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I put a more detailed comment on my profile on KatnAnna's local choices site on my career in cartoons in Riverside. My friend, artist Penny Meyer, actually read in around 1981, the four to six issues of Running Fruit series from Ad Infinitum, my strip that ran for half a year in San Diego area, where I didn't get paid or even knew about it as published four years after last drawn, and had moved to Modesto. Someone recently emailed to confirm whether a underground comix zine from 1971 might be mine, it was my signature, but likely a publication by friend Jim Mitchell. Its a hazy, smokey memory of those days anyway, so any drawing I did might not come to memory, short term, or cough... likely why I haven't smoked more than cigars in a very long time now...

John Black, or JB of JB Presents wrote in this letter to the editor, regarding the United Community Walk, coming up June 14, with the Modesto Blues Festival. A lot of groups invited, this is community walk, nonprofits, service groups, you got a cause, or want to celebrate recovery, or help in our fundraising effort for NAMI Stanislaus, or want to raise awareness, or just the fun of walking or riding a bike on the new Virginia Corridor Trail, prior to enjoying some great Blues music in Graceada Park, come out and join us. If interested in being a part of this, email john at johnb@jbpresents.com or call 209-985-0467.

Might as well write political football, as Patriots ahead when I last checked the game, and noted walking, and doing Commonality Art Show today, will catch up on furtherance and history of Graceada Park Performance Art Project items, as owe it to one of co-founders, Eric Donnelly, who visited project dream come true, free blues festival in Graceada Park last year, both of us in some sort of recovery, Eric's number one contribution to art project, the local GPPAP dumpster dive union, or which he was founding member, and shop steward.

I like reading Jeff Jardine's column, thought his musings on latest City of Modesto legal loss over employment issues, i.e. gender equal pay, or as jeff noted, not equal....... worth reading to get idea of City workforce issues with management.

Everyday more people are getting their news from sites on the Internet. Struggling to maintain a viable product in the changing market, newspapers are transitioning to multimedia. This is a short piece I produced about a newspaper in Santa Rosa, The Press Democrat, but The Modesto Bee is going through the very same changes.

Maybe I got the list a tangled in my head, but either way, you have to read the Modesto Bee's just released list of 50 things to do in our fair city.

Painstakingly compiled by entertainment writer, Lisa Millegan, the list explores all sorts of things to do here that will no doubt make living here much more enjoyable. Our little city is full of surprises. You should never be bored here!

Modesto Bee, on front page, features a Day in the Life in homeless quarters in Turlock today. Good notice on loss of health benefits as a big reason some folks in my age bracket hit the streets, and illustrative of some of the issues taken up by an operating body of agencies, non profits, government, churches, and neighborhood associations in Modesto and Stanislaus County called the Housing Collaborative, approximately 148 member groups or so involved, charged with, and currently in its second year development of a 10 year plan to reduce or eliminate homelessness in Stanislaus County.