by Pat Nelson
Reprinted with permission, The Daily News, Longview, WA August 29, 2008
When my husband, Bob , and I recently spent four days exhibiting wholesale sleds at the Seattle Gift Show, I strapped my fanny pack around my waist to avoid losing it.
For four days, that fanny pack bounced up and down on my hip as [...]
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September 15, 2008
Losing fanny pack bad way to shed weight
July 27, 2008
Friendship that lasts the test of time
By Pat Nelson for The Daily News, July 11, 2008
Reprinted with permission
Best friends come and go, so a friendship that has lasted more than 50 years is something to brag about. My longtime friend, Marilyn Herold of Longview and I celebrated her birthday and our friendship recently with lunch at Woodland’s Lewis River Golf Course.
Whenever [...]
July 3, 2008
Skate park goes green
by Pat Nelson
Reprinted with permission, The Daily News, Longview, WA 5/23/2008
A sign stating “Tree City USA” now sits near three newly planted flowering trees at the edge of the lawn stretching gently downhill from Woodland’s skateboard park. In late April, City of Woodland employees and volunteers laid sod to convert the area surrounding the [...]
July 3, 2008
Anticipation building for Planters’ Days
by Pat Nelson
Reprinted with permission,”
The Daily News, Longview, WA June 20, 2008
To me, this photo of the partially-assembled carnival at Woodland’s Horseshoe Lake represents the word “anticipation.”
Carnival workers anticipate a busy festival, smiling faces and lots of ticket sales this weekend during the Planters’ Days festival.
Many kids anticipate receiving a few extra bucks from [...]
May 8, 2008
A Trip to the past…youngsters visit Lelooska Cultural Center
By Pat Nelson
For: The Daily News, Longview, WA
May 2, 2008
Reprinted with permission
Three weeks ago, on a cold and blustery April day that threatened snow, I looked out at Horseshoe Lake and saw more shoreline activity than I thought the nippy day deserved. Two men fished from an aluminum boat. The wind pushed them along as [...]
April 4, 2008
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 [...]
