Connecting Single: Many events led
Many events led to vote for cityhood Forty? Forty years old? Why, Thousand Oaks, you don't look a day over say, 30, well, maybe 35. Sure, there are wrinkles here and there, but overall, at 40 you're doing well, especially considering what went on in those 40 years.And before.It was the "before," after all, that made you into a city.We saw it all coming. I was there, in 1958, a Ventura Star-Free Press reporter covering the Ventura...
Connecting Single: Fremont dad creates Web site; helps parents get in touch
FREMONT — Organizing a first-grader's birthday party is no easy task. But when you have no way of contacting your children's friends, sending out invitations suddenly becomes more daunting than baking a birthday cake.Such was the case for Mona Nanda.When it came time to plan her child's sixth birthday party last year, Nanda, who works full time and doesn't have time to chat with parents in the school pickup line, sent her...
Connecting Single: Datebook
BULLETIN BOARD -- Recovery Inc., a self-help group enabling adults to maintain emotional and mental health, meets at 10 a.m. Saturdays at New Community Church, 2340 Dean Lake Ave. NE. Call Mary Jo, 451-3266, or Jean, 245-0117, for more information.-- Kent Garden Club of Grand Rapids will meet at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 12 in the West Meeting House at Porter Hills Retirement Facility, 3600 E. Fulton St. The program, open to the public, will feature Randy Heiss on growing orchids. Call Dolores,...
Connecting Single: Datebook
FUND-RAISERS -- The American Red Cross of Allegan County will sponsor its annual bowling fund-raiser from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at Plainwell Lanes. Included will be door prizes and a raffle. Any group or business that would like to get together a team of four or five bowlers should call Jeannie Payne or Katie Boehler, 673-8640. Registration forms must be returned by Feb. 5.BULLETIN BOARD -- Grandville Historical Museum, located in the Grandville City Administration Offices...