Winnie's Way

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Americans truly believed in the goodness of our government. William Tyler Page, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, expressed this when he wrote “The American’s Creed” in 1917. It was accepted ...

Son Jim and I were talking this past week about newspaper deliveries, which recalled the various paper routes he had while a student in Enterprise during the 1960s. It was an upsetting time for us. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ...

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is ...

In most homes, that phrase is heard regularly by people everywhere who have depended on the U.S. Postal Service for the past 250 years. The U.S. Postal Service was formed to keep lines of communication open between friends and relatives; ...

They call George Washington the “Father of Our Country” for good reason. As a general, he led the American Colonist Army to victory over Great Britain in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). He then set a precedent by saying he would ...

“’Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.” So wrote Alexander Pope in his 1734 letter titled “Epistle to Cobham.” This familiar quote, although several centuries old, describes what harmful or beneficial things ...

You don't have to be rich to feast on Thanksgiving day

What a wonderful world this would be if all of mankind would just follow the laws — both the laws of God and the laws of mankind. God’s laws first, of course, because man is subject to making errors that ...

We hear and see news in all the media that makes us wonder what has gotten into people. There is hardly ever a news report that has no reports of violence. Beatings, knifings, shootings, rapes, robberies, kidnapping, arson and much ...

It has gotten quiet around the house here now that I’m not raising Toy Fox Terriers any more.

Winnie's way

Very often, when someone gets stung they say, “A bee stung me.” More often than not it wasn’t a bee that stung them, but a different insect with a stinger.

I am disgusted beyond measure with the so called justice handed out by Shasta County District Attorney Steve Carlton regarding the plea bargain offered to former Anderson Police Officer Bryan Benson.

If there is one branch of our government that has served we, the American people, with integrity and faithfuless over the years, it has to be the postal service.

We wonder where our freedoms went. We sure do. We senior citizens, who look back to the freedoms we had prior to government seizure of people’s rights.