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Pickathon 2024: Welcome to the neighborhood
With the return of the annual music festival Pickathon to Pendarvis Farm, Aug. 1-4, another year of music, art and curated experiences is just around the corner. Twelve miles outside of Portland in Happy Valley, Pickathon has transported visitors through art and music at Pendarvis Farm since 2006, although the festival got its start as a fundraiser for the community radio station KBOO in 1999.
Board Service Benefits Reed and the Greater Good
President Bilger and Vice President for Student Life Karnell McConnell-Black share the importance of these volunteer leadership roles. Serving in a leadership role of any organization can be challenging and time-consuming work, but finding avenues to give back to the profession is something both Reed President Audrey Bilger and Vice President for Student Life Karnell McConnell-Black value. One of those avenues has been to serve on national nonprofit boards that focus on education.
Wildfires erupt in West, Canada amid major heat wave
A dangerous heat wave will continue into midweek in much of the West as large wildfires burn out of control in several states, particularly California, Oregon and Washington. Why it matters: The combination of heat and wildfire smoke is bringing a significant threat to public health, and smoke from fires burning in Canada may soon move into the U.S. as well.
A giant falls: Sam Mowry, 1959-2024
Sam A. Mowry, a beloved Portland actor and director known both for his personal gentleness and generosity and for his deep, profoundly captivating onstage speaking voice, died on Saturday morning, July 20, 2024, at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas. He suffered massive cardiac arrest while being prepared to undergo emergency surgery for severe blockages in his arteries. He was 64.
Accolades: Awards, honors and appointments July
Neuroscience graduate student Erin Santos earns Gilliam Fellows award. Erin Santos, a graduate student and Ph.D. candidate in the Vollum Institute/OHSU Neuroscience Graduate Program, is the recipient of a 2024 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or HHMI, Gilliam Fellows Program award. The prestigious award recognizes talented early career scientists in the biomedical sciences.
Washington Spirit defeats Chivas Femenil and starts Summer Cup with victory
The Washington Spirit began their journey in the NWSL x LIGA MX Femenil Summer Cup with a remarkable 2-1 victory over Chivas Femenil, showing the team's strength and ability in a tournament that brings together all 14 NWSL clubs and six Liga MX teams, marks the NWSL's first international collaboration, and promises to raise the level of women's soccer.
Cowlitz commissioners to vote on Scott Hill Park expansion
Cowlitz County commissioners will meet Tuesday, July 23 to approve an agreement that would fund an expansion of Woodland’s Scott Hill Park and Sports Complex. The request, by the Rotary Foundation of Woodland, is for $50,000. Commissioners are also scheduled to sign off on a nearly $330,000 payment to...
Treehouse seeks support for foster youth going back to school
Jul. 22—MOSES LAKE — Treehouse, a Washington state nonprofit dedicated to supporting the educational and other essential needs of youth in foster care, is launching its annual back-to-school campaign to collect school supplies and items by the end of summer, according to an announcement from the organization. Treehouse is calling on community members, businesses and organizations to support ...
State officials report disturbing death toll amid heat wave: 'We are looking at the potential for breaking more records'
Studies show that our warming world increases the frequency and intensity of deadly heat waves. Heat waves have hit the Pacific Northwest this summer and are suspected of causing at least 16 deaths in Oregon alone, the Guardian reported. The actual number of heat-related deaths might be higher since experts say heat-related deaths are undercounted, as USA Today has noted.
$1.6 million in Scholarships to learn a trade in Washington.
I don't know about you, but in my family when I was a kid, the goal was always to go to college. Both of my parents were college educated. All of my siblings went to college, I was the youngest in my family, and I was expected to go to college as well. I went to what is now called Central Washington University. (Back then, it was State College.)
Environmental History Book “Forest Under Siege” Examines Post-WWII Old Growth Forests
Rand Schenck, environmentalist and author, spends much of his time at and around a recreational cabin in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Due to protections of a nearby mineral spring, the part of the forest his cabin occupies is one of the few remaining in Washington state that’s still primarily made up of old growth.
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