey Stamps She’d been busy… It was a good kind of busy and it helped her burn the energy, that was a big part of her role as a young wife and mother. She’d helped her husband get off to work and the kids to school. Now she soothed herself with a cup of…
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A Dialogue Between Sam and Joan
Joan Miles started a program on KFUG radio station and Samuel Strait took it over. This is a dialogue between the two concerning the Democratic Party, the Clinton’s and Trump. The opinions expressed here are those of Sam and Joan. Joan: Have you seen “Hillary’s America”? I’d love to know your opinion of it, and…
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Circles of Life
By Vickey Stamps (c) June 6, 2016 – The old man sat at the concrete table in one of the small cities park, this one nearest the ocean. He laid his cane on top of the table. The day was early and the dew of early morning lay upon the grass, leaving a shimmer on his worn…
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DANCING IN THE WIND
By Vickey Stamps (c)- April 23, 2016 – The width of her had changed from lack of activity and years so quickly gone. Lines filled her face, testimony to the long years, embedded with memories of all that had been. One of her arms hung down across and over a resting bar, fingers touching upon the spokes…
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The Cowboy’s Angel Girl
By Author Vickey Stamps – He tugged on his boots, a ragged wool coat and put on some coffee to brew. He glanced at the son he’d wrapped tight against cold and reckoned on what he could do. Outside the wind continued to howl like the rabid sick cry of a wolf. He hugged his…
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LUMPS AND BUMPS
(c) Vickey Stamps Heaven knew it was quiet there. It was the attic of her mind, and the only place she could turn up without invitation and whenever she wished. She alone held the key that opened the many rooms that lived within it. For each of her children, there became in the attic…
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David Bowie Dies
Credit to IMDB.com- January 11 2016 – “I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.” The very versatile,…
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The Car
(c) Vickey Stamps He didn’t need any parts for his car. He had one he kept maintained. It was paid for and took him wherever he wanted to go. It was inevitable that another car would catch his eye on the few times he came in to look the Auto junk-yard over. His dad had…