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The Lilac Gardens sport other blooming plants in addition to the famous lilacs.

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Gardeners and flowerlovers everywhere can enjoy the many delights of Mrs. Klager’s gardens. Even a few spring showers won’t keep the lilacs from blooming—Why don’t you come, too! photo by gloria loughry

Fox, a celebrated member of the “Golden Age of Illustration” was at his best as a naturalist. He was Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens info mainly a painter of landscapes, porhere; see Tulip Festival informatraits, and rural subjects (especially tion on the back page… cows). The members of Hulda Klager Hulda Klager Lilac Lilac Society’s goal is not only to Gardens Prep for preserve the lilac heritage developed by Hulda Klager, but to Upcoming Lilac Days maintain the gardens for visitors to ach year, thousands of visitors experience the tranquility of a piostep back in time to the late This photo is from the 1979 (approx.) rededication of the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens as a National neer Victorian farm and garden. 1880s when they visit the Victorian Historic Site. photo courtesy of the hulda klager lilac gardens society. Maintaining the gardens is truly a farmhouse and country garden that comprises the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens, a labor of love on the part of the Lilac Society members. Additional bathrooms and brick national historic site. But members of the Hulda Klager Lilac Society recognize that paths make the gardens user-friendly for visitors in wheelchairs and walkers. even national treasures need some maintenance and repairs from time to time. Located on South Pekin Road, the house sits serenely in its garden, the silence broken only by the occasional train as it rumbles by. Outside, members of the Hulda It All Started in 1877 Klager Lilac Society have lovingly restored the woodshed, water tower, windmill and Hulda Klager came to this country from Germany with her family in 1865 when she was gardens, while inside the home repairs and maintenance still go on. two years old. She spoke often of her love for flowers and how as a little girl in Wisconsin This year’s theme for Lilac Days will be Antique Pyrex Ware. Members of the Lilac she would wander through the woodlands looking for wildflowers. She and her family Society have selected pieces from private collections to display within the home for the moved to Woodland, Washington in 1877, purchased farmland and built a home. event. Prints by artist R Atkinson Fox are also on permanent display within the farmhouse. FLOWERS—cont’d on page 2

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Even though she was busy with the demands of marriage, home and family, she continued to find time to work with flowers. While she was recovering from an illness in 1903, some of her friends brought her a book by Luther Burbank, a renowned hybridizer at the time. After reading his book, she was anxious to begin her own experiments with hybridizing plants, especially apples. Her interest in apples came from a desire to save time making pies, because she felt it took too long to peel all those little apples! So she set out to develop a bigger apple by crossing the mild Wolf River apple with the sour, juicy Bismarck apple, and was delighted with the result. In 1905 Hulda began hybridizing lilacs and by 1910 she had created 14 new varieties. By 1920 she had developed so many new varieties that she decided to hold an open house each spring when the lilacs were in full bloom to share her efforts with other lilac enthusiasts. This practice caused her to become known as ‘The Lilac Lady’. Around 1930 neighboring towns began sending delegations during Mrs. Klager’s “Lilac Week” to choose one of the new varieties she had developed to be named for their community. In this manner lilac varieties such as the “City of Longview,” “City of Kalama,” “City of Gresham,” and “City of Woodland” were designated. Through the years, Mrs. Klager has been honored by many organizations for

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WHAT’S HAPPENING Plant Sale! May 8 & 9, 2015 The VanRidge Garden Club is having their annual Plant Sale on Friday, May 8th and Saturday, May 9th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. The sale will be held at the Pleasant View Church of the Nazarene, 801 NE 194th Street in Ridgefield (on 10th Avenue). The sale will include plant starts of vegetables (lots of tomatoes!), annual and perennial flowers, roses, flowering shurbs, tubers, herbs, garden art, and planted containers. Proceeds benefit community interests and projects including Second-Step Housing, donations to Share House, and a yearly scholarship to a Washington student of Horticulture. Get Kids Started on Fishing!! The Moose Lodge annual Kids’ Fishing Derby is coming up on May 16, 2015! The Derby takes place at Horseshoe Lake Park in Woodland, WA with registration going from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and fishing happening from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Registration is $3 per fisherperson and ages to qualify are from 3 to 14 years old. For safety reasons, children from 3 to 5 years old must be accompanied by an adult (but who wouldn’t want to be there anyway!!). Get your fishing boots on and come join the fun. The Lodge provides fishing poles and there will be games and prizes for the kids. Each kid will get their catch weighed and the crew from the Lodge will even clean your fish for you! Someone could win a bike with their catch but everyone will have a lot of fun (adults, too!). For more information contact the Woodland Moose Lodge at 360-225-7736. Businesses, you can help the FLOWERS—cont’d from page 2

