By Aaron Jentzen.

Help monitor the health of Rouge River wetlands by listening for frogs and toads in your neighborhood.

It may seem counterintuitiv e to take a mini-break in January: You've just finished the holiday rush, the post-gift-buyin g bills have arrived, and the cold weather makes you want to cocoon at home. However, with all those reasons in mind, January may be the ideal time to take a vacation. A break may be just the thing to get you back to your pre-holiday spirits.

ODFW is scheduled to supply Huddleston Pond, Sheridan Pond, and West Salish Pond with broodstock trout the week of Jan. 15.

The statewide recreation report (for fishing, hunting and viewing), released Wednesday, Jan. 3, by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Remember to purchase your 2007 fishing license.

The Roman deity Janus whose name was co-opted for the first month in our calendar year, was visually represented as a two-headed man, the heads glancing in opposite directions - one back, one forward.

Home was where the hobnobbing was and, in each case, held a special significance. "Skye wanted to have her party at home, which flooded during Katrina. To make her dream come true, painters and electricians were working at the home until 6 p.m. the night of the party."