DINING (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

DINING

Life is filled with choices: Start in the buffet line (The Olympian)

Life is filled with choices. Along with the freedom to make choices comes the responsibility to live with the results.

Forget planning to diet; the worthy winter goal would be to get healthy (Akron Beacon Journal)

By now, anyone who has resolved to lose some weight in the new year has already started THE DIET. I've never been a fan of New Year's resolution diets. It just seems that by a date like say, oh, Jan. 9, the resolve is waning and the couch is calling.

The following article is about the coastal regions of Washington and includes other Northwest tribes. Major tribes comprised of the Bella Coola, Haida, Kwakiutls, Makah, Nez Perce, Nisqualli, Nootka, Quinault, Puyallup, Salish, S'Klallam, Snohomish,Spokane, Shuswap, Swinomish, Tlingit, and the Tsimshian. These Indians lived close to present-day Alaska along the Pacific Ocean through the coast of Northern California. The land was rugged, with various small islands, deep inlets, rivers and streams that cross the land, and narrow beaches, where mountains rose to shore in many places. The area was also subjugated to spruce, cedar, and fir forests, which supplied an incessant amount of wood. By the 1750s, over 100, 000 Indians settled in this area because it was the richest place for natural resources in North America.