In today’s column:
- Toledo School District: Celebrating National School Counseling Week
- You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Pork Chop Assault, Snake Named For Ex
- FDA: Recall - Stacy’s Pita Chips, Letco Medical Glutathione
- LCSO: Sheriff Snaza Reiterates Stance On I-1639
- WA State RCO: Grant Apps Open For 2019 No Child Left Inside Program
- Lewis County Tribune: LCSO - Human Remains Located in South Chehalis Area
- Ethan Siegel: Ask Ethan - Why Can't We Feel Earth Flying Through Space?
- Not Strictly Toledo: Health & Hope Medical Outreach
- Today: Special School Board Meeting
- Wednesday: Special School Board Meeting
- Toledo High School Sports: January/February 2019
- Future-Tripping: Feeds, Fundraisers, Forms, Fun & More
Image courtesy OSPI
School counselors help students in more ways than you realize. This week we celebrate
them as a part of National School Counseling Week 2019. Learn more about the role of this necessary profession: http://bit.ly/SCRole.
Thank you Katie Gale, Angela Naillon and Margie Bannan.
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Toledo Youth Baseball announced: SIGN-UPS ARE ON THESE DAYS -
Youth ages 4 to 12 & Babe Ruth ages 13 to 15
February 11th from 5pm to 8pm
&
February 13th from 5pm to 8pm
LOCATION:
Toledo Elementary School Cafeteria
Please contact me in the comments if you have any questions.
And please help by sharing and letting others know of our page.
Thank you! We look forward to seeing you all!
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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up:
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FDA: Frito-Lay Issues Voluntary Allergy Alert on Undeclared Milk In Small Number of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips
For Immediate Release February 4, 2019
Announcement
Frito-Lay announced a limited voluntary recall of a very small number of 7 1/3 oz. bags of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips because they may contain undeclared milk ingredients.
The recall was initiated after it was discovered that 228 bags of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips were inadvertently filled with another flavor of pita chips, potentially exposing consumers to undeclared milk.
One consumer allergic reaction related to this matter has been reported to date.
The recalled products are 7 1/3 oz. bags of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips that were distributed nationwide…
School counselors help students in more ways than you realize. This week we celebrate
them as a part of National School Counseling Week 2019. Learn more about the role of this necessary profession: http://bit.ly/SCRole.
Thank you Katie Gale, Angela Naillon and Margie Bannan.
***
Toledo Youth Baseball announced: SIGN-UPS ARE ON THESE DAYS -
Youth ages 4 to 12 & Babe Ruth ages 13 to 15
February 11th from 5pm to 8pm
&
February 13th from 5pm to 8pm
LOCATION:
Toledo Elementary School Cafeteria
Please contact me in the comments if you have any questions.
And please help by sharing and letting others know of our page.
Thank you! We look forward to seeing you all!
***
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up:
- Florida woman arrested after allegedly throwing frozen pork chop at boyfriend
- Zoo lets you name a snake after an ex, just in time for Valentine's Day
- Hawaii considers raising legal smoking age to 100 years old
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FDA: Frito-Lay Issues Voluntary Allergy Alert on Undeclared Milk In Small Number of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips
For Immediate Release February 4, 2019
Announcement
Frito-Lay announced a limited voluntary recall of a very small number of 7 1/3 oz. bags of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips because they may contain undeclared milk ingredients.
The recall was initiated after it was discovered that 228 bags of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips were inadvertently filled with another flavor of pita chips, potentially exposing consumers to undeclared milk.
One consumer allergic reaction related to this matter has been reported to date.
The recalled products are 7 1/3 oz. bags of Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips that were distributed nationwide…
Complete announcement link here.
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FDA: FDA warns compounders not to use glutathione from Letco Medical to compound sterile drugs
Agency is aware of adverse events related to compounded glutathione injection
[2/1/2019] FDA is warning compounders not to use glutathione-L-reduced powder distributed by Letco Medical, Decatur, Alabama, to compound sterile injectable drugs for patients...
FDA is aware of seven patients who experienced various adverse events ranging from nausea and vomiting to difficulty breathing, which required one patient to be hospitalized immediately after receiving glutathione 200mg/mL intravenous injection...
