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GOLDEN TROUT WILDERNESS, Calif. — We clambered loudly up the miserable incline, horses stumbling as their shoes slid on the ladder of rocks that took us up and away from the Kern River. “Devil’s Stairway,” Chelsea McGlyn, the wrangler on this expedition, said over her shoulder, twisting around in the saddle. Was it such a brutal trail when I made my first trip here almost 60 years ago? Memory is too fragile to say definitively. What I can never forget from that day was the cowboy on the fast paint horse who got stuck behind me and had to eat my dust — kicked up by a horse and three mules — until the trail leveled out. Advertisement He paused and introduced himself as Sterling Grant, farmer from the San Joaquin Valley town of Wasco, and invited the 16-year-old wannabe cowboy from Los Angeles to mosey up the river and visit him in the morning. “I’ll be at Funston,” he said, and pulled away at a near trot. The encounter, in 1963, was a fulcrum in my life. The … [Read more...] about As a young man, I traveled the High Sierra by mule. After 59 years, I tried it again

Chaffey High School senior Belen Esparaz looks over a voter-registration form after California Secretary of State Shirley Weber Ph.D. spoke to students at the Ontario school on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 about making the effort to register prior to age 18 to vote. Photo: Will Lester/MediaNews Group/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images There weren’t high expectations for the Democratic Party going into the midterms. Aside from the historic trend that the controlling party in Washington normally loses seats in non-presidential years, polling suggested low energy from the party’s base and terrible approval ratings for President Biden. But then came June 24 and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court’s bombshell decision to overturn Roe v. Wade . That, says veteran Democratic strategist Tom Bonier, changed everything. After the stunning victory of pro-choice voters in Kansas on August 2, his firm, TargetSmart, analyzed new voter … [Read more...] about The Surge That Could Save Democrats

0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Obituaries Info: Wenban Funeral Home, www.wenbanfh.com or (847)234-0022. Tim , Community Contributor Posted Reply Send Flowers, Plants & Gifts Margaret “Peggy” Bernthal, age 92, passed away September 23, 2022 at Lake Forest Place, Lake Forest, IL. She graduated from the nursing program at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, NY in 1951 and worked as an RN in New York and Florida. Then moved to California and worked as a surgical RN at UCLA Hospital. Margaret married Harold “Hal” Bernthal in 1958. Peggy served as a volunteer at Lake Forest Hospital and on Women’s Board of Lake Forest Hospital, was a den mother, and served as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors for The Living Desert Zoological Park in Palm Desert, CA. In the last few years, she and her husband were primarily involved with philanthropic activities. She is survived by … [Read more...] about Margaret “Peggy” Bernthal, 92, Lake Forest

close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines of the week Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. "Rocky" star Sylvester Stallone and his wife of 25 years, Jennifer Flavin, have patched up their relationship after she had filed divorce paperwork in August. Stallone, 76, and his 54-year-old wife were spotted giggling on a bench like teenagers Friday in Calabasas, California. The pair were cozying up as the "Rambo" star grabbed Flavin’s attention by showing his phone to her while sharing an intimate moment. Stallone’s wedding band was shining visibly as Flavin intently gazed at his screen. SYLVESTER STALLONE AND JENNIFER FLAVIN RECONCILE POST DIVORCE FILING: EXPERTS DISCUSS STARS' CHANGE OF HEARTS "Rocky" star Sylvester Stallone and his wife of 25 years, Jennifer Flavin, have patched up their relationship after she had filed divorce paperwork in August. … [Read more...] about Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Flavin brush off split days after being on brink of divorce

During what has been such a wonderful baseball season in New York, one that brought us to a night like Friday night, with Aaron Judge going for No. 62 and Jacob deGrom starting the Mets’ biggest regular-season series in years against the Braves, there has been some very heavy side action going on. Call it Moneyball for Judge and for deGrom. And not the kind of Moneyball from the book and the movie. The book and movie were about looking for big results by spending small money, the way Billy Beane used to in Oakland. No, this is all about big money in New York, for Judge and for deGrom, both looking for new contracts when this season ends, however the season ends for the Mets and Yankees. We know the kind of money Judge turned down in the spring, with free agency looming for him. And now we see how he has responded, with one of the great offensive seasons in baseball history, not just the home runs but the chance to win a Triple Crown in New York for the first time since Mickey … [Read more...] about Mike Lupica: Jacob deGrom was good on a night the Mets needed him to be great

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It's been five years since carnage and death sent his family running into the night, leaving them separated and terrified as a gunman rained bullets into an outdoor country music festival crowd on the Las Vegas Strip. The memories don't fade, they sharpen, William “Bill” Henning said as he prepared for ceremonies in Las Vegas marking the date of the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre. “Chaotic and unreal," he recalled. “A human stampede. People were bleeding and screaming and running. We all got separated. We didn’t know who was alive. That was the most difficult.” He's now part of a survivor community thousands strong, one that's helped him sort through the horror of what happened during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 850 were injured among a crowd of 22,000. In the years since, the grim drumbeat of mass shootings has continued: schools in Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida; grocery stores in Buffalo, … [Read more...] about Vegas survivors signal hope even as mass shootings persist