

From the Heart
Last Saturday, some of our community’s most caring individuals were honored at Boulder City Hospital Foundation’s 14th annual Heart of the Community Gala, an event that raises essential funds to keep our non-profit Boulder City Hospital healthy and sustainable. Many know Cindy Ford as Southwest Diner’s long-time owner. But few know the great impact she has on our community behind the scenes. For instance, just a few years ago, she and her diner team provided free meals to fam


Long-Term Labor of Love
Some of Boulder City’s finest but often most under-appreciated citizens are the long-term care residents at Boulder City Hospital. However, hospital Activities Director, Salome Jarvis, and her team of volunteers work overtime to ensure that our long-term hospital residents are as conspicuous and involved in community life as possible. With few exceptions, Salome and her volunteers have orchestrated an excursion every Tuesday for the last 32-plus years so that our hospital res


Planting Seeds that Encourage Us to Read
I love to read. I think I always have. My memory doesn’t stretch back far enough to recall a time when good books weren’t a part of my life.


Bursting Our Bewitched Bubble
It’s that dreaded time of year again. Monstrous in magnitude. A mysterious ritual. Strange, scary, sinister, and spooky. Macabre and menacing. Dark and gloomy. Dastardly and disturbing. Gruesome and ghoulish. Frightful. Creepy. Petrifying. Even eerie. A wicked, morbid tradition that haunts our city annually. You guessed it, right? Well, maybe not. If you supposed Halloween, guess again. It’s much more bizarre and terrifying. It turns our city staffers into zombies. It make


The Patriot Way
Today is Patriot Day, a day most of us refer to as 9/11. In the U.S., Patriot Day occurs annually on September 11 in memory of the...


Back to School Lessons in Gratitude
This week is back-to-school week in Boulder City, the first time in 27 years that I don’t have a child in public schools. School buses...


Balance and Rhythm
I moved to Boulder City almost 50 years ago and quickly became fast friends with Will Ferrence. There was a time when we did almost...


Lest We Forget
Over the last 200 years, life expectancy worldwide has nearly doubled. Today, many live well into their 80s or 90s and beyond. However,...


The Right to Be Heard
I’m not here to tell you which candidates or ballot measures to vote for on November 5. But when elections come around, I’m always...


Get in the Game
Like many of you, I’ve been viewing bits and pieces of the Paris Summer Olympics over the last two weeks. There’s something alluring...