Happy February! We want to highlight primroses this month as an excellent addition to your gardens. Primroses are early bloomers, love this cool weather, and add a joyful pop of color. These beautiful flowers are also very easy to care for. Make sure the soil is well-draining, and keep it…
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We are writing to encourage you to get the Covid vaccine. It’s all about the risk vs the reward. In the US, 3000 to 4000 people are dying every day from Covid. The risk: Covid is a terrible illness, especially worse for older people or those with other health conditions.…
Read More »A little over 24 hours ago, with a looming deadline staring us in the face, we resigned ourselves to not write a monthly column for this issue of the LocalsGuide. Rightfully so, neither of us were feeling inspired to share much of anything. Like many, 2020 brought us to our…
Read More »Vision, and Values statements to better represent who we are and what we do in words that resonate with our staff, commissioners and citizens. We started from the ground up, working collaboratively to outline our core values first. We asked our team: “What principles guide your work? What gets us…
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The title is a little misleading as there really is no such thing as a single tree forest. Trees have, for the most part, evolved amongst their kin. Growth habits, good or bad, depend mostly on what surrounds the tree over time. A Douglas fir growing up in a forest…
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A list of gratitude, compiled by Michelle Christian Happy New Year! Wow, 2020 was a doozy wasn’t it?!!!!! I trust that we are all ready to start this New Year, but as we look forward, it is important for us to look back at 2020 with a grateful heart for…
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That’s an easy question to answer: if you love someone, the answer is probably yes. But it’s so much more than that. Loving someone is easy. We love our partners, our children, our parents, our siblings, and so on. What about those we don’t know yet? When my nephew was…
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2020 was quite a year! Unprecedented challenges arose and continue to affect us. As you enter the potential of the new year, new opportunities and new outcomes are possible. Wherever you are in life, if you are looking for tools to get out of pain or resolve symptoms, to connect…
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Living in a right-handed world has a significant influence on posture. Even if you’re left-handed, the human body is naturally biased to the right side. The fact is, no one is symmetrical and our organs point directly to this fact. While the liver is located on the right side of…
Read More »One of my favorite places to go is IKEA. I am amazed by the wonderful details they’ve made to make the furniture shopping experience a breeze. There are wonderful showrooms sure, but the actual warehouse is onsite so you can pick up the item you need that day. They have…
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Thirty eight years ago, when I started in lending, we had a daily rate sheet (I still have mine from 1982 when fixed rate loans were at 17.5% and adjustable rate mortgages were at a low 13.75%). Today when someone asks me “What are the rates?” I say, “I’d love…
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“There is life after retirement, and it is BETTER.” (Catherine Pulsifer) It is 2020! Some will welcome the New Year with promises or resolutions to be kept. Some will start this New Year with the addition of new family members. Some will plan a vacation trip of a lifetime. For…
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