Welcome to the Friends and Neighbors website, a companion to our quarterly, full-color magazine devoted to seniors, Boomers and their families in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.
Dedicated FAN fans, of course, will want to read the magazine fresh off the presses for the full roster of stories, photos and community resources it provides. We now distribute 18,000 quarterly copies at more than 480 sites in Tuolumne, Calaveras & Amador counties and by mail to subscribers who enjoy easy and early access to each new issue for just $25 a year.
But our magazine runneth over. So here you'll find even more information: upcoming events, links to senior resources, and a rich archive of key stories from each issue dating back to the magazine's June 2008 launch. New stories are posted three months after publication in FAN.
Here also you can submit advertising requests, calendar items, FAN mail, story ideas, or "volunteers needed" notices to run in the next issue. In the meantime, enjoy exploring our site!
Recent Articles
Be sure to browse through all the categories to read more from Friends and Neighbors!
- Recital promises more fun than you can shake a catheter at
- At Jamestown barbershop, it’s beer-thirty all the time
- Seeing red after a two-bit crime against nature, neighbors
- Requiem for a Pilot
- Slow? No problem! Join the crowd at April 20th Old Mill Run
- League lament: Guess who’s coming to eat us for dinner
- What’s in a name? Eternal internet infamy
- How our $1,000 chicken laid a golden egg
- Tuolumne County’s Road to Nowhere: Hang ‘Em High Way?
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Community
The Power of Great Neighbors: The Don Brenon Story
As a child, Don Brenon sang and danced with some of Hollywood’s greatest stars. He went on to act in nearly five dozen movies. At 87, though, life has taken some tragic turns. Now his neighbors are playing starring roles in helping him through.
Here’s a guide to accessing the burgeoning world of distance learning. The best part? It’s all available from the comfort of home.
Centenarians Reveal What Matters Most
“Thank you for all your years,” event emcee Cathie Peacock told the crowd at a late October luncheon. “Your talent, your wisdom and your expertise have served as an example for others to follow.” Those years tallied in the thousands, which accounted for the enormous amount of talent, wisdom and expertise packed into the Tuolumne
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Fitness and Health
Woman of Iron: Triathlete Karen Painter Retiree Karen Painter’s remarkable achievements might even make the couch potatoes among us sit up and take notice. That’s her goal: to inspire others to get moving.
Pets
A Warm Meal and a New Best Friend Improving the quality of life for both people and pets is the aim of a new program matching Tuolumne County Meals on Wheels clients with dogs and cats needing homes. Under the program, willing seniors will provide foster homes for pets from the county Animal Control shelter until permanent owners are found. “They would provide
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Fanfare
Want to Have the Last Word? Write Your Own Obituary I’m having trouble getting started. “Give me a snappy lead,” my editors have urged for years. “Your first sentence should yank the reader right into the story.” But when that story is your own obituary, coming up with that clever, catchy, come-hither opening line is daunting. On the plus side, I’m working with what we
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Remember When
Gold Strikes, Swindles and Wild Doings In the realm of swindles, scams and backsliding chicanery, it is generally agreed that the following episodes were the Old West’s biggest gold mine frauds of the 19th Century. While one of these stories took place in Calaveras County and the other hundreds of miles east in the state of Nevada, the principle culprits in
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Veterans
Finding Your Roots: Researching Military Records Like many of you, I was an Army brat. We brats know what it meant to move every year or so, following our fathers from base to base. We made friends quickly because we knew we’d be on the move again soon. My family’s military history has a long reach: My father, grandfather, brother and
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