Where to Find the Reader (Pick-up locations

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1339 Commerce #112 IN THE MERK • 360-425-5042 WINTER HOURS M-Wed 10–3 • Th–Sat 10–5 facebook.com/hopscotchtoys instragram: hopscotch_longview

Longview Outdoor Gallery Unique sculptures along the sidewalks of Downtown Longview, both sides of Commerce Ave.

Broadway Barrel Room

Family friendly tap house and eatery!

n 18 taps of hand-selected local craft beverages n Hand-crafted Soups, Sandwiches, Flatbread and Desserts! n Live music on Thursdays

Tu-Th 11–9• F-Sat 11–10 • Closed Sun-Mon 1333 Broadway • Longview 360-353-4295

The Broadway Gallery

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1413 Commerce Ave. Longview 360-575-9804 M-F: 9:30–5:30 • Sat 10 - 5

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CAFE

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The Carriage

Where to find the new Reader

It’s delivered all around the River by the 15th of each month. Here’s the list of handy, regularly-refilled sidewalk box and rack locations where you can pick up a copy any time of day and even in your bathrobe:

LONGVIEW

U.S. Bank Post Office Bob’s (rack, main check-out) In front of 1232 Commerce Ave In front of 1323 Commerce Ave YMCA Fred Meyer (rack, service desk) Teri’s Grocery Outlet Fibre Fed’l CU - Commerce Ave Monticello Hotel (front entrance) Kaiser Permanente St. John Medical Center (rack, Park Lake Café) LCC Student Center Indie Way Diner Columbia River Reader Office 1333 14th Ave. (box at door) Omelettes & More (entry rack) Stuffy’s II (entry rack)

KELSO

Visitors’ Center / Kelso-Longview Chamber of Commerce

KALAMA

Fibre Fed’l CU Kalama Shopping Center corner of First & Fir McMenamin’s Harbor Lodge

WOODLAND

Visitors’ Center Grocery Outlet Luckman Coffee Antidote (rack)

CASTLE ROCK

Lacie Rha’s Cafe (32 Cowlitz W.) Parker’s Restaurant (box, entry) Visitors’ Center 890 Huntington

Ave. N., Exit 49, west side of I-5 Cascade Select Market

RYDERWOOD

Café porch

TOUTLE

Drew’s Grocery & Service (temporarily closed)

CLATSKANIE

Post Office Chevro / Mini-Mart Fultano’s Pizza

WESTPORT

Berry Patch Wauna mill (parking lot)

RAINIER

Post Office Cornerstone Café Rainier Hardware (rack, entry) Earth ‘n’ Sun (on Hwy 30) El Tapatio (entry rack) Grocery Outlet Senior Center (rack at front door)

DEER ISLAND

Deer Island Store COLUMBIA CITY - Post Office

WARREN

Warren Country Inn

ST HELENS

Chamber of Commerce Sunshine Pizza St. Helens Market Fresh Olde Town: Wild Currant, Tap into Wine Safeway

SCAPPOOSE

Post Office Road Runner Fultano’s Ace Hardware

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Fred Meyer

CATHLAMET

Cathlamet Pharmacy Tsuga Gallery Cathlamet Realty West Puget Island Ferry Landing

SKAMOKAWA

Skamokawa General Store

NASELLE

Appelo Archives & Café Johnson’s One-Stop

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GENTLE READER: Go to the one that did not change dates; the other is a new invitation. Hosts are not allowed to feel aggrieved that someone who accepted an invitation to the Capulet wedding in the morning is not available for what subsequently changed to a funeral in the evening.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother and mother-in-law passed away about one month apart. Now, a year later, I am ashamed to share that I have not sent thank-you notes to those who sent food, flowers and gifts. It took this past year for me to gather the emotional energy to even open the bereavement cards. I do not want to face people without first sending thankyous. How do I handle this? Do I send a thank-you and apologize for the delay in acknowledgment? I have spoken to a few of these folks over this past year, and I never acknowledged their generosity because I had not opened the cards!

GENTLE READER: Like generals, bank robbers and givers of surprise parties, Miss Manners does not always believe that honesty is the best policy. But when the reason is as compelling and understandable as yours, there is no substitute.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a genuinely kind coworker who constantly talks over my sentences. Not surprisingly, she also doesn’t listen to what I am able to say. Could you give me a Miss Manners-y idea for what to say or do in these situations?

GENTLE READER: Stop talking. At least while your colleague is speaking simultaneously. Eventually, Miss Manners assumes, she will realize that you are staring at her silently. If she asks you why, you may say, “You seemed so excited and I didn’t want to talk over you.”

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Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.