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Hawaiian Vocalist Paula Fuga Making Music from the Heart

Feb 01, 2008 04:05PM ● By Don Kindred

Listening to the song Lilikoi, by Paula Fuga, I was visited by millions of goosebumps on my flesh. For me, goosebumps always indicate that I have just heard a piece of amazing music. Although she is a native Hawaiian, her music is not what you would call typical Hawaiian ukulele music.

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From Part-Timer to Head Honcho San Clemente’s Cathy Lee … Making a Difference

Feb 01, 2008 03:53PM ● By Don Kindred

By the time she was eight-years-old, Cathy Lee, the Director of the San Clemente Seaside Senior Center, had lived in seven states. And though difficult for her - never having much time to make friends or for others to get to know her - this continuous meandering prepared her for the adaptability and flexibility she would eventually utilize in life, as well as her career.

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Bill Thomas

Nov 01, 2007 05:38PM ● By Don Kindred

Bill Thomas grew up in Hollywood with show biz parents. His mother was an actress. His father was a theater and touring company manager. He graduated from Hollywood High School and attended Occidental College

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New Café Mimosa Traces its Roots Back to France’s Loire Valley

Nov 01, 2007 05:26PM ● By Don Kindred

When she was a little girl, Veronique Price, owner of the new Café Mimosa on Avenida Del Mar, worked in her mom’s restaurant in France’s Loire Valley.

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WHEN YOU JUST CAN’T TAKE THE PAIN Call the Pain Doctor

Nov 01, 2007 05:18PM ● By Don Kindred

Interventional pain specialists are a sub-specialty of anesthesiologists that you probably haven’t heard about unless you were in pain. If you did go see one, your relief of pain was probably so dramatic, you told everyone about it. This was the case for Barbara Pontius, a 71-year-old local resident.

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The Craft Becomes an Art Vic Cumming

Nov 01, 2007 11:46AM ● By Don Kindred

From sign painter to revered floral watercolorist, this was the long, circuitous route Vic Cumming took through an entrepreneurial life beginning in Johannesburg, South Africa, and continuing here in San Clemente with what he and his wife Miki call “our mom and pop art shop.”

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Bob Carrick - Carrying on the Family Tradition

Nov 01, 2007 11:27AM ● By Don Kindred

Like father, like son, is an old adage that definitely applies to San Clementean Bob Carrick, owner of the Shore Gardens Nursery on Avenida Victoria. But in order to be true to this family’s tree, it should probably be rewritten to read … like grandfather, like father, like son.

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Drop Lines from the Pier Papa Took Us Fishing

Aug 01, 2007 09:02PM ● By Greg Niemann

Unlike Minnesota, there were no 10,000 lakes where I grew up. But we had the ocean, we Angelenos did. And as poor as our large family was during my formative years, Papa liked to get us out of the city at every opportunity.

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Surfing Moms Creating Family Legacies

Aug 01, 2007 08:57PM ● By Don Kindred

As a young girl growing up in South Orange County, I often wanted to learn to surf. I’d stand on the pier, lean on the railings, and stare wistfully at the surfers mesmerized by their exuberance. Surfing just wasn’t a girl’s sport back then.

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Owwwwwwwwwww Ommmmmmmmmm A Mixed Sport Fitness

Aug 01, 2007 08:56PM ● By Mike Conlon

Beads of sweat form on my brow as I lie arched on my stomach, tugging at my right ankle with my right hand. Our yoga instructor, Ashima, suggests that we concentrate on a spot on the wall, so I stare at a six-legged green horse in a peaceful orange meadow, drawn by “Danny B., Age 5? .”

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