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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020
Rift in the family
COMMUNITY NOTES
FRIDAY
Senior Lunch To Go — Pickup a hot
lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Senior Center, 1225 Avenue A,
Seaside. Drive up to Avenue B to pickup at
back door. For information, call Suzanne Bja-
ranson at 503-861-4202; for new Meals on
Wheels inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Diners — Full Meals
$6: Delivered to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center kitchen door,
1111 Exchange St. For information, or meal
delivery, call 503-325-9693.
MONDAY
Grace and Encouragement for Moms
— For information, call Christina Leonard at
503-298-3936.
Senior Lunch To Go — Pickup a hot
lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Senior Center, 1225 Avenue A,
Seaside. Drive up to Avenue B to pickup at
back door. For information, call Suzanne Bja-
ranson at 503-861-4202; for new Meals on
Wheels inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Diners — Full Meals
$6: Delivered to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center kitchen door,
1111 Exchange St. For information, or meal
delivery, call 503-325-9693.
Warrenton Senior Lunch Program —
For information, or to volunteer, call 503-
861-3502 Monday or Thursday.
Astoria Rotary Club — For information,
go to AstoriaRotary.org
Columbia Northwestern Model Rail-
roading Club — Group runs trains on
HO-scale layout. For information, call Don
Carter at 503-325-0757.
Astoria Alzheimer’s & Other Dementia
Family Support Group — For information,
call Rosetta Hurley at 503-325-0313, ext. 222,
or email rhurley@clatsopcarecenter.org
Astoria Toastmasters — For informa-
tion, go to toastmasters.org or call Christa
Svensson at 206-790-2869.
TUESDAY
Stewardship Quilting Group —
For information, call Janet Kemp at
503-325-4268.
Do Nothing Club — Men’s group.
For information, call Jack McBride at
360-665-2721.
Senior Lunch To Go — Pickup a hot
lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Senior Center, 1225 Avenue A,
Seaside. Drive up to Avenue B to pickup at
back door. For information, call Suzanne Bja-
ranson at 503-861-4202; for new Meals on
Wheels inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Diners — Full Meals
$6: Delivered to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center kitchen door,
1111 Exchange St. For information, or meal
delivery, call 503-325-9693.
Astoria Lions Club — For information,
contact Charlene Larsen at 503-325-0590.
Astoria Kiwanis Club — For information,
call Frank Spence at 503-325-2365 or Susan
Brooks at 503-791-3026.
Bras2Moms Fitting — Free nursing
bras and/or tanks to mothers. Sizes sub-
ject to availability. For information, call
503-338-7581.
Warrenton Caregiver Support Group
— For information, call Grace Bruseth at
503-738-6412.
Lower Columbia Hospice Bereavement
Support Group — Open to age 18 or older.
For information, call 503-338-6230.
North Coast La Leche League — For
breastfeeding support, call or text Megan
Oien at 503-440-4942, or Kestrel Gates
at 503-453-3777, or Katie Winters at 503-
717-3748, or send message from “La Leche
League of Astoria Facebook page.
North Coast Chapter, ABATE of Oregon
— For information, call 503-791-7253.
Peninsula Arts Association — For infor-
mation, call 360-665-6041 or go to beacha-
rtist.org
Authentic Spiritual Conversations —
All faiths, including “spiritual but not reli-
gious” welcome. For information, email
info@cgifellowship.org or call 916-307-9790.
WEDNESDAY
Wickiup Senior Lunches To Go —
Pickup a hot lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15
p.m, Wickiup Grange Hall, 92683 Svensen
Market Road. For information, call Suzanne
Bjaranson at 503-861-4202. For new Meals
on Wheels inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Senior Lunch To Go — Pickup a hot
lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Senior Center, 1225 Avenue A,
Seaside. Drive up to Avenue B to pickup at
back door. For information, call Suzanne Bja-
ranson at 503-861-4202; for new Meals on
Wheels inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Diners — Full Meals
$6: Delivered to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center kitchen door,
1111 Exchange St. For information, or meal
delivery, call 503-325-9693.
North Coast Multiple Sclerosis Care
and Share Help Group — For information,
call 503-325-7898.
Cannon Beach Garden Club — For
information, call Pam Chater at 503-436-
2331 and leave a message or email pam-
chater@msn.com
Stroke Support Group — For informa-
tion, call 503-717-7781.
