Category: Human Interest
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THREE STRANGERS?
BY VICKEY STAMPS Neither tall, nor short, his shoulders bowed from the burden of age, wearing a white tee-shirt over a pair of’ ‘common place’ pants, and … she hoped, comfortable shoes, the man walked down the sidewalk in the modest sized town. His thoughts were his own, for his lips were silent upon his face as he put first…
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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO UGLY BUMPKIN?
© Vickey Stamps 8/13/14 Gilded Golden letters showing his name, and title, decorated the frosted brown glass of the door that opened into his reception room and from there, the large simply furnished room he called his office. It was filled with a small desk along with a few simple adult and child sized chairs. Brightly colored…
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ALL THEY COULD BE
BY VICKEY STAMPS (c) The ground waited patiently for its dark healthy soil to be dug up. The cold weather had gone away. It had been warmed with the sun. New life was showing itself in many ways. “AH” spoke the earth, for it felt footsteps upon its surface. Worms, near its surface began digging in quick frantic downward spirals, for…
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KID TRAFFICKING IN DEL NORTE COUNTY
BY SPECIAL REPORTER A. PHILLIPS You’ve see it in the movies. You’ve heard about it in the larger cities. It’s mostly involving Asians or Mexicans. Now it’s reached Del Norte County. The Crescent City Police Department has been spending time educating themselves about human trafficking. Earlier notions that prostitution was the only form of human…
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FLUORIDES UNDER FIRE: FLUORIDGATE SCANDAL UNFOLDS
SUBMITTED BY DANIEL G. STOCKIN, MPH Legal Community Awakens as Federal Fluoride Harm Case Proceeds to Oral Arguments and Fluoride Harm Newspaper Advertising Appears March 12, 2014: Legal community interest in the long-smoldering controversy over use of fluorides is growing as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has agreed to hear oral arguments…
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THE ANGELS SMILED
© Vickey Stamps 2/17/14 Not much more than a newborn and born to be of service, the tiny drop of water now rested. It was impatient to know of that service for which it was to be. It was a raindrop. It was quite tiny and if the truth be known felt rather insignificant. It had earlier gone to a meeting of…
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LITTLE BRITCHES
©Vickey Stamps 2/10/14 She knew the young generation looked on her and thought her old. Truth be told, sometimes she felt that way herself. Eighty-five wasn’t old, it was just a number. She shook off the feeling, going deeper inside herself to retrieve her ‘young at heart’ self. She had plans for the day and might as well…
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TIPPY TOES AND LITTLE BIT
BY VICKEY STAMPS Tim and Mattie had struggled along since their marriage ten years ago, but togetherthey had managed to save, and finally had been able to buy a used home near the edgeof their quiet dependable little town. Timothy had come along almost five years agoand Mattie had become a stay at home mom. She…
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“The Professor” Dead at 89
Remember “Gilligan’s Island,” popular TV cult classic sitcom from the mid 1960’s? Russell Johnson played THE PROFESSOR and joined Alan Hale, Jr. Jim Backus and of course, Bob Denver who starred as Gilligan all now deceased. Years ago, I met the creator of Gilligan’s Island, Sherwood Schwartz in LA. He was a writer and producer,…
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DANG, DARN…AND PURPLE ALLIGATORS
(c) Vickey Stamps 12/4/13 Not Sam, not Sam Junior, but Sam the third, and he was darn tired of being darn tired. He’d a job to do and he wasn’t willing to do it. It had been well over 6 months, and he’d gotten close to what he’d called the “Hole in the wall Studio”. Yet again,he’d found another excuse…