Saying ‘I love you’ with local chocolates

By Lauren Gallup
A customer waits for her order in the storefront of Johnson Candy Company. The store is decked out in red and pink decorations and heart-shaped boxes of chocolate for Valentine's Day. (Credit: Lauren Gallup / NWPB)
Inside the storefront of Johnson Candy Company, there are hundreds of heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. Gift-wrapped boxes are stacked up on a table behind display cases. Open boxes show off sweet concoctions, propped up on shelves or set out below hanging red and pink decorations. Cellophane-wrapped goodies sit on top of glass windows displaying squares of chocolate Read More

Getting A Pony For Christmas

By Sueann Ramella
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When I was seven, I asked my mom for a pony for Christmas. We lived in base housing on McChord Air Force Base. My elementary school was only a five-minute walk through oak trees and an enormous open field, the perfect place to keep a pony. I would feed her acorns, braid her mane and we would ride to the other end of base housing.Read More
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