Writers and Columnists

Mary Rhoads Columnist

Hiking the Ortega’s Big Bear and Choquito Falls trails

By Mary Rhoads Columnist, The Friday Flyer Once in a while you eat a meal that is so flavorful and delicious you can’t stop thinking about it.  A friend of mine, Ray, is addicted to good barbecue and found this new restaurant in Lake Elsinore called Freddy Ray’s BBQ (in the Stater Bros Shopping Center at Four Corners). He kept talking about it and eating the ribs, tri-tip, brisket and pulle…

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Sharon Rice Editor, The Friday Flyer

Voting for Directors, motorcycles to end Thursday

Election signs will be coming down next week, following the Annual Meeting on Thursday, May 17. Canyon Lake prime members have been voting their proxies and mailing in their ballots since mid-April. Those who have not yet mailed their ballots are urged to hand carry them to the meeting in the Lodge Holiday Bay Room and turn them in prior to 9 a.m. See POA Business News for the Annual Meeting agen…

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Georgia Zermeno Reporter, The Friday Flyer

Retired firefighters use AED to save golfer

"It was about 4:15 or 4:30 p.m.," says Liz Hefferon. "I was picking my husband up after he completed a game of golf, and we went into the clubhouse for a drink – that's when it happened." A moment that changed some lives, a moment that saved another's life. According to Golf Course employee Ian Nelson, he was working the desk when someone opened the door and yelled, "Call 911, we have someone …

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Ron and Leigh Martel Columnists, The Friday Flyer

Movie Review: 'The Hunger Games'

By Ron and Leigh Martel Movie Reviewers In this thinking person’s action flick, a futuristic society sadistically requires children to kill other children as a form of entertainment. The fact that “The Hunger Games” book and film are blockbusters in our current society illustrates the truest form of political satire. Either that or our jaded society is just as sick as that portrayed so fo…

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Chloe Howard Teen Reporter

Experience Disneyland's 'magic of the season'

December is a very hectic month for everyone. With the stress of Christmas shopping and all the family events, it can sometimes overshadow the magic of the season. Christmas time is supposed to be about bringing people together and celebrating how much they mean to you. Yet the stress of the month sometimes makes us forget this. I always love going to Disneyland during Christmas time because it r…

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Ken Cable Columnist, The Friday Flyer

The Wild Side of Canyon Lake: Underfoot and underground

Did you know (of course you did) that lots of creatures live underground in Canyon Lake? Many never, or rarely, journey to the upper world, while others live down there, but commute daily to the surface. I’m tempted to call “down there” the nether region – but in reality it is just another environment where life thrives. Blind, legless lizards, for example, live and flourish beneath th…

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Betty Williams Columnist, The Friday Flyer

Cook's Corner: Cookies by any other name are just as good

What is your favorite Girl Scout cookie? We recently bought several boxes from a friend’s daughter who is a Daisy. This is her first year in Girl Scouts and she is steadily working her way to earning a Cookie Badge and a trip to Disneyland for her cookie selling efforts. While I was never in Girl Scouts as a child, I remember my mom annually purchasing a box or three of Thin Mints from the neig…

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