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Creative events improve local scene

Regarding the recently staged Hells Canyon Relay, maybe the most gratifying thing to see was the captions under the pictures in the newspapers.
 

Paper doll revival leaves collector overjoyed

I was walking through a grocery store to pick up some less exciting necessities when I saw it. Right there in front of me on a stand in the aisle the words shown up as though destiny planned it just for me: “Vintage Paper Dolls.”
 

Oregon soars

The stock market may be topsy-turvy. But if Oregon were a stock,  all the analysts would be screaming for us to buy.

 

National forests belong to everyone

The same 5-year-old boy, whose name I do not know, that got me and my two great-grandchildren, now ages 12 and 13, tossed into the “Access For All Jail Wagon” during the Mining Jubilee parade in July got us thrown into it again at the Baker County Fair/Labor Day parade in Halfway Sept. 3. The first time he was apprehended on suspicion of picking mushrooms without a Forest Service permit. This time he was caught red-handed on the wrong side of a Forest Service road berm on a motorized tricycle.
 

Check your blood pressure

The call came from my uncle Alan on a Monday evening. “Your mom has had a stroke and is in the hospital.”
 

Join EOU celebration this week

Fall is in the air. Along with cooler nights and bright days come annual traditions, and one that many here look forward to is Eastern Oregon University homecoming.
 

Apples put full-court press on October

Whenever anyone says, “I just love this time of year,” I cringe. I’m all about fire and ice — I have no use for the shoulder seasons (say that five times fast).

 

Fire and Ice


 

 Whenever anyone says, “I just love this time of year,” I cringe. I’m all about fire and ice – I have no use for the shoulder seasons (say that five times fast).

Each September I mourn the end of swimming season. The colder days force me to rustle through my sock drawer to find ones that match and shove my calloused and toe-nail-less feet into closed toe shoes.

Most days I can’t figure out what to wear so I carry a bag of extra layers around. Sometimes, half-way through a pint of seasonal ale, I have to run to the car for jeans and fleece.

 

 

Letters to the editor for October 8, 2012

Letters to the editor for October 8, 2012
 

Just say no to pot measure

Editorial from The (Bend) Bulletin:

If you like the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, perhaps you’d be equally taken with a new Oregon Cannabis Commission that would deal with marijuana in the same way OLCC deals with booze. For us, that thought — of an OLCC-like OCC — is perhaps the least significant of several reasons voters should reject Ballot Measure 80, the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act.

 
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