offers souvenirs and craft items from local artists. The Lilac Society also revived her annual “Lilac Week” festival each spring when the lilacs come into bloom, selling lilac plants to visitors just as when Hulda Klager was there. To find out more about the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens and Society, contact them at 360-225-8996 or visit them at the gardens at 115 S. Pekin Road, Woodland, WA. Some information for this article was reprinted with permission of the Hulda Klager Lilac Society.

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Learn to Square Dance! The R Square D Square Dance Club meets at the Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave, Kelso, WA. 98626. You can find out when they will be starting a new session of lessons in Square Dance! Lesson Schedule: Wednesday lessons begin April 1. 6:30–7 p.m., Plus dancers; 7 p.m.–9 p.m. Beginning dancers move to next dance level. Dance schedule: 2nd Friday and 4th Saturday: Plus at 7:30 p.m., mainstream with rounds at 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Craig Abercrombie, caller. Lonnie Sycks, cuer. For more information go to www.r-square-d.info or call 360414-5855. Don’t forget…square dance is great exercise and a lot of fun! Woodland Community Easter Egg Hunt Coming Up!

The Woodland Community Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the Woodland Moose Lodge, will be held on Saturday, April 4, at 10:00 a.m.. It will be at Horseshoe Lake Park in Woodland. Age groups will be 2 & Under, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–11. For more information please contact the lodge at 360-225-7736 after 2:00 PM or Lota Ross at 360-903-3579. Annual Fabric and Craft Sale benefits Veterans St. Urban Grange will be hosting their annual Fabric and Craft Sale on Saturday April 11, 2015 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. The Grange is located at the corner of Sargent and North Military in Winlock, WA. Do you have a textile related craft you would like to sell? This is an opportunity to clean out your stash of fabrics, yarn, notions, etc. that you no longer need, use, or want. Mark your calendar and reserve a table now for this opportunity to clean out what you don’t want or use. Or maybe add new items of interest. Tables are a $20 donation which benefit’s the Veterans Passage Quilt Project sponsored by Winlock St, Urban Grange. To reserve a table or for more information, contact Chris Schaffer at 360 785-3366 or Cindy at 360 557-6244. Free Boating Education Card Need Your Boaters Card? The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office Marine Division will be hosting an Adventures in Boating certification course. Classes are open to any individual who needs to obtain a Washington State Boaters Education Card. The next class will be on Saturday, April 11th. The class will run from 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m. at the Cowlitz County Search and Rescue Building, 1800 Western Lane in Kelso. Cost for the class is FREE. To Register: Contact Deputy Jordan Spencer at 360-5773092 or email at spencerj@co.cowlitz.wa.us . The deadline

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he humble potato has often been the salvation of human kind around the world. The Cambridge Royal History of food reports the potato (solanum tuberosum) is now the fourth most important world food crop, surpassed only by wheat, rice, and maize (corn.) In [the last] five centuries, this diverse and adaptable tuber has spread from its By Cheryl Spaulding original South American homeland in the high Andes to all elevations, in all temperate regions, of all the continents. In the course of its history, the potato adapted, and was adopted, as a survival crop on all continents. In Europe, it was originally an anti-famine food but then became a staple. In Africa and Asia, it has been a vegetable or co-staple crop. The potato has been credited with fueling the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century Europe but blamed for the mid-nineteenth-century Irish famine.Now that is quite a resume for what is considered to be a everyday, common food product. The potatoes we eat are starchy tubers that swell during the growing process and become larger as the top half of the plant matures. Out of sight out of mind, potatoes grow underground and you never really know how you’re doing until you harvest. A usual method of planting potatoes is to dig a four-inch deep trench, plant the seed potatoes in the bottom, one foot apart (eye side up, please) and then shovel the dirt back in as the plant grows, covering about a third of the plant. When the plant starts to blossom, it means the plant has begun forming new potatoes in the soil. If you use the box methods for growing, once your plants reach about a foot tall you can remove the bottom boards from the box, reach in carefully and pull out a few new potatoes at a time. (Be sure to replace the bottom boards after each removal.) Unless you steal all of them during the growing season, in the fall you should end up with a box of spuds. Your plants will dry out faster grown in a container than in the ground so a routine watering schedule is especially important. Equally important is to not drown your plants and then let them dry out. Repeating that unfortunate cycle throughout the growing season is a guarantee that you’ll grow knobby, scabby potatoes, one local grower says.

