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| I wish someone would explain to me how computers and today's technology have made living easier. I am told by my software engineer son, Jack, that life is easier, but when my telephone company says I now have to dial ten digits to telephone my... more... | |
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A couple of years ago my wife and I each took a retirement readiness test with a possible score of 26 points. She scored a 24 and I tallied a two. A few months later she retired from her position as a library/media specialist. |
| Disabled and elderly Douglas County residents who employ home care workers can participate in free one-on-one training from Umpqua Valley disAbilities Network in Roseburg. | |
| Douglas County Retired Senior Volunteer Program is sponsoring a two-hour workshop on Monday to dispel myths and misconceptions about Medicare. | |
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We are living in strange times. Never in history has there been such an explosion of ways that humans communicate. Everyone, except maybe me, is tethered to a cell phone 24/7. Never have so many people listened in on other people's telephone... |
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We are a people of storytellers. Evidence of that is the scratching found on the walls of ancient caves. Ever since language evolved, man has been putting stories to words by writing them down for future generations. |
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If you are reading this column — the first one I have written in 2010 — you probably have no idea how far newspapers have come in my 60 years in the profession. The craft in which I began is light years different from the way a newspaper is... |
| Old newspapers can be a great source of interesting genealogical data. This was re-enforced recently in searching for my great-grandfather, Joseph Leon Ferdinand Gervais aka Frank. In the 1900 census of Butte, Mont., he is listed as a married man with... | |
| As an only child, living with one parent, my behavior suggests that I occasionally felt pangs of loneliness. | |
| It's January, and as much as I love Oregon, it can get pretty dark and dreary in the winter months. So what to do if you can't escape to the tropics? Sometimes it sounds wonderful to stay home, curl up with a good book, and warm up with a bowl of... | |
| When we first came to Douglas County, it was a very difficult transition for the family. Children being children and much more open to new relationship, most of our kids were rather quickly assimilated into the local kid population. | |
| December leading up to 2010 gave us fair warning about what is ahead as we reach the New Year. You cannot say we weren't warned, though. The nice thing about weather forecasting this day and age is nothing is left to the imagination. | |
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Grandchildren have a way of changing their grandmothers. For proof of that statement ask Maryjean Anderson. Her grandson, Donovon Cecil Anderson Jr., took a rough and tumble farm girl from Tenmile and changed her into a grandmother artist with a needle... |
| An annual mid-week program at the Diamond Lake Resort that offers cross country ski and snowshoe instruction and tours is scheduled for Feb. 8-11. | |
| What would you like to find under your tree this year? Family History Center staff members have suggested genealogical gift ideas. One mentioned an Ancestry.com subscription. | |
| The TV commercial urged that we learn a second language. For many of us, English is becoming a second language. At least in the spoken word. | |
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