Today's Features

Combat is the primary challenge of a Marine, but there are many days when fighting is far from the primary agenda.

In the first days of a 30-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps, I was dispatched to the Marine Officers Basic School at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, my first trip east from my home in Washington state.

I got a chance to learn much, and for five years I recorded these memories in a journal that now is part of the Filson Historical Society.

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

Those moving words by novelist Victor Hugo are especially true in the case of mothers who lovingly continue to care for children who have endured much illness or trauma in their lives.

We pay homage to all moms on Mother’s Day this year – with a special tribute to three wonderful women who give a special meaning to the word “mother.”

Elizabeth Nichols

Officials at Centro Latino say they are excited about an upcoming wine tasting this Friday at Talon Winery – the center’s first fundraiser – that they hope will help to fund some new programs.

Sister Pat Reno, executive director of Centro Latino, said that not only is the number of people who depend on the center growing – they served 15,000 people last year – but they have also added a couple of new services, which are extensions of the center’s GED and English as a second language classes.

Peggy Tschauner and Ellen Jacobs of Shelby County, two of the 139 cancer survivors who will be participating in the Kentucky Oaks Survivors Parade May 3, are doubly excited about participating.

That’s because the pair was chosen to walk in the parade last year, through an online selection process, the usual procedure, but a storm ruined the parade, so they were invited back again this year.

“We got a letter last year, the Monday after the Derby, they sent out a letter last year to all of us,” Tschauner said.