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Baking And Art Are Part Of Teacher’s Many Passions

Talent flows from Klaralyn Gatz like water from a mountain spring, but unlike spring water, every drop is collected and shared. The Vancouver, Wash. woman has an amazing ability to transform everything to which she comes in contact, whether it be a lump of dough, a palette of paint, musical ...

City Woman Attends Church Camp For 77 Years

“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done for the glory of God,” says Pauline Whitcomb, who will celebrate her 96 birthday in August. “I don’t want this to be about me, but about God and God’s work. I’m where I am today because of Him. I give God the glory for everything we’ve ever ...

When Storytellers Become Targets

Last month, the awful news of the murders of five journalists and the wounding of two more in Annapolis, Md., evoked flashbacks. I have experienced forebodings of such carnage. But my first thought when those things happened was not, “I wish I had a pen.” There is another reflex, instinctive, that is more powerful than the acquired reflexes of 50 years of telling stories. “I wish I had a gun,” were my first thoughts back then. On one occasion, I intently watched a black sedan drive back and forth on Jeffers Street, turn east onto Beaver Drive, then circle back west and south ...

Don’t Fall Into The Fountain

Some months ago, someone posted several short videos on Facebook. One video featured a young woman walking through a mall with a fountain. Walking along, she was so intent on looking at something on her phone, that she went right over the rim of the fountain, and took an unexpected swim. While this event seemed somewhat humorous at the time, it serves to illustrate how consumed and distracted we can be by our electronic devices. The problem of substance abuse and addiction has been acknowledged and researched for a long time, but what about the addictions involving behavior like ...

Principal Shares Love Of Cycling At YMCA

For one local educator the fusion between teaching educational material and managing a school setting, to getting her heart rate up and leading a class of cycling enthusiasts- have met at a crossroad ... that crossroad is the YMCA of Jamestown. Holly Hannon, a local elementary school ...

Belle-View East’s Owner Achieved His Goal And More

Although he may not have realized it at the time, Gary Visosky was an entrepreneur at an early age. After his parents divorced and his mother took an evening job waiting tables, the teenager took over the roll of cooking and caring for his three younger siblings. At the same time, he found ...