I recently joined the board of a tech non-profit called Legion of Tech. Our goals are:
Grow and nurture the local Portland technology community through educational, not-for-profit, community-run events.
Make it easier for community members to organize technology events.
Provide resources and assistance for technology community events.
Dawn also just wrote about it. We had a great […]
I went to Vernonia today with my husband to volunteer. We went directly to city hall, got a red work ticket, and drove out to a house that needed the garage cleared out. They were incredibly efficient, handing out tickets as fast as people were able to sign in.
The folks on our red […]
I made it out for the last hour or so of the December Coder’s Bash last night. The first thing I noticed was how many people were there! At least 50 were still hanging out at 9:15pm on a Tuesday night.
They were chatting and playing games — Settlers of Catan, some kind of […]
Last night, the Scappoose School District sent out a press release announcing that Scappoose High School be accepting the students from Vernonia. From the press release:
Just moments after students completed their final exams on Thursday, December 6th, Sue Hays, the Scappoose High School principal, asked the entire student body and staff if they were […]
Hands On Greater Portland has posted disaster response volunteer opportunities on their site. The partner programs are Victim Volunteer Services (Vernonia and Columbia County) as well as the American Red Cross.
The Red Cross is looking for folks to show up tomorrow morning (12/7/2007) at 8am. See the Hands On site for details. Vernonia […]
From the Oregonian Breaking News blog:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/12/reports_fix_for_flooding_probl.html
In fact, there was actually $30 million to control flooding from the river in the big nickel-a-gallon gas tax increase approved by Washington voters in 2003. But as the Times explains,Congress has failed to approve the federal share of the project while the cities of Centralia and Chehalis “have struggled […]
First off, we’re fine in Portland. A little flooding in the Johnson Creek and outer SE, but nothing like the 1996 floods that put much of “lower” Oregon City underwater, and nearly brought floodwater into downtown Portland.
Vernonia, about 45 minutes from Portland, was not so lucky.
One excellent resource for news about the flooding in […]
Selena Deckelmann uses this blog to collect all those thoughts she has throughout the day.
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