Sadie Floyd is an up and coming drag racing extraordinaire in the National Hot Rod Association.
Making an impact on the sport at the young age of 11, Sadie has always had the need for speed. Sadie’s father, John Floyd, is the owner of Tualatin Tranmission and has been supporting her career for the last decade and has been racing along side her, in the same competitive class, for the last
four years.

The sport of drag racing is an extremely male dominated sport but Sadie feels like she fits right in when it comes to competing with the men. “I’ve always felt that a racer is a racer, I don’t pay attention to gender much when I am on that track. Male or female, I want to do the best I can as a driver to beat everyone I come up against. I race men 95% of the time and it doesn’t bother me one bit. I feel that I am able to keep up with the men I race against and give them a run for their money”, Sadie says.

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Annual US consumption of refined sugar reached 20 million tons in 2010. That amounts to 142 lbs of sugar for every man, woman, and child. The average American receives nearly 16% of their daily calories from refined sugar. These are remarkable statistics since as recently as 1500AD refined sugar was considered a very rare and exotic “fine spice”. For most of human history refined sugar didn’t exist. Today’s abundance of refined sugar comes out of corn, cane and beets.

In nature “sweetness” is a signal to our senses that a food is ripe and at its peak of freshness
and nutritional value. Modern food scientists have utilized this sensual interpretation to trick
our body’s into thinking processed foods are also fresh and nutritionally rich. Processed
foods are in fact quite the opposite. Processed foods have been stripped of the nutrients
found in fresh foods in order to prevent spoiling. This is done to maximize commercial
shelf life. The quantities of sugar added to betray our senses greatly exceed what occurs
in fresh foods.

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Fans of the art guild, Women of Watercolor, a.k.a. WOW!, will celebrate as they roll out another beautiful art show on May 4th, 5th, and 6th at the Tualatin Heritasubjectge Center, 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin. The show runs Friday, May 4th from noon to 8pm; Saturday, May 5th from noon to 7pm; and Sunday, May 6th from Noon to 6pm. Admission is free and parking is easy with overflow space available at the adjacent Police Station. New original art on display will be watercolor paintings and some mixed media. Best loved pieces and most popular art from earlier shows will be available in print form. The ART GARDEN will be blooming with art greeting cards, too, which have been a huge hit in previous shows. Subject matter will be diverse—a little bit of
everything. Men and women alike will love the art.

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Every February, the Mayor delivers his State of the City Address to share what has happened over the past year in the community and what we can look forward to in 2012. This year, Mayor Lou Ogden will deliver his State of the City in a video production called LouTube!

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Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District firefighters, family descendants of the first Tualatin fire chief William Barngrover and other descendants of Tualatin fire fighters have been reconstructing
the history of the City of Tualatin Fire Department and the Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District
(TRFPD).

The two agencies provided local fire protection and life safety services from 1937-1989 before merging with Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue District (TVF&R).

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Hello Everyone!

We’re Keeley and Erika –Tualatin High School graduates, University of Oregon students and founders of Wild Squirrel Nut Butter.

Wild Squirrel began one rainy Sunday afternoon, when we were in our college apartment, scraping the bottom of yet another jar of generic peanut butter. With no more peanut butter, and a surplus of celery, we were faced with a familiar conundrum. However, neither of us wanted to ride our bike in the pouring rain to the store to buy more.

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Weather and traffic – two things everyone likes to complain about. Partly because there’s not really anything we can do about either of them, right?

Wrong! Right now, everyone in Tualatin has a chance to actually do something about improving traffic in our town!

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A photographer from Greek φωτός (photos), meaning “light”, and γράφω (graphos), meaning “written.” Rachel Konty is this and more. The more, in my eyes, an artist, and truly human. You may know this artist or you may not yet, but I know for certain, this is someone you will want to know in your lifetime. Born in 1981 in Arizona the story started. Being creative as a child, always designing things, being finicky about the most meticulous details of theworld around her to how her clothing coordinated. She always saw things in pictures, settings, moments to stand still so that it could be captured. And, it is her love for literature (Sherlock Holmes and Greek Mythology being her favorite) that has developed this photographer into the artist she is today. I would also note the support, investment and love of her father and mother. They are some of her biggest fans. Five things my wife will be holding at some point in the day are: a cup of tea, a book, Lily(our pup), Prince(our other pup) and a camera.

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All of us have set goals for ourselves at some point in our lives and some of them are big ones, like earning a college degree, or scaling a mountain, or even cleaning out the garage. Three years ago, two Tualatin residents set a pretty big goal for themselves – to earn their black belt in Taekwondo. While they may have had different reasons to begin their training both shared similar inspirations along the way. They share their story here as they reflect on their journey together.

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It’s that time again when we bid farewell to habits of old and promise to do bigger and better things in the New Year. If you are like many new moms across the country, you likely have aspirations for a speedy return to your skinny jeans or keeping daily stress at bay but aren’t sure how to manage both these goals and your new precious baby.

A successful New Year’s resolution for a new mom is one that’s in reach. When you create simple-to-adopt, attainable targets, the transition to a healthier lifestyle becomes more seamless and you’re less inclined to slip up or give up on your goals.

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