Letco supplied this glutathione powder to about 100 compounders in 30 states.
Complete announcement link here.
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Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office shared:
Thanks in part to No Child Left Inside funding, fourth-grade students in Whatcom County are getting hands-on outdoor science education through Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association's Students for Salmon program! https://bit.ly/2RFu3vE
Learn more about No Child Left Inside, a partnership between our office and the Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission: rco.wa.gov/grants/ncli.shtml
Grant application schedule for 2019: https://rco.wa.gov/grants/schedules.shtml#ncli
No Child Left Inside (NCLI)
Learn more about the NCLI program.
Applications Open January 2, 2019
Applications Due April 1, 2019
Project Evaluation May/June 2019
Grants Awarded July 15, 2019
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Lewis County Sheriff's Office shared a post Monday, February 4th.
We would like to re-share Sheriff Snaza’s and the LCSO’s stance on I-1639 from November 20th as this continues to be a very important topic within our community...
Lewis County Sheriff's Office
We have received a lot of inquiries after the passing of I-1639. Sheriff Snaza and his office are supporters of the US Constitution, to include the second amendment. The Lewis County Sheriff's Office supports responsible firearms ownership. We as an office have put on free public firearms safety training, as well as provided public talks on the use of force and firearms ownership. We are aware there have been legal challenges to I-1639 and will wait for the courts to rule on their constitutionality. As with previous firearm initiatives, such as I-594, we will address potential criminal violations as they arise through the course of an investigation, but will not actively seek out violations.
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Lewis County Tribune shared a post: Human remains discovered on Centralia Alpha Road.
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FDA: FDA warns compounders not to use glutathione from Letco Medical to compound sterile drugs
Agency is aware of adverse events related to compounded glutathione injection
[2/1/2019] FDA is warning compounders not to use glutathione-L-reduced powder distributed by Letco Medical, Decatur, Alabama, to compound sterile injectable drugs for patients...
FDA is aware of seven patients who experienced various adverse events ranging from nausea and vomiting to difficulty breathing, which required one patient to be hospitalized immediately after receiving glutathione 200mg/mL intravenous injection...
Letco supplied this glutathione powder to about 100 compounders in 30 states.
Complete announcement link here.
***
Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office shared:
Thanks in part to No Child Left Inside funding, fourth-grade students in Whatcom County are getting hands-on outdoor science education through Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association's Students for Salmon program! https://bit.ly/2RFu3vE
Learn more about No Child Left Inside, a partnership between our office and the Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission: rco.wa.gov/grants/ncli.shtml
Grant application schedule for 2019: https://rco.wa.gov/grants/schedules.shtml#ncli
No Child Left Inside (NCLI)
Learn more about the NCLI program.
Applications Open January 2, 2019
Applications Due April 1, 2019
Project Evaluation May/June 2019
Grants Awarded July 15, 2019
***
Lewis County Sheriff's Office shared a post Monday, February 4th.
We would like to re-share Sheriff Snaza’s and the LCSO’s stance on I-1639 from November 20th as this continues to be a very important topic within our community...
Lewis County Sheriff's Office
We have received a lot of inquiries after the passing of I-1639. Sheriff Snaza and his office are supporters of the US Constitution, to include the second amendment. The Lewis County Sheriff's Office supports responsible firearms ownership. We as an office have put on free public firearms safety training, as well as provided public talks on the use of force and firearms ownership. We are aware there have been legal challenges to I-1639 and will wait for the courts to rule on their constitutionality. As with previous firearm initiatives, such as I-594, we will address potential criminal violations as they arise through the course of an investigation, but will not actively seek out violations.
***
Lewis County Tribune shared a post: Human remains discovered on Centralia Alpha Road.
The identical behavior of a ball falling to the floor in an accelerated rocket (left) and on Earth (right) is a demonstration of Einstein's equivalence principle.WIKIMEDIA COMMONS USER MARKUS POESSEL, RETOUCHED BY PBROKS13
“I desperately need your help! Please help me explain to my husband why you can’t feel earth flying through space!”
