Topic: volunteers

The Crook County Fair closed over a week ago now, but I have just now had time to organize my thoughts and reflections. In 2004 the Crook County Democrats ran a booth at the fair, and this year the Obama volunteers ran a booth, on which we also put the Crook Co. Democrats banner. The contrasts between this same event, 4 years apart, are striking. First to note, the weather. In 2004 it was blazing...

Click post title to go to DH article about even the mayor of Albany helping clean the trash and junk behind the house of a scam artist at HTN colony, on a short street where I got over 70 cats fixed. He lives next to the caretaker of the colony and many of the cats came as a result of the scam artist in the newspaper photo, who drives many on that street nuts with his bullshit. He and...

From Portland Online... On Tuesday (8/5), a group of about 35 volunteers came together with city representatives and police officers to clean portions of Portland's Cully neighborhood. The volunteers picked up litter and swept roadside debris along stretches of Killingsworth and Emerson Streets, and Cully Boulevard, collecting about 40 bags of trash.Community groups represented at the cleanup...

Four TU volunteers from Eugene, OR recently backpacked the McKenzie River Trail from the Willamette Ranger Station on Rte 126 to Koosah Falls. We hiked over 17 miles, caught wild trout and drank bourbon. For a full write up on the trip, check out the Oregon Fly Fishing Blog. This is a video from the trip....