Bill, attended all four years, and graduated from Grossmont High school, where he met his first wife, my birth mother, Barbara Jo Blank, a valedictorian, and also played as a back up catcher and caught for pitching great, Brian Sipe, who would eventually become and all star quarterback at San…
La Mesa California
I have written countless features in my time, but when requested to write about my late father, Bill Dickens, I had mixed emotions. William C. Dickens was born to his birth mother, Mrs. De La Valle at a local hospital in Los Angeles on March 6, 1949. He was born…
Juxtaposed between the Arabic writing was the English phrase “Love Heals” on a dry erasable board that guest speaker, May Hasan was using while she led a Parenting & Youth Workshop. The workshop was created and produced by Jawdat Al Obeidi, director of the Iraqi Center for Dialogue, and held…
A Wisconsin father has identified his son as the U.S. Marine who died following a stabbing on Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego. Scott Weberpal spoke with the NBC station in Madison, Wisconsin and confirmed that his son was the victim. Mayor of El Cajon Calls Attacks on City ‘Disingenuous’ Marine…
What looked like a typical family picnic gathering at Wells Park in El Cajon last Sunday afternoon made the local, national and international headlines only few hours later, with the social media on fire due to the dozens of constant live feeds from what was actually a protest to end…