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1. Always buy certified disease-free seed potatoes from a trusted source. Planting potatoes from the grocery store is a gamble. Besides a disease problem, potatoes, like many grocery store vegetables, are treated with a growth inhibitor to keep them from sprouting. 2. Don’t plant your potatoes where tomatoes or eggplant were grown the year before. These are in the same family as potatoes and can attract similar pests and problems. 3. Plant in full sun to partial shade, keep the top growth growing and feeding the tubers 4. Choose your variety carefully. Depending on the variety potato plants grow at least 2 feet tall, but the actual size of the potatoes will vary widely with variety, from large baking types to tiny fingerlings. Hint: The texture of potaring the whole family toes, even more so than the flavor, is very variable and dine in style on from variety to variety. our scrumptious Sunday Brunch. Afterwards, take a tour of the fullyrestored Summit Grove Lodge—and trace its history back to the 1880s!

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he quote above by Hazel Richman describes how I felt after I finished the last page of Coming of Age In Mississippi by Anne Moody. I had seen the movie, “Selma” a few weeks before and realized how little I remembered about the events that led up to the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. A paperback copy of Moody’s book was in the book pile on my nightstand. I found myself picking it up at the 3 o’clock hour in an effort to read myself back asleep. Needless to say, her book did not produce the desired drowsiness. I read on until it was light outside. The author’s account was both disturbing and fascinating. While attending school at Tougaloo College she became a student activist with the Southern Christian Leadership Council. She was one of the students that took part in the sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi on May 28th, 1963. The protestors met with violence and humiliation which they endured peacefully for hours before the restaurant closed. The President of their college escorted them out, past ninety policemen who had done nothing to protect them. When I finished reading the book I went online to look at the photos of the event. I could see in the photos the smeared mixture of food and condiments that had been smeared on Anne’s head during the three-hour ordeal. Afterward, she dared not go to see her family in her home town for fear of retaliation against them because of her involvement. The first time I saw a black person, I was 12. The next year, I was in the 8th grade when our teacher told us that it was against the law for a Negro, the politically correct term then, to spend the night within the city limits. The law had been on the books since the Civil War. I was upset that it had not been changed. Later, I attended a high school in California where I met students of every color, religion, and ethnicity, and enjoyed the diversity of life experiences they brought. After I finished the book, I went online to see the black and white pictures that chronicled that black and white period of our development of a free country. I love to read autobiographies. I also reread my own thoughts the few times I kept a journal through a challenging period in my own life. The past still has life lessons to teach us. May the Peace of the Lord be with all His children this Easter.

5. Fertilize with 10-20-20 fertilizer at planting time as well as at least twice more during the growing season. 6. Routine watering and annual crop rotation is very important Your potato crop is ready to be harvested when frost kills the tops. Or, in the absence of frost, you can cut off the tops, wait 10 days to two weeks for the skins to firm up and then dig up the plants, sorting the potatoes from the soil. Hint: Once your potatoes ready to harvest, if your soil is wet don’t leave your potatoes in the ground any longer than necessary or they will rot. New potatoes are tender potatoes so harvest carefully, by hand or with a shovel. Turn the soil over and search through for each starchy treasure. Keep in mind the tubers can branch out and digging in with a fork is a sure fire way of stabbing a potato or two. It’s true, potatoes are relatively inexpensive to purchase so why grow your own? For one thing growing your own is the best way to ensure they will not have been exposed to excessive chemicals to offset their growing problems. Plus you’ll have a lot more varieties to choose from. Russet (baking) potatoes and smooth skinned potatoes like reds, white, yellow and Yukon Gold potatoes dominated the market, but there are actually over 1,000 different varieties of potatoes available for growing.

