We need high school journalism courses

The days that the Oak Leaf arrived in bins was a recurring highlight for me at Santa Rosa Junior College. I read the student newspaper faithfully, frequently issuing submissions and rebuttals. During my final semester at JC, I was one of its student reporters and the paper's arrival took on renewed importance because it meant that I could view my bylines.

Lake County Library: Applied to volunteer

I filled out an application to volunteer at the Lake County Library. It looks like I can help at 3:30 p.m. each Saturday pulling hold requests from the shelves.

‘News Girl’ by Liza Ketchum

News Girl by Liza Ketchum is the story of a 12-year-old girl during the San Francisco gold rush.

Newsboys would hawk East Coast newspapers that had arrived by steamer ship. People would pay six times the printed cost of a three-month-old newspaper to get news from “back home.”

By selling these papers, at a dollar apiece, the newsboys could earn more money than their parents could earn in a day’s work: running a store or panning for gold. The heroine of Ketchum’s novel dresses up like a boy so that she can sell papers.

Lake County Library on Facebook

What a welcome surprise, when I moved to Lake County from the Santa Rosa Bay Area, to find that I was already a part of the Lake County Library system thanks to its shared network with Sonoma and Mendocino counties. I am a lifelong user of libraries and am glad to see the Lake County Library on Facebook.

Originally posted to the Lake County Library’s Facebook page

Support for animals means a lot

Sasha

Sasha looked so fragile in her cage at the Middletown Animal Hospital. Our tiny long-haired tortoiseshell cat was suffering from kidney failure and the veterinarians were working with us to give Sasha a fighting chance.