| College students learn to serve
HOLLAND -- Lynden Sass, 18, wore her blue Crocs Saturday as she volunteered at the Inn at Freedom Village for the first time. She noticed an older man wearing the same shoes, but his were red. Their connection was instant. Mike DeGood, 92, told her that when a person gets to be over 90, he should have a pair of "holey" shoes. "You would think I have known Lynden for 20 years," said DeGood, while the two joined other residents drinking coffee and eating pastries on the patio. Sass learned DeGood was married 70 years before his wife died and that his hobby was building steam engines. One of six college students at Freedom Village, Sass was among 400 volunteering in Hope College's "Time to Serve" program, now in its eighth year.
Chefs reunite, prepare dishes at Capistrano's
Orlando Rogers is executive chief at Capistrano's Restaurant and Bar in downtown Bakersfield, and has reunited with a few chef friends. The hookup was to cook-up a special menu for the restaurant, and has been a longtime coming. Rogers said they all went to culinary school in Las Vegas together, but has known a few of them since junior high school. “We still keep in touch," Rogers said. The culinary quartet cooked up dishes like BLT stuffed tomatoes, cilantro pasta with shrimp, and apple pie shortcake. Friday night is the last night the dishes will be served. .
Two Sweeping Novels of America
The heroine of Amy Bloom's new novel of historical fiction personifies some very contemporary desires: to be sexually frank, romantically unique, and maternally instinctual. As we learn in the flashback swirls that begin "Away" ( Random House, 240 pages, $23.95), Lillian Leyb is at once a refugee of Stalin's pogroms and a plucky immigrant on the Lower East Side �-- occupying a cultural moment that has not gone neglected, lately. Because she has suffered, Ms. Bloom suggests, Lillian knows the world. She has license to get what she wants. Bold and flirtatious at a job fair, she ignores the women she has superseded and smiles at her new bosses: Lillian has endured the murder of her family, the loss of her daughter, Sophie, an ocean crossing like a death march, intimate life with strangers in her cousin Frieda's two rooms, smelling of men and urine and fried food and uncertainty and need.
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