How to Stay Invisible by Maggie C. Rudd How to Stay Invisible is a Juvenile Realistic Fiction selection at its best…a page-turner about survival that I found hard to put down. Imagine being a middle schooler and homeless. That is just what Raymond was…utterly alone and homeless. His unstable parents had often said that they […]
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Movie Review: ‘PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie’
Standard disclaimer for any and all “PAW Patrol” media: I am not the target audience for “PAW Patrol.” The target audience for “PAW Patrol” is young children and only young children. This is not a “fun for all ages” property that adults can enjoy as much as kids. At best, adults watching with kids can […]
Age-Friendly Community Initiative
The Age-Friendly Community Initiative has been working hard in our community for eight and a half years. We are proud of our mission – “to explore ways to make the community more supportive of healthy aging and to enable people to stay in their own homes and communities as they age” – and are always […]
Movie Review: ‘Expend4bles’
Outside of what you see on the posters, the “Expendables” movies have never been particularly ambitious. Sure, it was great that the action stars of previous decades like Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Harrison Ford could come together for a […]
Guest Column: It’s the environment… No planet ‘B’, remember?
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed 10,000 years ago. If insects were to vanish (our own extinction would not be far behind as) the environment would collapse into chaos.” E.O. Wilson, 1987. E.O. Wilson, a famous biologist, wrote 29 books and won […]
Do you have room in your heart?
We have more fantastic felines who are hoping for their furrever homes this week. Our shelter is still overflowing with many more cats from the community waiting to come in. Raisin and Grape are a beautiful and bonded pair of sisters who are just under 3 years old. Their former family could no longer take […]
Movie Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’
‘A Haunting in Venice’ is director/star Kenneth Branagh’s third go-around as Agatha Christie-penned detective Hercule Poirot. The other two were 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express” and 2022’s “Death on the Nile.” “A Haunting in Venice” comes barely a year and a half after the latter film, though the turnaround is less impressive when one […]
Do you have room in your heart?
And now some thoughts from our adolescent adoptable, Boris: Yo, peeps! So, I was straight-up lost one day, and I ended up at this dope shelter, yo. Now, I’m on the hunt for some fresh new digs, ya dig? The name’s Boris and I’m one hecka handsome doggo with the fluffiest hair you could ever […]
Kids’ Book Review: ‘The Baddies’
The Baddies Written by Julia Donaldson; Illustrated by Axel Scheffler If you are a fan … or not … of ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘Room on a Broom’, you will likely like ‘The Baddies’, newly published in July of 2023, and written by the same author and illustrated by the same illustrator. The tale is written […]
Do you have room in your heart?
It’s raining cats and kittens and there’s no end in sight. If you have been thinking about adding a feline friend to your home, we’ve got oodles of cats and kittens. We’d like to introduce you to a few right now. Rae – Our sweet Rae is just over a year old, with the cutest […]