by Christine | Jan 1, 2010 | Welcome Column
Item 1: I didn’t have a car in high school. Luckily my sister, Maria Nadauld, President and CEO of Above the Bay Booking, mother to fiddle star Megan Lynch, and big sister to hermit b.judd, loved sports cars. Big sister Maria saw to it that her little brother was able...
by Christine | Dec 4, 2009 | Welcome Column
Item 1: It was the best of times: Autumn is fading into winter in our little hamlet of Turlock. I love this time of year. Baseball has come and gone, concluding with the pinstriped lads from Gotham winning the Fall Classic. Saturdays and Sundays are now filled with...
by Christine | Mar 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
I keep on walking away and they keep yanking me back in. My my it seems like an eternity but I am certainly not complaining. Folks are busy making music, building houses, engineering locomotives and building glass houses from which absolutely no stones will be thrown....
by Christine | Jan 29, 2016 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Let’s get started with a question: What do you call it when rats and gnats unite on an endeavor? A “Pest Quest.”Item 2: Now that you are smiling maybe you can help me out with item #3.Item 3: Snoop Dog, big rap star was signed on to perform at a Modesto...
by Christine | Sep 2, 2016 | Welcome Column
Item 1: The first faint harbingers of autumn slowly wind their way into our little community bringing with them the seasonal weather changes. Days grow short, leaves turn brown, and it is time to wear sweat pants for the daily walk. It is all good.September also...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2016 | Welcome Column
Item 1:Good music coming to all of you. A week from tonight Friday December 9 in wonderful downtown Modesto: Gottschalk Music Center recital hall—1502 E. St. Modesto——Modesto Unplugged and Modesto View present:Megan Lynch Chowning and Mary Sue...
by Christine | Dec 31, 2015 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Christmas morning December 25, 2015. I hop out of bed at 4:30 A.M. to greet this cherished day. I bundle up go outside into the chilly air retrieve the paper, prepare the coffee, mix my oatmeal and banana, work the crossword, listen to some music, and then add...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2015 | Welcome Column
“Let us go then you and I When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table….”ITEM 1: Oh What a Long Strange Trip It Has Been……….In 2008, a few weeks before the annual Father’s Day Festival Rick Cornish rang me...
by Christine | Oct 6, 2010 | Welcome Column
In addition to music, I have always enjoyed fine arts, especially paintings. I was born with a knack for drawing, but not painting. I could express myself very easily with line, but color always defeated me. Like Mozart’s contemporary, Salieri, I have the gift of...
by Christine | Jun 21, 2017 | Welcome Column
In addition to music, I have always enjoyed fine arts, especially paintings. I was born with a knack for drawing, but not painting. I could express myself very easily with line, but color always defeated me. Like Mozart’s contemporary, Salieri, I have the gift of...
