Sports Spotlight this week is on the OLLAR Twins- Oregonian SW Weekly Nov. 5 story link

Names: Roman and Grayson Ollar  Age: 13 Hometown: West Linn Grade/school: Eighth grade, Rosemont Ridge Middle School Team: Cross country Coach: Nancy VonSeggern Bartley Highlights: The Ollars competed in the 3000-meter eighth-grade boys race at the Willamette River...

Poetry Poles: Get cultured while walking the neighborhood – – Oregonian story Nov. 12

People walking in the historic Bolton neighborhood of West Linn can get a little literature while getting their exercise if they pass by Doug and Stacy Erickson’s house on Holly Street. That’s because for Doug Erickson’s 48th birthday in August, Erickson enlisted the...

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...

1940s Hollywood star Nora Lou has raised $4000 for scholarships while sharing her story at local venues-Oregonian Living story

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...

West Linn Boy Scouts log 102 hours of community service at White Oak Savanna

(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...

Popular band instructor returns to West Linn to lead top music program and secures grant for Euphonium

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...

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