It isn’t every day that I get an Ask Ethan question that’s so dramatic or so simple. But this one struck a chord with me. If you didn’t know that Earth spun on its axis, revolved around the Sun, or orbited the galaxy and moved through the Universe, you probably wouldn’t believe it from your own senses. After all, you cannot experience the effects of it in an obvious way in your own body. Moreover, it’s extremely difficult to even devise an experiment to detect it directly. It’s true that we can’t feel Earth flying through space, but that doesn’t mean the motion isn’t real.
How can we detect it? How do we know? And, if we were more sensitive, what, exactly, would we feel as far as Earth’s motion goes? Get the answers today!
More...
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Special Report: How I Got Rid Of 4 Filing Cabinets (& All My Bookcases)
January seems to trigger New Years resolutions to organize, minimize, clear out the old and start with a fresh slate. In that spirit I share with you the resources I employed to reduce Paper, a source of much consternation in my own world. If you perceive such a task to be daunting, skip to the *PS at the end.
A lifetime ago, a contract I had was winding to a close and the business quit paying. Their tactic was to see how hungry I got, and find out how little I might settle for. They demanded all 3.5 years worth of multi-page pay applications be re-submitted for auditing.
I had moved, and everything was in sagging file boxes in storage. It seemed insurmountable.
Until the faint voice of The Office Ladies (Love those Office Ladies!) reminded me that emailing those forms to them would be fastest. My bulging Sent Mail file, which I never remembered to purge, had every single document required.
I can still recall the look on their attorney's face when Misty, my own Office Lady from an incubator office, came sailing into the meeting with 2 reams of printed copies, "taken from Sent Mail" (insert infuriated glare from their attorney to his client) AND dropped a CD with all the data on top of the stack. You could have heard a pin drop. Just like that, the meeting was over.
The next morning an email went out to all the subcontractors (like me) that “All pay applications will be submitted via electronic media, effective immediately.” I changed the way a large Texas land developer did business. And my check arrived via overnight mail shortly.
Today I have a better system than 3 years worth of Sent Mail.
And I have since conducted all my personal and business transactions paperless-ly. (Is that a word? It ought to be.)
First: You DO have paperless billing, yes?
For virtually (sic) everything paper: Scan. Then Print to PDF. Or Save As document or photo. Or Send to cloud storage or thumb drive. Or both. Tag it/label it/title it.
Resources:
www.PaperKarma.com for unsolicited mail
Gmail/Hotmail/any email with generous storage – plus one backup account
Google Drive or MS OneDrive (previously SkyDrive)
www.Evernote.com
https://getpocket.com/
https://www.myfax.com/ (One of few paid apps I endorse, $10/month)
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/ (FoxitReader PDF editor) I like this one better than Adobe (and free), especially the Typewriter function that makes any PDF a fillable form. Works anywhere Adobe Reader is “required.”
Ereader apps – Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Overdrive, etc.
Special mention:
https://www.airdroid.com/ or https://mightytext.net/, productivity, lets me respond to texts in a separate tab or window without touching the phone. Sorry, iPeople, iOS doesn't do this yet.
*PS You don't have to Scan your entire world. Start by scanning/storing this week, and address older paperwork only as needed. In time, most of that old paper will become moot. The exceptions will stand out - mortgage, insurance, etc.
** Updated from original 2013
***
Not Strictly Toledo: Health & Hope Medical Outreach
Please share, we love what we do for those in need!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChEqF9tyJg&t=21s
FREE CLINIC TONIGHT from 5:30 - 8:00pm
Located at 1911 Cooks Hill Rd. Centralia. (NW Pediatrics - West Building)
Health & Hope Medical Outreach provides FREE walk-in medical care and Mental Healthcare to the uninsured and under-insured of Lewis county and South Thurston county.
***
Today: Ukulele Lessons
1:00 – 3:00pm Weekly on Tuesday
All skill levels welcome
Cafeteria @ Tribal Housing
107 Spencer Road
Contact Roxi, crazihippichic@gmail.com
Plus:
It isn’t every day that I get an Ask Ethan question that’s so dramatic or so simple. But this one struck a chord with me. If you didn’t know that Earth spun on its axis, revolved around the Sun, or orbited the galaxy and moved through the Universe, you probably wouldn’t believe it from your own senses. After all, you cannot experience the effects of it in an obvious way in your own body. Moreover, it’s extremely difficult to even devise an experiment to detect it directly. It’s true that we can’t feel Earth flying through space, but that doesn’t mean the motion isn’t real.
