Tualatin Life

Fast forward in time and picture your front door. You hear a knock on the door. Knock, knock! Who’s there? It’s your child all grown up standing right before you. Imagine your child comes back for a visit at 18, 25, 34 years old. Who do you...

How do you measure the local economic recovery? Is it the addition of new jobs? A decrease in the unemployment rate? New construction? Fortunately, Tualatin is moving in a positive direction in all of these key metrics.

Last year the local non-profit, Neighbors Nourishing Communities (NNC), organized home gardeners and grew almost 3/4 of a ton of produce for struggling families in our community. This helped families obtain wonderfully nutritious produce. With your help we will...

Back in the day if you said “meet me under the clock” everybody knew that meant the clock in the middle of the main floor at Meier and Frank in downtown Portland.  Aaron Frank was born in...

On January 29, more than 200 people joined us for the 2014 State of the City. This year’s theme was “I Love Tualatin” and there are many reasons for all of us to recite that chorus.  

I’ve discovered that it’s possible to learn something new in the garden even when I’m not listening. With an ironic twist of the natural laws of the universe, this learning occurred, get this, while I was busy talking.  

Beginning in February and running through the end of May 2015, the Tualatin Public Library will have on display in the Living Room Gallery the artwork of Lois Mitchell. Lois’s paintings glow with harmonious colors which capture and...

Officer Jack Rose and I recently had the honor to represent the City of Tualatin and the State of Oregon in paying respect at the funeral services for Officer Rafael Ramos of the New York City Police Department....

VOLUNTEER:  So many opportunities exist to volunteer in Tualatin! Do you like being in nature? Come plant trees. Do you like reading? Come shelve books. Do you enjoy cooking? Help serve lunch to seniors at the Juanita Pohl Center.

It’s sometimes interesting how changes in the garden runs strangely parallel to changes in real life.  Last summer, it all began with a constant cough that wouldn’t go away. When I first heard it from her, it was...