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Natural Perspectives: Mea culpa for last column
I made a goof in my last column about the Bolsa Chica Land Trust's plan for the mesa. The error is mine, not Vic's. I said the Land Trust was going to excavate no deeper than 8 feet to bury its 2,825-gallon water tanks in the ground. Actually, the tanks...Tags: Wind Power, Nature, Elections, Science, Human Interest
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Community Commentary: Columnists have mesa plans all wrong
Earlier this year, when we saw the plans for the restoration of the lower bench of the Bolsa Chica Mesa, we were thrilled. After all that has been achieved at Bolsa Chica, "CPR (Community Promoted Restoration) for the Mesa" is the next step in...Tags: Nature, Renovation, Physical Conditions, Elections, Human Interest
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'Heart' makes HB Reads bigger
In the past three years, HB Reads has taken participants' minds around the world — to Afghanistan, Alaska and Sudan — but this year, it also will give them another language to express their thoughts.
To mirror the subject matter in...Tags: Afghanistan, Arts, Crimes, Assault, Mexico
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Natural Perspectives: Touring the Pacific Marine Mammal Center
The experts tell us that the ocean is now in a La Niņa condition. So instead of being warm, like last winter during the El Niņo, the ocean has cooled below normal. That's the explanation that we're getting for this summer of no summer. A La Niņa condition...Tags: Mouth, Science and Technology, Nature, San Clemente Island, Zoology
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Finding life in Peace
Living in a grass-and-dung hut with no electricity is how Caitlin Robinson pictured her Peace Corps experience in her mind.
Replace the hut with an apartment, candles with electricity and throw in running water and the Internet for good measure, and...Tags: Arizona, Travel, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Bulgaria, Trips and Vacations
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In The Pipeline: Metal drummer lives on in their memories
Dec. 28 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Jimmy Sullivan, aka "The Rev," drummer for the Huntington Beach-based band Avenged Sevenfold. According to reports, he died from an accidental overdose of strong prescription painkillers, and so, even...Tags: Entertainment, Los Angeles, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Central Park, Music
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Police arrest man accused of multiple assaults
An Alaskan sex offender is being held in custody for $1-million bail after pleading not guilty to assaulting two women in Huntington Beach and pushing a pregnant woman into the street.
Las Vegas resident Kenneth Anthony Huskey, 25, pleaded not guilty...Tags: Social Issues, Sexual Assault, Physical Conditions, Prisons, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Executive's journey from the beet fields
Elva Treviņo Hart is coming to Huntington Beach next year, not just as an author, but as an ambassador. The former migrant worker's 1999 autobiography, "Barefoot Heart," tells the story of her journey from the beet fields to a career as an affluent...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Schools, IBM, Crime, Law and Justice
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In The Pipeline: Tied together by wartime service
"That's the most beautiful thing — that flag," Helen Harris whispered to me in her thick, Greek accent, as the Boy Scouts hoisted Old Glory last week, on a warm, blustery Veterans Day.
During World War II, Harris had been the official translator...Tags: Veterans Affairs, Germany, Paul Taylor, Banking, Washington (U.S. state)
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Changed ways for a fresh start
It took Michael Place four years to finish one at Ocean View High School. The Alaska native had a rough time before enrolling at Ocean View, losing both of his parents and bouncing from one family member's home to another. During his first three years of...Tags: Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Ocean View
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All About Food: What do you know about the fish you eat?
Whitewashing: glossing over or covering up vices, crimes, scandals or to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data.
Greenwashing: the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Restaurant and Catering Industry, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Seafood, Laguna Beach
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Taney County Coroner: Second Body found near Rural Protem is Russell 'Rusty' Porter
ReporterThe Taney County Coroner says MRI imagery and medical records confirm the second body found near rural protem is that of Russell “Rusty” Porter. On April 17, Russell Porter and his wife Rebecca “Becky” Porter disappeared from their...Tags: Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan
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