Salmon Creek Kids Flower at Weott Garden Show

Class Photo with Plants Daily Photo Salmon Creek kids harvested a wheelbarrow of prizes at the annual Weott Garden show. With beautiful plants and pots donated by Tommy Harwood, the new owner of Redway Feed and soil donated by Sylvandale, each child planted their own mini garden. Then, with flowers donated from community members’ gardens, the children made bouquets. To

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A Small Business Playing a Small Role in Making a Small Town Great

Saturday evenings in small towns plod tiredly along for most teenagers. There seems nothing to do. There is no one they haven’t seen already. And, no place they haven’t been before. So they often end up down on the riverbar drinking another keg of beer that someone’s older brother bought for them.   In our little town, however, there is

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Santa Claus:A Truthful Tale

Storytellers embellish, change the order of truth, change truth, and, in fact, sometimes, they lie. If they are good storytellers, they do this in order to expose a larger, more universal truth. But, whether my natural inclination as a storyteller serves a greater purpose or not, the fact is I struggle constantly against the tendency to fabricate reality in inappropriate

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