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Meaningful Mondays Coming to KALA – a community-based movie series
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No CommentsBased on Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies in Seattle, a documentary series is starting up in Astoria, with the first movie, Inlaws & Outlaws, showing on Inauguration Day evening,... -
Finding Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No CommentsAn Astoria non-profit helps provide quality recreation year-round The Astoria Parks, Recreation and Community Foundation In a time of tightened belts and shaky budgets, one can be forgiven for being... -
Women’s Health Care Empowered
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No CommentsFamily Planning Nurse Practitioner Belinda Kruger • being there… through the changes In the early 1800’s, the average female living in the United States bore 7 children over the course...
Eating Aliens
In the January 2012 edition of Weed Wars, titled Goats, Beavers & Carp, Oh My, I talked about the rebranding of Asian carp into silverfin, served as a delicacy in…
Apocalypse Now?
I write this before the election, but I believe that if the extremist party Mitt Romney represents takes office, we are in for a boatload of horrors.
Creating Balance
AS HuMaNity leans towards one side of the duality or the other, pressing for peace and love or hating another culture and acting out in violence; there is a lack of understanding as to how the duality works and the very nature of keeping the balance.
Healthy Aging
aS WE embrace fall and the bounty of summer begins to wilt and wither it makes me think of the aging process normal and natural to all living things. It is not a fact of life many of us enjoy exploring but being prepared for the course of aging can benefit our quality and quantity of life.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “In a full heart there is room for everything,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” That’s an important idea for you to meditate on right now, Aries. The universe is conspiring for you to be visited by a tide of revelations about intimacy.
An Ode to Alder
It has been brought to my attention that there was recently a massive alder kill near Naselle, caused by the application of herbicide to eradicate knotweed near the banks of a stream. To add insult to injury, evidently tansy ragwort, another so-called noxious weed, replaced the some of the knotweed killed in the attack.














