For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 We are without a pool hall in downtown Corning for the first time I can recall in my lifetime… and that takes us back a spell.
There’s nothing that pinpoints and highlights what is desperately needed and creates a wake-up call more than a crisis. That wake-up call is now for our democratic republic.
For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Everyone predicted it… and last Wednesday night it happened… we got a snow on top of the blooming jonquils and the forsythia bushes.
Recently I saw a news segment on AETN News Hour that spoke to the need of lithium-gathering factories to acquire lithium to make batteries. China has the most lithium-gathering factories for recovering it for batteries.
It’s Time to Invest in Infrastructure Access to education is often referred to as “the great equalizer,” because it is the single greatest tool a community has to close opportunity gaps and lift young people out of poverty. Quality education is also linked to decreased crime rates as well as stronger health indicators in communities.
This thought was inspired by comments made by Chief Dan George. For those of you of the younger generation who don’t know who Chief Dan George is, Google and research him. The chief spoke of his years growing up while living in a longhouse with his grandfather, all his parents, uncles and aunts. He remembered how they all had to learn to respect each other’s space and personal life. In ancient times, in India, they spoke of the watchers who observed and attempted to keep mankind in a state of progress, and to keep them safer by not allowing them to make huge mistakes. At that time, mankind lived in small family units in an agrarian society. As the story goes, there came a time when the watchers had to be absent for a time, and when they returned, they found that mankind had started forming communities and building cities. They were appalled, and declared that this would be the downfall of mankind. Well, we haven’t quite hit bottom yet, but we have, indeed, fallen from where we started as brotherhoods. Our cities are the cesspools of ecology. I am not speaking so much of the people as by the lifestyles. Cities are the biggest polluters of the planet. The huge masses of concrete and pavement raise the ambient temperature by at least 10 degrees. The huge air conditioning machinery adds to that. People will live in an apartment building that might hold a hundred or more families, and likely would not know more than 5 of those people, though they may rub elbows daily. In Viet Nam in 1962, I lived with the Montagnard people in a village of perhaps 150 souls. Within 4 months I knew almost everyone, and though I could not ever speak their language, still there would be smile and nod, a general acceptance. The children would tag along with you and ask you a million questions. At least that is what you assumed, because of that language gap. It didn’t matter so much because there was that feeling of unity. I seldom feel that anymore, though I have lived on the same str
In a recent report to Arkansas lawmakers, it was revealed that behavioral health cases at a pediatric hospital surged by 25% since the pandemic’s onset, with pediatricians noting that a significant portion of their workload now revolves around such cases. This trend mirrors national statistics cited by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), indicating that mental illness affects 1 in 5 Americans annually, including 1 in 5 children at some point in their lives.
LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas legislators approved a $30 million expenditure to improve mental health services and treatment of substance abuse. The governor and the state Human Services Department supported the plan to fill in the gaps in the statewide system of treating mental illness and helping people with drug problems.
Ever since our school district has announced that the state offered them almost $13 million to help build a new high school the conversation around town has been about the project. The school district has asked citizens to vote for a millage increase of 5 mills.
For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 was the doctor who did the surgery? I forgot his name; Was it expensive? I don’t know.