May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021

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Thinking Out Loud

Escape to the Farm

As long as I’ve lived in Topanga (45 years) and as much as I love it and the community it inspires, once I was fully vaccinated and received an invitation to visit erstwhile ...(Read More)

Flavia Potenza

By Flavia Potenza

News Feature

World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing Will Save Mountain Lions

The proposed Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing—a wide, vegetated bridge spanning the Ventura (101) freeway in Agoura Hills—will allow wildlife such as mountain lions, bobca ...(Read More)

Annemarie Donkin

By Annemarie Donkin

Environment

Springtime Orphans at California Wildlife Center

As of May 6, the California Wildlife Center (CWC) had 352 patients in its care, and 62 new patients, orphaned baby crows among them. The “Patients of the Week” this time w ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

The Friendship Garden

It all started on a 120-degree day last summer, when the juniper that divides our yards threw in the towel. Forty years was enough, apparently. I tried my best ...(Read More)

COVID Diary

Dear Reader,

“On May 1 the Druids celebrated Beltane. It marked the beginning of summer when cattle were sent out to pasture from their winter confinement. Bonfires were lit to invoke pr ...(Read More)

Health Trends

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation establishing the second week in May as National Stuttering Awareness Week. Today, the National Stuttering Association co ...(Read More)

All Things Connected

Human Barcode

“IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin Black is a stunning, shattering warning to the modern world of the dangers involved in data collection and a bitter reminder of why privac ...(Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

Rude Interruptions

Insufficient Reason

When we consider the crippling infirmities of American politics, let us start with the legendary cynic and social commentator H. L. Mencken, who wrote in 1916 that, “Democra ...(Read More)

Joel Bellman

By Joel Bellman

My Corner of the Canyon

A Fire for All Seasons

It’s a spring afternoon, gentle and lithe. After a long year of pandemic, there’s a feeling of things finally opening up: flowers, schools, libraries, and perhaps, as W. C ...(Read More)

Kathie Gibboney

By Kathie Gibboney

Passages

Joanne Martinez—1929-2021

A life well lived is a life worth living and that is what she did. She loved life even unto the end. Joanne Cinelli was born on December 11,1929, in Tacoma, Washington, whe ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Thinking Out Loud

All Things Connected

Rude Interruptions

My Corner of the Canyon

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