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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Historical Happenings: Sometimes a House Is Not Just a Home

By Tom Marshall Tom Marshall On Dec. 5 at 6 p.m., the San Clemente Historical Society will host a free public event at the Community…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: Let’s Talk Turkey

From dancing to bowling, from negotiations to nerds, the bird is the word By Jim Kempton Wavelengths By Jim Kempton Thanksgiving is America’s national stuffing…

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Wavelengths: Weighting for the Holidays

By Jim Kempton After the holidays, there is always a surge of dieting. It’s inevitable, I guess—we all tend to overeat during the feast season….

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Wavelengths: Affliction of Affluence: Do We Struggle with Too Much More than Too Little?

By Jim Kempton For most of human existence, societies have struggled with a consistent set of challenges: how to avoid famine, evade deadly disease and…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

‘First We Surf Then We Eat’: Local Jim Kempton Shares Love of Traveling, Surfing and Eating in New Book

  By Daniel Ritz In a foreword to Jim Kempton’s new book, First We Surf Then We Eat, famed surfer/chef Raphael Lunetta, the head chef…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: Lifesaving Makaha-Style: Sometimes You Learn the Most from Your Fears

By Jim Kempton Rich Chew was a lifeguard for 35 years. Much of his career was spent on the beaches of San Clemente, where with…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: Kids Are Making Some Big Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

  By Jim Kempton Was it really 50 years ago that one million people filled the streets of our nation demanding we stop the Vietnam…

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Wavelengths: Whistle While You Work: What Is a Labor of Love?

  By Jim Kempton Work is what we have to do, and leisure is the stuff no one requires of us—no matter what kind of…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: The Will and the Way: WWII is Proof America can Overcome Obstacles

By Jim Kempton The Greatest Generation had many achievements, but among the most impressive was how decisively they committed and how quickly they implemented solutions…

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SC LIVING, SC Living Headlines

Wavelengths: As Tiny Tim Says, ‘God Bless Us, Everyone’

By Jim Kempton When my wife and I were first married and had just bought our dream house (a 1,100-square-foot Ole Hanson cottage in southwest…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelengths: Leaders of Today: More Scrutiny Needed of People in Power

By Jim Kempton The crises facing our town are in some ways a microcosm of the nation, and in other ways, the polar opposite. We…

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Wavelengths: Nuking it Out: In a Fight against Storing Radioactive Waste, We Are in the Dark

  By Jim Kempton Out of an inescapable curiosity, I attended a forum about the current state of the waste storage for the radioactive fuel…

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Wavelenghts: The Freedom of the Press is our Cardinal Liberty

By Jim Kempton “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should…

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Letter: Wavelengths Columns Appreciated

Nonie Fickling, San Clemente My husband and I have been enjoying Jim Kempton’s well written opinion articles for quite some time. In an era where…

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Wavelengths: Past is Prologue in San Clemente

By Jim Kempton  It suddenly occurred to me the other day that over 35,000 people have moved here since the San Clemente Historical Society had a…

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