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Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Expanding Horizons

Marcele Starr
Snake River - Oregon Side

by Marcele Starr
Philomath, OR
Joel, my husband, loves adventures. However if he were a cat, he would have used up four of his nine lives. The Fourth of July in 2004 undertaking was the culminating event.
Joel and four of his friends were scheduled to take a pack trip on horseback into the Snake River Canyon. [...]



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Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Strangers on Unfamiliar Ground

Nancy Hill
Lake Oswego, Oregon

by Nancy Murphy
We had little in common. I was 18 and new to Oregon, having taken the phrase “Go west young man” to heart. Never mind I was a girl. I’d looked forward to 1971 and coming of age for a long time. Sam was over 80, a native Oregonian living in a nursing home [...]



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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Haystack Rock

Garrett Brown
Broadway Middle School
Seaside, Oregon
All my life, I have lived on the north west Oregon coast. From when I was born in Astoria to my current home in Gearhart, this has been my home. One of the greatest aspects of living on the coast is the wildlife and the wilderness. South of Gearhart, in Cannon [...]