Candace Kelly-Hodge and husband Mike were visiting Ireland on their honeymoon and slipped in a side trip and visit to Mike's aunt, Sister Joan of the Carmelite Order of Nuns. The picture was taken in Dolgellau (pronounced doll-geath-ee) in Wales, where Sister Joan's monastery is located. Sister Joan recently turned 80. At one point she served as a nun in Long Beach. Candace and Mike originally planned to get married on a beach but the caution that the Bible says that marriage should be build on a foundation of rock caused them to set their sights on higher ground ... they wed at Long Beach's iconic Sky Room.
Gordon (Corky) Abbott of Long Beach may be taking the Roving Reader concept to new heights. This timeout with the P-T occurred in 1951 in the unfriendly countryside of Korea. Corky, at right, was sharing some of his mom's carrot cake with his buddies, from left, "Crawford,'' of California; "Monroe,'' of Ohio; and "Patterson,'' of Minnesota (GIs traditionally fondly recall friends on a last-name basis). Corky delivered the morning Independent and sold the afternoon paper on the corner of American (now Long Beach Boulevard) and Anaheim during World War II.
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