Millions of Xmas lights at Mission Inn
The turkey is barely cold on the plates in the dining room at the Mission Inn in Riverside before the blaze of Christmas lights is switched on. The Friday after Thanksgiving has become the most...
View ArticleEditorial: Pilgrims’ progress toward freedom
Conscience is powerful human resource. A life lived in service to truth that abides in one's conscience can transform lives and circumstances. And, as history sometimes witnesses, matters of conscience...
View ArticleNew Facebook page starts for Dana Point, Capistrano news
Today we're launching a Facebook page for the communities of San Juan Capistrano and Dana Point.Check it out at facebook.com/capo.dana. To get started, just click "like."We'll post stories there as...
View ArticleCooking: Family shares traditions and a love of cooking
At one end of the test kitchen of Mood for Food, a San Juan Capistrano consulting firm founded by Gina Galvan, is an industrial vacuum tumbler for marinating meat; at the other is her grandmother's...
View ArticleMarket holding last day of its season
Ponderosa Park Certified Farmers' Market is going seasonal and will present the market from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 29 – the last market of 2011. Ponderosa Park Market will re-open on March 27 with a...
View Article17 houses, 3 condos hit escrow
The following update on local real estate information is based on Multiple Listing Service data as of Monday. On behalf of the Vartanian team, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. PLACENTIA Properties...
View ArticleBest of Alan W. Bock: Time for a comeback for liberty
We like to think that the commemoration of Nov. 24, the birthday in 1878 of R.C. Hoiles, as Founder's Day here at the Register offers an opportunity not only to reflect on the ideas underpinning a...
View ArticleCafé Lucca serves meals with warmth
All kinds of tables make room for all kinds of cravings at Café Lucca in Old Towne Orange. On a recent evening, we sat down for homemade pumpkin walnut ravioli at a small rustic table that could double...
View ArticleGeorge Will: 2011's tasty leftovers
"People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." – Randall Jarrell, "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket" This is not a Golden Age, which distinguishes it from...
View ArticleDebra Saunders: The later the fix, deeper the debt
A few months ago, Washington's big bad wolf was Republicans' refusal to compromise by supporting any deficit reduction plan that included tax increases. Republicans were unreasonable, editorial pages...
View ArticleMorning letters: No help wanted this Thanksgiving
NORTH TUSTIN, Jennifer Gates: I’m not certain if I should be upset or happy that I have contacted a half-dozen agencies in the past two weeks to volunteer on Thanksgiving, only to be told they were...
View ArticleGallery: Thanksgiving and supercommittee cartoons
Cartoons on Thanksgiving and the supercommittee
View ArticleNov. 24 celebrity birthdays
See some of the people celebrating birthdays today. Notable personalities of the past who were born on this date can be found at the end of this slide show. SEE BIRTHDAYS FOR A PREVIOUS DATE...
View ArticleO.C. Rhodes Scholar focuses on service, science
MIT senior Stephanie Lin has spent much of the last four years helping others, whether it's leading student teams to assist impoverished Mexican villages or serving as an advocate for the poor in...
View ArticleReally? 60,000 bees found in home with corpse
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” Woman finds father dead in home full of bees — WPLG-TV NY foreclosure firm that threw Halloween party mocking homeless says...
View ArticleHow to give thanks, and not be a sucker, this holiday season
Happy Thanksgiving! As you reflect today on all the things you’re thankful for — stuffing and cranberry sauce surely among them — we welcome you to the official start of open-your-heart-and-your-wallet...
View ArticleWhat real estate can be thankful for
Veteran Southern California real estate analyst G.U. Krueger adds his commentary on the housing market ... The purpose of Thanksgiving is to give thanks. It is one of the most popular holidays in the...
View ArticleGive thanks: Calif. No. 2 in sweet potatoes
The South may be known for its sweet potato pie, but California is growing a lot of those sweet potatoes. North Carolina is the nation's top sweet potato producer, growing 972 million pounds annually,...
View ArticleO.C. business owners: ‘I’m thankful for…’
Orange County small-business owners and managers still say they have a cornucopia of blessings for which to be thankful, in spite of a sluggish economy following years of recession and slow recovery. I...
View ArticleShopping with kids? Tips for healthy snacking
Every year I wake up at 2 a.m. on Black Friday, with my newspaper inserts all planned out, prepared to do all my holiday shopping in one morning. Finding myself running from one sale to the other, even...
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