Veteran Benefits – A Historical View
In my last column, I indicated that I wanted to initially focus on the Veteran’s Administration and give primary attention to one of its primary functions; healing veterans physically or mentally injured while in...
Tualatin Oregon… Going to the Dogs with Blue Mountain Pet Food
Tualatin had no payroll jobs for local workers after the Smith sawmill and brickyard closed down around 1915. Then in 1948, the Westward Packing Company set up shop along the south side of Nyberg...
Tualatin Oregon… Going to the Dogs with Blue Mountain Pet Food
Tualatin had no payroll jobs for local workers after the Smith sawmill and brickyard closed down around 1915. Then in 1948, the Westward Packing Company set up shop along the south side of Nyberg...
You can be a charter member if you join VFW men’s aux by May...
Fifteen community minded businessmen met on April 15 to form the Tualatin VFW Men’s Auxiliary. There are 30 members so far. Everyone who joins by May 15 will be a charter member. The group...
41st IBCT Coming Home from Iraq In April
Parade, Family Fair being Planned, Community Members invited to Help
Community members are invited to join local veterans groups in welcoming home the Headquarters Company of the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team (HHC, 41-IBCT). Located...
VFW Men’s Auxiliary Being Formed
A Men’s Auxiliary organizing meeting is being held at the Cpl Matthew Lembke Hall at 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 18. Post Commander Ron Holland explained that there are many community members who...
Patriotic Essay Winners Announced
Tualatin Eighth grader Anika Girardi won the annual Patriot’s Pen contest conducted by Tualatin VFW Post 3452. She receives a $100 Savings Bond for college. This patriotic essay contest was open to all Junior...
New Tualatin Post Home Aims for the Future
For the first time in many years, an Oregon VFW Post has significantly upgraded its facilities. Tualatin Post and Auxiliary 3452 dedicated “Cpl. Matthew Lembke Hall” on August 26 with a bevy of...
Music was always important at Tualatin’s Winona Grange
Tualatin’s soil is rich and deep and generally well suited for farming due to the giant ice age floods that left behind topsoil from what is now Montana, Idaho and Washington. So it is...
Tualatin’s First Farmer’s Market
George Saum Jr. poses beside his produce stand on Borland Road across the street and just east of Bridgeport School. Prices for produce were marked on a small blackboard, and if he had to...
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Tualatin High’s new School-Based Health Center opens May 1
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held May 1 to celebrate the opening of the new School-Based Health Center (SBHC) at Tualatin High School. It will be the second SBHC in...
