Speed Dating at Ruby’s Java Jitters

Speed Dating was a hit at Java Jitters
113 E Main Street, Battle Ground
723-0900

Ruby, owner of Java Jitters, is seen at the left, having fun with customers.

Get outta the wet into the warm-Speed Dating in Battle Ground

Saturday, June, 12, 2010 at Java Jitters
...Speed that date scene right up.

6pm to 8 PM

Ya got five minutes chat up or sputter as you speed date to find a potential mate. Whether you are 21 or 101, you can sign up by talking to Ruby at 723-0900.

JAVA JITTERS CAFE
Singles only for speed dating….
But everyone welcome for the fun!

113 E. MAIN STREET, Battle Ground, WA

Wild and wet

Wild wet wabbit wonders where the warm weadder went!

How to get dried egg off the car a week later

How to get dried tossed eggs off your vehicle after a week of benign procrastination

Step one:

Ignore all previous warnings that egg is difficult to remove when dry. Anticipate a lot of I told you so’s.

Step two:

A week after  having your automobile egged for being a misunderstood good Samaritan, take your car to the car wash.  For under ten dollars you will have a very clean car with egg smear patterns that were barely visible before, now completely obvious.

Step three:

Drive back to the car wash and confront the the human part of the car cleaning process about this misfortune.  As shrugged shoulder are the only form of sympathy or help to be offered, drive away, calmly considering all other options.

Step four:

Apply Goo Gone. Wipe several times. At this point, simply consider some expletives.

Step five:

Once you realize that, after several applications of Goo Gone and some vigorous arm action, it just might, but just might only very, very remotely help to remove the dried egg smears,  consider cussing a bit more audibly.

Step six:

Bring on the Armoral. Ah, after only several applications, a huge amount of elbow grease and very audible nasty language you will begin to see some signs that dried egg can indeed be removed from the finish of your automobile.

Step seven:

Sit back, cool off and calm down with a glass of red, red wine and just dare it to rain!  :-)

Egged a good Samaritan?

To whomever may have rang my door bell at three AM in the morning last week.

I did call for help for you so that you could change your flat tire.

Sorry that I could not come out to actually help you change the tire, but I did watch to make sure that you were safe until the road service arrived in about 15 minutes. Assuming that it was you guys who did it…egging my house, for whatever reason, was really unwarranted.

You did get some good shots in, however.  Ya got a good throwing arm!

Rotarians are not Rosarians

Battle Ground Washington Rotary Club founders are asking locals to sign up if  ”you have a passion for Rotary Club of BattleGround.”

Founders of this newly forming group will let “you know when we’re ready for your help.” Assistance is requested by suggesting a relevant Wikipedia article or the Official Site.

Rotarians are not Rosarians.  Just a slip of an S or a T can make the world of difference.

Both groups contribute talents to the community but they are uniquely distinct.

Walk for the National Alliance on Mentally Illness

Why I Walk for NAMI (From NAMI Oregon)

Lilly Glass Akoko, LCSW
Co-captain, Providence Pacers Team

From age 6 to 36, I battled severe and relentless depression. In spite of it, I played sports very well, I made it through graduate school, I married, and now have two beautiful boys and volunteer at several places.

To the world, I always looked good, seemed happy, appeared intelligent and seemed to have it all. But those of us who struggle with mental health issues know that on the inside, my world was constantly turned upside down and the pain in my head, in my heart and in my soul was unbearable.

I walk for the thousands of mothers who get put down because the world only sees who they think these mothers are, and fail to have a heart for what they are truly dying from inside.

I walk for the thousands of clients I have come in contact with who recidivate, who have ended their lives because it was just too much, who have also been helped, who have sometimes even been healed!

I walk for the TRUE SURVIVORS…those who have attempted to end their lives but are living today to tell about it, those who have attempted treatment over and over again but are living to inspire others, those who are brave like you and me, willing to share their story, no matter what the backlash may be! I walk to unite with others to overcome stigma and to support a system of care that truly works!

I have been depression free for the past 3 years and thank God every day for the healthy mind he has restored to me. My heart and my soul are blessed!

Need help finding a team to walk with?

Please contact Walk Manager Michelle Madison

at (503) 230-8009

Walk Day is Sunday, May 23, 2010

Eastbank Esplanade, Portland

Registration begins at 12 pm

Walk begins at 1 pm

Help raise awareness and funds for NAMI education, advocacy and support services!

Join us on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter!
www.twitter.com/naminwwalk

Stop by our walk blog:
www.naminwwalk.wordpress.com

Thanks to our sponsors!

Bristol Myers-Squibb

Cedar Hills Hospital

Legacy Health System

Columbia Community Mental Health

LifeWorks NW

Stephen Houser and Buff Jones

Dreyer’s

Franz Bakery

Tragedy averted in choking-boy drama

Photo: (left to right) Charlotte Hobson- Lynette Wooldridge- Timothy Lyshevskiy

On Thursday, April 29th, in Daybreak Primary School cafeteria, a first-grade boy named Timothy Lyashevskiy began choking on a hamburger as he ate lunch in the school cafeteria.

