Kids, birds will compete for Horseshoe Lake fish

 
 

April 18, 2008

 
 

By Pat Nelson
For The Daily News, Longview, WA
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In preparation for spring fishing at Woodland’s Horseshoe Lake, the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife planted more than 8800 rainbow trout and more than 6510 brown trout during the first eight days of April. Another 2,500-3,500 rainbows will be trucked to Horseshoe [...]

American dream comes true for Guatemalan family

By Pat Nelson
For The Daily News, Longview, WA, April 4, 2008
Reprinted with permission
 
Santos Lopez Fabian first came to the United States twenty years ago on a visa. During each of those twenty years, he worked in the United States most of the year and traveled home to his family in the Guatemala highlands for a [...]

Writers, get the most out of your stories

In February, I wrote “Century old love letters go home for Valentine’s Day” for The Daily News, Longview, WA. (See the story on this blogsite.) My writing teacher said it was a great story. I didn’t know how great until, the morning it came out in the paper, Channel 2 News from Portland, OR called and [...]