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21st Annual Angel Tree Opportunity-YWCA Salem

(SALEM, Ore.) - Monday kicks off the YWCA Salem Resource Assistance Program’s 21st annual Angel Tree Opportunity. Last year the Angel Tree helped over 85 households to fully celebrate the holiday season.

Through the kindness and generosity of members of our community 85 angels were collected from the decorated tree in the lobby of the YWCA Salem. Each angel represented a need of a child or an adult and was filled and returned to the YWCA Salem.

Aquarium to Offer Free Admission for Military on Veterans Day

(Newport, Oregon) - The Oregon Coast Aquarium will celebrate Veterans Day by offering free admission for military veterans and active military personnel.

“We’re grateful to those who have served in the military, and we would like to show our appreciation by offering free admission on Veterans Day,” said Carrie Lewis, Aquarium President and CEO. “We feel it’s important to pay tribute to those who have made sacrifices on our behalf.”

Calendar Events for End of October Halloween Week 2010

(SALEM, Ore.) - The final week of October with Halloween events such as the EXTREME version of Nightmare Factory by the Oregon School for the Deaf, Creative Pumpkin Carving at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, Creatures Creep Back to the Aquarium at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport.

A magic show at Clockworkse Café, The West Salem High School Orchestra Fall Concert, a Cooking Class is offered by Albany Parks & Recreation, Will event features dinner, dancing and raffle to raise money for college-access programs

Celebration Legacy c.2010 Thanksgiving Day

21st Century America in the first decade has no remorse for its documented arrogant imperious barbarism and criminal illegal legacy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Mayflower Puritans self anointed reverse victim syndrome is not a conflict or ruse of historical facts but rather a correct perception of unaccountable responsibility of Thanksgiving Day October 2010.

Columbus discovery c.1492 and Mayflower Puritans c1620 are inextricably interrelated to the barbarism inherent in the European Empire influence on America c.2010.

Salem Police Department Halloween Dress Rehearsal

We ask the entire community to assist us in making Halloween night safe and enjoyable for everybody

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Salem Police Department Crime Prevention Unit will host its 5th Annual Halloween Dress Rehearsal on Saturday, October 23, 2010, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the atrium of the Police Department at 555 Liberty St. SE, first floor.

The focus of the event is to have children's costumes ready to wear for a safe evening of Halloween trick-or-treating.
Children and their parents are invited to dress up in their Halloween costume and have it evaluated for safety based on common hazards, such as low visibility (specifically the reflectivity of the costume, as well as the visual limitations due to masks or wigs) and costume fit (length as a tripping hazard).

Labor Day Fallout

Most Guys Don't Retire To Be Hit With Chores!

(SALEM, Ore.) - With Labor Day beckoning, now is the ideal time to get this mini grievance off my chest and share it with an empathic world. For the record, I did not retire from being a social worker/counselor to transfer to being a f/t male housewife!

Am I merely a voice in the wilderness in declaring my determination to savor my new-found leisure time? I prefer to think otherwise.

Independence Day Spillover: No Cause to Shoot Off Collective Mouths

No stars-spangled mantra for 2010.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This July 4th the flares are faltering into the vast expanse of the sea. The fallout is everywhere: pure pessimism on extracting ourselves from the BP-generated oil spill engulfing our very national psyches.

Road Trip Musings: A Hapless American Returns Home

Gordon Duff's view from the other side.

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - Fewer Americans travel anymore, mostly because they are flat broke. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the airlines are at war with their employees, passengers too.

Planes are filthy and food inedible. Still, I would have Americans travel to Europe, at first anyway.

Reflections of a Deployed Mother`s Day in Afghanistan

Thoughts for the moms who are far from home on the day that honors them.

(KABUL, Afghanistan) - Sunday was a day to celebrate that special person in your life. The person who has stuck with you time and time again, through the awkward stage in middle school, through heartbreak and heartache; yes that’s right; Mom.

With more women in the services than ever, the amount of mothers deployed away from their family is greater as well.

Easter 1969: One Crazy Night in Vietnam

Puff the Magic Dragon Meets the Easter Bunny.

(SALEM, Ore.) - War stories: regular Salem-News.com visitors have viewed and read many over the years here. These are sometimes gripping and often tragic; frequently there is something to be learned.

One story that Tom Zangla of Kecksburg, Pa. recalls each year around this time, happened Easter Sunday in 1969, when a 122mm rocket didn't blow him to smithereens, at his base in Pleiku, Vietnam.