Everest men: Top of the world in 1963
Source: CNN
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:52:54 -0700 | political-news
When Jim Whittaker became the first American to stand on top of Mount Everest 50 years ago, he was anything but elated. Reaching Earth's highest point only 10 years after New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary became the first to summit,...
Friday at Folklife 2013: A day to play
Source: Seattle Times
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 20:25:13 -0700 | entertainment-news
A blog for Seattle music lovers of all stripes, from hip-hop and indie rock to jazz and world music...Despite its 2013 cultural focus on the labor history of Washington State, the 42nd annual Northwest Folklife Festival was not about work...
Your Business Community-05-25-2013
Source: The Idaho Statesman
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 23:56:01 -0700 | business-news
Pam Sprute has joined the investment services team at Thornton Oliver Keller Commercial Real Estate. Bret Clark of Hawley Troxell was admitted to practice law in Idaho on May 3. Diane Polscer of Portland was elected to the to the...
Living History: An Emigration Canyon railroad inspires the Pinecrest Inn
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:02:13 -0700 | political-news
In 1907, during Salt Lake City's building boom, the Utah pioneer jurist LeGrand Young built a 14-mile narrow-gauge electric railway to better serve the city's increasing demands for building foundation sandstone (see May 12, 2013, Salt Lake Tribune's "Living History")....
Tourism could be hit by I-5 delays
Source: Herald Net
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-25 00:08:57 -0700 | business-news
The fallen Skagit River bridge lies between Snohomish County and some of the area's top tourism spenders, who drive south from Vancouver, B.C. Just as the vacation season heats up, traffic is winding slowly along a detour in Mount Vernon,...
State university panel recommends fee increase
Source: Mail Tribune
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-25 02:17:18 -0700 | political-news
The Associated Press Students attending Southern Oregon University and the state's six other public universities could face a 5 percent tuition increase next year after a panel voted Friday to forward proposed increases to the full Board of Higher Education...
Sex and the Soldier: the Real Truth
Source: Salem News
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 20:33:32 -0700 | travel-news
Sex and the Soldier is the title of my own book on this subject and it is included in my own memoir, Gen Patton's Dogface Soldier . In part, the book Love, Sex and War by John Costello, was the...
One Jamaica Foundation undertakes school project
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-25 01:46:10 -0700 | political-news
THE ONE Jamaica Foundation, a civil society group, directed its resources to the building of a classroom and the erecting of a perimeter fence at two schools in Portland on Labour Day. Headed by Ann-Marie Vaz, the group started its...
Alex Berger: Keep fluoridation out
Source: The Steamboat Pilot
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-25 00:48:38 -0700 | health-news
The two cities join a list of more than 125 communities that have rejected fluoridation by either a council decision or ballot vote since 2010. In opposing fluoridation, Portland voters agreed with the position of most Western nations that there...
'If you want to know about me and Morrissey, Google it': Ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr talks ...
Source: The Independent
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 16:34:26 -0700 | entertainment-news
Around half an hour into my conversation with Johnny Marr, things take a distinctly awkward turn. Up until this point, the hallowed ex-Smiths guitarist-turned-serial collaborator-turned-solo artist has been warm, chatty, full of sunshine and bonhomie.
911 calls unanswered in Oregon areas
Source: CNN
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 12:52:49 -0700 | political-news
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is considering legislation that would declare a public safety emergency in some Oregon counties where residents often have been left to try to fend for themselves. The measure would also impose a temporary income tax on...
If I could Just Save One
Source: Salem News
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 01:05:47 -0700 | technology-news
I would arrive to work, coffee in hand, and my brain in screen-saver to sit in the same spot in the report room below a paper pinned to the wall that read You know you are a nurse if I...
Kaster, Jean
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 00:33:45 -0700 | obituaries-news
Resources Jean Ellen Kaster Resident of Hillsborough Age 92, passed away peacefully at 11:30 AM, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at Peninsula Hospital in Milbrae, CA. She was born March 18, 1921 in Portland, Oregon, to Louis and Alice Goldsmith. Jean...
With expansion team, Major League Soccer getting bigger in Big Apple
Source: Denver Post
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 23:22:21 -0700 | sports-news
News dropped like a boulder in a lake when Major League Soccer said this week it's adding a 20th team that will start play in 2015 the neatly named New York City FC...The league, as was long rumored, added a...
GNO Margaritas Launch Party
Source: Datzhott
Portland :: OR :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:52:06 -0700 | entertainment-news
The invitation only soriee was hosted by Nia Moore of Real World Portland, ReShanda Seymour, Casey Harrington, Tess Trippi, Yasmine Zavahir, Faven Ressom, Kelley Durfee and Lia Moraitakis. GNO Margaritas put a delicious twist on the average margarita, with ready-to-serve margaritas in...
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