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Lancaster Christmas parade kicks off season
Pearl Harbor veteran will be honored
The Antelope Valley will play host to a number of holiday activities, beginning with the Lancaster Christmas Parade which will roll through town tomorrow from 10 a.m. to noon. The annual event, sponsored by the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, will travel down 10th Street West to Division Street and will have special significance this year because a genuine Pearl Harbor survivor, Eugene Lajeunesse, will serve as an honorary grand marshall in commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the attack by air and naval forces of Japan on the U.S. Navy base in Hawaii.
Thanksgiving Day: history’s bitter harvest
Native Indians have mixed views
Native Indians have mixed views
Thanksgiving Day: history’s bitter harvest
Native Indians have mixed views
The Thanksgiving pageant has been a staple of grade school lesson plans for about 100 years as youngsters dress up as Pilgrims and Indians to celebrate bounty and good fortune, as well as to usher in the holiday season. And as America celebrates both Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage month in November, it is quite fitting to take a look at the history of the event.
Empower yourself to fight diabetes
Control it through better diet, exercise
Diabetes is one of the most serious and life-changing diseases among Americans today. With November serving as National Diabetes Month, physicians nationwide urge the public to take action against the disease which, according to a 2012 report from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, affects 8.3 percent of the U.S. population (or 25.8 million people).
Empower yourself to fight diabetes
Control it through better diet, exercise
Diabetes is one of the most serious and life-changing diseases among Americans today. With November serving as National Diabetes Month, physicians nationwide urge the public to take action against the disease which, according to a 2012 report from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, affects 8.3 percent of the U.S. population (or 25.8 million people).
Fred Thompson makes history in Palmdale
Becomes first Black council member
Fred Thompson, a former dean and member of the board of directors at Antelope Valley College, last week became the first African American to win a seat on the Palmdale city council. The retired college administrator won one of two contested council seats on the ballot, but when he will take the oath office is unclear. An appellate court will decide no later than mid-January 2014, if the election was legitimate.
Former Raider succumbs
Todd Christensen dies during surgery
Todd Christensen, popular tight end with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders who helped the organization win Super Bowls in 1980 and 1983, died Wednesday morning during surgery at a Utah hospital after battling liver disease. He was 57.
AV youth court changing lives
Gives at-risk kids ‘a Second Chance’
In these days of “Three Strikes,” “lock ‘em up . . . throw away the key” or the growing awareness of the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline,” a unique program underway in the Antelope Valley has for three years tried to keep youthful offenders off the prison rolls and onto a viable path to self respect and accomplishment.
Nov. 5 Palmdale vote is a go
Election results subject to court review
The on-again, off-again Palmdale election will take place on Nov. 5 after the California Court of Appeals granted the go-ahead two weeks ago. The court’s ruling stated: “As phrased, the injunction written in the disjunctive, permits the defendant (Palmdale) to hold an at-large election and even count the votes but not to certify the results.”
Other notable Black-White alliances
Throughout American history there has existed a benevolent but cautious working relationship between famous and powerful Whites and a number of great names in African American lore. Such bonds, although at times tenuous, came full bloom with the election of President Barack Obama when huge numbers of influential Whites supported his campaign.
