What’s New in January

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In this month’s Complement:

NEWS & VIEWS

Peace Corps Adventures in Ecuador with David Guzetta and Carolyn Auker, by Joni Johnson
      – A mid-career adventurous detour

Betsy Portaro- An Early Peace Corps Volunteer Who Danced with Belafonte, by Joni Johnson
      – In Africa?  Read to the end to find out how.

Billiards at RVM, by Tim Miller
      – Interested in the pool scene?  Here is your cue-and-A

COVID News and Update, by Bob Buddemeier
     – Old problem, new solutions — read and act!

Our Celebrity Costa’s Hummer, by Connie Kent
     –  Beautiful, exotic — and trapped in an alien world!

         in Big, Borrowed, or Both

3550:  the Portland Mirabella quarterly magazine (most recent issue)

Mirabella Monthly, Newsletter of the Seattle Mirabella (January issue)

ARTS & INFO 

Winter Wonderland, photocollage by Reina Lopez
      – Beauty in the cold

Owls of the eastern Ice — a book review, by Bonnie Tollefson
      – A magnificent animal, a wild environment, and a dedicated human

Down the Shore, by Eleanor Lippman
       – Memories of an East Coast childhood

Nit-Wit Newz: Romantic Valentine’s Day Entertainment Set, by A. Looney
      – In case you wondered what to do in February….

The Organ Recital, by Asifa Kanji
     – Reverberating through the cathedral of mind and body

January Library Display, by Anne Newins
       – On the road again…

RVM January-April Event & Entertainment Schedule

Stress Vibrations – a cartoon by Liz Argall

PREPARE

It Couldn’t Happen.., by Bob Buddemeier
      – …so no need to prepare

We continue to list the following articles because of their seasonal relevance

The RVM Campus Snow Route (map): SNOW ROUTES-022411

Surviving Winter: Driving on Ice and Snow, by Joni Johnson
      – How-to videos for brushing up slippery-surface skills

The RVM Campus Snow Route, by Bob Buddemeier
     – Now that you know how to drive in snow, this is where to drive