by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 31, 2011 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Church, Community, Faith, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Outreach, Parenting, Youth, Youth Ministry
I just returned from five days away at Riverview Bible Camp on the Pend O’Reille River as a junior high church camp counselor. I had a cabin filled with 10 almost-eighth grade girls, and my 13-yeard-old twin sonswere in tow, part of a cabin filled with...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 24, 2011 | Church, Community, Community Service, Justice, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, Writing
Joelle Baker and her 9-year-old son Kurt serendipitously fell into a day of fun at Tualatin Community Park earlier this month. “I heard these people speaking Spanish, and kids were gathered for piñatas and there were snow cones. Then, a lady asked us to join...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 24, 2011 | Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregon and beyond Adventures with kids, Portland, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary
As I prepare to leave to be a counselor for Junior High Church Summer Camp with my 13-year-old twins tomorrow for what will be week 7 Adventure galore, I finally download my photos from this week, and post my Week 6 ~ Summer 2011 Adventures with Kids blog. Too many...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 21, 2011 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Kids, Life, Oregon and beyond Adventures with kids, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary
Sometimes your adventure is in your very neighborhood. At a fair where you learn to “just be.” We got a taste of spending a bit more time at the West Linn Old Time Fair last year, and this year matched that, attending two of the three days and a longer stretch on...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 16, 2011 | Church, Community, Community Service, Faith, Family Life, Gratitude, Life, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news
Originally published in The Oregonian, SW Weekly, Saturday, July 16, 2011 About eight or nine years ago, Paul and Peggy Osborn of West Linn decided to pick up litter on the sides of the highway near their home on Buck Street. “It gave us a chance to walk...
