The Boomer Magazine

The Squirrels return to The Diamond Thursday – two days from today – with their second Fireworks display.  On Friday, the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld will make an appearance at the day’s game, which is also a canned food drive. Turn back your clocks on Saturday with “50’s Night and Fireworks” presented by HCA Virginia. [...]

  The Martin Agency’s Mike Hughes finds grace and humor in his last days – BY BARBAR FITZGERALD –   Mike Hughes, president of The Martin Agency, Richmond’s advertising powerhouse, was told this past December at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York that he had two weeks to live. As an old newspaperman [...]

Try a few new things this spring Say this spring you’re invited to an evening cock-tail party. Would you know what to wear? No worries – neither would we. That is why we spoke with Kevin Reardon, co-owner of Richmond-based Franco’s Fine Clothier. With a 20-year career in the clothing industry, his specialty is fitting [...]

A century-old North side home that relaxes and invigorates – BY DANIEL JONES – – PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY GIAMMARINO –        “A cottage is meant for relaxing,” says Jennifer Saunders (left), who with her husband owns Twig, a home décor shop in Richmond’s Lakeside shopping district. “But then we like a livelier feel to a [...]

  Catching up with son ‘Mark’ of The Rifleman – BY AUDREY T. HINGLEY –    Johnny Crawford’s busy career began as one of the original Disney Mouseketeers. By the time he snagged the role of Chuck Connors’ son, Mark, on TV’s acclaimed The Rifleman at age 11, he’d already accumulated 60 television credits. Set in [...]

If we know the answers, why do we so often fail the test?  BY RAY McALLISTER   There is a fair chance, I think, that we misread life. Don’t you? Consider that when we figure life out, IF we figure life out, it often comes very late, sometimes at the end of life. (A little [...]

She didn’t ask, but I knew Mom needed me — and I’m glad to be with her When Mom was younger, so much younger than today, she never needed help in any way. Now she’s 94 and recovering (nicely) from surgery. She lives independently in her own home, but with increasing difficulty. She didn’t quite ask, but [...]

The Richmond Flying Squirrels are hosting a job fair Saturday, March 9, 2013, 9 a.m-Noon, and Wednesday, March 13, 5:30-8 p.m. Positions that will be interviewed are: Concession Cashiers, Cooks, Vendors, Merchandise Assistants and Ticket Sellers. The link here provides the applications interested candidates can fill out prior to arriving: http://www.milb.com/documents/9/0/4/42250904/Employee_Application_q0n05usz.pdf    

You already know the obvious romantic films – BY DANIEL NEMAN –    Sure, I could take the easy way out.  I could come to you with a list of the top 10 romantic movies to watch on Valentine’s Day, or whenever you want to snuggle with your best squeeze, and they could all be predictable, [...]

7 stories of Hope: ‘How Close I Came’ — New leukemia therapy is showing promise in clinical trial – BY TERRI L. JONES –  When standard chemotherapy wasn’t delivering the desired results for Roberta Richardson’s leukemia, her oncologist recommended she participate in a clinical trial at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center. Being a test subject [...]