The following is taken from the "Senior News" article that is published every Tuesday in The Dalles Chronicle. It mainly tells of activities occurring at the Senior Center. Occasionally the writer will wax nostalgic and include items she can recall from her past. I thought you might find this interesting. "Still on recycling - When we visited Klindts [Book Sellers - this store has sold books for over a hundred years under different owners] this week it was recalled that there were no paper sacks at that time. And no "self-help" with merchandise. The Weigelts would gather the list of school supplies that we bought, stack them on the counter, reached for the end of the huge roll of paper at the end of the counter and they would tear off exactly the right length. They put the items on the paper pulled it up from both sides and before you realized it, they had made a "drug-store" fold of the paper, and tied it neatly with string from a huge cone by the paper roll. When we got home, we untied the knot in the string, removed it and wound it on our own ball of string. We folded the paper and put it in a drawer because if we mailed a package it had to be wrapped in sturdy paper and tied securely with string before we wrote the address on the paper. No sealing tape. No sticky labels. No package of wrapping paper from the store and no ball of strong string to buy. Recycling was a survival technique." Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program