How can we detect it? How do we know? And, if we were more sensitive, what, exactly, would we feel as far as Earth’s motion goes? Get the answers today!
More...
***
Special Report: How I Got Rid Of 4 Filing Cabinets (& All My Bookcases)
January seems to trigger New Years resolutions to organize, minimize, clear out the old and start with a fresh slate. In that spirit I share with you the resources I employed to reduce Paper, a source of much consternation in my own world. If you perceive such a task to be daunting, skip to the *PS at the end.
A lifetime ago, a contract I had was winding to a close and the business quit paying. Their tactic was to see how hungry I got, and find out how little I might settle for. They demanded all 3.5 years worth of multi-page pay applications be re-submitted for auditing.
I had moved, and everything was in sagging file boxes in storage. It seemed insurmountable.
Until the faint voice of The Office Ladies (Love those Office Ladies!) reminded me that emailing those forms to them would be fastest. My bulging Sent Mail file, which I never remembered to purge, had every single document required.
I can still recall the look on their attorney's face when Misty, my own Office Lady from an incubator office, came sailing into the meeting with 2 reams of printed copies, "taken from Sent Mail" (insert infuriated glare from their attorney to his client) AND dropped a CD with all the data on top of the stack. You could have heard a pin drop. Just like that, the meeting was over.
The next morning an email went out to all the subcontractors (like me) that “All pay applications will be submitted via electronic media, effective immediately.” I changed the way a large Texas land developer did business. And my check arrived via overnight mail shortly.
Today I have a better system than 3 years worth of Sent Mail.
And I have since conducted all my personal and business transactions paperless-ly. (Is that a word? It ought to be.)
First: You DO have paperless billing, yes?
For virtually (sic) everything paper: Scan. Then Print to PDF. Or Save As document or photo. Or Send to cloud storage or thumb drive. Or both. Tag it/label it/title it.
Resources:
www.PaperKarma.com for unsolicited mail
Gmail/Hotmail/any email with generous storage – plus one backup account
Google Drive or MS OneDrive (previously SkyDrive)
www.Evernote.com
https://getpocket.com/
https://www.myfax.com/ (One of few paid apps I endorse, $10/month)
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/ (FoxitReader PDF editor) I like this one better than Adobe (and free), especially the Typewriter function that makes any PDF a fillable form. Works anywhere Adobe Reader is “required.”
Ereader apps – Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Overdrive, etc.
Special mention:
https://www.airdroid.com/ or https://mightytext.net/, productivity, lets me respond to texts in a separate tab or window without touching the phone. Sorry, iPeople, iOS doesn't do this yet.
*PS You don't have to Scan your entire world. Start by scanning/storing this week, and address older paperwork only as needed. In time, most of that old paper will become moot. The exceptions will stand out - mortgage, insurance, etc.
** Updated from original 2013
***
Not Strictly Toledo: Health & Hope Medical Outreach
Please share, we love what we do for those in need!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChEqF9tyJg&t=21s
FREE CLINIC TONIGHT from 5:30 - 8:00pm
Located at 1911 Cooks Hill Rd. Centralia. (NW Pediatrics - West Building)
Health & Hope Medical Outreach provides FREE walk-in medical care and Mental Healthcare to the uninsured and under-insured of Lewis county and South Thurston county.
***
Today: Ukulele Lessons
1:00 – 3:00pm Weekly on Tuesday
All skill levels welcome
Cafeteria @ Tribal Housing
107 Spencer Road
Contact Roxi, crazihippichic@gmail.com
Plus:
***
Toledo High School Sports: February 2019
BOYS BASKETBALL
February 4th-16th District Basketball
February 22nd & 23rd Regional Basketball
February 27th- March 2nd State Basketball
GIRLS BASKETBALL
February 4th-16th District Basketball
February 22nd & 23rd Regional Basketball
February 27th- March 2nd State Basketball
BOYS WRESTLING
February 9th Regional Wrestling
February 15th & 16th State Wrestling
GIRLS WRESTLING
February 9th Regional Wrestling
February 15th & 16th State Wrestling
!!!! GO INDIANS !!!!
