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June 13th, 2013
Successful summer program under way
By ANDREW PETERS
As you read today’s issue of the Big Bend Sentinel, the MISD Summer Shake-up program is half over. It is hard to believe. Anna Kreger and Jaylia Foster, MISD teachers, have coordinated a number of educational programs for our community’s children. We averaged over 60 students the first two …
¡ask a mexican!
June 13th, 2013
Learn the Spanish language so you’ll know what they’re saying about you
By GUSTAVO ARELLANO
Dear Mexican: In Philadelphia, where I live, there are three Spanish-language stations on regular broadcast television. None of them offer English subtitles. I bet plenty of people of all heritages would like to check out Spanish language television, or the news from …
steve’s column
June 13th, 2013
Navigating toward Father’s Day
By STEVE LANG
“Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.” – Red Buttons
Even with an instruction manual, I estimated my chances of success as a father as 50/50 at best.
With or without my assistance, my son and daughter seem to be amounting to something.
Apparently both have …
library talk
June 13th, 2013
Summer reading program begins
By RENEE MICK
Today we will begin our Summer Storytime schedule. We will offer a fun Storytime for toddlers as well as for ages 5-12 at the library. Both events begin at 11am today with Nicki Ittner and Ashley Rowe conducting, today only.
After today, Kelly Webb and Marc DeClerq will conduct.
Storytime will be …
the idle american
June 13th, 2013
Who are you busier than?
By Dr. Don Newbury
A guess–not even an educated one–is that the average person these days believes himself or herself far too busy for engagement in conversational drivel about, uh, who we are “busier than.”
Where we live, quasi-retired, our busiest hours precede twice-a-month housecleaner visits.
My wife simply can’t abide the thought of …
make it fun
June 13th, 2013
Happy Father’s Day all happy fathers
By PAM YOUNG
What’s the first thing you think of when you think of your father? When I think of mine, I think of his smile. He was so in love with Mom, my younger sister Peggy and me that he seemed to always have a happy face. If you read …
here’s to your health
June 13th, 2013
Health regardless of lifestyle, diet, and genes
By KEITH WOMMACK
If you had lived in Roseto, Pennsylvania, between 1955 and 1965 most likely you’d be Italian. Roseto’s residents, during this time period, were mostly immigrants from Roseto Valfortore, Italy.
Not only were most of the residents in Roseto, Pennsylvania, Italians, they were consistently healthy.
During that same time period …
steve’s column
June 6th, 2013
Parades and how not to escape them
By STEVE LANG
“If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.” – Mike Ditka
Mike Ditka, based on his football achievements, could be his own parade. Perhaps he could even be a summer community celebration that prompts a lineup of creativity, horseback riding, siren-blowing and restored …
¡ask a mexican!
June 6th, 2013
The muy caliente summer column
By GUSTAVO ARELLANO
Dear Readers: U.K.’s spectacular Guardian newspaper has asked if I could field some questions for their readers as part of the paper’s summer travel package – turns out Brits want to know more about Mexican food! Let’s be benevolent toward those buggers: their idea of what our comida constitutes …
high desert sketches
June 6th, 2013
An inquiry from across the pond
By GEORGE A. COVINGTON
How many local columnists get a phone call from London concerning the content of one of their columns? (Lonn Taylor doesn’t count, because he has relatives in England who read his column.) When the voice on the phone said he was calling from London, I assumed it …







