Beneath the Wraps

                The school held a hat day sometime last month.   Jenna couldn't find any of her fedoras and so she took the plastic tiara that she had received during a young women's lesson earlier that week.   Meanwhile she found a fedora but ended up taking the plastic crown anyway.                   Through the course of the day she would ask guys to try it on and take pictures.   On February 10 she posted pictures other friends on facebook.   At least nine guys proudly wore that crown.   One of them was Andrew.   She did not get one of Nick.   The last words she said to him was to ask him to put the tiara on his head.   The last words she had said to Andrew was to let him keep a pencil that he had borrowed.             ...

            Our local news comes from Eugene - located in Lane county which is north of Douglas.   The news stories usually start off with some criminal activity in Springfield or Eugene.   Sometimes human interest stories in Eugene.   Rarely is the focus ever on Douglas.   Except this morning.   And updates throughout the day.             Tri City recorded population is 3,931, but Myrtle Creek says 3,439.   I would guess both cities put together fall somewhere between the two numbers as we use the same zip code.   The city of Riddle lies just south west of us.   Their recorded population was 1185.   That number has gone down by four due to a tragic fire.             I first heard about it after Jenna returned home from school.   She reported that one of h...