By Miki Lee Hall This Easter as we give thanks for Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection, we find that looking more closely at the day of Thanksgiving celebrated here in our country may help us to celebrate Easter more dearly. Why do the churches not herald the story of Squanto from the rooftops to prove to a disbelieving...
By Ventura Tounsel The American Legion has been actively involved with children’s issues since the early 1920s. In many instances, the American Legion has been the driving force on behalf of children on the federal, state, and local levels. In 1938, April was formally designated as Child Welfare Month (now called Children & Youth Month) and...
The Good Neighbor Place Online remote computer services enable monitoring of the computer’s health and proactively resolve computer issues before they become a pain. Things are going to happen to your computer that require attention or put it at risk like, viruses, new software updates or data breaches… The online connection to the computer is a...
Disaster Preparedness – A Community Effort By Rick Bass Being prepared for a national emergency or crisis is critical for everyone’s survival in these turbulent and unpredictable times. Supply chain problems, food shortages and limited essential services may be the fall-out of the current geo-political and global challenges. Being prepared can...
By Anthony Samuel With many Americans complaining about meat department prices, I’m going to drop a few helpful hints to ease the pain in the meat aisle: Price compare among your local stores, as each week different stores have different commodities on sale. Even if you have to drive a few extra miles, it’s worth it in the end.Buy bulk...
By Hollie Warnick That’s just what life is: a play full of light and shadow. It’s so easy to love ourselves and others when we are at our best, when we are achieving and blowing past expectations. It’s when we fall short, “fail”, and mess up that it’s hard to show self-love or compassion for others. Sometimes we even consider our “mess ups” to be...
By J.J. Lamb,Vail Preservation Society The Last Flat Piece of Land… Vail’s Siding.“In the Cienega a large number of China men are engaged excavating, as they there encounter considerable elevation throughwhich cuts have to be made, and the grade has to be raised a number of feet above the low, marshy ground…”— Arizona Weekly Star, April 15...
By Rabbi Yisroel Shemtov This year, on April 12, marks the120th birthday of Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory (1902-1994), the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty. He is considered to have been the most phenomenal Jewish personality of modern times. To hundreds of thousands of followers and...
By Alisha Brewer It’s that time of year again when the warm sunshine beckons us outside. While we spend more time outdoors, it becomes more likely that we will run into some of the creatures that share our home. Spring is the perfect time for snakes. They love the weather as much as we do. For some, just the thought of a snake can send them into a...
What, you might ask, is a Nurse Honor Guard? Nurse Honor Guards pay tribute to nurses at the time of their death by performing the Nightingale Tribute at a funeral or memorial service. This service is similar to a military tribute and officially releases the nurse from their nursing duties. The first Nurse Honor Guard in Tucson started in the...
