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Usherette uniforms a unique addition to museum
Patterson’s downtown museum has received another donated item that will bring back fond memories to longtime residents.
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time ripe for another spring clean
Back in the late 1960s, a worthwhile project was initiated in Patterson — one that over the years became so successful it had to be canceled.
May 23, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Entertainment no longer a self-service matter
Some of us PEs (Persons of Experience) grew up eons ago in an entirely different environment.
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Small town has large impact
In recent weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to read many issues of the Patterson Irrigator from the World War II era.
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Outdoor feline faces food competition
Important things first. Our raccoon (well, not personally ours, exactly) has again been paying nightly visits to our backyard, dining on dry cat food just outside the backdoor. Not a mature raccoon...
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gift to graduate inspires reply in kind
Now here’s a story that deserves retelling.
Apr 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some technology goes too far
by Ron Swift | Patterson Irrigator
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
As most readers know, I do use email for corresponding with friends far and wide. (No, I don’t mean “fat.”)
One-time editor faced postwar financial dilemma
by Ron Swift | Patterson Irrigator
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Newspaper people are always getting picked on. No, I haven’t been picked on recently — but here’s a tale of what did happen nearly 70 years ago.
Another look at local losses in World War II
by Ron Swift | Patterson Irrigator
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Those few people who have pored through pages of the Patterson Irrigator published during the latter stages of World War II have expressed amazement at the losses of military personnel from this ar...
Daily news leaves majority painfully jaded
by Ron Swift | Patterson Irrigator
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
It is apparent — and with good reason — that many of us are becoming jaded about the daily loss of lives at the hands of others.
Closet cleaning an occasion for reminiscence
by Ron Swift | Patterson Irrigator
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
When many of us get to a certain age, we circle the wagons, contemplate the past and begin to clean out the closets.
Return to trustee areas may mean worse elections
by Ron Swift | Patterson Irrigator
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
It appears that the election of seven trustees who govern the Patterson Joint Unified School District will soon be by trustee areas.
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