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often wish I was better at keeping interesting and important information about my garden in a written record. o vLI Writing down ST K o OR n O ow andGL YA OF that information for ND AR PHOTO S BY NORA future reference is so much more accurate than memory to track things that happen in the garden through the years. Things I would track are weather happenings like frosts, temperatures, and sunny or cloudy days. Other curiosities would include levels of insect pests or first sightings of different important little helpers or even how many Bumble bee or yellow jacket nests are in my yard. I have had as many as two of each at different times, but I don’t remember what years those happened. My memory of those specifics has faded over the years. Already this year I have seen new spider webs and Queen Bumble bees, but I am not sure how early they are compared to other years. Even the Shiro plum tree has been blooming like crazy since late February or early March. That plum tree always does well so I am not too concerned about it getting hit with frost. I am just wondering more about how this year’s weather is going to proceed in our area especially since it seems too warm too early. Others things I am watching and wondering about are the solitary pollinator bee blocks. These helpers don’t seem to be waking up just yet except for a few and this is mid-March. Here again is where I would have liked to have been able to look back in my journals or other records to see when these bees had begun to emerge to do their all important work in the garden. I have also seen a few young striped jumping spiders, but have yet to see any new baby Garden Cross spiders hatching out of their little tucked-away egg sacs. It may be too early yet. I am wondering if they are triggered by the amount of light in a day and not so much by temperatures. This year may be just a fluke as far as this early spring we seem to be having, and records are one sure way to better understand if there is a pattern in the changes. Meanwhile I will just keep watching for what all the little critters in the garden are doing. I am curious to see how it all goes. Maybe this year I will start and then continue a journal of these things I keep wondering about. I have started several journals, some are quite nice with pretty covers and illustrations, some are as simple as composition books, but it seems that kind of consistent record keeping isn’t in my genes. Maybe that is because I like to think of my gardening as something I do for fun and relaxation even though I often call my garden my lab. When I go out to my garden I usually go out with one or two things I have to do and then I just doodle around and do what

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t’s the time to celebrate the resu plus celebrate Spring! The daffo mostly have gone but the tulips, f trees, some azaleas and the blue hy up. ’Tis a beautiful time of year and Here at our home the birds have feeders for a month. Many Lewis R called to say the hummingbirds a went away. They too. Now our spe has returned— Hummingbird. On white-breasted n his sweet call al when I step out m We do need to clean water in th mosquitos love t there. Also we al and all items outs tiny bit of water in them to prevent housekeeping. Food is still important for our bi keep sunflower seeds and suet out water for the hummingbirds. In March we saw plenty of Tund on their early returns. There have a dhill cranes and several bald eagl spotted. The big nest we have seen f the mouth of the Lewis River was one of our winds. The eagles are ea together. The heron rookery is in full sw nests. Each nest was occupied with t Soon the parent birds will be out ga and etcs. for the little heron-ettes. Robins, starlings, chickadees an building nests now, so you can put or even some of your own hair to he do this every year. Keep your eyes o of any unusual birds you might Woodland area. I do love to hear fro

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urrection of our Lord odils have come and flowering ornamental yacinths are popping d we do enjoy it. been returning to our River area folks have ey have had Anna’s all year; they never y stayed here all year, ecial ‘brown bomber’ —the Rufous ne neat little bird, the nuthatch is whistling lmost every morning my front door. o remember to keep he bird baths as the to deposit their eggs ll need to empty any side that have even a mosquitos setting up

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SW hen the USS Constitution’s keel first hit the water in October WASHINGTON appeared the little fleet escorting the immortal frigate. First came the W of 1797, surely no one foresaw that over two centuries later, Grebe; sturdy, gray little bulldog of the sea. Behind her lashed fast to not only would the vessel still exist, but she would proudly act as two tugs came her black hulled majesty. Closer she came. HISTORY Each detailsteaming America’s official Ship of State and also claim the title of the world’s oldof her fighting top and still frowning guns becoming more dis-

