West Linn Boy Scout Troop 396 partners with Troop 149 this Christmas season-one sells trees and the other recycles them!

Written for The Oregonian Perhaps you are just getting your Christmas Tree decorated or have yet to make plans for that tree searching adventure, but, as the Boy Scout motto declares, “Be Prepared.” And, that goes for what you will do after the upcoming...

Cedaroak Park and Burgerville team up for tasty fund raising day Wednesday Dec. 7 –

(Originally published at The Oregonian’s website Dec. 6, 2011 Oregonian website story link Wednesday Dec. 7 is another Dine in/Dine Out  Burgerville day in West Linn, where the hamburger restaurant is  donating 10 percent of all sales to Cedaroak Park Primary...

No place for humming hymns and picking lilies — My Profile on John Canda for Christianity Today’s This is Our City project

If John Canda had to credit one person for his faith and wide-reaching impact in Portland, Oregon, he would point to Grace Collins, a German Christian woman who ran Grace Collins Memorial Center, the daycare Canda attended while growing up in the 1960s on the...

Sex Trafficking film takes us on a journey of discovery – My Christianity Today story

What struck me the most about the film Sex + Money: A National Search for Human Worth, which screened at Portland State University this month, is how young. Thirteen- and fourteen-year olds, and some as young as eleven, being led into sex trafficking. I have twin sons...

Two moms create Family Friendly Halloween Zombie Apocalpse Run, which is also Cedaroak Park fundraiser

Originally published in The Oregonian SW Weekly Oct. 29, 2011 Get your Halloween costume out two days early for Saturday’s Oct. 29 Zombie Apocalypse Run at LeeFarms in Tualatin. The event is the brainchild of two West Linn moms, Heather Robbins and Debbie...

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