T he C olumbia P ress
May 11, 2018
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Letters to the Editor
Easter bunny
event a success
The Warrenton Community
Center Advisory Board held
a Breakfast with the Eas-
ter Bunny event at the com-
munity center on Saturday,
March 24. The breakfast was
a great success and we want
to thank the community for
its awesome support.
A special thanks to all our
great volunteers, Starbuck’s
Coffee in Warrenton, Pig N
Pancake, VFW Post 10580
and VFW Auxiliary Detach-
ment 1228, Lektro, McCall
Tire Center, Columbia River
Bar Pilots, Columbia Bank,
Maddox Dance Studio, War-
renton Deep Sea Market,
Warrenton Kia, Ocean Crest
Chevrolet Buick GMC Cadil-
lac, Super Mart and Uptown
Café.
“The Warrior Way” is alive
and well, as 10 members of
the Warrenton High School
football team helped serve
our breakfast.
Mel Jasmin, chairman
Community Center
Advisory Board
Supports local
police option levy
most valuable investments a
community can make.
I recently had the oppor-
tunity to do a ride-along with
a Warrenton police officer
and I got a firsthand look at
the incredible daily work our
officers do to keep us safe.
Warrenton is growing
and so are the work and
responsibilities of our city
police officers.
Please join me in voting
“yes” for the renewal of
Warrenton’s police levy,
4-191.
Bob Bridgens
Warrenton
Public Safety is one of the
This Week in Aboriginal History
by Carl A. Ellis
Jamestown, first permanent colony, is established
May 11, 1974: The act-
ing deputy commissioner
of Indian Affairs authoriz-
es an election for amend-
ments to the constitution
and by-laws of the Lac
Courte Oreilles Band of
Lake Superior Chippe-
wa Indians of Wisconsin.
The amendments are ap-
proved.
May 12, 1879: In the
historic trial of Ponca
Chief Standing Bear – ar-
rested for violating a relo-
cation order – the U.S. Cir-
cuit Court for the District
of Nebraska rules that “an
Indian is a ‘person’ within
the meaning of the laws of
the United States.” Stand-
ing Bear is released from
custody.
May 13, 1540: Hernan-
do de Soto leaves Cofit-
achequi. He kidnaps the
Lady of Cofitachequi, con-
sidered the villages’ chief-
tainness, and takes her
with him.
May 14, 1607: James-
town, Va., the first per-
manent English colony in
North America, is founded
in the heart of the Pow-
hatan chiefdom. The col-
onists were decimated by
sickness and starvation
and must depend on the
Indians for survival.
May 15, 1812: Twelve
Indian nations hold grand
council with Tecumseh at
Mississinewa village at the
junction of the Wabash and
Mississinewa rivers near
present-day Peru, Ind.
The Wyandots, Miami,
Potawatomies, Delaware
and Kickapoos urge Te-
cumseh to restrain his
young warriors lest all
tribes suffer at the hands
of the whites. Tecumseh
denies that his followers
are a threat to the whites
and rebukes the chiefs for
selling their people out at
the Treaty of Fort Wayne.
May 16, 1760: Creek
warrior Chief Hobbythac-
co (Handsome Fellow) has
often supported the En-
glish, but at the outbreak
of the Cherokee war, he de-
cides to support the Chero-
kees. He leads an attack on
a group of English traders
in Georgia. Thirteen of the
traders are killed. Creek
Chief “The Mortar” also
participates in the fighting.
May 17, 1629: Saga-
more Indians, including
Passaconaway, sell a piece
of land in what becomes
Middlesex County, Mass.
Ellis is an author and his-
torian working on a book
about American Indians.
Learn more about American
Indian history at facebook.
com/snippetsintime.
Senior Moments
with Emma Edwards
A raisin a day for exhaustion
“Be careful about reading
health books. Some fine day
you’ll die of a misprint.”
That line is a quotation left
for our perusing by a well-
known German Jewish physi-
cian and lecturer on philoso-
phy in the late 1800s.
Seniors seem more serious
than ever about what causes
what. Seems we want a name
and explanation for every-
thing.
A few weeks ago, I spoke
about being tired. An in-depth
study I looked at described
different kinds of exhaustion.
The three that stand out for
me, which deserve headings
of their own: No. 1, exhaus-
tion usually associated with
an illness, anxiety or depres-
sion; No. 2, fatigue usually
resulting from a neurological
episode, some medications or
a family crisis; No. 3, tired-
ness from too much fun or too
much work.
Exhaustion in seniors also
can be caused by anemia, an
iron deficiency. No one likes
to take those nasty green iron
pills.
However, the more I read,
the more I find that eating rai-
sins can produce a good effect
for those with certain kinds of
anemia.
Medical doctors tell us to
exercise or take a walk, but I
Senior lunch menu
Monday, May 14: Pork stew, roasted potatoes, red cabbage,
mixed greens, apple pie.
Thursday, May 17: Chicken and mushroom paprika, egg noo-
dles, green beans, romaine salad, carrot cake.
The Warrenton senior lunch program is at noon (doors
open at 10:30 a.m.) Mondays and Thursdays at Warrenton
Community Center, 170 SW Third St. Suggested donation is
$5 for ages 55 and older; $7 for those younger. For more
information, call 503-861-3502.
wonder if they know how ir-
ritating exhaustion is to deal
with, especially for younger
seniors.
I think that exercising gives
us a better night’s sleep. And
yes, it can make us tired, but
eventually we feel much better.
It’s been proven that if you
can walk outside, you’ll be
more likely to have a gentle
rejuvenation of your body
and mind.
We need consistency in tak-
ing walks (and/or any kind of
exercise) every day, but don’t
get locked into a time sched-
ule that stops you from hav-
ing other quality experiences.
We just need to accomplish
it in our waking hours, pref-
erably in the daylight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is
famous for saying “A foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin
of little minds.”
Yes, it’s good to color out-
side the lines now and then.
It’s fun to be a senior.
Betty Kelly, one of our local
seniors, is past her mid-80s
in years and was raised as the
oldest of 10 children. Betty
mentioned that she thinks
of her mother every day and
still misses her.
Not all women have birthed
or adopted a child but still
have mothered many!
With that thought, do have
a meaningful and blessed cel-
ebration of motherhood on
this special day that we cele-
brate mothers.
And, if you don’t know what
to get your mother for Moth-
er’s Day, consider a box of
raisins.