For Zandra Jones, volunteering on Christmas Eve is no big deal. It’s like picking up someone’s dropped napkin.
Asia, South America, Chicago and now Covington are among the places where Paul Gossman has answered “the call.”
Now that the Christmas rush is over, many of us will be thinking about our goals and resolutions for the new year.Often those goals are repeats of last year, because we didn’t accomplish whatever it was we had hoped to in the previous 12 months. I always laugh when I can’t find a parking spot or an empty elliptical trainer at the gym in January. When I once complained to one of the gym staff, he said with a smile, “Don’t worry, it’ll empty out again in February.” And he was right.
By KYRA LOW Reporter Newspapers In the holiday seasons, it’s often easy to forget that Christmas isn’t the only holiday…
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For the sixth year, Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship hosted an outdoor Christmas party – this time in three inches of snow – at Green River Gorge Resort, an RV/trailer campground near Black Diamond.
Last year, after one of this area’s odd and paralyzing snowstorms, I watched a very dumb guy in a very fancy SUV suddenly whip around the traffic in front of him and barrel at breakneck speed up an icy hill. The icy hill came out the victor, as icy hills are known to do.
Anyone that lost their spouse this past year and years past, please take a minute to read this. I hope in some small way it might help you as it has helped me to write it. I’m not a counselor – just a wife grieving and mourning the loss of her husband of 51 years.
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With the current economy, it seems everyone is cutting back on spending this Christmas. Having a smaller budget may be daunting, but spending less can actually lead to more thoughtful gifts. When money is tight, one has to get creative to find or make just the right present. Here are a few gift ideas for just about any budget.
It was a dark and stormy night. Plenty of lousy novels have begun that way, so why not a lousy column?
About a dozen churches in Maple Valley, Black Diamond and Ravensdale attended a community Thanksgiving service Nov. 26, hosted at…
By MELANIE CAVINESS A lot of people I talk to have been guessing what is on the list for the…
By DEBORAH SANTEE The company that I work for, ABODA Corporate Housing, had chosen Northwest Harvest as our fourth-quarter charity/community…
Talented 10 through 18-year-olds from Covington, Maple Valley, Kent and Auburn tickled the keys during the city of Covington’s third…
By TIFFANY DOERR GUERZON The holidays should be a time to reflect on our blessings. But when Santa brings up…
If you’re looking for something dull to read but have already completed the phone book, here’s a great choice: The…
Here, in “Crow Lake,” is a family in an isolated farming community in northern Canada. Kate, the third of four children, is now an adult. Time flashes back to the day her parents were killed in a car accident. The children are Luke, 18, Matt the genius, 17, Kate 7, and Bo, the baby sister.
