Growing America

This Year Last Year- A tale for the future

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Football, Growing America–

This Year Last year will be something to talk about ten years from now, provided that situations don’t escalate. Go back to last year, when the shocking news that we lost Kobe Bryant on a very overcast Sunday in late January. This was a shock to the world. This bothersome event lingered on throughout the Sports World and beyond. Early talks of the pandemic was just starting to get traction, and then March hit, where NBA games were canceled and then league play would be suspended until the summer. Baseball, Football camps were delayed. The …READ MORE

Christmas Holiday with the Pandemic in Mind

Lester–Basketball, Football, Growing America–

Christmas Holiday this year has brought on a strange and ominus feeeling! You can remember the times after the Thanksgiving Holidays, where folks were standing outside all night to get to the deals of the year and getting ready for Christmas. That chore turned out to be a ugly and dangerous practice this year.Customers honing masks and stores metering people into their buildings, as state laws and business responsibilities took hold. Yes you can’t crowd up folks like you use to in areas, as the pandemic has controlled the idea of togetherness and threw that …READ MORE

Voting is Fundamental–Participation is Key

Lester–Growing America–

  Voting is Fundamental: Voting is a right that often some people take for granted. Now is the time for folks to see our democracy at work. Despite the many efforts that have been employed to discourage voting, it appears as though this year people are getting out to vote. During the last presidential election, only 61.4% of Americans voted. Now considering that there a lot was a lot of gerrymandering of certain voting districts, lack of voting facilities, downright intimidation of voters, it makes you wonder where would the country be if we were …READ MORE

Voting-Growing-America- What do you do!

Lester–Growing America, Uncategorized–

Voting is essential!  There has been a lot of discussions around who do you like in the upcoming elections. Some people are committed to voting one way or another. The concerns that are out there are about the people who come back and say, ” I don’t like either candidate”, so they will not be voting.  (Voting-Growing-America) Sad state of affairs when you cannot seem to choose a candidate based on sound decisions for yourself. Most folks have a conviction as to why they are voting for whoever they choose. Unfortunately voting seems to be …READ MORE

Orange County-2nd-worst COVID19 outbreak-California

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Golf, Growing America, Uncategorized, WNBA–

Orange County now has the second-most coronavirus infections in California, as the region and state continue to grapple with sharp spikes in the number of confirmed cases. The cumulative COVID-19 case count in Orange Count was 29,986 Tuesday, just ahead of Riverside County’s 29,983. Only Los Angeles County is higher, with nearly 160,000 cases. Over the last 14 days, Orange County has reported 12,104 additional COVID-19 cases, a figure that trails only that of Los Angeles, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker. During that same time, Riverside County has confirmed 9,428; San Bernardino County, 8,754; …READ MORE

Wear the Mask- Some Folks Don’t Get It

Lester–Growing America–

Wear the Mask has been an ugly thing for most of us during the pandemic crisis. Let’s go back to March when things where shutting down. Hospitals were started to get bogged down, they had to send two floating army hospitals out to L.A. and New York. The deaths in New York were so bad, they had refer unit trailers to keep up the make shift morgues. Now of course the hospitals were probably not ready for this at the time, as they were caught short on equipment, supplies, ppe, ventilators; you know the stuff …READ MORE

Competition and Sports in American Society

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Golf, Growing America, Hockey, Nascar, Uncategorized, WNBA–

Competition and Sports in American Society plays a key part in American Culture. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes this, as sports took a hiatus since Mid-March; when the NBA shut down, and then other sports proceeded to shut down activity until they could get a handle on this unfortunate outbreak. Sports was just starting to heat up with the NBA, NFL hockey runs for the playoffs were just getting started. Teams were about to jockey for position in their prospective sports. The NFL had to zoom the draft; the MLB had to postpone preseason and the …READ MORE

The Life We Know-Anxiety in getting the ball rolling again!

Lester–Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Growing America, Uncategorized–

The Life We Know – You go to a ball game and you are sitting about a few inches away from the seat next to you on either side. The seat behind you is only about a foot or more away, as well as the seat in front of you. You get up to get something to eat or drink, and depending where you sitting at; you will have to go by several folks at a close proximity. Then you get to the vendor where you want to purchase something to eat or drink and …READ MORE

Goodbye to 2019-Growing America

Lester–Growing America, Uncategorized–

Goodbye to 2019- A year that seen more of the worst of us as citizens of the USA. There were shootings that didn’t make sense, the immigrants that were housed in cages-(finally exposed), the senseless meaning of being an American in this country. Yes the year chugged on, and now we see some kind of link between the Russians and Americans in American politics. Name calling and sexual mishaps exposed. I could go on and on, but let’s see what was positive for the year of 2019. Take a look at this link. Will we …READ MORE