October 2009

In light of a recent fire in Southwest Portland, Portland Fire & Rescue is issuing a reminder to folks to make sure they are heating their home safely.  Here's their release:

Portland Fire & Rescue would like to remind everyone to practice safety with alternative heating devices. With the cold weather approaching the Portland area, many residents will use space heaters or other types of heating devices to warm their homes.  If used properly, these can be safe.  But unfortunately, not everyone takes the necessary precautions.  More than 4,000 Americans die each year in fires and more than 20,000 are injured. Many of them might be alive today if they had only had the information they needed to avoid a disaster.

‘Tis the season for the spooky, so it’s in that spirit that two lectures on creepy tales and oddities of the Oregon coast will be given – one in Newport and the other in SW Portland. FOR DETAILS

"Spirit of Troy"

Los Angeles--

UPDATE

Really annoyed the stadium announcer keeps pronouncing Jacquizz Rodgers' name as "juh-KEEZ."He began the game by talking about Lyle"MOH-voh."

The USC pre-game radio broadcasters and the university's own athletic director had more respect, recognizing the talents of the Rodgers brothers and how difficult they are to tackle.

Capacity of the LA Memorial Coliseum: 93,607 (which means it's really loud when the Trojans get it going).

Attendance tonight: 89,217

This year's Washington County Museum gala, entitled "A Swank Affair: Lights, Camera, Action!" was anything but an annual routine.

With many non-profits reporting net losses, the museum's gala committee pulled out all the stops—upping procurement efforts and recruiting Oregon State University men's basketball coach Craig Robinson as Master of Ceremonies for the event, which was held last weekend at the PCC Rock Creek Event Center.

"We have been concerned about our event all year, because the economic downturn has negatively impacted heritage non-profits on a national scale," commented the event's organizer Clarinda Hanson White. "We were unsure of how this would affect our gala, and we certainly didn't expect this year to break last year's record."

However that's exactly what it did — though ticket sales were a little slower this year, local business came through, with more in-kind donations to the museum's live and silent auctions than ever before.