Category: This Weeks News
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So Simple!
BY Katherine Kelly Two years ago I put an initiative on the ballot to stop fluoridation in Crescent City. It was called Measure A. This time around, the name is the same, but the initiative is different. It is asking for a moratorium on fluoridation until the manufacturer, Basic Chemical Solutions, supply critical safety…
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FREE Lunch @ Joe Hamilton School
The California Endowment and the Healthy Schools Meal Grant has developed two new recipes for the upcoming school menu. These recipes will incorporate more whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables and be made from scratch and served banquet style. Deb Kravitz, Program Coordinator and her team, Chef Justin Hall and the entire food service staff deserve a…
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Hope and Cagney- cuttin a rug
James Cagney and Bob Hope at a Friar’s Club Meeting back when actors were real performers. Bob Hope was 52 and James Cagney was 56. For the young folks, here is something you probably have never seen before and, unfortunately, may never see again. For us older folks, this is the best of the best, and…
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Denzel Washington
Remember this next time you walk up to the ticket window of your local movie theater with $10 in your hand. Subject: Denzel Washington and Brooks Army Medical Center. Don’t know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, (BAMC) the other day. This…
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RAW FOOD POT-LUCK EQUALS DELICIOUS!
BY Donna Westfall My mother was a vegetarian for 15 years. It was easy for her. She loved good organic fruits and vegies, grains and nuts. She didn’t like meat. However, when my sister died of melanoma cancer in 1980, my mother was advised to add more protein in her diet to combat the sadness,…
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QUESTIONS FOR DR. TYNES ABOUT HFSA/FLUORIDE
Last time Measure A was on the ballot Dr. Tynes came out with his condescending tone acting like he knows so much more than anyone else on the subject of fluoridation. In his Coastal Voices article (2010), his claim that he has reviewed the scientific research on fluoridation and that it all points to…
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$25 MILLION TO DEFEAT LABELING GMO’S
Tweet The Biotech Goliath Roars: Monsanto’s Gang Dumps $25 Million into NO on 37 Campaign to Label GMOs Yesterday it was revealed that the biotech industry and Big Ag have already dumped $25 million – $4.2 million from chemical and seed giant Monsanto alone – into the campaign to defeat Proposition 37 in California, the…
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PEOPLE’S FIRST GROUP
By Donna Westfall If you watch Channel 4, you’ll see a listing for Disabled to meet on the third Thursday of the month. So I called to find out what their group was all about. I spoke with June Bug. The meetings have been changed to the third WEDNESDAY of the month and was…
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BEACHFRONT PARK MASTERPLAN SESSION
It was fun! That’s right. FUN. Joining the Crescent City, city council members at the Wastewater Treatment Plant on Monday, August 13, 2012, were members of the public with coloreed markers, cutouts, and maps of Beachfront park. Their mission. Work together in groups to suggest redesign elements to the 35 acre area. What made this session…
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FRESH BLUEBERRIES
Right off Hwy 199, before going South on the 101 into Crescent City sits BLUEBERRY HILL. For $4.50 you can pick up a pint of fresh blueberries. Eat them raw. Add them to fruit salads or bake them in muffins. A tasty treat that’s healthy to eat. Rick and Jessie Shepard have owned Blueberry Hill…