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Former East County sports writer Dickens dies at 68

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…

Former East County sports writer Dickens dies at 68

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…

Iraqi Center for Dialogue holds Parent & Youth workshop

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…

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