Category: Features

U.S. Military History: Independence Day

Ross Dunfee The first successful English colony settled in America was at Jamestown, Va. in 1607—and the migration was on—primarily of British, German, and Dutch extraction, but immigrants arrived from throughout Europe. Communities principally were settled and financed by privately-organized British settlers or families using free enterprise without any significant English royal or Parliamentary government support…

Residents Enjoy a Visit to Lavender Farm

Vicki Warning Have you ever wanted to visit a lavender farm or make a lavender wreath? Well, 14 ladies carpooled from SaddleBrooke Ranch one Saturday morning to the Life Under the Oaks Lavender Farm in Oracle to do that very thing. All wreath-making materials, including freshly picked lavender, were provided. We sat outside in an…

In Passing

Fiorino, Emilio E. (Lee) Lee lived a long, healthful, prolific, and vibrant life until his passing on May 22, at age 96. Born of Italian immigrants Emilio Fiorino and Ernestina Tessitore Fiorino in Little Italy, New York City, on Jan. 18, 1925, Lee served with the 204th Combat Engineers in Europe during World War II. After…