By Wayne Kirkbride
T. Boone Pickens appears nightly on our televisions with his commercials for a way out of the foreign oil dependency dilemma with his plan for utilizing other resources. Basically put, his plan calls for increasing wind power electric generation to decrease the use of
natural gas by power producers who currently rely on about […]

Wow! September must be “art month”! One art show after another; and that’s a good thing! The Foothill Farmlands Arts Festival continues through Saturday, the 13th. It’s been incredible so far! For complete information, call 532-Arts, or log on, www.Farmart.org. Then, the Columbia Chamber of Commerce presents their 36th Annual Columbia Art Show, in the […]

Soft Served Humor
I was very disappointed with your publication this week. No Nan at Night, and worst
of all, no Soft Asylum? Now I have no reason to open your paper, except maybe to see where Thomas went. The most creative and entertaining segment in your paper was the Soft Asylum and it was also one […]

“When you hear the word “art”, what do you think of?” (asked in East Sonora.)

“Cherry Lake! ‘Cause I was up there camping this weekend, and the trees on the mountains were reflecting on the water; perfectly still, emerald green water. It was beautiful! It looked like a painting! It looked like an Ansel Adams painting!” […]

One of the more popular sections of herbalism I teach is called Kitchen Herbs. Since the heart of every Hispanic home (and most other homes for that matter) is the kitchen, I decided to teach about healing herbs from the kitchens of our mothers and grandmothers. Most of my students are surprised at the number […]