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...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 7, 2011 | Kids, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Sports Spotlight-Oregonian
Originally published in SW Weekly Oregonian, Saturday, September 17, 2011 By Cornelia Seigneur, Special to The Oregonian (photo courtesy Katie Thalhofer) Name: Victoria Kalina Age: 17 Hometown: Sherwood Grade/school: Senior, Sherwood High School Team: Varsity cross...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 7, 2011 | Children, Church, Community, Faith, Faith and Culture, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Portland
I will be screening the documentary, Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth, for Christianity Today’s women’s blog. scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday Oct. 7 at Portland State University at Hoffman Hall. The film shares highlights of interviews that five young...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 3, 2011 | Culture, Gratitude, Kids, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, School Days, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news
It’s like he’s returning home to family. After leaving Rosemont Ridge Middle School in 2004 for teaching positions in Beaverton, then Banks, band instructor and director Ronald LaGrone returns to the West Linn school to lead sixth- through eighth-grade...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 18, 2011 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregon and beyond Adventures with kids, Parenting, The Extraordinary Ordinary
So, my nephew Burkhard from Germany knows I am doing this Summer 2011 Weekly Adventure with Kids blog, and as we are experiencing Week Number 9, climbing Cascade Head to the top where my friend Megan had suggested we hike to, my 8-year-old begins to have a hard time....
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 8, 2011 | Children, Christianity, Culture, Faith, Huffington Post, Justice, Kids, Outreach
Elaini Garfield, 22, has wanted to travel to India to assist in an orphanage since she was 10 years old. Her heart has been to help those who are hurting. But then, her own hurts have halted that goal. Instead of reaching her dream of traveling to India someday,...