WomenHeart of North Oregon Coast
— Peer support group for women living
with, or at risk of heart disease. For informa-
tion, contact Michele Abrahams at 503-338-
8435 or WH-NorthOregonCoast@women-
heart.org
Seaside Elks Lodge No. 1748 — For
information, call 503-738-6651 or email sea-
sideelks@yahoo.com
Maple Chapter No. 95, Order of the
Eastern Star — For information, go to ore-
gonoes.org
THURSDAY
Wickiup Senior Lunches To Go —
Pickup a hot lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15
p.m, Wickiup Grange Hall, 92683 Svensen
Market Road. For information, call Suzanne
Bjaranson at 503-861-4202. For new Meals
on Wheels inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Senior Lunch To Go — Pickup a hot
lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Senior Center, 1225 Avenue A,
Seaside. Drive up to Avenue B to pickup at
back door. For information, call Suzanne Bja-
ranson at 503-861-4202; for new Meals on
Wheels inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Diners — Full Meals
$6: Delivered to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center kitchen door,
1111 Exchange St. For information, or meal
delivery, call 503-325-9693.
Warrenton Senior Lunch Program —
For information, or to volunteer, call 503-
861-3502 Monday or Thursday.
Breast Cancer Support Group — For
information, call Mari Montesano at 503-
338-4589 or email mmontesano@colum-
biamemorial.org
Understanding Your Grief — For
questions, contact Jeanette Johnson at
503-338-6230.
Columbia River Estuary Action Team —
For information, go to create-columbia.com
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Fort Stevens
Post 10580 — For information, call Mel Jas-
min at 503-861-2030.
Lower Columbia Classic Car Club
— For information, call Steve Jordan at
503-325-1807.
Rainland Fly Casters — For information,
call Tom Scoggins at 503-449-0462, or Walt
Weber at 360-777-8295.
OTHER
Quilting Project Needs Fabric — Our
Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Seaside. Needs
polyester/cotton fabric, 1/2 yard or larger,
and clean sheets (queen or king size) for
group that makes quilts for those in need
within the U.S. and around the world. For
information, or to donate, call Claudia Kul-
land at 503-738-5895.
Blankets Needed — Columbia Veter-
inary Hospital, 576 31st St. Needs blanket
donations for their four legged patients.
Anything is helpful, even the stained or
frayed. Donations can be dropped off during
business hours (closed for lunch from noon
to 1:30 p.m.) Monday through Saturday.
Dear Annie: My close, so this is really
brother was with his tough. He hates me now
ex-wife, “Liz,” for 13 and won’t so much as
years. They raised three talk to me. I’ve tried to
wonderful
children explain to them that I did
together until she left my what I thought was right.
brother. They’ve been
My heart is hurt. What
divorced fi ve years now. do you think I should do
I’ve been the middle per- to make things better?
son in her and my broth- Will they ever get better?
er’s relationship ever — Sister in Sorrow
Dear Sister: Never
since. Recently, I moved
feel bad for act-
Liz in with me,
DEAR
ing your con-
along with her
ANNIE
science, no mat-
newborn son.
ter the blowback.
She did not have
Liz became fam-
adequate hous-
ily to you when
ing to go to, and
she
married
she would have
your
brother,
had her newborn
and you’ve con-
taken from her if
she did not have ANNIE LANE tinued to treat
Creators
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even after their
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divorce. To me,
I
moved
them in with me know- that shows you have a big
ing my brother and his heart.
Your brother does
wife would be very
upset. I did it anyway not hate you, but I know
because I thought it was that doesn’t make the
words sting any less.
the right thing to do.
Liz had many strug- I hope that, in time, as
gles with drugs after the dust of his anger set-
leaving my brother. Yes, tles, he can see the situa-
she’s made a lot of mis- tion more clearly. In the
takes. On a positive meantime, take solace
note, I believe that get- in knowing you’ve done
ting pregnant woke her the right thing in help-
up, and she’s been clean ing Liz and her newborn
for well over a year. I baby.
Dear Annie: Please
believe sometimes love
and guidance are neces- allow me to add to your
sary to help someone be advice to “Concerned
able to change for good. in Vestavia.” This par-
My brother and his ent should indeed keep
wife are mad at me their child from being
beyond belief. They in such an environment,
won’t let me see my but what “Reba” and her
nephews who live with daughter are doing could
them. (My brother and be considered a form of
his new wife have cus- elder abuse, specifi cally
tody of the three chil- fi nancial exploitation.
dren whom he and Liz It is a crime for which
had together.) I helped Reba can be prosecuted
them raise those chil- in most states. I hope this
dren and his new wife’s parent will report what is
children from a previous happening to the author-
relationship. I’ve also ities where she lives. —
loaned him a great deal Ruth in Memphis
Dear Ruth: I missed
of money that he hasn’t
the boat in my response,
paid back.
The other day, he said and I’m glad to print
that I am no longer a sis- your letter to correct
ter to him but an enemy. the record. Thanks for
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