Timothy was eating a hamburger during lunch in the cafeteria when he began choking. Red-faced, he rushed to the boys’ bathroom to try to cough it up. A classmate, Charlotte Hobson, witnessed this and  hurried to report it to Mrs. Wooldridge, a cafeteria monitor.  Wooldridge arrived at the bathroom just as Timothy emerged. He was holding his throat with both hands. “I could tell he was not breathing,” Wooldridge said. “His face was really red. I asked if he was choking and he nodded ‘yes.’ I got behind him, gave him a quick thrust with both arms. That didn’t do it. Then I did another and I could feel his whole body relax. I asked if he was OK and he nodded ‘yes.’”

Wooldridge told Timothy to spit it out the hamburger that was now in his mouth. Then she helped him clean up.

Timothy finished lunch and Wooldridge called Nurse Renee Klein, who was at the adjacent middle school at the time.  Nurse Klein arrived and took Timothy to the nurse’s room, checked him further and called his parents.

An extremely grateful Mrs. Lyashevskiy came and took her son home for the rest of the day. Timothy was back at Daybreak Primary Friday, April 30.

“Lynette’s the superstar,” said Nurse Klein, ” and so is Charlotte.”  Wooldridge said that its just one of those things where you react and do what you have to do. “Whenever there’s an emergency, I’m a calm person. And then later, it hits me. Charlotte was so cool and calm. She came right over to me and told me the little boy was choking.”

Jim Hobson, Charlotte’s father, said Charlotte “is always visual and watching what is going on around her. She’s aware of her surroundings. She’s compassionate to her classmates and always concerned about everyone.”

Wooldridge, who has worked for the district 30-plus years, had given CPR to an adult, but never a student, although she has dealt with students with broken bones. This was her first life-threatening incident involving a student.

Condensed from press release
Greg Herrington
Communications Director
Battle Ground School District

Doin’ the Texas Two Step retreat

Watch your step…the little monsters are here.

These red ants are little monsters that measure about 1/8 to ¼ inch long.  Also known as fire ants, they bite a bite that feels like fire.

My daughter, Paige,  and I found a colony along a road in rural Battle Ground. The tiny redheaded critters were swarmingly busy as ants will be.

Red ants  usually “build dome-shaped mounds up to 2 feet tall on open, disturbed land, such as pastures, agricultural fields, housing developments, and parks.”  These mounds have tunnels that extend underground and usually  don’t have an opening at the center top  as other anthills do. One particular hill had been flattened by something and the ants were not very happy campers.  Of course, I couldn’t resist the temptation to poke into the nest, just to see what would happen. Paige and I did a hoppin’  Two-Step  retreat.

Arriving in  the US from  South America in the 1930s, fire ants are now found in 13 states, which includes Washington, and Puerto Rico.

These ants are prolific and aggressive and will often kill newborn domestic animals and wildlife, injure livestock, damage crop seeds and seedlings, outcompete native ants for resources, and inflict pain on humans and pets.

“The least-toxic, most cost-effective way to eliminate fire ants is the ‘Texas Organic Two-Step,’” says Bastiaan “Bart” Drees, Ph.D., of the Texas Imported Fire Ant Research Center, in College Station, Texas. Organic Gardening

Overuse of any pesticides, even organic ones, diminishes their effectiveness, so before you use this method, determine which mounds on your property pose a threat to people and animals, and which can be simply avoided. To learn more about how to control these pests, click on this link: Ant Control.

May brings awareness of mental health issues

May is Mental Health Month

Mental illness is pandemic. One in four people suffer from one form of mental illness or another at some time in their life. Every family member can be effected by one ill member.

Just as a respiratory illness can range from a light case of the sniffles to influenza, double pneumonia or walking pneumonia, mental illness has a spectrum of symptoms and intensity.

Mental illness is painful but recoverable.

There is so much help in Clark County for those in mental and emotional pain. If you or a loved one is suffering or you simply would like to know more, take note of the events listed below.

Center for Community Health- Located at 1601 E. Fourth Plain Blvd, on May 14th the center will provide a 3 pm presentation, “The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic.” Preceding the presentation from 1-5 pm, the Clark County Regional Support Network presents Mental Health Resources, a community art project.

Center for Community Health, Walking in Recovery co-hosted by the Clark County Regional Support Network and the county mental health ombudsman will provide a mental health educational event on Wednesday, May 19, noon-1 pm.  This event will feature a video produced by the Washington Mental Health Transformation Project. Please R.S.V.P. by May 14 to Melanie Green, 360-397-2130 or melanie.green@clark.wa.gov.

Columbia River Mental Health Services: Columbia River Mental Health Service will put on the annual dinner and auction fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday, May 22. Tickets are available through the website (click above) For information, contact Columbia River Mental Health Services at 360-993-3000.

NAMI Clark County: NAMI Clark County will be walking for mental health Walks for the Mind of America, the annual fundraiser for local NAMI affiliates. Scheduled for May 23 at Vera Katz Park just north of OMSI in Portland the walk starts with registration at 12:00 and the walk starts at 1:00.  This 5k walk (3.1 miles) and will cross two Portland bridges. NAMI works to reduce stigma and to educate the public about mental illness.  For information call 360-695-2823 or email janmck@nami-clark.org.

Catholic Community Services staff members will celebrate Mental Health Month by volunteering to assist several organizations and families in need. For information, contact Donald Koenig at DonK@ccsww.org

For more information on events, visit Clark County Mental Health or contact Melanie Green, mental health recovery coordinator, Clark County Regional Support Network, 360-397-2130 or melanie.green@clark.wa.gov.

The Columbian