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My Two Cents | Talkin’ Turkey – part 2 by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

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My Two Cents | Talkin’ Turkey – part 2 by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

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Thursday, May 9, 2024

In my column in the March 21, issue of Valley News and Views, I was waxing poetic about an upcoming spring turkey hunting adventure.

Letter from the Publisher

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

May is here! The tulips have sprouted in my front flower bed and in many of the yards around mine. The graduation announcements have started rolling in and I just opened one this morning and for the first time I caught myself thinking “Already? I remember when she was born.

Bowesmont Lives

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Gayle McConnell has returned from her Mesa winter home to her home in rural Drayton. On April 15, Saralee Hoselton celebrated her 84th birthday with lunch at Hastings Landing. Friday, April 19, Mike and Judy Stellon went to the prom at Edinburg.

My Two Cents | Theodore Roosevelt’s amazon adventure – Part 1 by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

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My Two Cents | Theodore Roosevelt’s amazon adventure – Part 1 by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Theodore Roosevelt presidential library near Medora is scheduled to be completed in 2025. I hope it includes his famous, but not necessarily so publicized trip to the Amazon jungle in Brazil in 19131914. More on that in a moment, first a little background.

Musings | Earth Day awareness by Lyle Van Camp

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Musings | Earth Day awareness by Lyle Van Camp

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

I have memories of the very first time we celebrated Earth Day at Drayton Public School. I do not remember for sure what year it was but I do know that it was my freshman, junior, or senior year as we decorated Mr.

Blessing bags ready to go & a thumbs up. I’m proud of them!

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

My job is mom first. If you read my column regularly, you’d know that I am a mother of two girls. The world we live in is a crazy one and I think about how to prepare my youngsters to have roots deep in faith on a regular basis.

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Letter to the editor

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Dear Editor: Earth Day is a day to celebrate achievements made to better the environment and sustain the goal of leaving the Earth better than it was, for the next generation. Today’s farmers and ranchers are true conservationists.

Andrea Johnston

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

I teach Sunday school for fourth grade students at my church. I do one week on and then one week off with another teacher. There is, of course, curriculum provided that we are expected to follow, and we both oblige.

Musings | Just cruising by Lyle Van Camp

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Musings | Just cruising by Lyle Van Camp

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Just cruising… The opening line of this column is literally the truth, amongst other things, one of our focuses this coming summer will be cruising. Since shortly after I got my first car in 1973 I have loved to cruise.

Humming bird feasting on a Zinnia. Photo by Mike Alan Steinfeldt.

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My Two Cents | It’s almost garden time by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

This past weekend I seeded my second wave of spring plants that I hope will make it into the garden this spring. It always seems that right around the beginning of March I get bit by the spring fever bug.

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