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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021
Boyfriend won’t commit
COMMUNITY NOTES
FRIDAY
Senior Lunch To Go — Pick
up a hot lunch from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm
Senior Center, 1225 Ave. A, Sea-
side. Drive up to Avenue B to
pick up at back door. For infor-
mation, call Suzanne Bjaran-
son at 503-861-4202; for new
Meals on Wheels inquiries, call
503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Din-
ers — Full Meals $6: Delivered
to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center
kitchen door, 1111 Exchange St.
For information, or meal deliv-
ery, call 503-325-9693 before
10 a.m.
MONDAY
Senior Lunch To Go — Pick
up a hot lunch from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm
Senior Center, 1225 Ave. A, Sea-
side. Drive up to Avenue B to
pick up at back door. For infor-
mation, call Suzanne Bjaran-
son at 503-861-4202; for new
Meals on Wheels inquiries, call
503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Din-
ers — Full Meals $6: Delivered
to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center
kitchen door, 1111 Exchange St.
For information, or meal deliv-
ery, call 503-325-9693 before
10 a.m.
Warrenton Senior Lunch
Program — For information, or
to volunteer, call 503-861-3502
Monday or Thursday.
Astoria Rotary Club — For
information, go to AstoriaRo-
tary.org
Columbia Northwestern
Model Railroading Club —
Group runs trains on HO-scale
layout. For information, call Don
Carter at 503-325-0757.
TUESDAY
Stewardship
Quilting
Group — Donations of mate-
rial always appreciated. 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 — Pick
up a hot lunch from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm
Senior Center, 1225 Ave. A, Sea-
side. Drive up to Avenue B to
pick up at back door. For infor-
mation, call Suzanne Bjaran-
son at 503-861-4202; for new
Meals on Wheels inquiries, call
503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Din-
ers — Full Meals $6: Delivered
to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center
kitchen door, 1111 Exchange St.
For information, or meal deliv-
ery, call 503-325-9693 before
10 a.m.
Astoria Lions Club — Pro-
spective members welcome. For
information, contact Charlene
Larsen at 503-325-0590.
Authentic Spiritual Con-
versations — Open dialogue
about spiritual issues. All faiths,
including “spiritual but not reli-
gious” welcome. For informa-
tion, email info@cgifellowship.
org or call 916-307-9790.
WEDNESDAY
Mindfulness/Meditation
Group — For information, call
503-338-4520.
Wickiup Senior Lunches
To Go — Pick up a hot lunch
from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m,
Wickiup Grange Hall, 92683
Svensen Market Road. For infor-
mation, call Suzanne Bjaran-
son at 503-861-4202. For new
Meals on Wheels inquiries, call
503-304-3420.
Senior Lunch To Go — Pick
up a hot lunch from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm
Senior Center, 1225 Ave. A, Sea-
side. Drive up to Avenue B to
pick up at back door. For infor-
mation, call Suzanne Bjaran-
son at 503-861-4202; for new
Meals on Wheels inquiries, call
503-304-3420.
Columbia Senior Din-
ers — Full Meals $6: Delivered
to seniors or pickup available
at the Astoria Senior Center
kitchen door, 1111 Exchange St.
For information, or meal deliv-
ery, call 503-325-9693 before
10 a.m.
Fat Quarter Quilters — Not
limited to quilts. For informa-
tion, call 503-325-3300 or 800-
298-3177 or go to homespun-
quilt.com
Warrenton Sunrise Rotary
Club — For information, call
503-325-4030.
THURSDAY
Alzheimer’s
Support
Group — For information, call
503-368-6445.
Wickiup Senior Lunches To
Go — Pick up a hot lunch from
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m, Wickiup
Grange Hall, 92683 Svensen Mar-
ket Road. For information, call
Suzanne Bjaranson at 503-861-
4202. For new Meals on Wheels
inquiries, call 503-304-3420.
Senior Lunch To Go — Pick
up a hot lunch from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m., Bob Chisholm
Senior Center, 1225 Ave. A, Sea-
side. Drive up to Avenue B to
pick up at back door. For infor-
mation, call Suzanne Bjaran-
son 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 before 10 a.m.
Warrenton Senior Lunch
Program — For information, or
to volunteer, call 503-861-3502
Monday or Thursday.
Rotary Club of Seaside —
For information, visit Rotary
Club of Seaside on Facebook at
fb.me/SeasideRotary
Caregiver Support Group
— Open to all caregivers, both
professional and family care.
