Category: This Weeks News
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National Bacon Day – December 30th
By Donna Westfall – December 30, 2017 – In honor of National Bacon Day, we had bacon with our breakfast at Denny’s Restaurant in Crescent City. Honest to God, we didn’t know there was a National Bacon Day. But since 1997, two girls, Danya “D” Goodman and Meff “Human Cannonball” Leonard founded Bacon Day as…
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Is the recent Drive-by Shooting Connected to the BlackHawk Pistol Story?
By Donna Westfall – December 24, 2017 – Have you ever been awakened by a noise in the middle of the night, maybe something that sounded like the pop pop of a gun shot or two, rolled over and gone back to sleep? A lot of those “pop” sounds turn out to be fireworks and…
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Enjoying the dry weather? Rain is coming.
Credit to Karen Harner, Administrator for Del Norte County local news and events – December 18, 2017 – Finally we will be receiving some rain after 2 weeks of very dry weather conditions. A cold front will approach from the northwest on Tuesday and light rain may start as early as Tuesday afternoon, especially for…
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Electronic Control Device = TASER
By Donna Westfall – December 16 2017 – What was once science fiction has now become reality. In the 1960’s, scientist/inventor, John Cover developed a non-lethal weapon. It was based on a novel from his childhood, “Tom Swift and the Electric Rifle, (acronym = TSER)” Cover worked as an aerospace scientist and had been involved…
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Jerusaleum, capital of Israel for over 3,000 years
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – December 9, 2017 – 2 Chronicles 6:5-6, wherein King Solomon quotes God as saying, “Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be…
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Remembering Pearl Harbor 76 years later
By Donna Westfall – December 7, 2017 – 16 million American’s served during World War 11. Of those, 558,000 are still alive, but dying off at the rate of 362 each day. On this day, 76 years ago, more than 2400 Americans including civilians died in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It took “a day…
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Do you know how a pre-born baby develops?
Credit to LiveAction.org – December 4, 2017 – Try taking this short five-question quiz. http://unbouncepages.com/prenatal-development-quiz/
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Dec. 4th – National Cookie Day
Credit to Karen Harner, Del Norte County Local News and Events found on Facebook – December 4, 2017 – Entering into American English through the Dutch in North America, the word “cookie” derived from the Dutch word “koekie” meaning little cake. There have been cookie-like hard wafers in existence for as long as baking has…
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