I checked on my vote on Nov. 24, 2016, and was left with a couple of questions. I wrote the following to the elections department of Riverside County: “I visited your web site to check on my vote and found that it states it was received and is good. Good for what? How can I…
Editor: The people vote in different ways: with their feet, their money or their ballots. Prior to election day, 2016, the American people kept their mouths shut about how they would vote. Both parties held their nominating conventions in mid- to late- July and the Dow Jones Industrial Average began a slow descent until election…
Editor: My heart and prayers go out to Judy Lawler (TC Nov. 17) and all the women out there who are battling breast cancer. I fought my battle this past June. Though in my late 60s, I find myself fortunate to be the most healthy I’ve ever been. Still, I developed a cancerous breast tumor…
Here’s urging Supv. Chuck Washington to bring two names before his fellow supervisors soon — two appointees to fill the vacancies on the Idyllwild Water District board. This agency has much business to conduct but current leadership places it in a stalemate. With a five-member board, there’s no way one man can block the others’…
65 years ago – 1951 Television was coming to the Hill, and folks were not attending meetings as they had been. Jay Gifford, civic worker, commented at the Log Cabin, “It’s gotten that I’m afraid not to go to meetings in the evening for fear they’ll say, ‘Oh, he got television!’” 60 years ago –…
Last week in Days of Our Nine Lives, ARF cats and dogs were celebrating “Adopt a Senior Pet” month. Bobbie: Everyone, gather around! I have news! Leia: Hold on, Bobbie. Let me get Tinkerbell and Pompeii. I don’t see them here. Bobbie: And I know why. That’s my news. Leia: Are you saying… Bobbie: I…
Editor: Regarding last week’s letter, “Requiem for Tomorrow,” I strongly differ from the writer’s views regarding those who voted for President-elect Trump. I believe that in spite of all of the vitriolic rhetoric from both sides during the campaign, Trump did what was needed to win, dirty as it looked. And as the dust settled…
Editor’s note: Co-publisher Jack Clark is writing “Out Loud” this week: For the Nov. 16 Idyllwild Water District meeting, Acting Board President John Cook hired an armed, uniformed sheriff’s deputy at a cost of $300 because of disturbances at the Sept. 22 meeting caused by one member of the public and “a reporter,” he said….
60 years ago – 1956 Some Banning youngsters took a one-day outdoor education course at the Arts Foundation. One of them later wrote the instructor (Emax), “I enjoyed hiking with you. Your job was to make us hungry and you sure did it.” 55 years ago – 1961 Residents were grumbling as they received…
I don’t rightly know what this has to do with anything. But for me it has to do with everything. He dragged his grip up the stairs, we called them grips in the ’40s, and I, his daughter, followed close behind. He was returning home after several weeks in Havana, and I was so happy…
