Pastor’s Corner
“Am I Bad” Part II As you may remember from Part 1, the other adults had wimped out regarding our spur-of-the-moment camping/backpacking trip back into the remote trout lake. So it was left up to me, Mr. Woodsman, to show the three teens how the experts did it! But due to my lack of foresight, [...]
Savvy Senior
Dear Savvy Senior, What resources can you recommend to help older job seekers? I’m 62 and have been out of work for nearly a year now and need some help. Looking For Work Dear Looking, While the U.S. job market has improved slightly over the past year or so, challenges persist for many older job [...]
Pastor’s Corner
Are you materialistic? Pastor Tim Collins Have you paid attention to how much stuff your neighbor has in his/her garage? Not in the envious sort of way that eyeballs their possessions with want and dreams of owning the same thing. I’m talking about the shear mass of clutter that fills their garage. Sometimes they are [...]
Ella Moon
Peggy Malone (Feb. 19, 2013) She told me many stories of how things had come to be. It all started with a tree house, she showed me happily. And, one by one, each house, they added, with a special theme. Many children came and wondered, as if it were all a dream. For [...]
Children in need of foster families on the rise
Kathleen Goddeyne Ariel Clinical Services has seen a large jump in the number of children in need of placement recently. Ariel Clinical Services, 2938 North Ave., Suite G, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) Child Placement Agency and Adult Service Agency founded by Kregg Thornburg in 1994. Thornburg, a former special education teacher, founded Ariel Clinical Services [...]
Return to agriculture is about lifestyle, not career
Erin McIntyre Special to the Times The last thing Megan Sears imagined doing when she grew up was mucking out manure and enduring weeks of sleepless lambing season. Yet, she walked away from an 8-to-5 desk job she’d had for seven years to be a sheep rancher and establish a new career and lifestyle for [...]
Letting go of self-righteousness
By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. Would you rather be right or loved? Sometimes the choice seems clouded. Very few of us genuinely love someone who “has to be right all the time.” Self-righteousness breeds social isolation and loneliness. It seems all too easy to evaluate others, and draw the conclusion that they are “wrong” in [...]
Don’t listen to Matilda, I’m here to stay
The New Year is here and so is the snow. The bitter cold and snow is putting a damper on my door dashing. It was one thing when Lee tied a Bell around my neck but quite another to go running outside when it is zero degrees. I figured out the bell but I don’t [...]
Character qualities of leadership
By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. If one of your New Year’s Resolutions was to become a “better” leader, then this column is for you. What personal qualities does someone have to possess to be a leader of others? Few of us aspire to be “followers” in everything we do. Most of us would like to [...]
Make it a resolution: Learn how to love
By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. We have already entered the calendar year 2013. Since today is the first day of the rest of your life, why not learn a new skill, a new attitude and practice a new talent? We all need to be loved. Very few of us truly understand the nature of neither [...]