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Raymundo-Schmidt: May we appreciate each other

This memorial weekend is tugging at my heartstrings at a greater intensity this year. This memorial weekend for me is not just to enjoy the extra day off.


I have been concentrating on appreciating my living friends, family and extended family.


We all have died to something inside ourselves and now we are sharing that “passing experience” with those who do not understand why we must change in one form or another.


We are living memorials also. May we appreciate each other in living so we can smile and laugh and hug one other. When it is time to remember those who have left us physically, we know that element of love has not died.


Care for our youth. Love and respect our elders. Remember who serve(d) and protect us.


PatriciaAn Raymundo-Schmidt lives in Lakeport.

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Voyles: Thanks to Lake County for help following crash

On May 21, my husband and I and our five boys were heading home from a wonderful week of camping in MacKerricher State Park when the unthinkable happened. Our van was hit head-on by another driver under the influence.


The first people to respond were just going about their business, but chose to stop and help me pull all five boys from the van, talk to my husband while he waited to be cut out of the van, and try and keep all of us calm.


Next came a stream of California Highway Patrol and Lake County Sheriff's deputies, paramedics, fire department personnel, the helicopter personnel (who airlifted my 12-year-old), hospital staff at Sutter Lakeside, St. Helena Hospital-Clearlake and UC Davis Medical Center and many more I know I am forgetting.


There wasn't a moment my boys didn't have someone trying to comfort them and see to their injuries. At Sutter, each child was given a special stuffed animal donated by the local Lions Club to keep, which they held for comfort when I was busy with staff or making phone calls and other arrangements and couldn't be with them.


We could never thank you all enough for the things each one of you did to help insure the safety of my family. I feel so very blessed tonight that though we are covered in bruises and bumps and in a cast (my husband Bryan broke his foot), we are all home safe tonight.


How easily we take for granted when we arrive somewhere safe and sound and without injury or incident. We will never forget you Lake County, and UC Davis, for all you have done to help us.


Lisa Voyles, her husband Bryan and their children are from Herald.

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