The before-and-after photos of methamphetamine addicts were nearly as jarring as the Shasta County drug-use statistics presented at the Wednesday Women’s Fund Community Forum held at the Redding Library. The forum topic –Â “Drugs: Stealing Our Community’s Future” – was presented… Continue Reading
Welcome to the third week of aNewsCafe.com’s Literary Minds Online Book Club, a partnership with Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency, in honor of Mental Health Month. I hope you visited our first week’s meeting in my virtual living room,… Continue Reading
Welcome to our second Literary Minds Online Book Club meeting. Last week we discussed “Divided Minds, Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia.” Some commenters read the book and weighed in their impressions. Others just participated in the conversation about mental… Continue Reading
George Economou, renowned from 1957 through 1977 as a popular Shasta High School sports coach, physical education teacher and drivers training instructor, died May 5 at his Redding home. He was 86. Born Nov. 2, 1924, in Sacramento, Calif., to… Continue Reading
Welcome to aNewsCafe.com’s maiden session of the Literary Minds Book Club, brought to you by the Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency.
The book club is a brainchild of the HHSA’s Community Education Committee. The committee includes representatives … Continue Reading
Doni: First, Charlie Price, I am absolutely beside myself with joy over the news that you won an in New York Thursday for your book, “The Interrogation of Gabriel James”.  What a spectacular honor – the thrill of a lifetime. You must feel… Continue Reading
Welcome to the first meeting of the Literary Minds Online Book Club. I’m so glad you could make it. I couldn’t fit you all in my living room, so make yourselves comfortable in my virtual home. Enjoy my virtual coffee and wine… Continue Reading
Snot. Boogers. Farts. Burps. Gas. Poop. Zits…
Excuuuuuse me? No apology necessary. It’s a special day at your local museum where topics once considered disgusting and distasteful are embraced as educational and thought-provoking learning opportunities. Plus, animated characters like Stinky, Burp Man, Nose-Picker … Continue Reading
A grown-up girlfriend sleepover was arranged in November so we four friends could catch up. Our thinking was that it had been so long since we’d really, really talked that an hour or so for lunch wouldn’t leave a dent in the conversational ground we had to cover. For this, we needed… Continue Reading
Doni: One downside to swapping the confines of a constricting corporate newspaper career for the liberation of online journalism: It makes job shadow days a bit tricky, because I lack a newsroom in which to invite high school job shadowers. I work anywhere there’s… Continue Reading
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