My Portland

It’s a fairly ordinary kind of home you see frequently in inner southeast Portland neighborhoods. Big front porch, hardwood floors downstairs, fir floors upstairs, fireplace, lots of windows, craftsman style details. …

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On any given night, smokers in Portland have their own piece of heaven at a place so aptly called Bar of the Gods. The popular neighborhood spot at Southeast 48th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard offers a cavernous smoking den out back …

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For a long time it was enough for me to hear of a good place in some wildly inconvenient neighborhood, and I’d be there. Balzac was apparently the same way, traveling from one corner of Paris to another to get his coffee beans–Mocha Java … There was also the exciting arrival of Stumptown, the outstanding Portland, OR, roaster, in a beautifully appointed space at the Ace Hotel on 29th Street. Perhaps slightly less exalted, but still excellent alternatives to Starbucks, …

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Since it was Saturday, and not a weekday, we decided to drive straight through the center of Portland on I-5 rather than take the bypass. Truthfully, the bypass can be more clogged with traffic sometimes. We had not gone this route in the last 4 trips up and down … By roots I mean, a hometown to return to….the old familiar faces and places of “our neighborhood“. I don’t want, or need, the roots of a sticks and bricks home. Our home on wheels is the best choice for us. …

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For a gym like Gold’s Gym in Portland,OR where rock climbing comes as part of a total body package, (CALL 503-222-1210) you can get in on one of their specials and pay as little as $299 a year at certain times. … An entry-level inflatable kayak starts in the neighborhood of about $250. You can find them at Costco in the late spring and early summer or at a sporting goods store. They only go up from there. $699-$999 buys you a single-man kayak built for recreational …

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The City of Eugene is launching a pilot program this summer in the Harlow neighborhood to promote alternative transportation. The program is modeled after the successful one in Portland. It’s designed to reduce driving and increase …

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Her siblings still live in the Northwest (Seattle and Portland), and her parents moved from Bellevue to a smaller house on Mercer Island earlier this year. Her father was an engineer at Boeing for 25 years and took an early retirement …. Because Utah is a desert), and tends to have an overall liberal feel to the neighborhood. She always thought that a house is something you buy as a couple, an old-fashioned thought and somewhat of a contradiction given her independent …

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Atlanta, Portland, Seattle and San Diego were on the list. 8:00 I had a meeting with our Administrative Manager George Smith to review our Fiscal Year 2011 budget submission for our department. 8:30 Amy Huerta introduced the PrimeTime for Business at the … 2:30 I toured a home in the Lowell neighborhood with new owner Wayne Rutledge. 4:00 Elliott Balch and I met with Jan Minami and Joe Moore from the Downtown Association to discuss coordination of downtown events. …

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“The world has changed – the lack of security in one area does not mean it is contained in that neighborhood,” Arman told The Associated Press. “Everything that happens on one side of the world indeed affects everywhere else.” Arman also wants to work with the tens of thousands of Somali immigrants living in several U.S. cities, including Columbus, Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland, Maine. At least 20 young Somalis from the Minneapolis area were allegedly recruited by …

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Eating all the popsicles with the neighborhood kids before they melted was a good memory. Camping in our cleared out family room was memorable as well. Florida trip: Hurricane Andrew didnt ruin our DisneyWorld vacation. Poochie was hit by a car at … But the day we decided to leave Portland early to head to Seattle because we wanted to be in my air-conditioned car eventually led us to a Dairy Queen stop. Right after, we hit about two hours of “debris” caused traffic. …

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