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What's Happening, updated for July 1

What’s Happening is a free service of Columbia Gorge News and may be edited for length. Items should be sent to trishaw@gorgenews.com.

Signs of the Times
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Signs of the Times

  • Mark Gibson
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Traditional woodworking, computer based design merge at Haskins Wood 'n' Designs

Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: Honor the soul

  • Tom Lexow
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To the editor: Death and dying today occur more often in a medical location or in a care facility. Those present are usually medical or other staff so that most people have never viewed life’s last moments when the body loses its life force, dies and becomes lifeless.

Village Idiot: Just like soccer, kissing has snuck up on us
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Village Idiot: Just like soccer, kissing has snuck up on us

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In some countries, greeting friends with a kiss is the common custom. France, Italy, Greece and Hollywood come to mind. Not full-on, passionate kissing, but a quick buss on the cheek. First on one side, then the other. Men, women, it doesn’t matter. In some countries you have to do each cheek twice or you'll deeply insult someone, and before you know it there’s a whole Hatfield-and-McCoy thing happening because you ignored a thousand-year-old custom.