By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Sept. 2, 2015 [Author’s note: You can also see more exciting news about OJA students in our Poetry & Arts department this month!] Orlando Junior Academy is about to open a whole new era in academy learning, with the creation of the Emeril Lagasse Foundation Kitchen House and Culinary Garden. In […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted Aug. 26, 2015 Everyone who pays any attention at all to the international news knows that there is an enormous refugee crisis in the Middle East, due particularly to ISIS-caused violence. Syria is especially hard hit. Mercy Corps reports that as of July 20, 2015, there were 4 million Syrian refuges […]
By Heather Ruiz, reprinted by permission; Aug. 19, 2015 [Editor’s note: This story is quite different from what you normally find here—more like opinion or blog. In fact, it was first published in the Walla Walla University Collegian under opinion/perspective. But it impressed me so much that I obtained permission to reprint it in its […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted August 12, 2015 You’ve heard the story: the one about the devoted shepherd who watches over the sheep, looks for the lost ones, bottle feeds the abandoned lambs, the shepherd whose gentle voice and calming presence make the sheep feel secure. With such a shepherd, sheep (not known for their intelligence […]
By Briana Pastorino, LLUH, posted by Debbonnaire Kovacs, Aug. 5, 2015 National TV show, ‘Life on the Line,’ back for a second season Show produced by 12-time Emmy® Award winning team and narrated by celebrity journalist Lisa Ling Editor’s note: Last spring (2014), Loma Linda University Health unrolled their first national TV show, a documentary […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted July 29, 2015 About half the students, faculty, and staff at Blue Mountain Academy in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, as well as some community volunteers, were involved in the academy’s recent production of an operatic drama called “The Exodus Story.” Director of music Lawrence Galera told AToday that the full number was probably over […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted July 22, 2015 “Internet radio is the wave of the future,” says Glen Striemer. He ought to know. He owns four internet radio stations, each reaching different populations, though there is overlap. Striemer’s background shows him to have the people skills and marketing skills to be a successful radio entrepreneur. He […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, submitted June 24, 2015 The Seventh-day Adventist church will soon have another radio station. It won’t be a very big one—its broadcasting reach will only be a ten-mile radius of its tower, which will be located near New Circle Road in Lexington, KY—but those who are helping to get it in operation […]
By Virginia Davidson, submitted June 18, 2015 [Note from editor: I believe this is intended to form part of a longer work Ms. Davidson is working on, so if you like it, you may get a chance for more! We featured Davidson before, both in Features and in Poetry & Arts, (also here), but this […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 10, 2015 On the weekend of April 23-25, 2015, Israeli archaeologist Aran Yardeni told a startling story at Walla Walla University. In 1999, he said, when he was a second year student of archaeology at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, a friend and fellow student, Zachi Dvira (whose name at […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, submitted June 3, 2015 Richard Garey and his daughter were visiting Hannibal, Missouri, looking at all the Mark Twain sites, when someone at the visitor’s center asked, “Did anyone ever tell you that you look like Mark Twain?” Garey smiled. As a Mark Twain interpreter, he wore the trademark whiskers and flowing […]
By Helena Pett, submitted May 27, 2015 “We all have to eat, there’s no two ways about it,” said Ingrid Beer, professional personal chef, recipe developer, and blogger. Ingrid, who attends Glendale City Church in Glendale, CA, first got into cooking after deciding to make homemade baby food for her newborn son. She was raised […]