Town Crier: Meet Montclair 4-H’s “kids” at fundraiser

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Andy Hawkey is the dairy goat leader for the Montclair 4-H Club and her goats just had babies. The goats will be featured at the Montclair 4-H’s April 30 “Meet and Bleat” fundraiser.

MONTCLARION: April 15, 2016

There’s a mom in Montclair who has 25 kids. Really. Andy Hawkey is the dairy goat leader for the Montclair 4-H Club and the goats in her charge just had babies. Black kids, brown kids, little gray and cocoa kids. These fuzzy critters are tottering all over the pen. Continue reading

Happy Wanderer: Tour Wine Country with trip to downtown Napa

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Contracostatimes.com: April 15, 2016

Car. Carriage. Bike. Balloon. There are lots of ways to tour the Napa Wine region. I prefer to kayak, dock my boat in downtown Napa and walk to the tasting rooms. It’s easy with a tidal river that actually pushes you forward if you time the tides right. Continue reading

Town Crier: Kids, adults alike benefit from volunteerism

MONTLARION: March 23, 2016

It was a most unlikely friendship — the 13-year old Romanian boy and the middle-aged mother of two. But none of that mattered at the foosball table. We were a force — Marius playing forward and me as the goalie — nailing shot after shot in the Lasallian Boys Home in Iasi, Romania. For those two weeks in January, I felt young again, helping the boys with their homework and nurturing the very thing we seem to be lacking these days — the human connection.
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