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Partnership with Hunt Brothers Pizza will allow former Hollister

Conventional wisdom says that we learn life’s lessons in the school of hard knocks, and I suppose that is true. But I have learned many of life’s most important lessons during my outdoor wanderings.

Bill Mifsud always emphasized the importance of having the courage to ask – an attitude that led to 13 seasons traveling with the San Francisco 49ers, much of it during the team’s Super Bowl run of the 1980s, as a Free Lance columnist.

What does it mean when a wine is “balanced?” It’s a wine that incorporates all its main components – tannins, acid, sweetness and alcohol – in a manner where no one single component stands out. Tannins come from grape skins, seeds, stems and oak barrels - it’s the astringent taste you get when you have bitten into a grape seed. Tannins give body and structure to the wine - too much tannin can be mouth-puckering and drying. The right amount of acids give wines their characteristic crisp, slightly tart taste. Too much acid and the wine can taste sour. A wine with too much sugar will taste cloying and sugary and will not be refreshing. A balanced wine is when all the components work in harmony.

The new regime running the Golden State Warriors knows what it

Take this eight Tony Award winner, be invited to belly up to the Irish bar on stage before the show begins and at intermission, have a drink and become a part of the experience in this winsome, bittersweet story of a subtle love and support of two people brought together by fate and a clever playwright.

Representatives of Cerritos, Calif.-based CareMore, showed up in force Nov. 20 in front of the Forgiving Paws Thrift Shop to give away 50 turkeys to Medicare-eligible residents for the holidays.