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Cactus Cantina was voted best Mexican food on the Gulf Coast and I have to agree! When Kyle and I tried it for supper one night, we both really enjoyed our meals. (And we went back a couple times!)...

Essay by: Aubrey Waage Roseau Community School Mrs. Didrikson, Advanced English 11 About ten years ago I experienced the most fearful thing that I have ever experienced. Or, what I thought was going t... Full story

I had a very interesting conversation with a friend the other day. He asked me how I was doing, he always does, and my answer was to share a phrase I have been using when asked. I said, "I am so...

Luke 24: 1-12 Often times in life it is darkest just before the "Son Rises." This past few weeks we have been examining some of the major events of our Lord's life on the Cross Side of Easter. Today... Full story

Beautiful! On Monday, Tallahassee Slim, residing quite comfortably down in Fort Myers, Florida, where he is the most colorful character, sent an email. He has always been an interesting chap, who has...

I really did enjoy the white sand beach at Orange Beach, but I sure didn't need any whiteness when we got home! I was hoping for green, but NOOOO winter had to come one more time. I wore my flip...

Essay by: Aaron Wensloff Roseau Community School Mrs. Didrikson, Advanced English 11 My reading journey has been a very fun and difficult experience and it started at a very young age.  I was very...

I am a pattern eater. Every morning I have my chocolate coffee, (freeze dried instant coffee, sugar free creamer, and powdered hot chocolate. Then at 10:30 I repeat it. I have a transparent cobalt...

For a couple of years while I was the rogue special ed teacher at Roseau High School, my name brother, Jeff Olson, an outstanding biology instructor, would ask me to stop in during his 7th grade...

My little grand-pup has finally gone home with Brandon. His two week stay that turned into three and a half months was adventurous. He had become my new tail. Blu just stayed back and let Cynder have...

We are looking, these next few weeks at "Themes of Lent". Reflections on the "Cross Side of Easter." Events leading up to our Lord's sacrificial death on the Cross for our sins. In the Gospels we...

Essay by: Janna Preteau Roseau Community School Mrs. Didrikson Advanced English 11 My reading journey started when I was very young. My parents always read me my favorite books before I went to bed,...

There are a few people I trust for information and for good advice. Joel Rosenberg, https://www.facebook.com/JoelCRosenberg, who lives in Israel, he tracks events and trends in Israel, the U.S.,...

As the saying goes, everything is local, which means that people are already concerned about rising gas prices. Once, a can of Copenhagen was two bits (25 cents a can) in 1965. I was working at...

I don't usually pay attention to the gas prices. I figure I am going to need it to get back and forth to work and everywhere else. But EVERYONE is talking about the prices and it peaked my interest,...

"What are you giving up for Lent?" a little girl asked me one Lenten Season when I was a student at Bethel College. She was a passenger on the school bus I drove, and as a patrol girl on my bus she...

Essay by: Kayla Jacobson Roseau Community School Have you ever wondered how a Pinterest post can turn into $24,000? No, me either but somehow, someway it did. I'm Kayla Jacobson, a senior at Roseau Hi...

I am so thankful. Yesterday I got home from work and in tiredness sat in my chair. This is when I am the most vulnerable. Tiredness will do that to anyone. You have spent your strength, you need to...

Nothing is more exciting than being able to write about fun things, good people, and beautiful women. No matter what age you are if you are a man, a pretty woman is the most exciting thing when she...

We had an eventful weekend! Friday started off with going to mom's and getting another set of her curtains hung with only one more set to go! I think she is pretty happy with them. After the curtains... Full story

Genesis 2: 4-9, 15-17: Ephesians 4:28 This morning I want to talk with you a bit about WORK as we continue the series on The Character of the Christian Life. WORK! In America, if we’re fortunate to... Full story

Essay by: Bodee Hovda Roseau Community School Mrs. Didrikson, Advanced English 11 Reading is a subject that has always come easy to me. Throughout English classes in elementary, I loved reading short...

I have decided to write about certain words which I have collected over the years which have impacted my life. Way back in time, I remember Princess Diana saying, "Words have power." How much power...

John 14: 23-27; Ephesians 4:26-31 We are looking at the character of the Christian. There's an old Gospel Song that goes: "What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought since Jesus came into my...

Every week in this column, I hope for good luck and something to titillate my devoted or deranged readers. Once, you could make fun of someone, and they'd be delighted with the free publicity and woul...