Castle Rock Seniors – November 2010

The Castle Rock Senior Center is excited to present their Calendar of Activities for NOVEMBER 2010! Happy Thanksgiving!

Every Monday: Our infamous Cinnamon Rolls and coffee will be served to the public from 10am to NOON. Suggested donation is only $1.50!
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Short Stories – November 1910

Fire, which in some way started from the heater in the eight grade room of the high school buildidg came near destroying that structure, Monday evening. But for the fact that Fred Birkenstock saw the glow and with his father hurried to the building and extinguished the flames before they had done more harm than burn a fair-sized hole in the floor, Castle Rock would now probably be without a high school building, and possibly several business houses.
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The modern code of chivalry

In 2005, lecturer Scott Farrell published his modern code of chivalry. He developed these modern knightly virtues from those of medieval days, but the virtues still relevant today.

Courage. Having the heart to undertake tasks that are difficult or tedious and accept the sacrifices involved.
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Lisa’s Latte’s changes hands

Lisa’s Lattes at 4503 Ocean Beach Highway fell under new ownership on October 1st. When the business went up for sale, Steve Birtchett and Sally Sexton co-owners decided to go for it.
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New RV Parts & Service shop opens in Kelso

Brad and Kari Jo Pearson would like to introduce themselves and their brand new RV Parts & Service center. They are conveniently located in the heart of SW Washington, providing service to all of the Pacific Northwest, especially along the I-5 corridor.
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Santa’s Art Sale & Humane Society Food Drive

Santa’s Art Sale & Humane Society Food Drive is November 7, 8, 9th @12pm – 7 p.m.
708 Triangle Shopping Center (corner of bowling alley). Will have Paintings, Photography, Jewelry, Painted china, Pottery, Woodcraft & more. * Please bring a can or bag of dog/cat food (or a cash donation)
to benefit the Cowlitz County Humane Society. Event sponsored by For The Love Of Art Club

Animal Ha-Ha’s

Animal Super Bowl
During the Super Bowl, there was another football game of note between the big animals and the little animals. The big animals were crushing little animals and at half-time, the coach made a passionate speech to rally the little animals.

At the start of the second half the big animals had the ball. The first play, the elephant got stopped for no gain. The second play, the rhino was stopped for no gain. On third down, the hippo was thrown for a 5 yard loss. Read more

Turkey Time Sudoku Answers

The Lighter Side – November 2010

Goony Bird

After many years of marriage, a husband has turned into a couch potato, became completely inattentive to his wife and sat guzzling beer and watching TV all day. The wife was dismayed because no matter what she did to attract the husband’s attention, he’d just shrug her off with some bored comment.
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Unveiling the NEW CowlitzToday.com

Let’s jump into this months GeekSpeak. If you’ve been tuning in for long you likely have a professional web site, a blog, a facebook page and you are probably doing a little twitter. Wow you are such a geek. ~:-)

But, are your events listed at CowlitzToday.com?

Is your business listed in the Cowlitz County directory?

We originally created this site to help people connect locally.

CowlitzToday.com is a free, one-stop community calendar and web directory of businesses.

We’ve partnered with many organizations that have events in our area. Every day, more and more events are being listed. If you know of events and don’t see them on the calendar, we invite you to tell the event holder how they can add their events for free! (Or you can add them yourself!)

CowlitzToday also has a helpful directory of local business and organizations. You can find virtually anything from Accountants to Food & Dining to Movies to Real Estate!

With this article we are announcing the launch of the NEW and improved business directory!

We created the new directory to help make more connections:

1. SEO Findability: Our first goal is improving local organizations search engine rankings in the search engines. Having a great web site or business is only great if you can be found. We’ve built the new directory with some new and old school SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tricks, which have skyrocketed viewership.
2. Social Browsing: Our second mission is to help harness the social networks. More specifically – Facebook. You see, Facebook is great at helping you share and even find what you are looking for, but it doesn’t work well like good old fashioned browsing.

We’ve improved the directory to make it easy to browse the directory. Similar to those phonebooks of yesteryear. Our new directory is a great way to learn and link. Listings include helpful info and now links to their websites, facebook & twitter. Facebook “like” buttons are built into every listing. ~:-)

It’s where all the cool kids hang-out.

Want another reason to add your stuff?

CowlitzToday.com is being visited by 20,000 people per month!

By the time you read this we will have nearly 1,000 local listings. You can share a listing on facebook with a click. I invite you to get your organization listed for free today. Cowlitztoday.com. Wherever you work, play or worship can be listed as it’s own entity.

And don’t forget the Cowlitz County Online Event Calendar. We’ve streamlined the adding of events. If you’ve haven’t added an event in awhile (forever is still awhile)

Click on the new “Submit Event” button to learn how to add your event (also for free!!). If your organization has multiple events per/year please consider partnering with Cowlitztoday. If you are eligible we will give you a free calendar that you can post on your site AND then all of your events will appear in the community calendar!!!!!

Our community has posted over 6300 events to date! You simply can’t say there is nothing to do around here!

So what’s next?

I double dog dare you to search CowlitzToday.com for your favorite local business. If you find their listing, I’m sure they love for you to “give Kudos” for them. If they aren’t listed please call, eMail or facebook them the link. They’d appreciate the help and we’d appreciate your helping in spreading the word to help even more people connect.

Smart Phone users there is a new way to visit web sites on your phone. Simply install a free scanner app and start scanning. Think of it as Bar Codes 2.0 Ready? Grab your phone and visit http://m.omoriginals.com We will hook you up to get you started. If you already have a scanner – Scan now. “Tag” is above at top of page, looks like a square ink blot!

Oscar wrote this article on his iPhone. ~:-)  Oscar is the owner and operator of omOriginals Marketing in Longview, WA and holds the title of award winning developer for the CowlitzToday.com web site. Questions about geeky stuff, call them @ 360-575-9839

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