By Rev. Joseph Santos-Lyons of Portland, Oregon. Rev. Lyons is co-director of OPAL Environmental Justice and a Unitarian Universalist Community Minister affiliated with First Unitarian Church of Portland. Today at 4pm, bus riders organized by OP
How about a random shot of some random Queen Anne’s Lace growing wild in a random field somewhere here in town? I took it last week, and I can’t remember where I took it. Not that it matters, since one can find this stuff growing all over the place around here. I love it… very
I spent the day getting ready for a short vacation that my family is squeezing in before the school year ramps back up again. I reserved hotel rooms, put the newspaper on hold, cancelled the cable, washed clothing, cleaned house and then ran out to The Grocery Outlet to stock up on vacation style food. [...]
(Don't forget, Wild Pear is open until 9 PM every First Wednesday.) One of my favorite summer activities? Taking the time for a leisurely lunch with a friend. Friend Shirley and I rarely let life's changing demands prevent us from carving out some time for each other. Although, I'll admit, we keep our goal attainable. W
SPECIALS AND EVENTS FOR FIRST WEDNESDAY! Go Downtown Salem! (click here to read more) COMMUNITY PEP RALLY COME OUT AND SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND WISH THEM A GREAT NEW SCHOOL YEAR! Go Downtown, in partnership with Salem-Keizer Education Foundation will get the 2010-11 school year off with a rousing community pep rally featur
Cheezsorce, a cheese industry firm specializing in cheesemaking consulting and resources, will be presenting a Camembert workshop titled "Six Ways to Make Camembert: Which is...
Back in 1887 Oregon was the first state to officially recognize the Labor Day holiday, so it’s only fitting that we throw a huge Labor Day picnic!
Mina decided this morning that she likes coffee with her breakfast.
This story in USA Today talks about something that Lynn Lashbrook, the founder and president of Sports Management World Wide, has been talking about for more than a year. People have made huge investments in high-definition television and sound systems for their home these days — and you can’t blame them for sta
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The Portland Festival Symphony summer concert series will conclude Sunday in Foothills Park.
Makes it pretty clear, doesn't it? I love me some track banking!
By Erika Weisensee, Oregon Writer Being a freshman is challenging. The university I teach at started school this week and I welcomed among my students several freshmen. Like many people, I was a freshman twice, in high school and college. Both of those years were exciting and both were also more difficult than other years
Economic Volatility: What I Told the Governor By Bill Conerly, Conerly Consulting, Businomics Governor Kulongoski met with his Council of Economic Advisers last week. Here’s what I told him: 1. The economy is becoming more volatile. The period 1983-2007 was the calmest ever in American history, in terms of macroecono
Livestock Producers Fear GIPSA Rule’s Vagueness and Unintended Consequences By National Cattlemen’s Beef Association FORT COLLINS (Aug. 27, 2010) – Beef and pork producers rallied against USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration’s (GIPSA) proposed federal rule on the buying an
It was a small moment, but I was so charmed by Ada this morning: Ada (holding plate of jam-slathered buttermilk biscuits): can I have some water to go with my biscuits? Me: Are you sure you don't want some milk? Ada: Which would be better with biscuit
It was a small moment, but I was so charmed by Ada this morning: Ada (holding plate of jam-slathered buttermilk biscuits): can I have some water to go with my biscuits? Me: Are you sure you don't want some milk? Ada: Which would be better with biscuit
Who says accountants aren't hilarious? We mean, besides absolutely everybody who has ever lived, of course.
EMO speaks out on Cordoba Community Center and Mosque in New York Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO) joins the National Council of Churches and Oregonian editorial writers and columnists to express our concern at the tenor of discourse in the past weeks around the building of the Cordoba C
The end of this August mixes many moods and thoughts. This time last year, in the heat of summer, Jodie and I were less than 2 weeks away from our wedding day, in the thick of finalizing details. This year,...
In this video Jay Nicholas ties a very sparse wet fly style muddler. The fly is on a heavy wire hook with a yarn body. Designed to be swung subsurface for steelhead the fly could be tied in a variety of colors for both wing and body. One could also tie this pattern in very [...]
It's been a rough few days here in the
My husband is a guitar player, and a pretty good one, I might add. He loves his music! My daughter, following in his footsteps, loves all things music as well. She’s an aspiring flute player and singer, and this year she’s going to add guitar to her musical repertoire. Not quite as talented, but definitely [...] Did y
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. We hear a lot about the doubts over the future of Social Security. Here are a few I’v
The latest revenue forecast figures are out from the Oregon Office of Economic A
Coach Kelly answers the medias questions at yesterday's press conference. Video courtesy of KVAL.GO DUCKS!
As I have mentioned before... I am so happy to have two boys who enthusiastically go out and pick whatever I ask them to (usually), and when I tell them I'm making Blackberry Crumb Bars, they really hop to it!Right down the road we have a plethora of blackberry vines that I have been trying to take advant
Tonight, as I was working on setting up the draft posts for the next 15 or so Line by Line entries, my ISP decided to quit working. I was in the middle of laying down the lines somewhere in Verse 5 when, out of the blue, the autosave function for blogger indicated that a connection couldn't be made. I quickly glance
traditional staircase design I’m wee bit obsessed with stairs. When I was a first grader moving into a new home with my family, I remember my utter fascination with the stairs. I remember there were a few steps and then a landing and then a turn before you got to go up the rest of [...]
The Kiwanis Club of Corvallis (noon club) will hold their next weekly meeting on Wednesday September
The Kiwanis Club of Corvallis (noon club) will hold their next weekly meeting on Wednesday September
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Got an upgraded room for while I am in NY — Oversized Bathtub FTW!!! # If you ever think that someone is the most passive-aggressive person in the world, you have not met my mother. Oh Em Gee! She cracks me up! # I woke up at 4:30 AM Not enough sleep… too [...]
As a child I would spend hours drawing fanciful floor plans and landscapes, then try to imagine myself having adventures within them. What a delight to find a fellow artist, Stefan Bleekrode, who still creates these imaginary worlds with ink and watercolor
The season is finally here, with all 10 teams in action on opening weekend. Thanks to the wonderful array of Pac-10 television deals, you can even see more than half of them, as six games are available nationally.
Off and on since an appearance on the MSP about a year ago, Antonio Harvey and I have been batting around the idea of the semi-unusual lineup of Nicolas Batum, Brandon Roy, and Rudy Fernandez. I've talked about it here before in mailbags and such and it came up on the radio again yesterday morning. The offen
Before we get to the final matchup of the second round of the Blazersedge Scrubdown, I have to fix a mistake I made in Round 1. After the first round matchup of Drazen Petrovic vs. Calvin Natt was announced I got a fair amount of mail stating that Natt didn't belong in this category of player. It was a statem
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Bon Jovi is releasing a career-spanning greatest hits compilation on November 9th on Island Records. Bon Jovi Greatest Hits will transport listeners back in time through Bon Jovi’s worldwide monster hits of the past and offer a bridge to the future with the debut of four brand new tracks. “Music marks milestones
Environmental health is a crucial piece of the public health infrastructure; if a person's environment where they live, work, eat, or play is unhealthy or even hazardous, it can have a negative effect on their health and personal safety.One particularly egregious example of how environ
Apple has decided that it’s finally time to let the public in on their press events — the company will be streaming live footage from the event tomorrow on its website. So tune in tomorrow morning at 10 am PDT — we’ll see if Apple can handle the demands of its hungry customers on live streaming [...
Nightlife Of Weeds LXIX. Portland, OR. Photo by Zoe Hoeltzel. …………