Yoga exercise, refreshments,
friendship and support. For
information, call 503-738-0900.
OTHER
Quilting Project Needs Fab-
ric — Our Saviour’s Lutheran
Church, Seaside. Needs polyes-
ter/cotton fabric, ½ 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 infor-
mation, or to donate, call Claudia
Kulland at 503-738-5895.
Blankets Needed — Colum-
bia Veterinary Hospital, 576 31st
St. Needs blanket donations for
their four legged patients. Any-
thing is helpful, even 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: I have been with my you back in full, but perhaps you could
“boyfriend” on and off for three years. I set up a monthly payment plan. If he still
put “boyfriend” in quotes because he says refuses to talk, it’s worth reaching out to
he doesn’t like labels. I’m at his place a lawyer for a consultation. If your hus-
90% of the time, yet I still pay rent on my band eff ectively gave your brother this
own apartment because he would never money outright (i.e., there’s no docu-
agree to move in together. I have met his mentation that it was a loan or otherwise
family and he also has met mine. When meant to be returned to you eventually),
I ask for commitment, he says I’m being then you may not have many options. But
pushy. He doesn’t communicate well at an attorney can off er expertise and evalu-
all. I feel shut out. I’m so hurt from the ate the specifi cs of your situation.
Dear Annie: You asked readers what
years of not knowing where I stand with
they love most about their part-
him. Everyone deserves to know
ners a little while back. I love my
where they are in someone’s life
DEAR
husband’s everyday aff ections,
and what they mean to that per-
ANNIE
from sweet smiles to little notes
son! Please help. I can’t take this
tucked under coff ee cups and
anymore. — Confused in Love
inside gloves, and even in sand-
Dear Confused: You can’t and
wiches! But I think the thing I love
you shouldn’t take this anymore.
most about him is that he makes
You absolutely deserve better,
me feel safe. He is nonjudgmen-
and you need to end things with
tal. By doing that, he frees me to
this man — abruptly and com-
pletely — so that you can fi nd it. ANNIE LANE love him deeply and without fear.
Creators
— Sheila G., Eastham, MA
I know it won’t be easy. When
Syndicate Inc.
Dear Sheila: Thank you for
someone jerks you around as
reminding us what true caring
badly as this jerk has, it whit-
tles away at your self-esteem — and per- looks like. Though Valentine’s Day has
versely, it causes you to keep turning to come and gone, love goes on and on. I
that same person to build you back up. It’s received another letter on love that I just
a recipe for despair, and it can make leav- had to print.
Dear Annie: My partner and I are
ing seem impossible. But it is possible,
and necessary. I encourage you to seek a both in our mid-70s. My late husband
therapist’s help in navigating through the and I were couples friends with him and
turmoil and fi nding the other side. Your his late wife. After both of our beloved
spouses passed away we shared our grief
whole life is waiting for you there.
Dear Annie: My husband died back and became friends. Eventually, our
in 2010. Before he died, he gave my friendship blossomed into love. I love
brother some money to hold onto. Now about a hundred things about him, but
I would like to get it back. My sister told what I love most is the very fact that after
me that our brother had spent it already. I thought I would never know romantic
He moved somewhere else. Is it too late love again, here it is! We feel like young
for me to get the funds back? — Cashed lovers and every day is a gift because we
both know what it is like to lose the love
Out
Dear Cashed: Try reaching out to of your life. — Linda B.
Dear Linda: What a touching story.
your brother in any way that you can —
letters, more phone calls, even an in-per- I’m so glad you two have each other.
son meeting. He might not be able to pay Thanks for writing.
Finn Fest needs donations for community center
The Astorian
NASELLE, Wash. — The Naselle
Community Center is seeking dona-
tions for maintenance funding because of
impacts from the coronavirus pandemic.
The community center was donated
to the Finnish American Folk Festival by
Naselle Congregational Church.
For two years, the festival off ered the
building to others for meetings, rentals
for weddings and funerals, art shows and
several musical performances. During the
last year, the community center has been
closed because of the pandemic.
“With the shutdown of the community
center, we are facing a critical shortage
of maintenance funding,” Mike Swanson,
past Finn Fest chairman and signer for the
new building, said. “We appreciate any
donations for this worthwhile community
resource.”
Contributions may be made at bit.
ly/3rGP7oq or nasellefi nnfest.com, ear-
marking the donation for Naselle Com-
munity Center.
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