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 Parsons, who...
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...
Sports Spotlight – Nathan Anderson, a Sherwood High soccer standout
Photo:Denise Jackson Name: Nathan Anderson Age: 17 Hometown: Sherwood Grade/school: Junior, Sherwood High School Team: Varsity soccer Coach: Monty Hawkins Highlights: "My biggest accomplishment was definitely being selected as First Team All-League as a sophomore last...
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...
Oregon Book and Flannery O’Connor Award-winning author Gina Ochsner to speak at October 20 Writers Connection
For October’s Faith & Culture WRITERS CONNECTION Thursday Oct. 20 at 7 p.m., we are honored to feature award winning author Gina Ochsner! Gina is the author of the short story collection The Necessary Grace to Fall, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award for...
Sports Spotlight for The Oregonian is on Victoria Kalina, a Sherwood cross country stand out
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...
Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth documentary Oct. 7 highlights sex trafficking and those trying to stop it
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...
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 bands, jazz...
September’s Writers Connection group travels to the State Pen for Annual Essay outreach event
For this month’s Writers Connection Thursday Sept. 22, we make our annual trek to the Oregon State Penitentiary for a Writing Outreach. We will present essays on the topics of 1) Re-entry into Society 2) Does rehabilitation work? 3) Second Chance - What do you...
Wilsonville inmates reflect on life during weekly Labyrinth outreach – Oregonian story
By Cornelia Seigneur - Special to The Oregonian When Michelle Therrell reflects on the labyrinth walks offered at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility every other Monday, she gets teary-eyed. "A lot of people say when you come to prison you find God," said Therrell,...
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