Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First may I wish a very happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone — the Irish, the Irish-Americans, the Irish Mexican-Americans, etc. With that in mind, hopefully those involved in The Variety Show, on-stage, backstage, as a volunteer, or in the audience, have [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, once again I attended both evenings of the annual Variety Show and, although I assume another roving reporter from the AVA will be giving an extended review of events, I thought I’d offer some opinions from a ‘bird’s eye view,’ particularly [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s start with the Public Service Announcements. #131. I am told that Variety Show tickets are available at Lemons’ Market in Philo and All that Good Stuff in Boonville, as well as on the night at the door at the Grange. Get [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First an update from the world of higher education. AVHS alum Cassidy Hollinger, currently a freshwoman at the illustrious Vassar College in upstate New York, is to play a vital role in her college’s production of ‘Bulrusher,’ a play written by Eisa [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Let’s go straight to The Whine of the Week. I was disappointed to miss the Sweethearts Dance on Saturday at The Grange to raise money for the AV Health Center. I hear it went very well. This ‘whine’ is [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well, they did it again! Yes folks, Gloria Ross, “The Bishop of Boonville,” and her team of volunteers put on a superb evening last Saturday for The Original Crab Feed that benefits the St. Elizabeth Seton Church It will surely be hard [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comforta-bly then I shall begin. A brief column this week as I have had little time to get out and about having spent all weekend at the AV Film Festival being informed, enlightened, disturbed, annoyed, beguiled, absorbed, amused, and entertained. All for the good cause of benefiting [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. The much-needed rains continue and it’s very, very muddy out there but so far life in the Valley has been relatively undisturbed, certainly compared to the Coast with its many power-outages. Keep your claws-crossed. Last Thursday, with Highway 128 closed at each end [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. There will be no mention of The Boonville Lodge this week. I promise. So the rains finally have arrived in earnest. Let’s hope they can stick around for a while at least. Anyone living here in the Valley will tell you we [...]
Greetings one and all.
If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. As I walked around downtown Boonville’s “All that Good Stuff” store last week, looking for an appropriate birthday card for friend D’Ann Wallace, I overheard Lauren, of Lauren’s Restaurant fame, asking the store owner, Leslie Hummel, for the upcoming birthdays on Leslie’s Calendar. [...]
