Tualatin Life Interview: Jonathan Crane
BY JORDAN BERRIER
JB: How did you get the idea to start Tualatin Life?
JC: It was a combination of reasons. For starters, once...
Spring, a Balloon, and Cherry Blossoms
BY JONN KARSSEBOOM
We were huddled at the outdoor coffee bar on an early spring morning shivering while it rained and rained. The three...
From the Cockpit to Commissary School
BY KIM BEELER, BEELER MARKETING
Claude Karam, owner of Trazza™ Fine Lebanese Food, held a Grand Opening at his new Tualatin production facility on...
Everyday Heroes – Kim Kroeger, TuHS Teacher Extraordinaire
By Jenny Lind Conlee
Kim Kroeger is in her twenty-first year of teaching choir at Tualatin High School, and her impact on our community...
The Easter Bunny Hops Into Tualatin Park On April 15th
BY BRAD KING, SECRETARY, TUALATIN LIONS CLUB
The Easter Bunny will making his 41st annual visit to Tualatin Community Park, 8515 SW Tualatin Rd.,...
Dréos to Perform at Winona Grange
S&A Irish Entertainment is proud to announce Dréos, a Celtic ensemble of performing composers who create new music and reimagine old music using a...
Choices
BY DARREL BOYD, ELEMAR OREGON INC.
Sharing a ride in a carpool for just over 3 hours a day ultimately means you share more...
April Blog
This issue marks Tualatin Life’s 8th anniversary and my first anniversary as publisher. I thought it would be an appropriate time to check in...
Cracker Barrel, Old-time Southern flavor with a Tualatin twist
BY REID IFORD, TUALATIN LIFE
If Cracker Barrel Old Country Store had a fan club, Danny O’Neal would be the president. The Tennessee-based restaurant chain...
TuPD Partners with Marquis Assisted Living for Valentine’s Day Ball
The residents of Marquis Tualatin Assisted Living and Post-Acute Rehab were delighted to have the Tualatin Police Department as their Valentines this year! The...
Tualatin Police ‘Raid’ Old Haggens Store… in a training exercise
Guns at the ready, nearly the entire Tualatin Police Department has swarmed through the abandoned Haggen Food and Pharmacy building at the intersection of...
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of...
BY LOYCE MARTINAZZI
The Great Depression of 1929 to 1939 couldn’t have come at a worse time for the village of Tualatin. The sawmill...
Autoimmune Disease: When “Self” is no longer Safe
BY DR. WENDY ROGERS, TRUE HEALTH MEDICINE PC
The human body never ceases to amaze in what it does on a daily basis without...
Registration for the City of Tualatin’s Summer Camps is Now Open!
BY JULIE LUDEMANN, RECREATION SUPERVISOR, CITY OF TUALATIN
Kids can imagine, create, explore, and discover this summer with the City of Tualatin’s popular day...
Sammy’s Story
BY REID IFORD, TUALATIN LIFE
In many ways, Samantha “Sammy” Hatting is a typical little Tualatin second-grader. She just turned eight years old, and...
Feeling Stoppers and Feeling Encouragers
BY KIM DEMARCHI
Many adults as children were not allowed to express their feelings. You might have been told “Don’t cry, or I will...
A Royal Send-Off for Packy
For many people in Tualatin, it felt like losing a family member when Packy the Indian elephant passed away last month. Many of us...
Free Garden: Just Add Water!
BY CHAD DARBY, NEIGHBORS NOURISHING COMMUNITIES
Last year over one-third of students in Tualatin elementary schools qualified for free and reduced price lunches. Nearly...
Mayor’s Corner
Your 2017-18 City Council has hit the ground running. While nearly half of the council are newly elected, they certainly are not newly connected....
Mask & Mirror Community Theatre to Open Pulitzer Prize Winning “Crimes...
SUBMITTED BY: GARY ROMANS
Mask & Mirror Community Theatre will open their winter production – Beth Henley’s 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning “Crimes of the...































