Tualatin Life

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 with our former publisher, founder and friend, Jonathan Crane. You...

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 is opening its first of three Oregon stores in Tualatin...

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 Police Department reached out to Marquis Tualatin Activity Director, Alyson...

Guns at the ready, nearly the entire Tualatin Police Department has swarmed through the abandoned Haggen Food and Pharmacy building at the intersection of Boones Ferry and Tualatin-Sherwood Road. But don’t worry. There were...

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 and brickyard had already been closed and jobs were few...

BY DR. WENDY ROGERS, TRUE HEALTH MEDICINE PC The human body never ceases to amaze in what it does on a daily basis without us ever thinking about it. The immune system is one...

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 camps. With sessions for kids ages 4 through high school,...

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 her bedroom is filled with Barbie dolls. But in some...

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 give you something to cry about.” Today, however, most parents...

For many people in Tualatin, it felt like losing a family member when Packy the Indian elephant passed away last month. Many of us grew up with Packy, who was born at the Oregon...