Funny Papers Again Column | This Is the Best Thing We Do ⦠This Is Our Finest Hour
I uttered those words last Thursday evening from an outdoor stage during an event that, for me, is THE event of the year: The King City Community Scholarship Foundation Inc. Drive-In Banquet. Unlike fundraiser events where the goal is to enlarge the coffers of...
Letter to the Editor | King City Must Consider Long-term Impacts of New Grocery Store
To the Editor:
I am one of many UFCW Local 5 members who live and work in our community. We understand that competition can be healthy and that growth is inevitable. However, the City of King has failed to even consider the long-term impacts that...
Funny Papers Again Column | Three Mile Flat, Clark Colony and Greenfield All on One Corner Lot
I stopped by a section of land the other day and let my mindās eye roll back over the years to a time when that corner piece was a half a block down the alley from where my family lived for the last nine...
Window on the World Column | The New Normal
They say that when you do ā or donāt do ā something consistently for three weeks, it becomes your new habit. Iāve tried to practice that theory various times in my life, such as a new exercise or diet regime. There is something to...
Funny Papers Again Column | Greetings From the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chippewa Nations
Whenever a case arises with this over-abused old frame of mine and a visit to Mee is required; I am always quick to tell as many staff in both hospital and clinic who will listen that my first visit to Mee Memorial Hospital, now...
Guest Column | Monterey Symphony Returns to Salinas for āLove Letter to Hollywoodā
Just 15 months following the end of World War II, a small yet passionate group of musicians and fans of classical music gathered for tea at the Carmel home of Grace Howden.
Less than a year later (April 28, 1947), the Monterey Symphony gave its...
Worthy to Print Column | After Memorial Day
How was your Memorial Day? It is always a somber time for me. I always spend some time each day of the past week thinking about the men who are longer with us. When I think of that, I remember that it wasnāt just...
Funny Papers Again Column | Bon Giorno! Day 1 in Switzerland
Every fine time is far more enjoyable if first one experiences some minor hardships along the way. As I write I am sitting on a second-floor balcony at the Hotel Lake Maggiori in Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland. It is 10 minutes after four in the...
Worthy to Print Column | Pants on Fire
Liar, liar, pants on fire! Have you ever heard those biting words as a child? Maybe it was just a schoolyard taunt by someone you didnāt get along with. Perhaps it was a case of āThe dog ate my homework.ā And your teacher was...
Window on the World Column | The Staples of Life
āDo you have to put those in?ā I enquired of the medical expert, when he was trying to explain the procedure to me. āYes, they are the best!ā he replied.
āSurely there is a less tortuous way to achieve the same end?ā I continued, only...




















