Mural commissioned to teach about Worthington settlers' struggles

Worthington artist Lynn Bird is putting brush to canvas to re-create the journey of Worthington's settlers.

REBUILDING TOGETHER DAY: SDAR, VOLUNTEERS ASSIST NEIGHBORS IN NEED

This year, more than 65 volunteers spent their day helping to rehabilitate the home of an elderly Santee couple, which needed assistance with overgrown landscaping, fence repair and house painting at their property. The volunteer efforts will make it a safer and more pleasant dwelling for years to come, according to the event organizers.

THE CIVIC CIRCLE The Lowly “Lansang”

My friends have different hobbies: some do crochet, cross stitch, sudoku, painting, gardening, beading and the like. I think everyone of us have a hobby at one time or another. I love gardening and do reading as a pastime. I am not adept with crafts and arts.

Chester County’s Hispanic gangs may be small, but are still lethal

Six months ago, it was the bedroom of a small-time tough named Cuahuctemoc Bedolla. Now, it is his shrine, a tribute to a short life with a bad ending. A Mexican flag covers one wall of the narrow nook in his parents’ house in the West Grove woods of Chester County. Votive candles flicker near a statuette of Our Lady of Guadalupe. On the bed are his mechanic’s tools, green T-shirt emblazoned “El ...

"Women Build" repairs Denison woman's home

DENISON, TX - Habitat for Humanity's female volunteers broke out their tools for the fourth annual "Women Build" event, but as Jalah Gray shows us, this year instead of building a new home they decided to repair one with a "brush of kindness".