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est commissioned warship still afloat. The wooden frigate, built in a tinct as the first rays of the sun filtered through the hanging mists and Boston shipyard, gained fame in the quasi-War with France and the War of glinted from her metal work as her black oaken hull slid smoothly through 1812 with Britain. She earned her nickname of “Old Ironsides” the placid water, cutting it like a wedge and leaving behind a when the enemy’s cannonballs seemed to bounce harmlessly troubled path of foaming wake.” off her stout sides. The ship’s visit to the Northwest elicited many stories of her Throughout her long life, Constitution alternated periods of ties to our area. Mrs. F. M. Archer of Longview recalled, “I active duty with return to dry dock (also called “in ordinary”) don’t remember the exact year, but it was when the old ship for repairs and other service. Not only was she a warship, but was in dry dock at Boston, Massachusetts being repaired, she also put in many years as a training ship (where young when my grandfather, Rufus W. Wass, was one of the carpensailors learned the mechanics of operating a sailing vessel), a ters working on her. He was formerly a ship’s carpenter sailing transport ship, a flagship, a floating museum, and even a receivbefore the mast for a number of years.” ing ship where naval personnel were housed. But her greatest Local residents Samuel Mark Morris, Mrs. Cloud Houx, BY KAREN L. JOHNSON glory, and true purpose, was found on the open seas. Edgar Mark Wilson, Mary Louise Houx, Felker Morris, and In the 1920s, after more than two decades Martha Sue and John McClelland enjoyed on exhibit, Old Ironsides again found hera familial connection to Charles Morris, self in dry dock in Boston. This time, howwho served as the executive officer aboard ever, restoration efforts had a greater goal: Constitution during the War of 1812. rather than being tied to a dock as a museDuring the battle with the British ship um, the old girl would embark on an ambiHMS Guerriere, Morris was severely tious three-coast three-year tour, calling at wounded but recovered and carved out a over 80 ports. Fortunately, several remarkable naval career. At the time of his Northwest cities were slated to host this death in 1856, he was the second highest patriotic icon. ranking officer in the U.S. Navy. In July of 1931, Constitution began her When Constitution was refurbished in tour. She was accompanied (and often 1929, new masts were needed. The West towed) by the naval tender USS Grebe. She Coast Lumberman’s Association provided made her way down the East Coast, through around 40 choice lengths of old-growth the Panama Canal, and up the Pacific Douglas fir, cut and milled at Westport near Coast. Her Northwest ports of call included Astoria. Eight of the timbers were over 100 Astoria, Gray’s Harbor, Port Angeles, feet long. All of the masts-to-be were transSeattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Bremerton, ported via railroad, free of charge, to Everett, Bellingham, Anacortes, Port Boston. Townsend, Portland, Kalama, and During her time in our region, Longview. Old Ironsides graced our region Constitution was visited by thousands of from May 6 to August 26, 1933, when she people; nearly 25,000 saw her in Longview finally disappeared over the horizon on her This beautiful montage of views was found on a pre-1890 card advertising Allen & alone. Officers and sailors alike were feted way to San Francisco and ultimately back Ginter Tobacco. Clockwise from upper left: a sailor prepares to fire a cannon; at dances, dinners, fireworks displays, and Constitution faces HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812; Constitution after her top to Boston. other celebrations. Governors, mayors and deck was enclosed to house naval personnel in the late 1800s; Constitution is towed A reporter for the Longview Daily News to the Portsmouth Navy Yard after decommissioning circa 1881. The center vignette other dignitaries enjoyed tours of the ship. eloquently described the ship’s arrival at shows Old Ironsides in her glory days, under full sail on the high seas. Longview: “As the early morning mist hung like a cloak over the broad, quiet Columbia river, a crowd of early risers stood on the Children learned how sails were hoisted port dock, their eyes turned and cannon loaded, and made memories as one to pierce the gray that would last a lifetime. mist that hid the bend of the The Kalama Bulletin praised the ship’s river above Rainier, from visit: “Old Ironsides has come and gone. whence the proud hull of The courtesy of the officers and the the Constitution was thoughtfulness of the men added to the expected to sweep majesti- pleasure of entertaining the historic ship. cally into sight. Suddenly in Patriotism will be more real and tangible the distance there appeared because of these contacts. When the Port what the eager crowd on of Kalama has come to its own and its the pier were waiting to fame becomes known the world over, the see. 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During its 1933 trip to the West Coast, a postmaster aboard Constitution postmarked souvenir envelopes, such as this one from Kalama, for sale to tourists.Kalama celebrated the visit by baking the world’s largest strawberry shortcake; Commander Louis Gulliver of Constitution made the first cut in the huge dessert with his dress sword. RIGHT: Old Ironsides still serves as a training vessel. Pictured here in 2006, Chief Petty Officer trainees scramble over the rigging while learning to set the flying jib. photo courtesy

