Friday, September 5th,, 2008 p3dsi’hLad “Time of Food” |
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Today's Birthdays: Daniel Perry III
Also born today: 1969
Tomorrow’s Birthdays: None
US 101 slope-repair starts this week in Mason County
ACCESS TO COHO CAMPGROUND LIMITED AFTER LABOR DAY OLYMPIA, Wash. – Access to Olympic National Forest’s Coho Campground and Wynoochee Lake will be limited through the remainder of the camping season due to a road closure at Camp Grisdale Road. Beginning September 3, and continuing for six weeks, Forest Service Road 22 (Donkey Creek Rd.) will be the only Forest Service road to access Coho Campground. Road 22 is located on the south end of the Pacific Ranger District, 23 miles north of Hoquiam. Camp Grisdale Road continues north of Wynoochee Valley Road approximately 17 miles north of the Highway 12 intersection for a distance of 11 miles. The road will be closed by the Federal Highway Administration for work to complete culvert and road improvements. The road will be accessible to emergency vehicles only. For more information on roads, campgrounds and trails, visit the Olympic National Forest website at http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/olympic.
Twana phrase of the day: Mouth
To hear the correct pronunciation of the word Mouth in the Twana language click here
Fact of the Day: A Club Med survey found that couples who dieted while on vacation argued three times more often than those who didn't, and that those who didn't diet had three times as many romantic interludes.
Word of the Day: banausic Example Sentence: “Students of Latin typically subscribe to a different view, one in which people do not assume that everything must have a banausic purpose.”—MARK MILLER, WASHINGTON TIMES, JULY 29, 2001To hear the correct pronunciation of the word banausic go to
Did you Know: The ancient Greeks held intellectual pursuits in the highest esteem, and they considered ideal a leisurely life of contemplation. A large population of slaves enabled many Greek citizens to adopt that preferred lifestyle. Those who had others to do the heavy lifting for them tended to regard professional labor with contempt. Their prejudice against the need to toil to earn a living is reflected in the Greek adjective banausikos (the root of “banausic”), which means not only “of an artisan” (from the word for artisan, banausos) but “nonintellectual” as well
Fact or Crap: The passionflower gets its name from the energy it arouses in those who drink tea brewed from its flowers and leaves. Fact or Crap? See answer below.
Daily Trivia: The names of how many U.S. state capitals include their state’s name?
See answer below
Fact or Crap Answer: Crap! The flower actually earned its name from a comparison to the passion of Christ. In 1577, a Spanish doctor named Nicolas Monardes brought the flower to Europe from Peru. To him, its ten petals and sepals represented the ten disciples at the crucifixion, and he saw in it the crown of thorns, the whipping post, and the three nails used to crucify Jesus.
Trivia Answer: Two—Indianapolis, Indiana, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Local Native News: Did Port of Centralia Lawyer, Commissioner Lie?
Skokomish weather forecast:
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