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Break stress ‘ripples’
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Break stress ‘ripples’

  • Patrick Mulvihill
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Retired emergency room physician Bonnie New took to Salem Tuesday, proposing tighter gun safety measures to the Oregon legislature. Of the ten Oregon doctors who spoke to state leaders on March 16, she was the only one from Hood River.

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Mentor For Success program holds training

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Mentor For Success is having its winter training session for new mentors on Feb. 15, and invites adults in the Gorge area to learn more and consider volunteering to mentor an area teen.

Adult mentors needed in gorge
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Adult mentors needed in gorge

  • Jade McDowell
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­­­Some people see a need and say, “Someone should do something about that.” Others see a need and fill it. Bonnie New, founder of the Mentor for Success program, is one of the latter. She started the program, which matches adult mentors with teenagers ages 14-20 lacking a stable adult role model at home, when she saw her own children go through the difficulties of being a teenager and transitioning into a post-high school world.