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Cultivating Community

It’s Christmastime in California. You can tell by all the potted poinsettias popping up around grocery store doors. The holiday’s standard bloomer is actually a tropical plant that originated in Mexico and Guatemala. It was intro­duced to the United States by diplomat Joel Roberts Poinsett, appointed in 1825 as the first U.S. Envoy to Mexico. In addition to being a diplomat, Poinsett was also a physician and an

Note to our readers: Change is good

For almost three decades, the Windsor Times has been showing up on your doorstep and in your mailbox. We know you look forward to holding it in your hands and reading the latest news about your community.

Main Street: Connections

I have 178 connections on LinkedIn. I have no idea if that’s a lot or a little, since I didn’t initiate any of them and I never use it. LinkedIn is an online social networking site, where professionals go to, well ... network, I guess. A fellow writer talked me into signing up a couple of years ago, telling me it would be good for business. I filled in a few innocuous facts about myself and immediately began to get requests from other LinkedIn people who wanted to “connect” with me.

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Well, the groundhog saw his shadow so it’s hi-ho, six more weeks

Wheel of Light, April 2017

In a political climate in which lying has become the new normal and alternative facts are presented as reality, a transiting aspect is coming along that may help to change those patterns. This month Jupiter in Libra will square Pluto in Capricorn. Jupiter represents...

Faith: River Fellowship comes to Windsor

Editor’s Note: This month we welcome Gary Quackenbush to the Windsor Times. This is the first in a series of monthly columns, written by Gary, highlighting the many congregations to be found in Windsor’s faith-based community.

Editorial

— Rollie Atkinson

Shining a light on sexual abuse with film

By now you’ve likely heard or read something about the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the U.S. women’s Olympics gymnastics team.

Community corner

Now through December 14 – Toys for Tots Collection, State Farm

Playing with fire

Now that it’s June and we’re past Memorial Day and local schools are closed for summer vacations, we can all break out our BBQ grills, outdoor RV equipment, camping gear and backyard mowing tools.
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Arts & Entertainment

‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts

:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.