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Each step up the Saddle Mountain two-and-a-half-mile long trail reveals a timeless place born of events that are 16 million years old.
The site dates to a time when a thick layer of Columbia River basalt flowed into the ocean from distant eastern Oregon. Eventually, the ground rose and the mountain was born.
Today, the basalt breaks away in chunks, cracks, crevices and bands that show off eons of geologic time.
The trail opens onto grassy meadows covered in a riot of wildflowers.
Although water is rare, cool springs seep and replenish a surprising number of plants with a distinct sound that also soothes the soul.
Author of the article: Frances Learment
Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • 5 days ago • 2 minute read • For the fourth year in a row, Tiverton’s Shelly Parker (left) is the top fundraiser in the Huron Shores Hospice virtual hike from home May 8. She presented a $6,164 cheque and ledge sheets to to hospice board co-chair Cheryl Cottrill.
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The $73,426 – and counting – raised by virtual participants and sponsors of the fifth annual Huron Shores Hospice Virtual Hike from Home May 8 will allow for more dignified deaths in the two palliative care suites now open at Tiverton Park Manor.
Forced again this year to go virtual due to the pandemic, organizers invited participants – 131 individuals, 14 teams, and corporate challengers – to pick an activity, post it on social media, and collect pledges.
Rather than focus on an average gun owner, someone like Shelly Parker an African-American woman who, after drug dealers in her neighborhood began vandalizing her property and threatening her life, became one of the driving forces in the case that would become
District of Columbia v. Heller –
The Hill offers a picture of black militia members and tells the story of small groups like the “Not F ing Around Coalition.” Now, large or small, I have zero problem with Americans assembling with their AR-15s to protect their rights. I can assure you, though, that the vast majority of gun owners, white and black, do not generally march around in pseudo-military garb. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard gun restrictionists claim that if African Americans owned firearms in large numbers, conservatives would quickly turn on the Second Amendment. Yet, all gun advocates I see cheer it on. It seems to me that others are doing the scaremongering.