Artist Joshua Madewell has been painting for many years. His portfolio includes murals inside Longview’s Papacita’s restaurant, personal artwork, and other city projects. He has also been an assistant to David Freeman, the artist currently decorating downtown Mount Pleasant. Madewell’s most recent project is a mural spanning more than 800 square feet at Barefoot Bay Marina.
The 2020 American Legion Memorial Day Program is scheduled for May 25 at noon. The event will take place at American Legion Post #422.
In April, Gib Wilson donated pork tenderloins for 300 Camp County families to God’s Closet. The packages were distributed at the Camp County Cares drive-through food pantry. God’s Closet thanks Wilson for his enormous contribution. COURTESY PHOTO
Last year’s quiet arrival of a foreign wasp known as the Asian giant hornet is no longer a secret outside of Washington state. Within the past few days, all the major TV networks have broadcast stories of the arrival of the wasp to the Pacific Northwest. Known to entomologists as Vespa mandarinia, it has been named by the press the ‘murder hornet’.
We’ve all been made aware of our declining bee population. While this is extremely serious, there’s something more to consider. In the last 50 years, our continent has lost anywhere from 29% to 30% of our bird population. Forty percent of the world’s bird population is in decline. 74 percent of the 1,469 bird species are at risk of extinction. Fifty years may seem like a long time, but for
