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10/21/2025

Halloween fun and some awesome photography! Love The Hills Have Dolls

06/03/2025

Awesome accomplishment! Thanks JBLM and Bud McKay for posting this recognition! Note, this is not a MWP publication, rather significant writing by Media World Press journalist, writer and editor, Ruth Longoria Kingsland.
Here’s the post by Bud McKay:

AN AWARD 9 YEARS IN THE MAKING: We received an odd email from our Army headquarters the other day. They basically asked if we ever received our 2016 award for Best Large Newspaper in the Department of Defense? They were cleaning their offices and came across the award. I wrote back that I looked through our trophy case and only saw the paper certificates.

I said I was the editor back then and would really like to see it. 😊 So they shipped it off and it was on my desk this morning when I walked in. So cool!

Sadly, it’s the last best in DOD award for THE Northwest Guardian, as we stopped printing it in 2018. We should have won it for 2018 as well as we had a very strong issue – our last. But they changed the criteria, since there weren’t as many print newspapers, and put us all in one category. We finished second in the DOD that year behind a Navy magazine that comes out quarterly! Give our team at the time three months to work on an issue and it would have been way more Sierra Hotel than the one they chose over us. We looked at that publication and just knew, on our worse production day, THE Northwest Guardian could sink that publication.

But I digress two years.

I went through our issue and reminisced about the “old days.” But, what a team! Ruth Longoria Kingsland hogged the front page, and most of the issue. Dean Siemon had so many sports-related articles, we had to not only share them on the Sports pages but even in the main section! And just look at the photos from Scott Hansen! He’s the BEST! Even Suzanne Ovel took over our Health page with her great writing.

https://www.dvidshub.net/publication/issues/30347

But for the bosses, Joseph Piek, Kelsy Grimshaw Hustead … Scott, Ruth, Dean and Rio and Pam K (who aren’t on my Facebook), here’s our historic award for 2016 – finally.

The LAST, best in the DOD for the THE Northwest Guardian – something it won 15 times since the name change in 1990. Not to worry, when my retirement becomes a reality, I’m taking our trophy case over to the Lewis Army Museum for them to have. They already have every issue of the official base newspapers archived since 1917. And no, I wasn’t on that 1917 staff. 😊

I miss newspapers – especially ours.

08/01/2024

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07/14/2023

Memory from 1999. Interviewing USA Today founder Al Neuharth

07/14/2023

Ran across this memory today. I miss Roxie😢💕

02/06/2023

It’s All About The Dress

Ruth Longoria Kingsland
International House Of Dolls/Media World Press

She found a way to keep memories of her homeland alive long after she left this earth.

Anna, or Mrs. Joseph Vodehnal as she was called in an article June 19, 1963 in the Omaha World-Herald newspaper, used her art of stitchery and passion for her cultural heritage to bring the beauty of traditional Czechoslovakia to her adopted Midwest home of Clarkson, Nebraska.
Long into her battle with cancer and intensive cobalt treatments in Omaha, Anna continued to make costumes for Czech dancers at Clarkson’s annual Czech Festival and dress dozens of dolls for window displays and sale at the event.
International House Of Dolls recently acquired one of the dolls dressed by Vodehnal along with the World-Herald article and a July 19, 1963 letter she typed and signed to a collector in Medford, Oregon, Mrs. Kathryn L. Davidson.
Davidson had contacted Vodehnal asking to purchase a doll after reading about Vodehnal’s artistry in the article by reporter Tom Allan.
“Yesterday I received your nice letter, which was forwarded to me from Mr. Tom Allan of the Omaha World Herald. Thank you very much,” Vodehnal wrote.
She went on to describe the dolls for sale at an individual price of “$8 complete.”
“My dolls are 11 1/2 inches tall and fully dressed including the undergarments,” she wrote, adding that she would be willing to dress any doll sent to her by the requestee at a price of $6 each.
“There were many (of the costumed dolls) sold during our Czech Festival … as people from all over were in attendance,” she wrote.
Davidson saved the letter, along with a photo of the doll later received from Vodehnal. She filed the doll and letter under “Nationality Dolls Czech,” where it remained until eventually being sold at and estate sale and later making its way to IHOD.
According to online historical ancestry records, Vodehnal died in November 1974 at the age of 88.
That after many years of dressing dolls and dancers for the Clarkson Czech Festival.
Her adult and children’s costumes continued to be used at festivals there for several decades, including reunions of the dancers in subsequent years.
IHOD is thrilled to share with its online followers photos of Vodehnal, her dolls, some of the dancers and other relevant data.
It’s lovely to be able to help her keep her heritage and love of dolls, dance and costuming alive.

**some photos from the city of Clarkson online web site

05/28/2020

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04/21/2020

Please click on the video and LiKE on that video for Lucas Longoria. He’s in a competition and he is awesome, but needs enough likes to go on to the next round, thanks friends! You guys are amazing!

San Gabriel Valley's Got Talent 2020 presentsLucas Longoria "Proud of Your Boy" Age 15 Preliminary Round April 20-25 on YouTube Final Round April 26-May 2 on...

01/03/2020

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07/31/2018

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03/14/2018

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