Linda Ryan Pinal County Library District offers free eBooks to residents of Pinal County. Their digital platform has a wide variety of works and genres so there is something for everyone. In addition to having over 4500 eBooks, a digital library card would enable you to have access to research databases, hoopla digital streaming media,…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg My husband parked our car under the portico of Fairwinds at La Reserve. I helped Joan, my 93 ½ year-old mother-in-law, exit from the back seat while my husband unloaded his mother’s collapsible, wheeled walker. Once we saw that Joan was steady on her feet we said our goodbyes. We watched…
Rett Benedict The Catalina Mountains Satellite Chapter met on April 11, 2015, at the MountainView Clubhouse in SaddleBrooke. The speaker was General Earl T. O’Loughlin, United States Air Force (retired). General O’Loughlin entered the Air Force as an enlisted man and retired as a Four Star General. He flew 29 combat missions over North Korea,…
Jane Gromelski Do you remember dancing at Sock Hops in the high school gym? We couldn’t wear shoes because the finish on the gym floor might be damaged, but our moms were not happy with us when the bottoms of our socks were no longer white. Fortunately, the finishes on wood floors today no longer…
Alan Levenson began his association with the Oracle School District seven years ago tutoring Mountain Vista School students in reading. Recognizing the unique challenges students from small rural schools face, Alan and his wife Betsy decided they wanted to do more to give students that extra push that helps them expand their expectations and accomplish…
New planet discoveries An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun. Nearly 2000 exoplanets have been discovered (1948 planets in 1232 planetary systems including 487 multiple planetary systems as of August 21, 2015). There are also rogue planets which do not orbit any star and which tend…