Winifred Maker

• Don't be sucker for the lottery scam Published 01/04/2012 at 6 a.m.

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

• US Postage: Has the mail come yet? Published 12/27/2011 at 5:03 p.m.

  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; ...

• Father knows best Published 12/06/2011 at 10:23 a.m.

  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 ...

• Happy Thanksgiving Published 11/22/2011 at 12:54 p.m.

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

• Where did our freedoms go? Published 07/20/2011 at 8:33 a.m. 1 Comment

  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.

• Winnie's Way: April 4, 2007 Published 04/03/2007 at 11 p.m.

  I watched, on TV, the demonstration marches on Washington, and in cities throughout the nation with alarm.

• To spay or neuter? Published 03/27/2007 at 11 p.m.

  Our California Legislators are at it again with Assembly Bill 1634, by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine.

• The library Published 03/06/2007 at 11 p.m. 1 Comment

  At long last the eagerly awaited new County-City library is open and everyone is cheering. The old library is closed — the one older residents remember fondly as the “new library” of some five decades ago and the struggle to ...

• Party Line II  Published 02/06/2007 at 11 p.m.

  Due to the busybodies on party lines, no local newspaper was needed. The news was spread, like town criers did in centuries past. When in doubt, the hearer could call the victim, to make certain of facts.

• Winter woes Published 01/03/2007 at 9:45 p.m.

  Christmas is over. The New Year is here. The shortest days of winter are over and they are lengthening again. I’m not ready to cheer yet, however. December and January are far from being my favorite time of the year, ...

• The updated American Creed Published 02/07/2012 at 6 a.m. 1 Comment

  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 ...

• Weather is here and ever present Published 01/24/2012 at 9:51 a.m. 1 Comment

  ‘Drought, Drought, Drought” We kept hearing this dire prediction for the future through the mild. sunny days of November, December and spring-like New Year. I remember years in the past when we heard the same moans and groans that became ...

• Newspaper delivery offers life lessons Published 01/10/2012 at 10:20 a.m.

  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 ...

• Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined Published 11/29/2011 at 10:29 a.m. 2 Comments

  “’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 ...

• Is life planned or did it just evolve? Published 11/15/2011 at 12:07 p.m.

  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 ...

• Where are we headed? Published 11/08/2011 at 9:35 a.m.

  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 ...

• Scoot, I'll shoot! Oh, Oh! Published 11/01/2011 at 10 a.m.

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

• Governor Brown's betrayal Published 10/25/2011 at 1:10 p.m.

  Winnie's way

• When is a bee not a bee? Published 10/18/2011 at 10:14 a.m.

  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.

• Disgusting justice Published 10/04/2011 at 10:10 a.m.

  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.

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