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In the mid-1990s, after many years in the states of Colorado and California, I returned to my home state of Washington hoping to find a job. Eventually I did, and I was asked to attend a day-long orientation for clergy newly arrived in the Diocese of Olympia (western Washington). The session was to help people become acquainted not only with the diocese, but also with the region. For that portion, I sat quietly and observed the comments of people who had lived elsewhere all their lives.
Theodule John Tuariac was born to Jennifer Anne and Demetrius Paul Tauriac of Ben Lomond at 6:05 p.m. Aug. 5, 2011, at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. He weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce.
School is just around the corner in our valleys, and students will soon get back into the thick of academics, athletics and other extracurricular activities. There are a couple of things on our minds as the summer lull yields to fall hubbub.