Tualatin Life

By Jenny Lind Conlee Teachers are superheroes without masks or capes. They give their time. They pour themselves out, teaching all that they know to hundreds of kids over the years, and often multiple...

BY KIM DEMARCHI Helping children explore the consequences of their choices is much different from imposing consequences on them. Exploring invites the participation of children to think for themselves and figure things out for...

BY DWAYNE SCALES, MEDICARE INSURANCE SPECIALIST It’s Annual Enrollment Period time again and you just received a huge package in the mail containing your Annual Notice of Change. Now what? Understanding Medicare and its...

Are you ready to take your family back in time? Want to make some family memories you’ll treasure forever? And would you like to have a blast as you do it? Then reserve...

Longtime Tualatin resident Jeanette Chaffee appeared on the popular telecast 100 Huntley Street television show. It aired Thursday, October 13 on GEB America Network. It can be seen on demand at tinyurl.com/zcjx2kk. Jeanette is the...

BY DR. STEPHANIE NANI Pain is one of the most common reasons for patients to visit their doctor each year. Conventional medicine, while brilliant in urgent and emergent care situations, is often lacking when...

BY ERIKA WELSH, CO-FOUNDER, WILD FRIENDS FOODS Portland local natural foods company, Wild Friends Foods is celebrating their 5th Birthday! Wild Friends launched into grocery stores in November 2011. The first stores that carried their...

BY JONATHAN CRANE, FOR TUALATIN LIFE Tualatin residents love it when new and unique restaurants come to town. Thanks to the recent opening of Izumi Japanese Steakhouse, we now have an outstanding new choice...

BY ROBERT KELLOGG, IBACH CIO PRESIDENT Twenty volunteers from the surrounding Tualatin CIO communities are graduating from the City’s first CERT Volunteer Mobilization Planning training program. (CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team. On...

BY SUSAN NOACK, CHAIR, TUALATIN AREA AGING TASK FORCE Last month’s column was on social isolation. It is such an important topic, it is worth repeating. Social isolation is on the rise – one out...