For 100 years, it’s “Just Home” – Celebrating what makes West Linn special on August 15-17- Oregonian story

UPDATED SATURDAY AUGUST 17 )   I penned a history book about West Linn called, Images of America: WEST LINN. It was published four years ago. Now, the city I wrote about and call home is having its 100th Birthday party this week, and I wrote about that 3-day...

West Linn Street Dance returns to historic Willamette area July 13

(Oregonlive News Brief West Linn Street Dance) In its sixth year, the West Linn Street Dance takes over much of the historic downtown Willamette area of West Linn on Saturday July 13. The  2008 inaugural Street Dance was a revival of a long ago tradition in the town...

White Oak Savanna – Summer 2013 Outdoor Adventures with Kids – No. 3

  For this Adventure with Kids, we drove some place close to home: West Linn’s treasured White Oak Savanna, which is  20 acres of rare white oak trees that have been saved by the efforts of local activist Robert Schwarz and many others. For the past nine...

A Bloom in the Sidewalk features stories of six women healed by art

(Published in print edition June 26, 2013 of SW Weekly Oregonian June 26, 2013 and found on oregonlive.com OREGONLIVE STORY ON BLOOM IN THE SIDEWALK) When Kimber Dion and her sister Kristin Schultz, were growing up in the Portland  area, they were both sexually abused...

Lakeridge art students top 10 in the Northwest region of the Vans Custom Culture high school shoe-customization competition.

    BY CORNELIA BECKER SEIGNEUR (Originally published in print edition of The Oregonian SW Weekly May 8, 2013) (PHOTO: Lakeridge High students Karalyn Gee (left) and Molly Zaninovich work on the Vans shoe design for the Local Flavor category, which will...

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