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Martin celebrates Memorial Day with lots of grandiosity
by Denise Dykstra When our boys were very little, like being carried in a baby sling little, we would attend the Memorial Day parade in Martin and I would love…
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One Small Voice: We could all use some more kindness
by Lynn Mandaville Some respondents to One Small Voice speculate that I watch a lot of CNN. Based on the context and tone, I assume there is something negative in…
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Baked pork chops include brown sugar and oranges
Baked Pork Chops Preheat oven to 350 degrees 6 pork chops - I used center cut -salt, pepper to taste6 orange or lemon slices½ c. tomato ketchup½ c. water2 T.…
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Army Bob: What will be top issues in ‘Election 2022’?
by Robert M. Traxler As the mid-terms near, we see the issues that both parties will run on developing. The right will use crime, inflation, the Roe v. Wade reversal,…
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Yes It’s True: Terry Whitley was our local Andy Griffith
In these days of modern times, the police have been taking a public relations beating. Whether deserved or undeserved is a matter of opinion, but the passing Sunday of retired…
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How do we survive what ‘Crazy May’ hands us often?
by Denise Dykstra The author and son Abe Crazy May arrives like a visitor you have been so looking forward to hanging out with. The fun we will have! The…
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One Small Voice: The U.S. indeed has a sick society
by Lynn Mandaville America is a very, very sick nation. It ought to be on life support, for all the care it’s being given on a federal level, but it’s…
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Yes It’s True: We are easily misled into buying poop
Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront." Between the lean years of 2008 and 2011, I was a substitute teacher by day and reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette by night. It…
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Chicken crescent roll sunshine wreath different
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Ingredients:2 cups cooked cubed chicken1 16 oz. can of whole kernel corn well drained1 16 oz. can black beans well drained1/4 cup sweet green onion…
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I have fabulous fun with our fine feathered friends
by Denise Dykstra Eli and me with the fancy Oriole feeder he gifted me with for Mother’s Day. I cannot recall a time when I did not like birds. My…