Rogers Middle School students and sisters Samantha, left, and Sarah Sheldon on their summer vacation. Their family has a traditional Adirondack "camp" or cottage with a boathouse located inside the Adirondack National Park on Brantingham Lake. The camp was established in the late 1800s bytheir great-great grandfather who was a dairy farmer in nearby Lowville, NY.
Farmers in that part of the country often had small cottages near lakes, where their families took refuge from the heat and humidity in the summer months.
Getting away, far, far away from it all to a magical place twelve time zones away and South of the Equator. A peaceful, tropical nation of 115 islands and a population perhaps as big as Lakewood's. It is a place with living animal and plant species found no where else on our earth and a park some believe was the site of the Garden of Eden.The recent destination of Long Beach residents Allan and Louise Cooper was to the Island of La Digue in the Seychelles Republic. Going to a destination as distant as this does not mean roughing it. There are two ATMs on this island, a paved road, a church, a gas station, which is a 50 gallon drum with a hand pump on top, and very possibly the most beautiful beach in the world at Anse Source d'Argent. People can get around this stunningly beautiful island on bicycle or by ox-cart.
The bucket list objective of the trip was for Allan to become trained and entrusted to captain the cart to drive Louise and Creole Services' oxen facilitator and Laker fan Roddy down to that beach. Using newly learned techniques, the ox-cart was successfully driven using all three speeds forward and one in reverse. How does one shift gears on an ox you might ask? Sorry, that is a very sensitive subject to the ox and must remain a secret.
Submitted by Allan and Louise Cooper
Brett and Laura Hunter of Long Beach were visiting a children's home in Antigua, Guatemala with a group from their church. Also pictured are Elena Millane, Cynthia Peterson, Susan Hock, Linda Costa and John Millane of Long Beach. They were visiting Pat and Bill Mossman, formerly of Long Beach.Submitted by Laura Hunter
Here we are with the Press-Telegram at Punalu'u Black Sand Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. It was one of our stops on our way to see the volcano on the southwest side of the island.Submitted by Lowell and Cathi Barnhart
Garden Grove
Long time friends and retired educators, Becky Carroll and Brenda Ross recently ventured to Kenya and Tanzania on a safari. During their drive from the Ngorongoro Crater to the Serengeti, they stopped for a close look at Oldupai (formerly Olduvai) Gorge, one of the world's most famous archaeological sights where archaeologists found "Lucy" an Australopithecus afarensis, the earliest of species claimed to be directly ancestral to us. This was particularly exciting for Becky who spent many years teaching Ancient World History to 6th graders.Submitted by Becky Carroll
Long Beach
Sisters Jamie Passmore and Jana Brown from Lakewood took a December trip to San Francisco to visit their cousin Kurtis Haygood and his girlfriend Kristin Landucci. The "Sisters in San Francisco" trip was a blast. The girls are pictured here in front of the Golden Gate Bridge holding the Press-Telegram. 
Our family took the Rail to the Rim train to the Grand Canyon on March 12th. We had a wonderful time celebrating our daughter's birthday and our upcoming 50th anniversary while we were there.In the picture are Maria Boone, Gil and Ginger Sanchez, Ryan Sokolowski, and our grandchildren Trinity and Noah Boone. We all live in Lakewood.
Submitted by Ginger Sanchez
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