This circa 1912 postcard shows Constitution at her berth in Boston Harbor.

wharf will ever be a delightful memory with all who saw it. It is a link which ties the glorious past to the strenuous present and leads to a happy future. Our faith in America has been strengthened.” In 1979, I traveled to Boston and chanced to visit Old Ironsides. The ship was beautiful: surprisingly large overall, and surprisingly cramped below decks. At the time, a mast had been removed for repairs; rotting wood lay crumbled on the dock.I picked up a small piece of debris and took it home as a souvenir of that mighty and gallant lady. This spring, Constitution will once again enter dry dock for a round of extensive maintenance and restora-

tion. Visitors will have a rare chance to view the exposed hull including copper plating and original (yes, original, as in 1795–97) wooden keel. The ship is expected to be re-floated some time in 2018, when the waves will once more beat against her sides and the salt spray will fly of seaman michelle sowers. over her bow. Wouldn’t it be marvelous if she could once again hoist her sails for the Northwest and exemplify the saying “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

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we have never stayed with Him. Thank God that when I die there will be no fear of the death I deserve because I will be clinging to Jesus, hiding behind Him when the devil accuses me (and rightly so) of deserving eternal punishment. Thank God, He sent His Son to take my punishment and thank Jesus that He willfully obeyed and will answer those accusations with, “All is forgotten. All is paid in full with my own blood. The debt is finished for Lori. She’s with me!” All can be forgotten for you, too. When your day comes, and you stand before our Maker helplessly unable to defend yourself from the truth of your life, Jesus can be for you who He is for me. All you have to do is BELIEVE in Him and turn away from your deeds that are rightly deserving of eternal punishJoy Snead ment. Fear Him, live for AVP • Branch Manager Him, love Him, obey Him, WOODLAND BRANCH and hide behind Him in the 782 Goerig St. gates of Heaven and someWoodland, WA 98674 360225-9421 • Fax 360225-8146 day hear Him say, “He’s with jsnead@columbiabank.com me and she’s with me!”

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“By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” —1 John 4:9 NASB

