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Blankenship: A vow to shed pounds, beat dog days
Sadly, the sun still isn’t done with us this summer. Not content to fry us thus far in 2010, which they say has been the hottest since I don’t know when, it’s due to grind on as usual, until the Redskins kickoff their first game that counts.
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Stafford area youth finally going to the dogs
At long last, plans are under way to organize a 4-H Youth Dog Program for Stafford area kids.
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Guest Column: From high school to the Sun
People say that the years you spend in high school will be some of the best years of your life. As I’m going into the third year of my high school career, I’ve often disagreed with that statement.
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Pet Column: Paw it forward
My first introduction to structured dog obedience happened more than 25 years ago in Jacksonville, N.C.
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Guest column: Technology shouldn't trump books
The written word is a mysterious thing. A writer can paint a picture with nothing more than a sentence of adjectives and nouns that can cause a reader to tear up. A writer can make you feel like you’ve been hit in the gut with nothing more than a choice of words. A writer can sway your opinion or give you more of a reason to stand your ground for what you believe in.
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Pets: The doggie boomer generation
Since it has to do primarily and your birth date, I’ve never wanted to admit that, by definition, I’m a Baby Boomer. Granted, I was born right at the tail end, but sadly, it is what it is and I can’t escape that fact.
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Editor's Column: 'Karate Kid' remake leapfrogs on legacy
It’s a Cruel Summer for Karate Kid fans enduring the opening of The Karate Kid remake. Or is it?
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Pet column: Are we supersizing our pets?
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, over 30 percent of Americans over the age of 20 are obese. So I suppose it’s no surprise that according to most veterinary and pet health sources, more than 40 percent of our dogs and cats are, too. Like our fast food, we’ve supersized our pets, and thus have led them in to dangerous territory.
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Pets: Beating the summer heat
It seems like yesterday when we were surrounded by snow, literally everywhere! However, like clockwork, summer and warmer temperatures are upon us, with a vengeance!
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Pets: Boy dog, girl dog, what's the difference?
Are there differences between male dogs and female dogs? There certainly are, but more than likely not the differences many think. Dogs aren’t privy to the gender stereotypes that burden us humans.
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Pets: It's National Bite Prevention Week
Even though National Dog Bite Prevention Week this year is technically from May 17– May 23, we should keep it to the forefront every day. The facts are sobering:
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From where I sit: remember Mom
Remember Mom. Mother's Day was Sunday, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my two children for the privilege of being their mother. After all, it is our children who make us mothers.
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Pets: Help, my dog counter surfs
Dogs are born thieves. They have no moral code, and like most animals, they’re opportunists who seize the chance to take whatever they want. Keeping this in mind, it should make perfect sense that if a dog sees a T-bone steak laying on the counter, and nobody’s around, it becomes “free steak!”
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Pet Column: They're barking our song
Well, I don’t know about savage beasts, but music certainly does seem to have an effect on dogs. And why wouldn’t it? It
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Editor's Column: Dog ownership a responsibility
A recent dog attack in Woodbridge caught my attention, in which the 19-year-old owner of a Shiba Inu was outside with his dog when loose dogs attacked the Shiba Inu, named Kody, and killed him.
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Pets: Andrew goes to school
When we got out of the car at Anne E. Moncure Elementary School, the sight of busses parked in the distance and sound of children’s voices confirmed what my dog Andrew already knew the moment I loaded his mini-sofa into the car and put on his therapy dog vest.
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Pets: Help! My dogs aren't getting along!
Some of the most distressing calls I get are from multi-dog households where dogs that have lived together for some time all of a sudden start getting into fights with each other. This aggression between “furblings,” as I like to refer to call them, usually is the result of a jockeying for elevated social status between the two dogs.
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Callander: We all need lessons in civility
Even with all the “madness” centered around the March NCAA basketball tournament and all the school pride and competitiveness, we learned from the players, coaches and fans how to behave civily in highly-charged situations.
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Kerr: A great way to go to work
It was 1992 when the first Virginia Railway Express train began its inaugural run between Fredericksburg and Washington’s Union Station. That was the first time our county had seen passenger rail service since the old Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad had ceased passenger operations in the county in the mid-1950s.
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Pets: What kids, dogs can learn from one another
We’ve all heard the saying, “never work with kids and animals,” right?
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Debate brings out best in homeschoolers
STAFFORD — Denzel Washington’s fine movie performance in The Great Debaters as a coach in the 1930s was my only background source as I agreed to be a judge in a homeschoolers’ debate contest last weekend at Stafford’s Mount Ararat Baptist Church.
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Pets: Contract with the dog
What if we were required to enter into a contract with our dog? Well, guess what? We already do.
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HOLLIFIELD: Get a good deal on a used ghost
Turning to ridiculous international news, a woman in New Zealand sold what she said were two vials containing ghosts for nearly $1,400 in an online auction.
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GOLD: Library in south Stafford on its way
It seems to me…in spite of all their differences, the previous Stafford County Board of Supervisors accomplished a major achievement when it voted to build a new public library at the corner of Plantation Drive and Lyons Boulevard in England Run.
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BLANKENSHIP: Spring cleaning now? Oh my
I guess it’s high time for spring cleaning. Especially from the looks of my desk, which is almost as messy as the electronic desktop on my old pc monitor.
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