September is Attendance Awareness Month, everybody. So, what better time to talk about our own attendance and the importance of showing up in everything that we do.Increasing the number of our students who show up each day is a continued goal for our school system. But the reality is, our entire sta...

When I tell people that I am a Hospice Chaplain, I often get responses like “Oh, I don’t know how you do that” or “I couldn’t do that.” The message that is being portrayed to me is, “That’s a job I don’t want.”The truth is that it is very rewarding. One of the best parts of the job is the people we ...

“Animals Allowed” Now here’s a sign that you don’t see very often. Most signs are there to tell you what you cannot do. Of course, animals are allowed at the vet’s office. The pet stores also allow animals inside although I’ve never taken mine there. I can see a few problems with signs allowing anim...

Into everyone’s life some rain must fall and that’s one way to look at losing. Sure, everyone wants to be a winner at everything they do, but this is ...

Here is another group of pictures of north LaSalle military personnel who served during World War II. It’s the fifth group to be printed in The Jena T...

When my daughter, Holly, and her husband, Trace, were first married, they lived in Seattle, Washington, where Trace was in graduate school at the Univ...