IN BRIEF

Olympian staff, news services

Include a native in your landscape

Learn how to use native plants in your yard at the "Landscaping with Northwest Natives" presentation at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the U.S. Forest Service Building, 1835 Black Lake Blvd. S.W.

The presentation will be conducted by Victoria Olson, a Tacoma landscape designer who encourages the use of native plants.

For more information, contact Perry Lund, president of the South Sound Branch of the Washington Native Plant Society, at 360-357-8590.

Put your poetry to the test

Enter The Olympian's first Conversation Heart Haiku Contest.

Assemble phrases from those chalky hearts in the haiku form of three lines of poetry (with five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables each).

Then submit your sweet poetry via e-mail at sajackso@olympia.gannett. com or enter online at www.theolympian.com.

You also may fax Sarah Jackson at 360-357-020 or mail your haiku to Haiku Contest, Attn: Sarah Jackson, The Olympian, P.O. Box 1219, Olympia, WA 98507. Include your name, city of residence, phone number and e-mail address.

A prize will be awarded in each of three age categories: children younger than high school, high school age and adult. Any and all poetry you submit may be published in the Feb. 10 edition of The Olympian as well as posted online at www. theolympian.com.

CHART TOPPERS

These were last week's hot country singles, according to Billboard Magazine:

- 1. "Good Morning Beautiful," Steve Holy.

- 2. "Run," George Strait.

- 3. "Wrapped Around," Brad Paisley.

- 4. "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)," Alan Jackson.

- 5. "The Long Goodbye," Brooks & Dunn.

- 6. "Bring On The Rain," Jo Dee Messina With Tim McGraw.

- 7. "The Cowboy In Me," Tim McGraw.

- 8. "Wrapped Up in You," Garth Brooks.

- 9. "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly," Aaron Tippin.

- 10. "Blessed," Martina McBride.

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