Once again, my wife and I are driving to California to visit the children and enjoy a respite from the cold. So I’d like to keep it simple by …
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Thomas “Tom” Kite Sawyer, dedicated husband, brother, father, grandpa and friend to many, passed away at the age of 73 due to illness on Oct. …
Judy Lorene Walker Johansson of The Dalles, Ore., passed away Feb. 5, 2020 in Portland, Ore., at OHSU Adventist Medical Center of heart failur…
Laughter can be a life saver as we age. As teacher and writer Bel Kaufman wrote, “Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.”
Elizabeth was born Nov. 22, 1942, in Spokane, Wash., to Anne Leah Coats and Harry Herman Straughan. She went home to meet the Lord after a lon…
When the new year arrives, Portland will be exporting some laughter to the city of The Dalles. Starting in January, Route 30 Bottles & Brews, at 317 E. Second Street in downtown The Dalles, will be featuring comedy acts every first Saturday of the month.
Stephen David Crown, 53, passed away suddenly on July 5, 2016 while grieving the recent death of his beloved mother. Born in the U.K., he emig…
Aven Lorac Dyke, a two year-old of Orford, N.H., was baptized in the Columbia River on Oct. 26. The baptism was part of a small service held at the Waterfront Park in Hood River.
Last week I shared twenty tips I’ve learned over the last eight years about aging well. I hope you found them useful, but I imagine some of you might have thought they were just a bunch of hooey. (Does anyone use the word “hooey” anymore besides myself and Dick Cheney?)
Does that fluffy stuff want to compete with the leaves for king of autumn splendor?
