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Red Cross Blood Drive, Hood River, Oregon Donating blood is a great way to give back to your community in a deeply personal way. Join the Red Cross, Tuesday, July 19 at the Best Western Hood River Inn, 1108 E. Marina Way, 1-6 p.m. To make a donation appointment visit www.redcrossblood.org/make-do...
07/17/2011
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Hood River's Movies In The Park This is one of our favorite, free summer events in Hood River. Each Saturday at dusk, join us at Jackson Park, on the corner of May Street and 13th, where a movie will be shown on the massive outdoor screen. July 23: "How To Train Your Dragon" July 30: No movie, H...
07/17/2011
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A Real Sweetheart... Meet Gracie! Gracie is a real find, the kind of pup you just wish you could find at a shelter. Here she is... waiting to meet her new parents. Gracie is about 7 months old and is all puppy. She is playful, full of pep, very curious and funny as can be. Gracie is probably a da...
07/17/2011
Speechless Sunday - The Damage Left By The Glacial Outbreak In 2006, Mt. Hood experienced a natural phenomenon called a glacial outbreak. That's when part of a glacier melts into water that is trapped by ice. When the ice breaks and the water is suddenly released a glacial outbreak is the result....
07/17/2011
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Hood River Lavendar Daze It's Lavender Daze at Hood River Lavender Farms today, Saturday, July 16th and tomorrow, Sunday, the 17th. The lavender is at its peak so come take a look and be engulfed by the cloud of its soothing scent. Lavender has always been one of my favorite scents so I took adva...
07/16/2011
Senator Jeff Merkley Plans Meetings in Hood River and The Dalles Friday, July 15, Hood River County Town Hall , at Hood River Middle School Cafeteria in Hood River3:00-4:30 pm- Public Town Hall Sunday, July 17, Wasco County Town Hall , at the Mid Columbia Senior Center in The Dalles (This wil...
07/13/2011
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Wordless Wednesday - The Intrepid Explorers These are our sons, Ben and Sam, while hiking the Tamanawas Falls Trail on the east side of Mt. Hood. Boys will be boys... obviously, they didn't merely stick to the trail, but instead they climbed up massive boulders left by an ancient rock slide.
07/13/2011
This Is It! The Most Beautiful Spot In The USA! Part 2 Yesterday I posted Part 1 of Mel's hike with our boys on the Tamanawas Falls Trail on Monday. The trail is located just off Highway 35, 40 miles south of Hood river and five miles north of Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort. The trail follows the e...
07/13/2011
This Is It! The Most Beautiful Spot In The USA! (well, we think so, anyway) Part 1 Monday was Mel's birthday so to celebrate, he took the day off work and took our boys, ages 10 and 12, on our favorite hike to Tamanawas Falls on Mt. Hood. This trail is the true essence and glory of Oregon, much...
07/12/2011
Speechless Sunday - Tarzan Lives In The Body of Our Son Sam This is our 12 year old son, Sam, swinging on the rope swing at the Hood River Aquatic Center. We spend a lot of our summer in their three pools under one big retractible roof: one tepid and huge pool, a warm therapy pool and a wading po...
07/10/2011
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