6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 25, 2017
Cottage Grove welcomes fi rst baby of 2017
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Cottage Grove waited 10 days for its fi rst baby of 2017. On Jan. 10, four days past her due date, Danielle Rowe
gave birth to Danica Mae.
“We didn’t even know until we got the email that she was the fi rst baby,” said dad, Dylan Rowe.
Rowe, who works for the Eugene School District has a fi ve-year-old daughter, Madison from a previous relation-
ship but his genes, apparently, pack a punch. Danica weighed in at 6 lbs. 12 oz. and was 19.5” long; the same
weight and height as Madison.
While Danielle said she was feeling the traditional exhaustion of new motherhood, she noted the 13-hour labor was
free of complications and the result gave Dylan an early birthday present.
“My birthday is Jan. 11 so she came one day before my birthday,” he said.
The family spent two days in the hospital and while the near-future will see Danielle as a stay-at-home mom and
Dylan return to work in Eugene, there are bigger plans in the works according to Dylan, “We’re going to Disneyland
in May.”
Tax identity theft awareness week
With tax season underway
and Tax Identity Theft Aware-
ness Week set to kick-off Jan.
31, Better Business Bureau
serving the Northwest and the
Oregon Department of Justice
is reminding the public to be
vigilant with their personal in-
formation.
More than 7,500 tax scams
were reported to BBB, which
is up one-percent from last
year.
Watch for these common tax
related scams:
IMPOSTOR
SCAMS:
Scammers pose as IRS agents
and instill fear in victims by
demanding money or threat-
ening jail time. Fraudsters
will spoof phone numbers so
the call appears to be com-
ing from the IRS or local law
enforcement. TAX RELIEF
SCAMS: Watch for deceptive
advertisements claiming to
greatly reduce a person’s tax
liability. Scammers will use
offi cial looking IRS notices or
websites to sway people into
paying unnecessary money or
divulging private and personal
information.
ID THEFT: Scammers use
stolen personal information,
social security numbers and
falsifi ed W-2 information to
fi le fraudulent tax returns in
the victim’s name. In some
cases, thieves stole W-2’s out
of unsecured mailboxes.
To protect your identity this
tax season, please take the fol-
lowing precautions.
E-fi le only from secure com-
puters. Make sure anti-virus
software is up-to-date and nev-
er use public Wi-Fi to fi le tax
returns. Don’t fi le taxes from a
link in an email.
Mail tax returns from the
post offi ce or a secure mailbox.
Shred old tax returns. In-
come tax returns and work-
sheets should be
kept for seven years from
the fi ling date.
Check your credit report
once a year to make sure no
other accounts have been
opened in your name.
Verify a call by contacting
the IRS directly at 1-800-829-
1040 or go to irs.gov.
Their first steps.
Their first car.
Their first day
of college.
Matt Bjornn ChFC RICP, Agent
1481 Gateway Blvd
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
Bus: 541-942-2623
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CoffeeTrivia
Coffee Fun Facts:
• Coffee was originally eaten. African tribes mixed the coffee
berries with fat and ate them.
• Coffee is only grown near the equator — from the Tropic of
Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn, within a 1,000-mile limit.
(Hawaii is the only place in the US that grows coffee.)
• Coffee is the third most popular beverage in the world (second
only to water and tea). More than 400 billion cups are
consumed each year.
• Coffee is the second largest traded commodity (oil is first).
• Coffee has 1,200 different chemical components – more than
half make up its flavor.
• Mocha is the name of the sea port that was a route to Mecca,
which is where coffee was traded.
• The first coffeehouses were opened in Damascus, Syria and
Istanbul in the 1530s. Turkey finally opened one in 1554.
• George C. Washington, an English chemist, invented the first
instant coffee called “Red-E-Coffee” in 1906. It took another
three years to land on store shelves.
• One cup of coffee has 80 to 140 mg of caffeine.
• Decaf coffee still contains a small amount of caffeine. It would
take 5 to 7 cups of decaf coffee to get the same amount of
caffeine in 1 cup of regular coffee.
• A cup of regular coffee has more caffeine than a cup of
espresso or cappuccino.
• Coffee also contains anti-oxidants. The anti-oxidants give
coffee its bitter taste.
• Coffee has zero calories!
• 91% of coffee is consumed at breakfast. (And sometimes is
breakfast!)
• 79% of coffee is consumed at home. Work is the second most
common place for coffee consumption.
• A coffee drinker averages 2-3 cups of coffee a day.
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ne story about the history of coffee, as found on
the Internet, claims the following as the origin of
coffee. Kaldi, the goatherd, around 600 to 800
A.D., was tending his animals on a mountainside in East-
ern Africa, when he noticed that they were acting strange-
ly. He realized that they had been eating the cherry-red
berries of a nearby shrub. They remained awake, jumping
and leaping around the whole night, even the older goats.
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Curious, the goatherder picked some and tasted them
himself. He found that they invigorated him and made him
more awake. A monk named Chadely, or Scyadly, from
a nearby monastery passed by. Kaldi told him about the
goats and he demanded to be shown the plant. The monk
crushed a few of the berries into a powder and poured
boiling water over them to make a drink. This was the fi rst
cup of coffee. (It was not until much later that coffee beans
were roasted.)
Impressed with the results of the drink in making him wider
awake and yet not affecting his capabilities, the monk
took the new discovery back to his monastery. Coffee
soon spread from monastery to monastery and, therefore,
became in much demand with devout Moslems, believing it
to be a divine gift brought by an angel.
— By Mary Bellis, About.com
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