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Veterans get diplomas from Elkton High
At age 17, Eugene Sheffler traded the waves of grain in Kansas for the real ocean and joined the U.S. Navy in the waning years of World War II. more...
  11/09/2009 2:17pm
Veterans get diplomas from Elkton High
At age 17, Eugene Sheffler traded the waves of grain in Kansas for the real ocean and joined the U.S. Navy in the waning years of World War II.
  11/09/2009 2:17pm
Senior Times: Volunteer opportunities
The cover story in today's Senior Times tells about the important work volunteers are doing for the Senior Health Insurance Assistance (SHIBA) program. If that programs interests you, SHIBA is looking for computer and Internet literate volunteers to...
  11/04/2009 12:05pm
Senior Times: Health care directives
It has been suggested it would be of interest to readers to review the status of the Oregon law regarding health care directives about life support and other medical instructions.
  11/04/2009 12:02pm
Senior Times: Laughing at inebriated farm animals
Much has been written about the human lust for alcohol and its effect on human behavior, and its ability to turn perfectly normal human beings into fools with no control over their actions.
  11/04/2009 11:59am
Senior Times: Train of memories
When I was a boy in the l930s, my friends and I wanted to be either a city fireman or train engineer when we grew up. Excitement and glory seemed to be part of those jobs. The train didn't have a siren like a fire engine, but that bullfrog whistle and...
  11/04/2009 11:48am
Senior Times: Preparing for travel abroad
Before departing on a trip, take some time to think about more than what you will pack and who will feed the cat. Make a checklist of some other important things.
  11/04/2009 11:56am
A century of grace
Mist floated around Amacher Park Saturday and enveloped a small family gathering overlooking the North Umpqua River.
  11/03/2009 11:47am
Veteran's tribute is heartfelt, but tardy
After I had written a column about a Library of Congress project to collect the stories of World War II veterans, Orvis Ford of Roseburg told me I didn't have to go far to find one of those stories — just across the road from my home in the...
  10/01/2009 7:16pm
Oregon seniors struggle to keep up their property
Clara Foster's home on Hope Street is surrounded by lawn debris, wood scraps, rusting metal, vehicles in varied states of repair, and random items such as a high chair and coffee cans.
  08/21/2009 9:24am
Program delivers history to students, one veteran at a time
Several nights ago I watched a CNN panel discussion on the importance of bringing back to education an emphasis on the history of our nation and its government. Thanks to a high school teacher in Roseburg, such lessons in history are already...
  05/14/2009 11:58am
Reports of his disappearance are greatly exaggerated
I didn’t know I was lost until I started getting e-mail messages from reunion.com, the finder of lost souls. Some days, I get as many as four messages from reunion.com telling me that eight people are looking for me. Only eight?
  04/30/2009 12:25pm
More Main Street journalism could fend off newspapers’ demise
Sally Kruse is a farm wife who became a journalist when she wrote her own wedding story and submitted it to the local newspaper. The editor hired her as a society writer. That was when newspapers had a society section and a dogfight on Main Street was...
  04/16/2009 4:59pm
A good look at yourself can be a matter of life and death
This is a subject that won’t make me any friends. Might even cost a few. But, for reasons community and personal, it’s been on my mind lately.
  04/04/2009 2:42pm
Seniors helping seniors
A group of Winston citizens made the possibility of natural disasters a little less frightening on Thursday as they packed emergency preparedness kits for 60 homebound residents living in the Winston, Camas Valley and Tenmile areas.
  04/03/2009 11:52am
FEATURE PHOTO: Bunny basket bustle
Katy Scarantino, in rabbit ears, and other members of the crafters group at the Roseburg Senior Center put candy into plastic Easter eggs on Wednesday at the center. The volunteers will prepare about 8,000 eggs for the annual Easter egg hunt at Stewart...
  03/19/2009 1:00pm
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