2 • November 2017 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.


FIRST UP!


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ I walked in to Mel’s Fish & Chips, one of the fin- est tasting fish & chips in the North Bay & was so glad to see that own- ers Mike and Waffa were okay. With tears in our eyes we gave each other a hug.


When I heard that they had lost


everything in the fire in the Coffey Park area I immediately went to see them to see what I could do to help. They are some of the nicest and hard working people I know. What they need the most are a lot of customers! They will rebuild their home some- day too!


What is amazing is that


Website:www.upbeattimes.com We lost our Home, But we’re Still Open!


K-Mart, McDonald’s, Arby’s and the Security Public Storage center are gone and in view of where their business is, located right across the street. All the businesses in Hopper Square fortunately & miraculous- ly on Airway & Hopper were un- touched! She mentioned something about what arose from the ashes in their charred yard...’Paul, you know what the amazing thing is, even after losing our house?’ Waffa tells me, ‘The bulbs I had planted at the house literally came up only a few days af- ter the fire!’ As she was telling me this,


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Publisher, President & CEO Paul Andrew Doyle paul@upbeattimes.com


Co-Publisher & VP Valerie A. Doyle


707-494-1767 Writing team:


Barry O’Meara Gabriel Fraire Marcia Singer Ron Skaar


Kimberly Childers Ellie Schmidt


Joanne Mumola Williams Shekeyna Black


Dr. Yolanda Mangrum James Fish Zak Zaikine


Chance Massaro


Distribution team: John Follansbee Don Emerson Paul Behringer Matt Scuteri Paul Quistgard Paul Doyle


Valerie Doyle


Art Consultant Marie L. Doyle


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Santa Rosa, CA. 95407 ...and we’ll send you one!


Send Check to: P.O. Box 7312


Jesse Gonzalez of Redwood Empire Tree service on Mo’orea Island, French Polynesia! First Quotes: “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the


changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” Maya Angelou


“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” Saul Bellow


2 • November 2017 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Upbeat on Mo’orea Island! First Humor


Customer: Waiter, is this supposed to be coffee or tea? Waiter: What does it taste like? Customer: It tastes like gasoline! Waiter: Well, sir, that would be the coffee. The tea tastes like turpentine. ~


At the data-entry company where I work, the other oper- ators and I share a coffeepot. One morning I took it into the ladies room to fill it with water. Then I began preening in the mirror, brushing my hair and reapplying some makeup. I didn’t realize how long I’d been until some- one slid a note under the


door. “You win,” it read. Any ransom demand will be met. Just release the coffeepot.”


Petaluma, CA. ~ 1301 SOUTH- POINT


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BLVD, CA MONDAY-


FRIDAY 8am - 5pm, SATURDAY 9am - 3pm, Current items available: Waters, bedding, shoes, baby blan- kets, food, ziplock bags, canned goods, cereals, chips, new undies for kids and adults, dog beds and food, backpacks, car seats, baby carriers, kids


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“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ~ Walt Disney Company


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