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I took a test. A fun test. Its overarching question: are you a tourist in your own home?
Absolutely not, I thought. Almost three decades in Sydney makes me a local. But when I tried to answer the questions, I was shocked â I couldnât pass.
Because itâs not about âwhere to eat, play, and stayâ. The tourist test is a kind of belonging barometer that explores how much we understand and participate in our home environment.
Drawn from the Kamana independent naturalist study program, My Year Without Matches author and rewilding facilitator Claire Dunn has adapted the test for Australia, and drops some of the 133 questions to city dwellers at her workshops.
2 drivers killed in West Linn crash
Updated 6:02 PM;
Two drivers were killed in a crash Wednesday night in West Linn, police say.
West Linn police said 52-year-old Stephanie Chambers of Molalla and 21-year-old Blaise McGuire of West Linn died at the scene of the crash on Willamette Falls Drive.
A juvenile sibling who was traveling with McGuire was taken to a hospital for observation, according to police.
Police said no other cars were involved in the crash, which remains under investigation. Police did not detail the circumstances of the crash in a news release Thursday. The Oregonian/OregonLive
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12-year-old Forsyth County girl recovers from stroke
Doctors warn of a very rare pediatric stroke after a 12-year-old girl suffers from one.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. - A child s first taste of independence comes with school dances and less supervision while hanging out with friends after school. Twelve-year-old Isabella Izzy Chambers now depends on extra help doing what was once the mundane, such as walking. She has a gate belt on at all times. I grab on to this and she can stand up and with assistance, her mother, Stephanie Chambers said. As far as letting her go, she s not there yet.
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