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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, Washington. 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.

Drive-through traffic pattern for picking up holiday bags for kids at Cowlitz County Historical Museum

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To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, 1892-1973.

Selected by Debra Tweedy 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 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.

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

Longview native Debra Tweedy has lived on four continents. She 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. Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. ~ P.J. O’Rourke, American political satirist and journalist, 1947There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life: to improve ourselves and contribute to the happiness of others. ~ Mary Shelley, English novelist, 1797-1851.

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.

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