by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 30, 2011 | Christianity, Christianity Today, Church, Community, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Parenting, Portland, This is Our City- Christianity Today
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...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 18, 2011 | Authors, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Justice, Life, Live the Questions, Multnomah University, Muse Student publication, Portland, Writing
Several years ago I was at a Willamette Writers Summer Conference and I met David Kopp who was a speaker on Christian publishing at the event. Dave is an editor with Multnomah Publishers as well the past faculty adviser for the student newspaper at Multnomah...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 4, 2011 | Christianity, Christianity Today, Church, Communication, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Youth
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...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 29, 2011 | Adventure, Community, Community Service, Kids, Moms, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community
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...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 28, 2011 | Community, Community Service, Culture, Faith and Culture, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news
At 91-years-old, Nora Martin Janik – then known as Nora Lou — seems to have barely slowed down from her fast paced Hollywood life in the 1940s. Janik, then known as Nora Lou, sang for the future king of Norway (Prince Olav), made movies with Roy Rogers and Gene...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 19, 2011 | Community, Community Service, Kids, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news
(Originally written for The Oregonian SW Weekly Oct. 15, 2011) Fourteen Boy Scouts from West Linn Boy Scout Troop 149, along with a few of their dads, logged more than 102 service hours at the White Oak Savanna natural park in West Linn to fulfill the final...
