"Libby News in Sacramento" is being captured by fwix

A news-gathering online source is now capturing "Libby News in Sacramento." I find that it is of some uncomfortable interest to me that eight out of the thirteen stories on the first page of what the news-gathering site has captured are articles I've written for either Sacramento Homeless blog or Sacramento Press. In all those stories, about Loaves & Fishes, I am likely to have mentioned L&F CEO Libby Fernandez.

Be aware that I certainly didn't put fxiw up to the task of "capturing" Libby. [Really. I DIDN'T, Libby. I swear. I know you're monitoring this. Honest. Please don't 86 me! Don't reach for the God button on your desk. Don't do it, Libby. Please.]

The first page of the site even includes a map of Libby, which after some research I've determined to be a town in the Kootenai National Forest in the far northwest corner of Montana, near where Montana, Idaho and Canada butt heads. [If you think of Montana as being a buffalo facing west, Libby is next to the animal's frontal lobe.]

At right is a map I created of Libby, showing the Libby Shopping Center and Cemetery. Friendship Park is curiously not visible.

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