Times staff report

WENDY RICE

Position: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

Courtesy University of Colorado Boulder

Food safety law is good for consumers - if it were funded

By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Just five years ago, Congress passed a big, widely hailed law that promised to make America's food supply safer. But because of inadequate funding for...

DATE: July 30, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Try classical music - it's good for you!

I was bursting with pride Friday night at the Bayfield Performing Arts Center. First, the darned thing got built last year, and it's wonderful. Second, Bayfield was actually hosting a performance...

DATE: July 23, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Volunteering - it's good for you and the community

I've been up to my ears in projects lately, and I know I'm not the only one. Summer means there is lots of stuff to do, and many of those events and festivals are held largely due to volunteer...

DATE: July 16, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Will the center hold for LPEA?

By Tom Givon The recent LPEA elections bring to mind four memorable lines from W.B. Yeats' poem, The Second Coming, from 1920: "Things fall apart, the center doesn't hold, Mere anarchy is loosed...

DATE: July 2, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Rain, rain, it's OK (We hope)

Speaking of rain.... I feel like I'm caught in an endless loop of that Johnny Cash song "Five feet high and rising" where he sings "Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain." While our...

DATE: June 12, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Let's all swap our stuff on Yard Sale Day

Saturday is the big day here in Bayfield. No, it's not the 4th of July yet, it's Yard Sale Day. Either you're a bargain hunter out to find a forgotten Picasso, or a neat freak who wants to sell...

DATE: June 4, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Southern Ute Police enforcing seatbelt laws to save lives

By Raymond N. Coriz Jr. If there is one thing I could urge all motorists - drivers, passengers, front seat, back seat, all ages - to do every time you get in a vehicle, it's buckle up. It is the...

DATE: May 14, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Easter should be a holiday

I'm afraid Easter - the most important religious holiday of the year for Christians - is going the way of other holy days, turning into a secular opportunity to buy more stuff. Heck, we apparently...

DATE: April 9, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

We're special, darn it, because we say so

All our children are above average, and we're special, and it's not just us that says so. OK, I'm joking about some of that, but sometimes it's good to have an outsider come to a small town and...

DATE: March 19, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Win or lose, we're proud of our basketball boys

The boys playing on the Bayfield basketball team have had three coaches in three years. They had an 11-10 season. They only had one league victory during the regular season. They were ranked #28 in...

DATE: March 12, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

On Monday morning, I will want my missing hour back

Spring forward and fall back. What a cutesy-foo-foo way of making our lives a veritable hell. I think Daylight Savings Time was invented to drive working mothers nuts. But we were talking about it...

DATE: March 5, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

Whacky weather leads to random thoughts

We hope winter is coming back this weekend, but we've hoped for that during the past few storms that have shot right over us to the north, and we've had zip for snow. Don't get me wrong. T-shirts...

DATE: Feb. 19, 2015 | COLUMN: Talk of the Times

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