by Christine | Feb 5, 2010 | Welcome Column
I jokingly and adoringly refer to her as my crazy Sicilian Auntie Frances who I love and cherish. She was neither crazy (on the contrary, crazy like a fox) nor my aunt. She is full blooded Sicilian, staunch Catholic, has a mind like a steel trap ,was one of the first...
by Christine | Nov 6, 2009 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Exit polls were confirmed and the results verified what CNN and MSNBC had predicted; there were no surprises in this year’s CBA election. You cannot find a more dedicated group of people than our CBA elected board members and it is because of them we have an...
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...
