News From Around The County
Guest Writer Spotlight: When a Christian departs this earthly realm… – Richard Lewis Yesterday, Sue and I attended an outdoor celebration event for a longtime family friend who had died from Covid-19. To give you some idea of the casual nature of the event, I was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts. I kept asking Sue if she was […]
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Back-to-school supplies were a bit different this year for 12-year-old Audrey. Along with a day planner, an array of pens and a thick notebook, Audrey added face masks, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. “I’m not sure how it’s going to completely work,” said Audrey of her middle school in Southern California. “How many kids are going to be in each […]
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Guest Writer Spotlight: No Secrets – Richard Lewis The story is told of an 1800’s era newspaper editor who wanted to validate the integrity of some of the leaders in his community. He decided that the best way to accomplish this was to make up a list of a dozen outstanding business, political and professional men in the community and […]
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Guest Writer Spotlight: Sailing – By Richard Lewis My wife and I used to rent a 30 foot sailboat and take our friends out for a sail around Newport harbor. We had taken some lessons through a sailing club. Most of our sailing adventures were close by in Newport Harbor but occasionally, we’d venture out into the ocean and sail […]
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Guest Writer Spotlight: 9/11 – Her Name Was Genelle – By Richard Lewis On the Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001 many Boeing employees, like myself, were already at work. Then the news reports came in that there had been a plane crash in New York. Several of us sat watching the TV, mesmerized and horrified by the events taking place. We […]
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On the morning of 9/11, Courtney Castillo and his wife Erica, who now reside in Porterville, watched in disbelief as the United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center. “We thought it had been an accident,” Erica recalls, “until we heard the roaring of the second plane.” SEE OTHER RECENT RELIGION TODAY ARTICLES: Religion Today: […]
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Clover Stewart has spent much of the last 14 months zipping up COVID-19 casualties in body bags. At times, she has felt like one of the many living casualties of the pandemic – frontline medical workers who, at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak, have witnessed a lifetime’s worth of gruesome deaths in the course of a typical week. One […]
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Guest Writer Spotlight: Every Day Carry: Six Essentials – By Richard Lewis How many times have you been away from home and needed a simple tool like a flashlight, pocketknife or screwdriver? I can remember running into a problem or trying to help out someone else and wishing I had stuck one of those items in my pocket. I was […]
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Guest Writer Spotlight: Route 66 – By Richard Lewis Route 66 was known as the Mother Road or the Main Street of America. It lasted from 1926 to 1985 when it was finally decommissioned, replaced by the Interstate Highway system. The Route inspired songs, movies, a TV series and even this meditation. SEE OTHER RECENT ARTICLES BY RICHARD LEWIS: Religion […]
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Glistening watercolors sweep across the delicate pages of 15-year-old Breana’s hand-crafted card of encouragement to the Salinas Police Department. Grinning, 12-year-old Jenelle also sits at the kitchen table while she signs her name in colorful marker, the final touch to her masterpiece. The Manalo sisters put special effort into designing and decorating homemade cards for first responders. As a family, […]
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