Tualatin Life

While under constant pressure of danger from Communist Chinese soldiers, Tualatin resident Joe Lipscomb served with the Marine Corps in front lines of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).  He and his fellow Marines went...

While under constant pressure of danger from Communist Chinese soldiers, Tualatin resident Joe Lipscomb served with the Marine Corps in front lines of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). He and his fellow Marines went to sleep every night with...

Those who have read my wife Nancy’s “Dog Talk” missives will understand when I say that I have just about reached the end of my leash. But rather than wallow in the circus that daily life with the...

Everyone has a picture of what the holidays should look like or how they should go. When the reality doesn’t match the expectation you have in your head, it doesn’t feel good. Sit down...

The journey began three years ago. I went into the heart of Ethiopia. Then Ethiopia made its way into my heart. I fell in love with the village of Arjo, a tiny metropolis of mud huts and tin-roofed...

Tualatin firemen became Santa’s elves in 1946 when they began collecting and refurbishing used toys and distributing them to less fortunate children in the area for the holiday season. The project was called Toy...

When Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Communist Party leader of China, ordered the annihilation of all allied troops (primarily American forces) in North Korea in the winter of 1950; over 70,000 crack battle veteran soldiers, called...

While unloading critical war supplies for Pilipino guerillas on August 27, 1944, the American Submarine, USS Stingray, was trapped in a Philippine bay by Japanese war ships.  Tualatin resident Albert “Monty” Montague was a...

The new 18 ft. high sculpture of seven life-size bronze geese and monument sign on Tualatin-Sherwood Road won the First Place Award in the Daily Journal of Commerce’s 2013 “TopProjects” competition. The Tualatin Gateway Art and Monument Project won The “TopProjects”...

When Tualatin’s first City manager, Yvonne Saarinen Addington was looking to start an Urban Renewal district to help fund the downtown area, she was told “first, you’ve got to have “blight.” The man pulled back the curtains...