***
Future-Tripping: Feeds, Fundraisers, Fun & More
NEW!! March 7: Mr T Contest @ Toledo High School
February 5: School Board Special Meeting - Superintendent Evaluation
February 6: School Board Special Meeting - Construction Management Interviews
February 7: Chocolate Class with Linda Aitchison @ Morgan Arts Centre
February 9: Second Saturday Breakfast @ Toledo Senior Center
February 12: Coffee House @ Toledo High School
February 14: Valentines Day Book & Bake Sale @ Toledo Community Library
February 14: Valentine’s Dinner For 2 @ Donna’s Place
February 15: Red Cross Blood Drive @ Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall
February 16: Red Wine & Chocolate Event @ Bateaux Cellars
February 23: 3rd Annual Toledo Cheesecake Competition @ Morgan Arts Centre
March 23: Third Annual Seed Swap @ Toledo Community Library
March 23-24: Vernal Equinox Art Fair @ Morgan Arts Centre
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Toledo Builds a High School
Information regarding the building of a new high school in Toledo, WA beginning in November, 2018. Regular updates.
https://chris-rust.blogspot.com/
***
Check out Latest Earthquakes at USGS.
Check out US Tsunami Warnings at NOAA/Weather.
Air Quality Forecast at https://airquality.weather.gov
Visualize wildfire smoke with NASAWorldview - https://go.nasa.gov/2T7olog
*AirNow status during the federal government shutdown: AirNow will continue to provide the public with current and forecast air quality information during the federal government shutdown; however EPA will not post additional information to the site during that time.
The Other Toledo is delivered to your email inbox via MailerLite. If you're having trouble getting your Daily Column, your security settings might not recognize MailerLite as (your email)via mlsend.
Photos from TOT archives unless otherwise noted.
Send news and events to: toledo.columnist@gmail.com
The Other Toledo is on Twitter.
Toledo High School Sports: February 2019
BOYS BASKETBALL
February 4th-16th District Basketball
February 22nd & 23rd Regional Basketball
February 27th- March 2nd State Basketball
GIRLS BASKETBALL
February 4th-16th District Basketball
February 22nd & 23rd Regional Basketball
February 27th- March 2nd State Basketball
BOYS WRESTLING
February 9th Regional Wrestling
February 15th & 16th State Wrestling
GIRLS WRESTLING
February 9th Regional Wrestling
February 15th & 16th State Wrestling
!!!! GO INDIANS !!!!
***
Future-Tripping: Feeds, Fundraisers, Fun & More
NEW!! March 7: Mr T Contest @ Toledo High School
February 5: School Board Special Meeting - Superintendent Evaluation
February 6: School Board Special Meeting - Construction Management Interviews
February 7: Chocolate Class with Linda Aitchison @ Morgan Arts Centre
February 9: Second Saturday Breakfast @ Toledo Senior Center
February 12: Coffee House @ Toledo High School
February 14: Valentines Day Book & Bake Sale @ Toledo Community Library
February 14: Valentine’s Dinner For 2 @ Donna’s Place
February 15: Red Cross Blood Drive @ Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall
February 16: Red Wine & Chocolate Event @ Bateaux Cellars
February 23: 3rd Annual Toledo Cheesecake Competition @ Morgan Arts Centre
March 23: Third Annual Seed Swap @ Toledo Community Library
March 23-24: Vernal Equinox Art Fair @ Morgan Arts Centre
***
Toledo Builds a High School
Information regarding the building of a new high school in Toledo, WA beginning in November, 2018. Regular updates.
https://chris-rust.blogspot.com/
***
Check out Latest Earthquakes at USGS.
Check out US Tsunami Warnings at NOAA/Weather.
Air Quality Forecast at https://airquality.weather.gov
Visualize wildfire smoke with NASAWorldview - https://go.nasa.gov/2T7olog
*AirNow status during the federal government shutdown: AirNow will continue to provide the public with current and forecast air quality information during the federal government shutdown; however EPA will not post additional information to the site during that time.
The Other Toledo is delivered to your email inbox via MailerLite. If you're having trouble getting your Daily Column, your security settings might not recognize MailerLite as (your email)via mlsend.
Photos from TOT archives unless otherwise noted.
Send news and events to: toledo.columnist@gmail.com
The Other Toledo is on Twitter.
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