By Johanna Fleischman and Elvis Wong Rebecca Gehlen, 12 “I was late to school and I stayed at home. I didn’t understand why I wasn’t going to school, and I remember my mom saying, ‘Shut up, you are watching history.’ I was in third grade. I didn’t understand what was [...]
One comfort. One place. One family. Many lasting memories. Home: the place in which one’s domestic affections are centered.
At the age of 21, Jessica Gamble, a single Springfield Township mother from Ohio, was accused of allegedly encouraging her two-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana. Gamble, finding it amusing...
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Elvis Wong is an ambitious high school senior by any measure. He’s captain of Casa Grande High’s award-winning academic decathlon team, co-editor-in-chief of the school newspaper and a volunteer on annual missionary trips to Mexico through his church. But the challenges Wong [...]
By ELVIS WONG CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL I bowed my head, closed my eyes and listened to the hymns that were sung as the music resonated off the arched walls of the church sanctuary. I listened to the obituaries of those close friends and family as they spoke with brittle [...]