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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021
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 Avenue A, Seaside.
Drive up to Avenue B to pick up
at back door. For information, call
Suzanne Bjaranson 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.
Ostomy Support Group —
For information, call Lisa Harris at
503-338-4523.
SATURDAY
Lower Columbia R/C Society
— Local Academy of Model Aero-
nautics chartered radio control
model aircraft club. All model air-
craft enthusiasts are welcome. For
information, call 503-458-5196 or
503-325-0608.
SUNDAY
Blacksmith Enthusiasts Meet
— For information, contact Mark
Standley at 503-434-0148 or Her-
man Doty at 971-306-1043 or ringin-
ganvildesign@gmail.com
National Alliance on Mental Ill-
ness Support Group — Family to
family support group, for anyone
with a friend or loved one suff er-
ing from a serious mental illness. For
information, contact Myra Kero at
503-738-6165, k7erowood@q.com
or go to nami.org
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 Avenue A, Seaside.
Drive up to Avenue B to pick up
at back door. For information, call
Suzanne Bjaranson 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 Pro-
gram — For information, or to vol-
unteer, call 503-861-3502 Monday
or Thursday.
Astoria Rotary Club — For infor-
mation, go to AstoriaRotary.org
Columbia
Northwestern
Model Railroading Club — Group
runs trains on HO-scale layout.
For information, call Don Carter at
503-325-0757.
Parkinson’s Support Group —
For information, call 503-440-1970
or 503-440-1985.
Peninsula Quilt Guild — For
information, call Janet King at
360-665-3005.
Seaside Lions Club — For infor-
mation, call 503-738-7693.
Pacifi c NW Head Injury Sup-
port Group — For information, call
209-791-3092.
Pacifi c County Democrats
— For information, go to fb.me/
DemocratsofPacifi cCounty
TUESDAY
Tobacco Free Coalition of Clat-
sop County — Anyone interested in
tobacco use prevention and educa-
tion welcome. For information, call
Steven Blakesley at 503-325-8500 or
Alissa Dorman at 503-325-4321, ext.
5758.
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 Avenue A, Seaside.
Drive up to Avenue B to pick up
at back door. For information, call
Suzanne Bjaranson 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.
Astoria Lions Club — Prospec-
tive members welcome. For infor-
mation, contact Charlene Larsen at
503-325-0590.
Authentic Spiritual Conversa-
tions — Open dialogue about spir-
itual issues. All faiths, including “spir-
itual but not religious” welcome. For
information, email info@cgifellow-
ship.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 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 Avenue A, Seaside.
Drive up to Avenue B to pick up
at back door. For information, call
Suzanne Bjaranson 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.
Association on Mental Disabil-
ities — Support group for families
of those with chronic mental illness.
For information, contact Harry Com-
ins at 503-440-3403.
Warrenton Business Associa-
tion — For information, call Kristin
Talamantez at 503-861-9750.
Fat Quarter Quilters — Not lim-
ited to quilts. For information, call
503-325-3300 or 800-298-3177 or
go to homespunquilt.com
LGBTIQ Group — Group is
designed to help connect LGBTIQ
people in Clatsop, Columbia, Tilla-
mook and Pacifi c counties to discuss
LGBTIQ issues freely and confi den-
tially. For questions, contact Chris
Wright at 425-314-3388.
THURSDAY
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 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 Avenue A, Seaside.
Drive up to Avenue B to pick up
at back door. For information, call
Suzanne Bjaranson 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.
Help is available for
abusive situations
Dear Annie: My husband and and/or hearing without losing
l have been married for 22 years. consciousness).
—Personality or memory
When we fi rst married, it was
young love. But throughout our changes.
—Nausea or vomiting.
marriage, he has been adulterous
—Fatigue.
and abusive toward me, physi-
—Drowsiness.
cally and verbally. I have a disabil-
—Sleep problems.
ity and have a hard time defend-
—Memory problems.
ing myself. He has choked me and
—Changes in ability to walk or
held a knife to my throat and told
me that one day he’ll kill me. I am perform daily activities.
—Pressure or headache near
54 years old. I have nowhere to go.
the tumor.
What should l do? — Trapped
—Loss of balance and diffi culty
Dear Trapped: I’m sorry that
with fi ne motor skills.
your husband has abused
DEAR
—Changes in judg-
you so terribly for decades.
ANNIE
ment, including loss of ini-
Although it may seem like
tiative, sluggishness and
you have nowhere to go, I
muscle weakness.
promise you that isn’t true.
Talk with your doctor if
Please call the National
you are experiencing any
Domestic Violence Hotline
of the above symptoms.
(1-800-799-7233) to be
Dear Annie: This is in
connected with resources
in your area and begin ANNIE LANE response to your reply to
Creators
“Regretful Mom,” who
making a safe escape plan.
Syndicate Inc.
has struggled with depres-
You should not have to live
sion and regrets not being
in fear for your life another
present for her now-adult chil-
day.
Dear Annie: I lost a fam- dren. Another choice she can look
ily member to brain cancer last into for helping her with working
year. He was only in his 30s, and with the emotional memories con-
an incredibly bright, kind human nected to her past is eye movement
being. May is National Brain Can- desensitization and reprocessing,
cer Awareness Month, so I wanted also known as EMDR. Although
to ask your audience to please people think of post-traumatic
consider donating to the National stress disorder as being related
Brain Tumor Society, whose mis- to extremely severe accidents or
sion is “unrelentingly invests in, traumas, psychology is now aware
mobilizes, and unites our com- that for lifetime events over sev-
munity to discover a cure, deliver eral years, sexual abuse, multiple
eff ective treatments, and advo- or ongoing diffi culties that cause
cate for patients and care part- extreme emotional and mental
ners.” You can learn more and anguish can also put someone at
donate at braintumor.org. — For risk for suff ering from PTSD. By
using EMDR with a qualifi ed ther-
the Families
Dear For the Families: I’m apist, a patient can recall these
glad to print your letter. Roughly past events without experienc-
700,000 Americans are living with ing the anguish. It is constructive
a primary brain tumor, including in combination with talk therapy,
more than 13,000 children and and, when necessary, medication,
31,299 adolescents and young whether short term or for a longer
duration.
adults.
Thank you for letting me share
While brain cancer might have
no early symptoms, the following this information. — Lorrie Finley
Dear Lorrie: Thank you for
are some things to watch out for,
sharing it. Controlled and ran-
courtesy of Cancer.net:
—Headaches, which may be domized clinical studies show that
severe and worsen with activity or EMDR is effi cient to treat PTSD.
And although this is purely anec-
in the early morning.
—Seizures (which can include dotal, the treatment technique has
change in sensation, vision, smell helped friends of mine.
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