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- School Spirit at El Capitan High School
A student car wash fund raiser is a common site on just about any Saturday in our community.…
- Merced’s Musical Memories
I recommend that before the summer comes to an end, spend about an hour at the Merced County Courthouse Museum and see the exhibit on our community’s musical heritage.…
- Working Cars
It caught my eye in the parking lot of a local strip mall. There, in what I can say with the use of a cliché’, in all its ‘gleaming beauty’ it sat in the morning Merced County sun. It was a 1972 Mercury Montego.…
- The Atwater Historical Society was formed in 1972 in response to the challenge of keeping the Bloss Home for the community.
Bloss Home The Atwater Historical Society was formed in 1972 in response to the challenge of keeping the Bloss Home for the community. The house was willed to the City of Atwater by George Bloss, Jr.…
- Crime Victim
I became a crime victim this week. While in the Bay Area for a business meeting, my car was broken into while in the parking lot of a well-established business in a low crime community.…
- Why it Seems Every Road in Merced is Under Construction
Why it Seems Every Road in Merced is Under Construction There are days when I think Merced is the road construction capitol of California.…
- Castle Air Museum
It's hard to believe that Castle Air Museum in Atwater is celebrating thirty years in the community. I've been in the Central Valley for seven years and it seems the time has, pardon the pun, been flying by.…
- How a Small Upstate New York Village Used Corn to Put Itself on the Map
The Rotary Club I belonged to in Avon, New York is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of a summer festival that has put the community on the map.…
- Volunteerism
My good friend Jim North invited me to speak before the Merced Kiwanis at the club’s February 16 meeting. He asked me to prepare some comments about volunteerism as the club is trying to attract new members.…