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The last trip I took "Down South" was a visit with my sister in that part of this great country -- the part I called home.
On my return, I wrote this as a literary reminder of the trip and that part of the country. It's as follows:...
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Michael Jackson - 8/29/58 - 6/25/09
"It always happens in 3's" everyone says of celebrity deaths...
First Johnny Carson side-kick Ed McMahon, then '70s pin-up and TV star, Farrah Fawcett and now...MICHAEL JACKSON? NO WAY!
As the word began circulating that Michael Jackson was...
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Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I...
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Ahhhh childhood. . .lovely. . .
Current mood: reflective
Category: Life
My childhood memories are not happy ones how about yours?
This morning while...
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PRESS RELEASE
Kern County Fire Chief Dennis L. Thompson's career
January 28, 2009
February 18, 1973 - March 13, 2009
Career Path
Began my career as a Seasonal F/F – 1970 & 1971 – Station 55
(Mettler)
Burned both ears on 1st assignment – standing grain fire...
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There's hardly any events around town to commemorate the Sept. 11 bombings, 7 years ago today, but that doesn't mean the memories of that fateful day are fading.
I was asleep (worked nights, designing news pages) when my roommate woke me up and said "you've got to see this." I watched...
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Once, quite a few years ago, there was a little girl who spent most of the time with her grandparents. Her mother worked nights, and her father worked days and went to school; they were not home much. Her grandparents lived out in the country, and behind their house, as far as she could see were...
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ATTENTION EVERYONE!
CLASS IS BACK IN SESSION!
AND
WANTS YOUR COLLEGE STORIES!
FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE 11/2!
Are you student at a college or vocational school?
What is your student status? Freshman, Senior, Lifer?
Did you live the 'Animal House' life?
What's missing from the...
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I thought this was funny , reminded me of how as a Mother I learned to empty out the pant pockets of small boys ,one never knew what was in those pockets.Everything from inanimate objects to living things..eh wee.
http://www.alternet.org/blo...
I was...
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I see that this years theme for the Kern County Fair is going to be "Rock around the Clock". The list of bands playing at the Budweiser Pavilion is up and I have to say that I will be checking out a few of those bands this year. This year the fair is starting a week early....
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Several statements lately have gotten me to recalling, “the old days’ “It’s still a small town” and “Today in central Bakersfield” in reference to Monterey Street. Both make me laugh and scratch my head. Anyone looked at our current population count?...
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She rolled a lucky eleven, I know, at the very last
As knife cut the last artery
You were born on wings of Love
Far from this mortal coil
Fear, Guilt, Courage all gave way
To a higher faith and inner Peace
But I still want to know why?
Cold fact is that about 1:00pm, Febuary 19,2003...
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Continue talking and reading about lost treasures. I enjoyed the one of the plunge, and the theaters. Skateland and birthday parties at Skateland.
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