Woman, 83, who always helped others now in need
Nov. 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
An e-mail plea is making the rounds to local animal rescue groups with the story of an 83-year-old Ramona widow who is losing her home of more than 25 years to foreclosure.
Friends of Rose Newbrough, who with her husband helped raise more than 25 foster children and rescued numerous abandoned animals, have been helping her find homes for pets she can't take to her new home.
More Diane Bell Columns
Nov. 15 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Key player for Obama isn't moving: Local businesswoman Christine Forester makes her living guiding startup companies, fine-tuning marketing strategies and designing logos. For more than a year, though, she has put her clients on hold to jump into Barack Obama's presidential campaign, bringing along her energy, enthusiasm and organizational skills.
Nov. 13 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Finleys asking $21.5 million for beach house: Former Padres outfielder Steve Finley and his wife, Amy, have put their Del Mar beach house on the market for $21.5 million.
Nov. 11 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
A Veterans Day story of rescue and reunion: Urban Miyares was stuffed into a body bag in Vietnam and lived to tell about it. What Miyares, then a 20-year-old Army platoon sergeant, remembers of that day in August 1968 outside Saigon was advancing single file across rice paddy dikes when the silence was pierced by yelling, screaming, gunfire and mortar shells.
Nov. 10 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Word has it: Diane Bell: Newspapers were a hot item last week, with people collecting copies that reported the historic presidential win of Barack Obama.
Nov. 8 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Donors help restaurant replace its memorabilia: Caps, shirts, military memorabilia, old license plates – it didn't take long for decor-minded San Diegans to come to the aid of the Kansas City Barbeque downtown.
Nov. 6 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Political parties earn their names: While many Republican candidates on election night rented hospitality suites in the ritzy Westgate Hotel across from the San Diego Community Concourse and Election Central, local Democratic candidates gathered at the House of Blues nightclub on Fifth Avenue.
Nov. 4 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
1928 paper defies time and space: An 80-year-old San Diego newspaper was recently discovered under the floorboards of a flood-damaged house in Hudson, Md. The find was big news to carpenter Scott Cronshaw. He took The San Diego Union, dated Jan. 2, 1928, to the local Maryland newspaper, The Star Democrat, which published a picture of the newspaper's front page.
Nov. 1 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
S.D. homeless who have died remembered: Fifty-eight pairs of shoes – sneakers, sandals, loafers, mules, pumps and boots – will be carried from the San Diego Rescue Mission on Elm Street to the S.D. Community Concourse five blocks away late this afternoon.
Oct. 30 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
U.S. attorneys couldn't believe what they saw: Border crime is a consuming issue for Karen Hewitt, the U.S. attorney in San Diego. So she recently took a visiting group of about 30 U.S. attorneys from across the country on a San Ysidro border tour.
Oct. 28 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Honesty still prevails in tough times: A Santee security guard driving north on state Route 125 noticed what he thought was a purse on the shoulder of the road Wednesday evening.
Oct. 25 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Couple turn grief over fallen son into action: After their only child was killed in Iraq in 2005, John and Stacey Holley decided to channel their anguish into something positive to make a difference for other grieving parents.
Oct. 23 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Councilman Madaffer stars in 'To Catch a Thief': He's not Robert Redford or Paul Newman, but San Diego Councilman Jim Madaffer just starred in his own sting.
Oct. 21 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Yellow-shirt Armstrong to do tour de Golden State: Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will be spinning his wheels in San Diego County in February. He is slated to take part in the 2009 Amgen Tour of California, which, for the first time in its four-year history, will stretch into San Diego County. The 800-mile, 16-city race leaves from Sacramento on Feb. 14 and crosses the Golden Gate Bridge on its third segment.
Oct. 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
DA Dumanis ties knot with longtime partner: San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and her longtime partner, Denise Neleson, married recently in a private ceremony in Monterey with a few family and friends present.
Oct. 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Nearly 20,000 Army commendations sent out in error: Air Force veteran Jim Doud isn't the only non-Army veteran who mistakenly received an Army commendation recently for exemplary service.
Oct. 14 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Water chief, Army play name game: South Bay water official Jim Doud received something unexpected in the mail the other day. It was an Army commendation signed by Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr. and Army Secretary Pete Geren.
Oct. 11 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Slimmer mayor credits walks, workouts, diet: We have the Oprah diet, the Pritikin diet, the Jenny Craig diet. Now, enters the Jerry Sanders diet . . .
Oct. 9 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Couple's landfill search turns up precious metal: Let's talk trash. Debbie Roth and her husband, Jim, saw plenty of it the other day when they sifted through garbage at the Miramar Landfill for Debbie's lost wedding ring.
Oct. 7 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Hotel, travel company help lesbian couples get hitched: Friday was a marathon wedding day for about 200 brides – with nary a bridegroom in sight.
Oct. 4 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Boater smacked by fish was in hospital a week: Lalo Rojas, 59, laughs painfully: “I caught a fish with my face.” He was the boater mentioned in my Tuesday column who was smacked in the face by a mullet that literally jumped into his jet boat as he rode near De Anza Cove last month.
Oct. 2 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Reader's Digest lauds local hero who rescued 3: Jim Grant never expected to be a hero. Last Dec. 11, however, he unexpectedly became one.
Sept. 30 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Mission Bay produces tall but true fish tales: You need only consult The Log newspaper for evidence that truth is stranger than fiction this month – at least in local boating and fishing circles.
Sept. 27 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
2 brothers from S.D. in hit shows: Tomorrow will be a banner evening for Hillary and Jason Cotton. The Spring Valley couple's two sons, Maxwell, 8, and Mason, 6, have roles in back-to-back hit series on ABC.
Sept. 25 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Did police read him his rights?: In a scene reminiscent of the movie “Annie Hall,” Shawna Standoff screamed when she saw a cockroach in her North Park condo.
