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Isabel Castillo, a 2007 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University, was one of 21 recent graduates and current students from universities – all undocumented immigrants – from around the United States who were arrested for acts of non-violent civil disobedience at the U.S. Senate Hart Office Building on July 20. All of them were brought to…
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Lena Cantrell McNicholas has done it again. Not only has she won awards for her writings, she has created her own memoir. Patchwork: Pieces of Appalachia has just hit the shelves and is laced with short stories, poems, songs and essays about her childhood and her friends and family. All of the stories and poems…
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One might think that second marriages would be easier and succeed more often than first marriages. At least that might be a first instinctual reaction. But, on reflection and upon learning the statistics, it becomes clear why second (and third, fourth, and more) marriages are actually harder. First, let’s cite the statistics. I don’t have…
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Robert Hurt’s move to sign the DeFundIt.org pledge to pull funding from the health-care reform measure passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in March is good politics. It’s probably also bad policy, but you could say that policy is the province of those who are good at politics first. “By signing…
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Today was already bound to be a sad day, what with it being my grandmother’s birthday, and her not being here. Then it got sadder. My grandfather passed this afternoon. He had been in decline for some time – years, many years, really. He was just a shadow of his former self, particularly after the…
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The Rocktown Rollers are now formally working their way into big-time roller derby. On July 1, the Rollers, based in Harrisonburg, were accepted into the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s apprentice program. The apprenticeship is a year-long program dedicated to helping new teams become full members of the WFTDA league. “These are really good teams….
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It’s so easy to complain about our teens. I know I’m guilty of too often dishing out criticisms, admonishments, and lectures. I worry that my boys might be doing drugs, drinking, or some other peer-pressure stupidity. But, they also deserve my support when they do well and my understanding when they slip up. My 16-year-old,…
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After thorough reflection, one has to redefine wealth as having something of value that is beyond monetary. It is also seen that a person of great experience has a wealth of experience, or that a sociable person is wealthy with friends. What is of a newer view with wealth, albeit monetary or otherwise, is that…
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Want a real test of love? See how well your family relates to each other while being cooped up in a room together on a beach vacation as the rain beats against the windows facing the ocean. Sooner or later, the grandkids, five-year old twins in our case, will start picking on each other and…
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In the Scheme of Things column by Nan Russell www.intheschemeofthings.com After a long weekend celebrating my husband’s milestone birthday, we waited for our delayed flight home. With a tight connection in Salt Lake City, the odds were not in our favor as we boarded the regional jet in San Francisco. That set-back magnified on the…