How I wish I would have been that thief, but the truth of the matter is, the real Lori would have lost all hope, given up, and given in to bitterness. But this thief, Wow! He defended Christ and boldly asked, “Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!” I would have scoffed when Jesus promised the repentant thief, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.” wish I could say that I would have stayed with Had I been there when the darkness fell upon the land, and the earth shook, and Jesus, through thick or thin. I am brokenthe rocks split apart and the heavy, floor-to-ceiling veil (the one hearted to realize it, and mortified to admit it, designed to keep the common folk out of the temple and away but the truth be told, had I been there when God from God) was torn in two, and the tombs opened, and the sent His only begotten Son, in the flesh, into the dead people were popping up like daisies, I would have world, the real Lori Anderson would not have been found with Jesus. died of a heart attack and totally missed when the Had Lori been the Virgin Mary, I fear I would have laughed when told soldiers keeping guard over Jesus became very frightI would have a child without “knowing” a man. I would have said, “Yeah, ened and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” right...”, when told to name the child Jesus and that the child was the Son of God sent to If I was one of the ladies that followed the body of save the world. I would have run off tittering and Facebooked the crazy encounter. Christ, I would have wept bitterly when they rolled a BY LORI ANDERSON large stone against the entrance of His tomb. I would If I was born on the other side of the camel tracks and was a wealthy and powerful “religious leader”, no doubt I would have accused the grown up Jesus vehemently (out of have vehemently questioned everything I had ever fear he was taking my audience and my power). How do I know this? The real Lori heard about the love of God and His promises. I would have wondered angrily what Anderson can be quite selfish and self-serving. good it was to try to be good, to believe, to have faith, to pray, to have hope. If I was there then, and wasn’t the chosen Mary or a power crazed “religious leader”, If I had been there when the “religious leaders” demanded the tomb be guarded to but instead was counted amongst the common folk, no doubt I would have followed prevent Jesus from “rising from the dead” and the entrance be sealed, I would have Jesus—to see what amazing stunt He would do next! I would have clapped and whistled thought them crazy and paranoid. And when another earthquake hit and an angel, glowing when He changed the water into wine, whooped and hollered when He made the blind like lightening, came from heaven and rolled away the stone like it was nothing, I, too, man see, the lame man walk, and the dead man come to life. I would have FREAKED would have been paralyzed with fear like the soldiers and the women who were there. OUT when that poor guy’s shriveled arm popped out with a brand new hand at the bidIf I had been there when the angel said, “Do not be afraid; for I know that you are ding of Jesus! I would have been screaming, “Did you see that? HOW did He do that!? looking for Jesus who has been crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, just as He What an amazing show!” I wish I COULD say instead that I would have LISTENED to said.” I hope at this point I would have left with “fear and great joy” like the people Jesus and put His Words into practice but the real Lori Anderson is distract-able, forgetful, there did. I’d like to believe and easily entangled in the busy-ness of life. Unless something AMAZING caught my I would have, but when fleeting attention the real Lori would not have remembered the Words. Jesus met them and greet© If I had been there when the religious leaders arrested Jesus, I, too, would have denied ed them and they took hold any knowledge of Jesus. I would have left Him alone to face His accusers out of fear for of His feet and worshiped my own life. When they told everyone that Jesus was a bad guy and thieving, murderous Him, I do not think that’s Barabbas wasn’t, I can safely say I do not believe I would have believed them, but the what I would have done. real Lori Anderson is cowardly and fearful of the opinions of people. I’m pretty sure I The real Lori would have Philippians 1:3–6 would NOT have tried to defend Jesus when everyone called for His crucifixion and the cowered in shame, hidden an you imagine release of Barabbas. her face, and been speechagain having not a If I had been there, at the cross, I do not think I would have joined everyone in taunting less. I would not have Jesus. I do not think I would have been brave enough to try to stop the taunting either. I doubted like some of the care in the world? What just would have cried like a baby at what the soldiers were doing. disciples did when they would it be like to not If I was a soldier, I would have done my job and crucified Jesus. The real Lori is saw Jesus alive, but I know of nuclear weapdriven and prone to work-a-holism. If that’s what Roman soldiers did back then, I would would have been mortified ons, politics, devastathave done it, too, like a good soldier. When the soldiers finished nailing Jesus up and at all that I had done against ing natural disasters, or skewering Him so He could slowly suffocate to death, they gambled for His clothes. I Jesus and all that I hadn’t war? A small child has would have been right there gambling, too, wanting my fair share of memorabilia. Jesus done for Jesus. The knowl- that privilege. For most very young was nothing to them but He was a famous Jew that was on the list to die, apparently edge that the Son of God because He was claiming to be “the One whose coming was foretold through all the was sent to take the pun- children, even in the ages”. Being good with crafts, I probably would have been the one that made the sign that ishment for all my sins is midst of the terrible was put over Jesus’ head that read, “THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS”. more than I can handle events of this world, If I was there and wasn’t a soldier but instead was one of the thieves also being crucified, today! I do not deserve the there are no cares. They I think I would have been the sarcastic and bitter thief, the one that said, “Are You not the mercy God shows me. cannot comprehend Christ? Save Yourself and us!” I wish I could say I would have been the thief that shut up None of us do. 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ust off the I-5 freeway, and conveniently Blueberry scone, $2.00. The scones are big, located not far from the heart of downsatisfying and not overly sweet. town Kalama, Washington, Kalama Koffee My companion chose his favorite way to (724 N.E Frontage Rd, Kalama Washington) kick start his morning, a 16 oz Breve (four is warm and welcoming especially on a shots of espresso with steamed half and blustery day in early March. In addition to half), $3.65, combined with a Bacon and coffee, tea, and pastries common to most Cheese Scone, $2.00. He said the coffee coffee shops, this great little espresso shop (Kalama Koffee) has a richer flavor and the also sells ice cream by the dish or by the Bacon and Cheese scone was really good. cone, handmade quilts created by local artThe savory taste of the smoky bacon and ists, and other craft items of every kind. are set off perfectly by the slightly BY THE DIVA GASTRONOMIQUE cheese They also feature a drive up window for sweet taste of the scone batter. Round all those-on-the-go. This cozy little establishthis off with a friendly wait staff and you ment has inside seating with assorted tables have the perfect place to start off your day or kick start it and chairs and paperback books for customers to read again when you feel the mid-day lag. while enjoying a great cup of Joe. What I plan to try the next time: Kalama Coffee is What we tried: The morning we visited I chose a 12 known far and wide for the delicious and HUGE biscottis oz London Fog, a tea latte for $1.95. This is an unusual created in-house, French Vanilla or Chocolate Hazelnut, drink consisting of black tea and steamed, warm, 2% $2.00 each. Teamed with a Caramel Macchiato (12 oz KALAMA, WA milk. Mention a TEA latte to most people and they will $3.65), that ought to give me enough sugar to keep me look at you in confusion. Tea is not normally associated with lattes and breves. It’s going for a week. Sounds delicious! Kalama Koffee is definitely worth another visit. I warm (drinkable temperature please. I don’t like burning my tongue, thank you) and can hardly wait. creamy but without the big “caffeine kick” of coffee. Don’t get me wrong tea has cafKalama Koffee, 724 N.E. Frontage Rd (look for the flags), Kalama Washington. Open feine, just not as much as coffee. I rounded out my breakfast-on-the-go with a Lemon daily 6 a.m. To 6 p.m. 360-673-3913. Look for Kalama Koffee on Facebook, too.

