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ELAINE CERNY: MY GARDEN PATH — August … already?
It’s hard to believe, but summer is half over already. Seems like it just got started. Guess we’d better enjoy e...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — HOLLY CARLING: Are you hangry?
Some people are familiar with the word hangry, others think I’m misspelling hungry or angry. It is, however, a combination of the two words. It is when the emotion of anger, irritability, impatience or intoleranc...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: Reports from Wine Country
Much news from our friends in “Wine Countries” across the west that affects everything from visits to the wineries, to our events here at home to the 2020 vintage. So, let’s get started with news that one way or ...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: Wine dogs
When you visit wineries and wine shops, many times you will find the owners there with their dogs. It makes sense, wine, after all, is a social drink. We have long said that when you sit down to have a glass of w...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — HOLLY CARLING: Lyme disease: The ticks are out!
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted through the bite of a tick. It can be a serious disease. Fortunately, not all tick bites cause Lyme disease. It is transmitted from certain ticks only. Some resea...
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Grace and Frank Jaminet
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: Consumption patterns
Consumer wine consumption has a natural rhythm to it. Varietals come and go in popularity, as does winemaking style. All but the most die-hard varietal loyalists will change their preferences with the seasons. Th...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WAYNE M. FICHTER: Masks-beneficial or harmful, you decide
After writing last week’s article I started looking up studies to see if wearing a mask is detrimental to our health. What I found was perplexing. Post COVID-19 all the literature said masks are not harmful to we...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — HOLLY CARLING: Hot days rick dehydration
As we get into the really hot days of summer, the risk of dehydration also gets up into high numbers. We spend more time outdoors, enjoying the fun of summer. But dehydration isn’t anything fun and can be quite s...
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Stan and Patsy Scoman
ADVERTISING — Advertorial: HOLLY CARLING: Hair loss: Are you losing it up there?
Losing your hair can be quite a distressing thing. Whether your hair is slowly thinning, you are losing it in clumps, or you have patches that are totally bald, continued hair loss can be devastating. As with all...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — DR. WAYNE M. FICHTER: Mask or not to mask?
Right now we can’t go to Costco without a mask, or even to Washington State for that matter. So I started looking into it more and I found an article from the New England Journal of Medicine. For those of you who...
ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: What I did on my summer vacation
When I got this assignment in elementary school I always dreaded it. But after just returning from a week off, I felt excited to write this column. Mary and I are very grateful to get a week away. We spent our we...
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McCaughan-Crawford
ELAINE CERNY: MY GARDEN PATH — Lots of growing going on
This has been one crazy growing season, at least so far. We just seem to keep getting “yo-yo” weather. It’s cold, then hot, wet, then dry, etc., etc. Program...