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| September 2008
Your persistent Lifeboat Crew is at it again! This October we're planning our second annual Green Fest and again we’re challenging you to join us. When Fall arrives later this month with its vivid colors, crisper days and bounty of crops, it's time to gather up the seeds from your garden, put on your dancing shoes and head for the Netel Grange! The first Saturday evening in October the country dance marks harvest season with the first annual Clatsop County Seed Exchange, taking place during the dance. read more >>
It was five years ago that I was fired from my job at Target for trying to organize employees at one of their stores in St. Paul, MN. I could see it coming; a multi-billion dollar corporation versus a Clouseau-esque provocateur. read more >>
The new Betty Lou Jean Co. in Astoria is striking—an exceptionally gorgeous clothing store from this writer’s point of view. Deep-stained wood shelves of rich-looking jeans cascade up to the dark blue cathedral ceilings. There’s some jewelry and shirts too, for women and men, not a big collection, but all items I’d like to try on. read more >>
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2nd Annual GREEN FEST
There comes a time in each of our lives where we have our 15 minutes of fame… and I am having mine. Well, more like 30 days, really…you see, my photograph is a part of the "Standout" series by GLBTQ photographer Jeffrey Horvitz. The exhibit is housed for the month of September at the Portland Q Center, a nonprofit committed to increasing the visibility of and fostering connections within metropolitan Portland’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) community. 
There is a saying about the Peace Corps that goes something like. "It’s the toughest job you’ll ever love." Dr.Thor Hanson’s story of his Peace Corps experience, The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda is a cut above the rest.