In this issue: General Interest Calendar of Events – April 2011 Letters to the Editor Office Bytes – Adjusting Font Size – Viavian Molick The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society – Tommy Clarkson History Streets of Manzanillo – Juan Escutia – Terry Sovil Catholic Missions in Mexican and Latin America – David FritzPatrick […]
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By Freda Rumford from the April 2011 Edition Nigel’s favorite Ingredients • 4 cups all-purpose flour • 1/3 cup sugar • 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast • 1 1/4 tsps ground cinnamon • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1 cup fat-free milk • 1/4 cup butter or stick margarine • 2 eggs • 3/4 […]
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By Howard Platt from the April 2011 Edition Power-lines or other such open perches along roadways are good places to see raptors – the top of the food chain among birds. Here on the west coast the most likely raptors to be seen are grey hawks. They are classed as Buteos, a group noted for […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2011 Edition Phoenix roebelenii Family: Araceae (Also known as: Miniature Date Palm) The interest generated by an earlier column on the desert native, Medjool Date Palm, leads to this discussion of its tiny, tropical forest, “feather palm” cousin a highly popular accent plant which originated in Southeast Asia and […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2011 Edition (A drive to Laredo and back) It was shortly after a Manzanillo midnight that we embarked upon our sojourn to Laredo. 2,963 kilometers, 2,006 pesos in road tolls, and three days plus seventeen hours later we would return. And just what was the impetus for this journey? […]
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By Freda Rumford from the April 2011 Edition When one is living in a jewel-like setting, high atop a mountain overlooking the crystal blue Pacific Ocean with sparkling, white crested waves, surrounded by a curved bay with palm trees waving in a gentle breeze, just how do you add yet another layer of beauty without […]
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By Terry Sovil from the April 2011 Edition With the Merry Pranksters “I am in the ocean, doing nothing, just bobbing.” Kenneth Elton Kesey, September 17, 1935 to November 10, 2001, was a novelist, a psychedelic notable of the counter-culture and leader of the Merry Pranksters. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation […]
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By Freda Rumford from the April 2011 Edition The Armada plays a huge role within the military forces of Mexico. With almost 11,122 kilometres of coastline to protect, it is vital for the safety of Mexico’s estimated population of 111 million people, many of whom live in the major central cities, far from the ocean. […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the April 2011 Edition (The following is the seventh installment of a slightly embellished and bit fictionalized account of an almost real event!) We all have met ‘em. . . . . . you know the sort, it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school […]
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By David Fitzpatrick from the April 2011 Edition The Catholic Missions in Mexico and other parts of Latin America The early Spanish colonizers of Latin America considered it important to establish a permanent, functioning, European style community as quickly as possible. Since the introduction of European Spaniards in sufficient numbers seemed difficult, if not impossible, […]
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