Merle Haggard once said it best in the song Big City (Turn Me Loose): “I’m tired of this dirty old city.Entirely too much work and never enough play.” That was surely the case when I moved from the Windy City of Chicago with a population of nearly 2.7 million people to Port Lavaca, Texas, a […]

Texas olive farmer and entrepreneur Gino Venitucci says, “Regardless of the Latin phrase caveat emptor (meaning let the buyer beware) the future of the olive oil industry from the early ages has and still does depend on quality. And that includes truth in labeling of extra virgin olive oil.” No doubt the industry has suffered […]

Recently we observed the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The December 7, 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II, a global conflict where over 400,000 U.S. military personnel would lose their lives. Japan’s main attack on Pearl Harbor consisted of a […]

I was in my early thirties, when I had an inner-ear problem that landed me in the hospital for an overnight stay. Before I was discharged, Dr. Cash told me to see a cardiologist as soon as possible. My heart rate had dropped to below 30 beats per minute during the night and he thought […]

BUNCO , BUNCO! The next Bunco party will be Tuesday evening, February 7th beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the back meeting room of the Community Center. Our hostesses for the evening will be Sally Jones and Biddie Hileman and knowing that those two ladies have an unusual imagination and much baking talent, we are in […]