by Christine | Nov 4, 2011 | Welcome Column
1. Call me sentimental, call me crazy, but there are many things we can be grateful for. 2. In our CBA community, we actually had people running for positions on the CBA Board. I certainly don’t want to rain on the parade but wouldn’t it be exciting to see some folks...
by Christine | Oct 4, 2013 | Welcome Column
1. I watch with measured regret as my brothers and sisters become more attached and obsessed to the latest revelations in cell phones. The more we become “connected” the more we become emotionally detached. The air waves are infested with the newest and latest “must...
by Christine | Sep 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
Folks: Mr. Judd had his left knee surgically removed and replaced last Tuesday at Kaiser in Modesto. Things went well but to say I feel chipper and not hurting would be an untruth. I spoke to Mr. Cornish about covering for me which he agreed to do. In the...
by Christine | May 4, 2012 | Welcome Column
My mother grew up during the Depression. She shared a tiny house surrounded by alfalfa fields with her two sisters and four brothers just a few hundred yards away from the Old River in Tracy. They would walk the mile and a half to school, crossing the Old River Bridge...
by Christine | Sep 7, 2012 | Welcome Column
After 8 years without a vacation together it was time for one. Sheila and I began to make plans for a long deserved vacation, together. We decided on a 10 day voyage to Alaska. Sheila was enthused about a cruise, and her enthusiasm rubbed off on me. After we made our...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2009 | Welcome Column
Item: # 1: I had written my column about my Isleton experience and saved it. Monday morning the “Home from the Delta” column, written by another Welcomer, appeared. As I read the column I realized that it was saying just about the same thing I had written. What to do?...
