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Hood River News, Wednesday, July 15, 2015
SUMMER
SCENES
On a hot July evening, at left,
swimmers enjoy the Hood River
Waterfront Park (the Cool-
umbia?) under what looks like
moonlight, but look again: it’s
the setting sun striking a White
Salmon home’s large plate glass
window and reflecting south
back across the river. Above:
burned area on the hike to Bird
Creek Meadows, south side of
Mt. Adams.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
Photo by Diana Beterbide
J ONATHAN
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squirrely warren of one way,
narrow streets. Apparently,
we took someone else’s taxi.
No problem. “One way” is a
relative term. Our driver ex-
pertly navigates us in re-
verse, to the disdain and
honking of other cars, back
to our front door. Truly door
to door service. Our taxi
shows up two minutes later. I
don’t want to think about
what would have happened if
I hadn’t mentioned our train
to the driver. Yes Johnny, use
your words.
Nothing but time:
It happens on Day 3. Day
one on the Trans-Siberian is
about settling in. You greet
your new neighbors, ex-
change pleasantries, make
yourself a comfortable perch
to watch the world go by. On
Day 2, you find yourself in
the dining car, choosing the
table next to your new
friends. Now everyone
knows each other’s brief bio.
But on Day 3, IT happens.
The reason you left behind
hot showers, WiFi and comfy
beds. No, not just to watch
the Russian countryside roll
by. In the afternoon of Day 3,
you find yourself in the
neighbor’s cabin, a crowd of
five or six has gathered. The
vodka is flowing and stories
are being shared. More
vodka flows and the stories
get better. As you stagger
back to your cabin, of course
only due to the lurching of
the train, you know that
you’ve just shared something
unique and precious.
Countryside calling:
Stop calling them yurts.
They’re gers. Though my
traveling companion seems
to favor gerts. The drive into
the Mongolian countryside
containes swiftly changing
vistas. Some are like Eastern
Oregon’s high desert, others
with gers dotting winding
rivers under rocky cliffs.
Our destination is a ger
campground run by a hard-
working, gracious family. My
son knows the f amily
through an English club in
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia’s
capitol). We are settling
down for bed on our first
night there when we are vis-
ited by the owner’s daughter,
her nine month old baby girl
and her friend. They come
bearing an assortment of
Mongolian beer. So fun to
find oneself in a foreign
countryside, in humble sur-
roundings, sharing life in
broken sentences. My fa-
vorite moment is when the
daughter leaves her baby
asleep on a bed to go see if
she can figure out why our
one, bare bulb does not work.
This is a gentle, relaxed,
kindhearted people.
Photos by Jonathan
Maletz
W R I T E R
J O N AT H A N
MALETZ expressed
relief they traveled
on Chinese sleeper
cars, — “much more
comfortable than the
Russian version”.
The camaraderie of
the train journey cul-
minated in the hos-
pitality of their stay
at a ger encamp-
ment in Mongolia.
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Jonathan Maletz and his
wife, Ruth, are celebrating
three years as owners of
Daniel’s Health & Nutrition
on the Heights in Hood River.
© 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 31, No. 32
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Ladybugs love aphids. Aphids
are among the most common
plant pests.
Draw the other half of this
ladybug.
Have a seat and use the code in this
menu to discover some delightful facts
about insect eating habits. Bon appetit!
Standards Link: Life Science: Understand that animals have
structures and behaviors that help in growth and survival.
The praying mantis is the only
known insect that can turn its
head and look over its shoulder.
It waits for an insect to stray
close, and then snaps it
up with a lightning
grab of its strong
forelegs. It can
move twice as fast as a housefly.
When young, praying mantises eat
aphids, leafhoppers, mosquitoes,
caterpillars and other soft-bodied
insects. Later they eat larger insects,
beetles, grasshoppers, crickets and
other pest insects.
These pirates are good
guys. They don’t hurt plants, people or
pets. They don’t eat grain.
They eat insects that eat
grain. Farmers put them
into grain bins to eat the
insect pests. Then they are
easily removed before the
grain is used.
How many pirate bugs
can you find on this page?
Unscramble the title of this book.
Then check it out at your local
library this summer!
Aphids damage plants by
feeding on them and by
carrying diseases from plant
to plant. One farmer’s field
can host millions of aphids.
Ah, bonjour! Welcome to Café des
Insectes. My name is Claude, and
I will be your waiter today.
Ladybugs sometimes roll over and play
dead if they are disturbed. Many predators
will not eat an insect that doesn’t move.
Find the ladybug that is different.
Something strange is going on in
the garden, and Bug Muldoon,
beetle private investigator, tries to
figure out how the ants and
the wasps are involved.
A large praying
mantis can eat
a small
The female
praying mantis
will eat its
after
reproduction.
House spiders
can survive
without food or
water for several
Spiders first
paralyze their
insect victims and
then suck out the
What is the value for each
bug in these equations? Each
bug has a value from 1 to 5,
and no two critters have the
same value.
Standards Link: Math: Solve problems
using mathematical reasoning.
Some insects help peeple by
pollinating flours and
blossoms. Without pollinators,
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Read age-appropriate text in a variety of genres.
there wood be no apples, pears,
cherrys, citrus fruit, nuts,
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DISEASES
CHEMICAL
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SPIDER
GRAIN
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HELP
Find the words in the puzzle,
then in this week’s Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
U S L A C I M E H C
L E S D I H P A R S
D A E D E R I F E E
barries, coffee, melons,
cucumbers, squash or many
other food that depend upon
U S D L A P R S D C
the pollination of their
N T I R B E T S P A
blossoms to create froot.
L I P Y O I A T I N
S N C E S U E E S L
G A N I A R G P C A
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Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical
words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Pollinating insekts are
estimated to be wurth at least
ate billion dollurs annually to
Fact and Opinion
Look through the newspaper and underline
five facts. Next, find and circle five opinions.
Where did you find most of the facts? Where
did you find most of the opinions?
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Identify fact and
opinion in text.
Write Words
Wonderfully
Sta
Vocabula ndards Link:
use anto ry: Understand an
nym
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reading s in speaking,
and writin
g.
Are you an eagle-eyed reader?
Read the article below and
correct the 12 spelling errors you
find. The first one is done for you.
Write a sentence in which most of
the words start with the same letter.
Example: Betty’s brother, Bill,
bought big buckets of blue beetles.
the farming and agriculture
industrees.
Standards Link: Editing: Edit drafts to correct
spelling and grammar.
Complete the grid by using all the
letters in the word GROW in each
vertical and horizontal row. Each letter
should only be used once in each row.
Some spaces have been filled in for you.