Travel, Leisure & Fun for South Valley Adults
Travel, Leisure & Fun for South Valley Adults
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Winter, the season of fewer garden chores, is a good season for planning changes you will make in the spring. Pruning deciduous trees and shrubs for safety or to control size, finishing clean-up and adding mulch and compost to existing beds are the main tasks of winter. It is best for the plant if we delay removing frost-damaged foliage until spring, if we can tolerate the appearance. In dry winters such as this, we must also monitor our garden's water needs more closely....
Two area animal shelters are seeking volunteers to socialize dogs and cats, and to help them find loving homes. No doubt, it is difficult to see animals that have been abandoned, or born because the owner didn't opt to have their pet spayed. Even more difficult is seeing animals that have been neglected or abused. But through volunteers, these pets have a second chance for a good life. Most shelters have limited personnel and funding. That is where volunteers come in. And even...
Just a five hour drive by car, a bit longer by recreational vehicle, is an area rich with the history of Westward bound migration and geology. The prime time to visit Death Valley National Park is the spring, as it becomes quite hot as early as April. It is a good springtime vacation spot for many reasons including history, nature and relaxation. Declared a National Monument in 1933, Death Valley became a National Park in 1994. It contains the lowest elevation point in the...
On Thursday, February 13, the Senior Care Organization will host Heart of Seniors, a senior resource fair, luncheon and fashion show for those 50 and older and caregivers for seniors. The event is designed to share the wealth of resources available for help and care of this growing age group and their families, while in a relaxed atmosphere, and will be held at the Visalia Marriott hotel. "We want to reach out to all of our families and caregivers to get them more resources,"...
American author Robert Fulghum wrote that all the wisdom a person needs in order to live well could be learned in kindergarten. The same can be said of community theatre. Live a balanced life The happiest people live balanced lives. Every day they work hard, they sing a bit and maybe dance. They might paint a picture and some take themselves down to their community theatre and get involved. Living a balanced life often involves trying new things. "It's never too late to fly," Fulghum wrote. And it is never too late to join a...
It was some thirty-seven years ago that I first began to understand that instead of happiness and pleasure, what people truly seek is something that the Apostle Paul had learned and described in his Epistle to the Philippians in the New Testament of the Bible. And even though Paul taught me in a few words the difference between “contentment” and “happiness” and I understood the incomparable value and longevity of contentment versus short-lived happiness, I have found myself opting time and time again to go back after that qu...
A favorite nonprofit agency in the South Valley has been rescued from closure after finally receiving grant money, but now needs your help to pay off debt it acquired to keep the doors open. Porterville Adult Day Services, known as PADS, scrambled for weeks waiting for funding normally counted on for operations. The recent government shutdown due to a congressional stalemate over the national budget, along with funds sequestering, forced PADS to take out bank loans and run up...
In 1850, when California became the 31st state in the union, it was isolated and far from the population centers to the east. Mail service was slow, and the steamships delivering precious cargo weren't always reliable. California was important to the country, so Washington was anxious to solve the problem. The federal government contracted with John Butterfield, the well-known entrepreneur and transportation pioneer, to operate what became the longest stagecoach mail line in...