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		<title>Fortress Catalina: Catalina Island’s honored dead</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 18:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Coronavirus has plunged Catalina Island into a crisis not seen since World War II. Much like today, the island underwent dramatic changes for those who lived here, almost overnight. To recall those days, the Catalina Islander is reprinting the series “Fortress Catalina: The Island at War.” This week’s column is the last in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fortress Catalina: The Second World War is over</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 18:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus has plunged Catalina Island into a crisis not seen since World War II. Much like today, the island underwent dramatic changes for those who lived here, almost overnight. To recall those days, the Catalina Islander is reprinting the series “Fortress Catalina: The Island at War.” This week’s column also happens to coincide with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fortress Catalina: Naval airship crash worst on Catalina</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 20:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Coronavirus has plunged Catalina Island into a crisis not seen since World War II. Much like today, the island underwent dramatic changes for those who live here, almost overnight. To recall those days, the Catalina Islander is reprinting the series “Fortress Catalina: The Island at War.” The following article is from the book “Mysterious [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fortress Catalina: Catalina locations were used as stand-ins for Asian islands</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Week: The Mysterious O.S.S. The coronavirus has plunged Catalina Island into a crisis not seen since World War II. Much like today, the island underwent dramatic changes for those who lived here almost overnight. To recall those days, The Catalina Islander is reprinting the series “Fortress Catalina: The Island at War.” Of the four [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fortress Catalina: Catalina joins the war effort</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus has plunged Catalina Island into a crisis not seen since World War II. Much like today, the island underwent dramatic changes for those who live here, almost overnight. To recall those days, the Catalina Islander is reprinting the series “Fortress Catalina: The Island at War.” The following originally appeared in the book “Mysterious [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Looking back at times of dramatic change on Catalina</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus has plunged Catalina Island into a crisis not seen since World War II.&#160; Much like today, the island underwent dramatic changes for those who live here, almost overnight.&#160; To recall those days, the Catalina Islander is reprinting the series “Fortress Catalina: The Island at War.”&#160; This installment originally appeared in the January 20, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fortress Catalina: UFO over Catalina sparks fire fight</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Second in a series. The Battle of Los Angeles One of the most bizarre events ever to take place in the history of Southern California, or for that matter the whole country, occurred in the wee morning hours of February 25, 1942. And yet “The Battle of Los Angeles”—as it would come to be called—has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fortress Catalina: The Island at war</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First in a series. Locked down. Freedom of movement restricted. Stores closed. Bars and restaurants shuttered. That’s the reality we are facing right now in the tiny town of Avalon in the face of the Novel Coronavirus and the societal shuffle it has unleashed. At a time when we would normally be gearing up for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>CHOICES anti-substance abuse group elects new board members</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 21:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three new members were elected last week to the CHOICES Board of Directors, according to the group’s Executive Director Rhonda Kalish.  A fourth incumbent board member was also re-elected. Newly-elected board members include Raffaella Perico, Teresa Macktal and Jen Dreizehn.  The returning incumbent was Esther Gomez.  Ms. Perico will also act as the group’s Treasurer. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Clydesdales are coming!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Budweiser’s iconic Clydesdale horses will be settling down for a one-week stay on Catalina beginning on Tuesday, June 28, culminating in an appearance in the 4th of July parade on Crescent Avenue. The Clydesdales will be “stabled” on the empty lot on Beacon Street between Sumner Avenue and Catalina Street.  When not making various appearances [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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