Notes from daily doubles
This is daily doubles week for mid-valley high school football teams. It’s the week I usually do videos of our 5A and 4A teams. This time around I added defending 3A state champion Santiam Christian. I visited West Albany, South Albany, Swee buy cheapest viagra t Home and Lebanon on Monday and Santiam Christian, Philomath,...
Olympic adjustments
“Don’t tell me,” reporter Kyle Odegard said. I had asked him Wednesday afternoon if he wanted to know the outcome of the Olympic women’s beach volleyball championship. Kyle doesn’t want to hear any of the results. He won’t look at Twitter, listen to the radio, or look at the AP Olympics coverage on our websites....
Add Charlie Daniels to the list of great over-60 rockers
Charlie Daniels, Oregon Jamboree
Greatest over-60 rock/pop performers: The addendum
After posting my Top 10 Greatest Over-60 Rock/Pop Performers the other day, I got a bunch of comments, as expected, with other suggestions for the list. I’ve thrown out Freddy Mercury because he’s been dead for 21 years, and Al Di Meola (58), P buy cheap cialis online at Metheny (57) and Joe Bonamassa (33)...
The 10 greatest over-60 rock/pop performers
Paul McCartney remains a great showman. His “Hey Jude” finale for Friday’s opening ceremonies of the London Olympics was fabulous. Sir Paul’s performance came during a week in which I had been thinking about rock and pop musicians over 60 who continue to excel. Another person in this category is Lonnie Jordan, the 63-year-old frontman...
WAR got us moving at River Rhythms
Lonnie Jordan, keyboardist, frontman and the only original member left in funk band WAR, kept things lively Thursday night at River Rhythms concert in Monteith Riverpark. Dancers young and old never stopped dancing during the show. Among the generic cialis m was 86-year-old Arlene Lopes of Albany. “I love it,” she said, canadian pharmacy no...
Quick, efficient implosion
I thought a lot of debris would fall on nearby Interstate 5 following Sunday’s implosion of the No 4 Recovery Boiler at the shuttered Albany Paper Mill. ODOT workers did a quick driveby look immediately after the blast and, amazingly, found nothing on the freeway. Within minutes, traffic that had been halted in both directions...
Always an athlete and still a coach
When John Radetich stopped by the Gazette-Times to talk with me Tuesday, he had just come from one of his twice-a-week sand volleyball games at Chintimini Park. At 63 and nearly 6-foot-3, he’s in good shape. Always has been. When the winter rolls around, he’ll be telemark skiing on Marys Peak every chance he get....
Happy 65th to Carlos Santana
Happy 65th birthday (on July 20) to the world’s greatest guitarist, Carlos Santana! It buy viagra online seems like yesterday that he was 22 and playing “Soul Sacrifice” at Woodstock and “Fried Neckbone” at Fillmore West in San Francisco. Santana is doing a cheap viagra uk two-year residency at the House of Blues in Las...
Raised-brush salute to house painters
Whenever I look down at my hands or legs this summer, I can see specks of white paint. I usually get most of the paint off, but there’s always something I’ve missed. I’ve been painting the house in my spare time since April. I’m three-quarters canadian pharmacy cialis of the viagra without prescription way done....
Nice night at River Rhythms, fireworks
We got to River Rhythms sometime after 8:30 Wednesday night, and set up our chairs by the concrete path a few yards fr generic cialis online om the beer garden, a new addition. We couldn’t see Ty Curtis and his band, but we heard them just fine — a sound I would describe as energized...
Fourth of July tribute to John Adams
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