Gird your loins, dear ones. The holidays are officially upon us. Prepare yourself for Facebook’s floodgates to open wide and release a tidal wave of idyllic photos and descriptions of the most well-adjusted, intact,...
Author: Doni Chamberlain
I am excited and honored to announce that here at aNewsCafe.com we’re busily preparing for our second annual aNewsCafe.com Carr Fire Scholarship fundraiser via our upcoming online auction. I hope you remember last year’s...
I received this note from one of my favorite people last week: I learned last night that my sweet husband has invited five of his (giant) football linemen over for Thanksgiving, since they all...
Doni’s note: This is a 2015 Thanksgiving encore column with some of my favorite recipes. Different year, but we’re doing another Thanksgiving potluck, which makes me very happy. I’m bringing gravy, the cranberry relish...
The first time I wrote about George Economou was around 15 years ago for a newspaper story about his Greek baklava. That led to a deep friendship with George and his wife Sue Economou....
I was perusing my grocery store’s summer clearance-sale stuff when my attention was jolted by the tone – loud, sharp, impatient – that accompanied the words. “Mom! Come on!” The speaker was a nicely...
Suzanne Economou died Tues., Sept. 24, at The Vistas Assisted Living and Memory Care in Redding. She was 98. Born Suzanne Winifred Stewart on July 2, 1921, in Salida, Colo., she was the only...
Today I speak with Mo Bender, previously a vendor at the former Oregon Street Antique Mall, now the co-creator with Kate Barker — former owner of Oregon Street Antique Mall — of a pop-up...
Last fall ANC raised $5,300 in its first online Carr Fire Scholarship auction to benefit graduating north state seniors who’d lost homes in the Carr Fire during the summer of 2018. In the spring...
(Editor’s note: This is an encore column that was originally published in 2013.) When asked to name some of my most challenging jobs, I tend to recall employment of my youth, before I turned...
