Swim lessons offered throughout Basin

Make for a safer summer

MOSES LAKE - If you're a kid in the Columbia Basin, summer means swimming. But if you're a parent, the thought of kids swimming probably means anxiety.

Sharing the arts: Moses Lake couple spreads love of music, theater in hometown

Emily and Michael Duvall found their passion for the arts, music and theater growing up right here in Moses Lake. Since coming back to town after college, the couple have now become active in helping to share that passion for the arts with the next generation in the place they found their own.

Science, life lessons at Cub Scout Day Camp

MOSES LAKE — It turns out there are some rocks that look really cool when they’re sprayed with water. But the sun’s rays won’t make the water evaporate right away, even with a magnifying glass. Hey. look at that - science, right there, and it’s fun. Sometimes science tastes good, too. Cub Scouts at the annual Columbia Basin District Day Camp used graham crackers and pudding to mimic the layers of the earth - smashed up graham crackers for rocks and dirt, pudding for the molten lava layers. The Cub Scouts started to giggle over the idea they were eating the earth. Columbia Basin District Day Camp is designed to teach kids about science, and about the values of scouting. Each scientific experiment and activity came with a demonstration of ideas in the Cub Scout creed.

Letter: Middle school athletes should have playing time

Living in a small town gives more kids a chance to be involved in sports, which is great. When they are younger and attend the practices and follow team rules, it is mandatory that they actually play.

Dreams, reality and the difference between the two

When I was younger, like millions of other kids, I always wanted to be a player in the National Football League. I exhausted many years learning all about the players and how they eventually came to live the dream. I searched, too long I now realize, for paths that would lead me their way.

Tips to talk money with your children

(ARA) - Kids these days. They're constantly bombarded with information from all directions on every topic imaginable - except how to manage money.

Parks and Rec offers ice skating, hockey

MOSES LAKE — Early-morning ice skating lessons, a clinic for kids and teens who want to learn about hockey and making table runners are some of the classes sponsored during the week by the Moses Lake Parks and Recreation Department.

Bring back the summer memories and share them with your kids

(ARA) - Remember the summer days when you held a camping adventure under the stars in your own backyard, played board games with your parents or enjoyed an ice cream bar on a hot night? Do you remember learning to ride a bike through the neighborhood, waving to everyone sitting out on the front porch or working on their landscaping?

Right angling: Quincy man says fly fishing more than just catching fish

QUINCY — Joshua Shew said for him, fly fishing is not so much about catching fish as getting to know nature.

‘At the end of the day, I’m a teacher first’

For Rudy Ochoa II, teaching way to give back

OTHELLO — Rudy Ochoa II said the influences that led him to a teaching career were all around him. His mom Gloria Ochoa was, and is, a counselor who works for Adams County, and his dad Rudy Ochoa Sr. works at Scootney Springs Elementary, and as a coach in Othello, Rudy Sr. is something of a legend. “My dad, he coached all of us,” Ochoa said. Ochoa’s wife Eden is a teacher at Scootney Springs. His brother is a teacher and coach too; his sister was a teacher and coach, and still coaches. Another sister also is a coach, and so are two of this brothers-in-law, while his sister-in-law works in education too.

Basketball league registration deadline Thursday

Wrestling, girls basketball among other activities offered

MOSES LAKE - Wrestling, basketball and soccer for kids and yoga and basketball for adults are among the activities sponsored through Moses Lake Parks and Recreation beginning this week.

Rev. Klockers: Baseball lessons that also may be God-sent

Mark 8:31, from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible says, "Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again."

VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, seeking solace in virtual worlds

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It’s 2014, and you’re relaxing with your best friend in a pastel-hued Florida condo the day after Thanksgiving. She’s checking Facebook and you’re on your iPad, playing a video game called Plague, Inc.

VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, seeking solace in virtual worlds

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It’s 2014, and you’re relaxing with your best friend in a pastel-hued Florida condo the day after Thanksgiving. She’s checking Facebook and you’re on your iPad, playing a video game called Plague, Inc.

VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, seeking solace in virtual worlds

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It’s 2014, and you’re relaxing with your best friend in a pastel-hued Florida condo the day after Thanksgiving. She’s checking Facebook and you’re on your iPad, playing a video game called Plague, Inc.

VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, seeking solace in virtual worlds

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — It’s 2014, and you’re relaxing with your best friend in a pastel-hued Florida condo the day after Thanksgiving. She’s checking Facebook and you’re on your iPad, playing a video game called Plague, Inc.

Fun ways to teach kids good hygiene habits

(ARA) - For kids who are eager to run and play, the importance of washing their hands regularly is often lost. But the effects of cleanliness and good hygiene are significant. For example, each year, American children lose 22 million school days to the common cold, according to the School Network for Absenteeism Prevention.

"I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school

Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last.

"I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school

Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last.

"I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school

Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last.