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Thursday, May 14th, 2009

My Worst Camping Trip

Rosanna
roseburg, glide

by Rosanna
Roseburg, OR
With summer fast approaching, my longtime friend Debbie and I begin to think about planning summer camping trips. Debbie and her family have recently moved back to Douglas County after living in Alaska, Washington, and Portland, so we are looking forward to some local camping trips. We were both born and raised in [...]



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Friday, May 1st, 2009

Closer To Family

Niesha
Oregon city

by Niesha
Oregon City, OR
When I saw Oregon City I didn’t know what to expect. My family and I moved here about four years ago when I was ten. We moved here from Alaska. All the way from Alaska! It was a big change for us. Although it was still cold here it wasn’t anywhere near [...]



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Friday, May 1st, 2009

Outdoor School

Audrey Brooks
Oregon Coast

by Audrey Brooks
Oregon City, OR
One of my few good memories of elementary school is of the first week of May at the end of sixth grade. We had been all been saving up money since September; waiting for something that seemed so far away, but once we got there it went by so fast. It [...]



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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Outdoor School

Lizzie Poetzsch
Camp Westwind

by Lizzie Poetzsch
Oregon City, OR
Girls! Get up! My counselor yelled. I remember thinking that it couldn’t be time to get up already I had just fallen asleep. Sure enough, it was time to get up and go down to breakfast. Then it would be time for our daily learning experience. Yesterday we had gone [...]



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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

My Oregon life

Kenneth Clegg
oregon

by Kenneth Clegg
Oregon City, OR
I’ve lived in Oregon almost my whole life. I was born and lived in Utah for the first year of my life. Then my parents moved about three more times from Utah to my grandparents’ house to my great grandparents’ house to Oregon. I have lived here ever since.
Since my parents [...]



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Monday, April 27th, 2009

Crabbing at Newport

Ryan Bjork
Newport

by Ryan Bjork
Oregon City, OR
My favorite place in Oregon is Newport because it’s a fun place to get away for your problems and a place just to have fun with family and friends.
I usually go there two times a year with my older brother, mom, and my cousin Ricky so we can go crabbing. If [...]



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Friday, April 24th, 2009

Rafting The Clackamas River

Andrew Schell
Clackamas River

by Andrew Schell
Oregon City, OR
It was a beautiful, sunny, summer day in Oregon, with not a cloud in sight, a full tank of gas, and a packed car full of friends. We were all heading to Carver Park. With two rafts strapped to the top of the suburban, we were an accident waiting to happen.
Although [...]



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Friday, April 24th, 2009

Oregon Robotics Competition

RJ Riley
Portland

by RJ Riley
Oregon City, OR
The walkway itself was silent, but my team and I could hear noise coming from the end of the hall. Walking out of the hall, the team enters the stands of our second FIRST Robotics competition with smiles on our faces. It’s as loud as a concert with cheers [...]



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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Sinking

Candace Conley
Diamond Lake

by Candace Conley
Oregon City, OR
Over the summer I went to Diamond Lake with my closest friends. We all went with our friend Tessa. We followed her parents up there in Tessa’s car. It was about a six-hour drive to Diamond Lake, and I’m sure you can imagine how that went. Five loud girls blaring the [...]



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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

That’s My Oregon


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Robert Heen
Broadway Middle School
Seaside, Oregon
My name is Robert Heen. I live in Seaside, Oregon. I’m going to tell you about when we hade a gale. The wind reached up to 100 miles an hour. In my neighborhood all of the power went out and a whole lot of trees went down. I was stuck at [...]