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“We are so excited to help bring some fun activities to the kids and families of Cowlitz County with this partnership,” said Children’s Discovery Museum Director Dawn Morgan. Editor’s note: Check Children’s Discovery Museum’s Facebook page for updates about the museum’s reopening. Curb-side pickup of the bags will take place at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum, located at 405 Allen Street, Kelso, Wa s h i n g t o n . Please enter the Museum parking lot via 4th Avenue and exit through 5th Avenue (see map). Olaf will be standing by to present bags in the parking lot.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas. ~ Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, inventor, writer, 1706-1790. Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. ~ G.K. Chesterton, English writer, 1874-1936 Now Christmas is come, Let us beat up the drum, And call all our neighbors together; And when they appear, Let us make them such cheer As will keep out the wind and the weather. ~Washington Irving, American writer, 1783-1859
The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. ~Henry David Thoreau, American writer and naturalist, 1817-1862
To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, 1892-1973.
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The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community.
Please join me in brightening the Christmas season for kids in need...... Drop your new, unwrapped toy donation at my office, 9am–5pm.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver, American agricultural scientist and inventor, 1864-1943. The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher, 121-180 AD.
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Longview native Debra Tweedy has lived on four continents. She and her husband decided to return to her hometown and bought a house facing Lake Sacajawea.“We came back because of the Lake and the Longview Public Library,” she says. 20 / Columbia River Reader / November 25, 2021 / HOLIDAY 2021
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