family meeting & watered down

family meeting & watered down

Bringing Back the Family & Watered Down plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Hard times have put a lot of stress on people across the nation but how are the kids holding up? Yes, kids can be significantly affected by the tensions their parents are feeling. Dr. Karen DeBord , extension child development specialist says hard economic times should bring a revival of the old fashioned family meeting. 

DeBORD: It’s good to begin to institute family meetings before you lose your job or before some crisis occurs. It really helps to center the family and bring them together for a time without television, you’re not texting, everybody kind of leaves their phones in the kitchen and goes and sits and talks about whether it’s a time to plan. You can brainstorm with them and everybody can think of ideas for how to be a solution for the family. We’re going to go back to some of those basics that we have very much taken for granted as a society.

Reports have been coming in of watered down gasoline. According to the Washington state department of weights and measures, last year the office received 50 complaints about bad gasoline. Moisture in the tanks at the filling stations seems to be the cause of the problems and the only recourse is to empty the tanks, then clean them before adding fresh fuel If you suspect you have gotten a tank of bad gasoline, contact your states department of weights and measures.

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

The federal stimulus package has its fair share of supporters and more than its fair share of non supporters. The question as to whether the stimulus package will have a positive impact on farmers and rural areas is being bounced back and forth like a rubber ball. The comments and opinions run the gambit from rational to absurd. One such comment from retired college professor Luther Tweeten brought into question the validity of using funding to develop broadband Internet services in rural areas. He goes so far as to state, “If people choose to live in remote locations, does the rest of society have an obligation to keep them comfortable?”  Comfortable?! Does this man eat? And does he realize where his food actually comes from?!  Access to high speed internet would be another way for farmers and ranchers to have the most current information; enabling them to quickly respond to ever changing conditions while producing our nation’s food supply. So maybe Luther, food doesn’t just come from a store, maybe producing food takes a little bit more.

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.

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