Today, I had a quick chat with Dr. Ivan Lerner, who will be a speaker at The Living Well Expo on Sunday, July 28th at the BMH-BJ Synagogue. The expo hours are 10-4 and Dr. Lerner is scheduled from 3:30-4:00. He is sought out for his take on interpersonal relationships with our kids and their kids.
THE FROSTING ON THE CAKE
Stephanie Riggs reflects on her parents as grandparents.
My grandparent’s felt like the icing on the cake of life to my sisters and me. Grandma’s secret code wink meant a beeline to our pre-determined hiding spot to uncover a stack of brightly colored Peeps in all of their sugary glory! God knows how much I loved that woman! You see my grandmother just knew what my mother didn’t. We LOVED junk food.
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Interview with Mayor Hogan
Publisher’s note: The interview below was originally published in A New Outlook Magazine, October 2016. I was privileged and honored to have spent time with Mayor Hogan, who recently passed away from cancer. Mayor Hogan was extremely generous with his time. He was Aurora’s champion. Mayor Hogan passed away May 13, 2018. My condolences to his family and the city of Aurora.
Interview with Mayor Steve Hogan
I was pleasantly surprised that the mayor came to greet me in the waiting area. I expected his assistant to retrieve me and bring me to the mayor’s office. However, Aurora’s mayor, which has 375,000 people, which used to be considered a suburb of Denver, is very hands on. During our 30 plus minute interview, he didn’t strike me as someone who depends on others to get the job done. [Read more…]
High School seniors help in Harvey’s relief efforts
By Howard M. Wedgle
September 10, 2017
While we in the Denver metro area experienced sunny skies on August 25th, with temperatures in the upper 80’s, Houston and surrounding areas were pounded with over 40 inches of rain from the catastrophic hurricane, named Harvey.
An Interview with Adele Arakawa
I recently sat down with Emmy award winner Adele Arakawa, co-anchor of the 5 & 10PM news at 9News. She is and was the consummate journalist. She takes her job very seriously and has really appreciated her time here in Denver and the station that believed in her. She is set to retire from 9News on July 1 of this year. For this respected anchor, the date marks 24 years in this market. She is uncomfortable at the thought of being a role model, but from my perspective, she is. Below is a condensed version of my interview with Adele Arakawa:
Interview with Len Estrin
Go back in time and try to imagine slipping snugly into the ball turret of a B-17 during World War II. Listen to part of an interview Howard Wedgle did with Len Estrin who was one of those select group of men, who were “just doing their job”.
Interview with Len Estrin-Part One
I had the incredible honor of interviewing Len Estrin, who currently is a volunteer at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. Len was a ball turret gunner on a B-17 during World War II with the rank of Corporal/Staff Sergeant.
My Grandfather Louis Tucker makes his way to the US-part 1
By Howard M. Wedgle
Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia, at a time in the early part of the 20th century of great upheaval, both in Europe and across the Asian continent. This was not lost on the Jews who lived under his rule. Jews had a difficult time under the reign of the Czar, who, while not openly hostile to Russian Jews, also bore no good will towards them. Cossacks routinely stormed villages all through Mother Russia, while in the larger cities, other methods were used to keep the Jews ‘in their place’. It was in this environment that my maternal grandfather and grandmother lived in a small town known as Tiraspol.
My Father, the rebel
By Mark Margulies
My father was a rebel. And we knew it.
Born in 1906, he grew up in Williamsburg Brooklyn, then a working class neighborhood where many immigrant families, making their first ‘step up’ in America, came to resettle. [Read more…]
Interview with Sid Shafner
It all began January 30, 1933 when the Nazi party came to power. Twelve years of nationalistic, socialistic dictatorship. Immediately, Hitler imprisoned anyone who opposed him.
On March 21, 1933, The Munich Press announced the opening of a concentration camp,
near Dachau, to accommodate the overpopulation of prisoners. Soon, life for Jews in Germany and anywhere where the German hand was felt, had forever changed.
Eventually, camps in Germany and Poland were designed with one thing in mind: to exterminate the Jews. One-third of the Jewish population, six million, met an untimely and cruel death.
