This edition is a bit more family oriented than usual.
But we are a family newspaper.
It was a true delight this city’s sons and daughters perform on the big stage and the Peppermill and Gary Lewis should be thanked and thanked profusely for their company’s incredible generosity.
Yes probably only a very, very few of those singers and musician will ever make a living entertaining.
But so what.
For one glorious night they brought us happiness and pride.
Thank you Peppermill for giving that wonderful evening to our children.
John Lampros’ tirade against the social media kind of reminds us of similar outburst against television and before that those against radio, telephone, telegraphs, mass printing and perhaps beginning with the invention of the alphabet.
We doubt speech itself came under the gun because well one needs to speak before one can complain.
Progress can be frightening and confusing and sometimes down right mean. But on the whole we will take progress. It does offer more good things than it does bad things.
And in the big picture it really doesn’t matter what we think at all.
Progress will come whether we want it to or not.
It is our job to adapt or die.
It is one of our pleasures in this column to announce on occasion some good news about our family.
It is a tradition that began with the first issue of what became the High Desert Advocate in 1978.
In his first ever editorial our father of beloved memory announce the birth of his first grandson.
And now we our happy to welcome our second grandson. Born to our daughter Anna and our son-in-law Russell Mowszowski this Sunday.