by Christine | Oct 13, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Monday morning. Hard to get back into the swing of the work-a-day world after such a fun weekend. The CBA’s Fall Campout and yearly Members Meeting at the Stockton-Delta KOA was, in my humble opinion, the best campout I have been to. The weather was...
by Christine | Oct 25, 2009 | Welcome Column
The weather is cooling down, the leaves are falling from the apricot tree in my yard, and I’ve moved my warm clothing closer to the front of the closet. While the plants in my yard are entering their dormancy, I am coming back to life. I am much more energetic,...
by Christine | Nov 10, 2013 | Welcome Column
Face it friends, the long days of summer are over. It’s time for me to rake up some leaves and put them in a big bag so I can put a top layer on my compost all through the coming year. Raking leaves is not unpleasant work, especially if you have Indian summer weather...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2020 | Welcome Column
We began our annual Fall-Winter Fundraising Drive for the CBA Youth Program in October. Last year we met our goal of $8000 and all those funds were distributed in scholarships. The goal this is year is $10,000 and we have raised $4000 so far. The CBA Youth Program is...
by Christine | Dec 9, 2018 | Welcome Column
A couple of weeks ago my wife and I went on a movie date. We watched Bohemian Rhapsody which was pretty good by the way. Anyway Freddie Mercury’s singing got me thinking about falsetto. As I have written before in this column, falsetto singing has a rich tradition in...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2014 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music has long been a family affair. This includes sibling duos or trios, husbands and wives, and entire pea-pickin’ families. There are lots of various permutations with uncles, aunts, cousins, in-laws, and outlaws, whatever. Some bands come out of a...
by Christine | May 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
Playing music is the ultimate viral phenomenon. Anyone learning an instrument invariably must share their mangled Stairway to Heaven with nearby friends, and eventually begin recruiting bystanders into their obsession. And it spreads like a fart in a yoga class. I was...
by Christine | Jun 5, 2007 | Welcome Column
The Today’s column from Rick Cornish (rcornish@sjcoe.net) Friday, June 8, 2007 There was a story in my family that was repeated at many a major extended clan gathering….Christmas dinners, BBQ’s at the river, grandparents anniversaries, anywhere that parents and...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2009 | Welcome Column
Over the course of the last 30 years in the fire service, and simply life in general, I have dealt with a great many people in a wide variety of situations. Sometimes the interaction has been positive, and sometimes it has not. However, when looked at objectively,...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2012 | Welcome Column
I hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving weekend as much as I did. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it’s the one day a year that the whole country sits down to dinner with the family (except for the wingnuts camping in line at Walmart). And speaking of...
