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How you can help prevent food poisoning

“From farm to plate, make food safe” was the theme of this year’s World Health Day. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization highlighted the importance of food safety. Because th...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Change your nature to gain control over want/sin

Human misery stands a good chance of lasting as long as the sun shines until people decide that their want no longer matters enough to control life. Hear these words from the Book...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits

Leave them alone: Helping baby wildlife can kill

By Maureen Keilty Living with Wildlife Advisory Board You see big eyes, a thin coat of shivering feathers, and your heart tells you, “Help me, I’ve been abandoned!” How...

DATE: Apr 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Early delights: Asparagus, garlic

With the (early) arrival of spring so comes the flowering shrubs and trees – forsythia, plums, apricots and crabapples – as well as the initial vegetable growth from asparagus and garlic. ...

DATE: Apr 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Rushing to a conclusion smothers seeds of New Life

Premature convergence. That was my take-away from a training I recently attended. While it is not a phrase I’d heard before, I recognized it immediately – in myself. Premature con...

DATE: Mar 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Some like it hot Soaking up the history at New Mexico’s Ojo Caliente springs

On frigid winter days with long winter nights, there’s nothing like a soak in a natural hot springs and one of the most historic in the Southwest is at Ojo Caliente, N.M. Pioneeri...

DATE: Feb 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

TABOR squeezing Colorado recovery

This might be the year for Colorado taxpayers to take a serious look at the TABOR (Taxpayers' Bill of Rights) Amendment that voters put into the state constitution in 1992. Along ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: View from the Boondocks

Christmas trees have uses after holidays

’Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the tree lot, many creatures were stirring and wondering, “What?” What to do with these trees that now have no home? Could we find them a place...

DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Young farmers plant seeds for success

Way back when – perhaps the late 1990s – I wanted to be a farmer. I was close to getting mybachelor of science degree at Montana State University and was taking those “fluff” cla...

DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Christmas trees have uses after holidays

'Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the tree lot, many creatures were stirring and wondering, "What?" What to do with these trees that now have no home? Could we find them a place...

DATE: Jan 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Make A New Year’s resolution that will last a lifetime

By Mary Dodd Now that the holidays are over, the new toys have lost their novelty, and some New Year’s resolutions have already been broken, make a resolution that will last your ...

DATE: Jan 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: MECC Cares for kids

Living in Christ in the community of Church

I’ve been asked more than once by members of the congregation I serve to video my sermons and put them on our website. When I decline, they often ask if I wouldn’t just post the texts on the...

DATE: Jan 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

How you can help prevent food poisoning

Change your nature to gain control over want/sin

Leave them alone: Helping baby wildlife can kill

Early delights: Asparagus, garlic

Rushing to a conclusion smothers seeds of New Life

Some like it hot Soaking up the history at New Mexico’s Ojo Caliente springs

TABOR squeezing Colorado recovery

Christmas trees have uses after holidays

Young farmers plant seeds for success

Christmas trees have uses after holidays

Make A New Year’s resolution that will last a lifetime

Living in Christ in the community of Church

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