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The U-Pick fields of colorful tulips are open now. A walk through the U-Pick fields or on the dike both afford a great photo opportunity. Right now some of the fields normally filled with colorful tulips are taking a rest. However, additional fields of tulips to view are located just south of Holland America Bulb Farm on Pekin Road. The Tulip Festival is passionate about promoting art. They love it in all forms, including drawings, photography, sculpture and floral arts. As a way to encourage youth to participate in building a good foundation for the arts, they invite you to enter your artwork to be judged by their staff. Please submit your original artwork in person at the gift shop. Remember to label it with your name, age and contact info. This contest is open to youth ages 10–18. Categories are: Drawing, Painting, Photography and Floral. Judging will be on

April 25th during the Art Show and Wine Festival. You can drop off your piece before 3 pm on Saturday, the 25th. Prizes will be awarded in each category and presented on Saturday, May 2nd at 2 pm. The Dobbe family, owners of Holland America Bulb Farm and founders of Holland America Bulb Farms, Inc., (Benno and Klazina Dobbe) emigrated to the United States in 1980 with their three young children, Nicolette, Ben and Stefan. They discovered beautiful Woodland, Washington was the perfect location to establish their bulb farm. They started growing and importing tulips, daffodils, irises, and lilies. They currently operate sev-

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Woodland Tulip Festival Ablaze with Color

he Woodland Bottoms are alive with color during the 13th Annual Holland America Tulip Festival taking place on two weekends: April 11th and 12th and April 18th and 19th. This year’s festival events include the Tulip Trot (a 5K run), a wine tasting and art show, U-pick fields, the Cutest Baby Contest, a youth photography contest, and a selection of unique vendors for those who love to shop. On April 25th, 2015 visit the Holland America Bulb Farm (1066 S Pekin Road, Woodland Washington) from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. for a walk through the tulip fields at sunset and an evening

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