April 25, 2011
Milwaukie Light Rail Project
I've received a few inquiries lately about the status of the Portland-Milwaukie light rail project. I'll work on getting an up-to-date status report. In the meantime you can check out the Milwaukie website here:
Raptor Cams
Check out these two raptor cams - Red-tail Hawk in Portland, OR and Bald Eagle in Decorah, Iowa. Both have chicks recently hatched. Pretty awesome!
April 21, 2011
Milwaukie neighbors - Prepare for disaster with CERT training!
Will you be ready when disaster hits?
Milwaukie-area emergency response team aims to keep people prepared
ELLEN SPITALERI / CLACKAMAS REVIEW
Linda Hedges and Mary Weick, above, look over some emergency-response team literature. Below, members of a CERT team learn how to put out fires. submitted photo
The recent events in Japan have many people asking what would happen if a natural disaster occurred locally. Mary Weick and Linda Hedges, both Milwaukie residents, have some answers to that question – they have been instrumental in forming a local emergency response network.
Weick moved to the Island Station neighborhood just before the big snowstorm of 2008; she knew very few people when the storm hit, knocking out communication lines, closing down transportation and isolating people from one another. One good thing came out of the situation; she came up with the idea to form an emergency response network in her neighborhood.
She and other volunteers sent out postcards to all the neighbors, requesting basic information about who lived in each household, including pets and vulnerable people, and any health issues that needed to be taken into consideration.
Once information came back, Weick made up a phone tree of about 50 people, who could come together in an emergency and offer help.
When Hedges heard about the idea, she thought about trying it “across the whole city.”
The two women decided to focus on four key areas, as they set up a citywide emergency network: individual preparedness, information distribution, shelter and first aid and Community Emergency Response Training (CERT), offered by Clackamas Fire District #1.
Their efforts have received support from all city departments and community members; it has taken some time to get the network up and running, but now they are starting to see everything come together.
CERT training
A number of CERT training classes have been held and all the spots filled up right away; another class is planned for June in Estacada, Hedges said.
These classes and the teams that result are important, because if “we have a big incident, it would be virtually impossible for the fire department or the government to take care of everybody. The goal [of CERT training] is to help yourself, help your family and then go and help your neighbors,” said Kevin Donegan, CFD#1 emergency services manager.
To read more click here: Milwaukie neighbors...
April 19, 2011
Aloha from Ohana Hawaiian Cafe
Took a few minutes out of my busy real estate schedule today to have lunch at Ohana Hawaiian Cafe in downtown Milwaukie. The teriyaki chicken was fresh and tasty. Add to that a little sunshine coming through the window and it made for a quite enjoyable lunch. Mahalo!
You can check out there website here Ohana Hawaiian Cafe
April 18, 2011
Get your Yoda on!
STAR WARS FRIDAY, 4/15/11: YODA DOESN'T REALLY LIKE YOU AS MUCH AS YOU THINK
04/15/2011 11:44am
Twenty-one years before the events in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn is dispatched to prevent the outbreak of a civil war on the homeworld of his Padawan Xanatos. It is a mission that will lead Qui-Gon into close contact with the dark side and start him on a quest that will have a major impact on the future of the Jedi Order!
Yoda, our favorite Jedi, council member, and Clone Wars general, features prominently in the Star Wars: Jedi—The Dark Side arc. Check out these phenomenal illustrations from series artist Mahmud Asrar!
To celebrate the publication of Star Wars: Jedi—The Dark Side, Dark Horse Comics is proud to offer this once-in-a-lifetime contest for our fans: Leave a comment here at the DH Blog for the Dark Horse Star Wars editorial team. We want to hear your Star Wars publishing advice. The catch: this advice has to be some seriously sage sapience. It has to come from the raddest Jedi ever—Yoda. You must provide us with this wisdom in Yoda's distinctive voice and speech pattern.
We'll choose the best response and award the winner with an honest-to-goodness one-of-a-kind prize: a treasured, dusty Yoda snow globe from the vast personal collection of Dark Horse’s VP of publishing and senior Star Wars editor Randy Stradley. While this prize is very likely to have zero financial value, it is truly an artifact of Dark Horse’s Star Wars publishing history and will be the perfect item for regifting to the obnoxious Star Wars fan in your life. Or try to resell it on eBay and let us know how it goes. Whatever—it's yours to enjoy as you please.
Now…enter, you will!
04/15/2011 11:44am
Twenty-one years before the events in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn is dispatched to prevent the outbreak of a civil war on the homeworld of his Padawan Xanatos. It is a mission that will lead Qui-Gon into close contact with the dark side and start him on a quest that will have a major impact on the future of the Jedi Order!
Yoda, our favorite Jedi, council member, and Clone Wars general, features prominently in the Star Wars: Jedi—The Dark Side arc. Check out these phenomenal illustrations from series artist Mahmud Asrar!
To celebrate the publication of Star Wars: Jedi—The Dark Side, Dark Horse Comics is proud to offer this once-in-a-lifetime contest for our fans: Leave a comment here at the DH Blog for the Dark Horse Star Wars editorial team. We want to hear your Star Wars publishing advice. The catch: this advice has to be some seriously sage sapience. It has to come from the raddest Jedi ever—Yoda. You must provide us with this wisdom in Yoda's distinctive voice and speech pattern.
We'll choose the best response and award the winner with an honest-to-goodness one-of-a-kind prize: a treasured, dusty Yoda snow globe from the vast personal collection of Dark Horse’s VP of publishing and senior Star Wars editor Randy Stradley. While this prize is very likely to have zero financial value, it is truly an artifact of Dark Horse’s Star Wars publishing history and will be the perfect item for regifting to the obnoxious Star Wars fan in your life. Or try to resell it on eBay and let us know how it goes. Whatever—it's yours to enjoy as you please.
Now…enter, you will!
April 9, 2011
Johnson Creek Watershed Boat Ramp
Yesterday was a beautiful early spring day at the Johnson Creek boat ramp. Great day to be by the water!
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