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Commentary: ‘Poverty Pennies’
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Commentary: ‘Poverty Pennies’

  • By Mark Gibson
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Free commentary: When I was a kid, I read a short story about a boy whose grade-school class was collecting money to help the “poor.” He told his parents, and they gave him an envelope the next morning — told him not to open it.

The Porch
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The Porch

  • Kirby Neumann-Rea

WELL SAID: “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who (they) shou…

Remembering Mount St. Helens
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Remembering Mount St. Helens

  • by Neita Cecil, The Dalles Chronicle
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Just in time to mark the 39th anniversary Saturday, May 18, of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the Chronicle received a big manila envelope from a Washington man. Inside was a poem Guillermo Castaneda wrote about that sunny Sunday morning in 1980, about experiencing the “total eclipse” of ash-induced darkness that sent him and his family scurrying inside in fear.