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Bench-mark for scouts

Five members from Girl Scout Troop 20163 --- Emmamarie Barone, Alivia Beuzenburg, Lyla Franklin, Sierra Heckathorn and Arianna Vasquez --- recently earned their Bronze Award which is the highest award a Junior can earn. For their project they came up with a "Buddy Bench" to be placed at the Forestville Elementary School. The girls worked with Mrs. McMahon, the Forestville Elementary principal, on getting her permission and how to present it to the school. They came up with this project when a sister scout didn't have anyone to play with on the playground and felt alone and sad. So they ...

Documenting ‘Vital Lives’

Darwin R. Barker Library has been serving the community for 145 years. Recently the library received a new book donation, "Vital Lives," from Megan Smith of Chautauqua Institution. "Vital Lives" offers personal insights into the lives of 100 prominent women. Each entry is concise and ...

Portal makes college a whole new game

This month, I’m going to digress and give attention to the “portal” that is now prevalent in college athletics. First, I have to give a history lesson on the NCAA (National Association of College Athletics) and the rules of enforcement. When I was a player in the sixties, and at that time in division I and II, freshman basketball, football and other sports were not allowed to play on the varsity until they were sophomores. Thus, there was Wilt Chamberlain, 7-foot-2 on the freshman squad, beating the pants off the Kansas Jayhawk Varsity in scrimmage after scrimmage. If a player, ...

Stepping on toes at the big dance

There’s a party goin’ on and you’re invited! But first, you must choose a color in order to be admitted into the gymnasium, which is divided into two sections. Left is for blue, and right is for red. That’s it. No purple, black, white, yellow, green, etc. Although you are free to dress in whatever color or style best suits your taste, you are required to wear a blue or red headset, which will dictate the genre of music you hear and the kind of images that appear on the screens above the basketball hoop. The people wearing blue headphones appear lively, animated. They are ...

Were Jesus and His Disciples Communists?

More and more these days Christian politicians and their followers use the Bible to justify their stances on societal issues. Many of our leaders use scripture to justify their support of the state of Israel and the related military actions as just warfare. They also use the Bible to condemn abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism. It seems to me that there is just as much evidence in the Bible, maybe even more evidence, suggesting that Jesus and his disciples were communists. Every day I read from a Daily Catholic Devotions magazine called Living Faith. A recent Daily Devotion ...

What we can learn from the youth

From a young age, we’ve been taught to learn from our elders. While this still holds true, I propose that we also learn from our children. We can all reminisce when childhood embodied simpler times, more fun, and less stress. By tapping into these forgotten mindsets and listening to what ...