Thank you all for the generosity and kindness that you have shown Jennifer Vranizan. We received over 70 cards and phone calls offering help.  Each of you have made Jennifer’s financial struggle a bit easier. Just like you, last August I didn’t know who Jennifer Vranizan was. As a cancer survivor, I had just come through 11 medical procedures and surgeries, chemo, hair loss and the whole ugly mess. During my struggles many people helped my family and me. At first it was hard to accept dinners being delivered and our kids being taxied back and forth from school and activities. But as I got sicker, I put my pride on hold and reached out to grab the lifeline of support these friends offered to me.   To read full article “CLICK HERE”

Arising in the foothills of the Coast Mountain range, the muddy Tualatin River meanders along for some 83 miles, draining the fertile Tualatin Valley until it finally flows into the Willamette river near West Linn. On September 30 the Tualatin Riverkeepers will present the history of our local waterway at the Winona Grange. Natives canoed or rafted the river, fished in its waters, and brought down geese and ducks in the nearby wetlands with bow and arrow. Herb Lafky once found an Indian grinding bowl lodged upside down in the bank where Fanno Creek joins the Tualatin.   To read full article “CLICK HERE”

On May 7th of this year Jake had surgery on his cervical spine. We originally went to see           Dr. Krajibich at Shriners Hospital for Jake’s severe scoliosis. Through an extensive MRI and CT scan doctors determined that Jake had a 55 degree curve of his spine (very severe). They also found that he had significant narrowing of his spinal column and pressure on his brain stem. The Narrowing of his spine was an immediate concern. An injury to this area of his spine would be life threatening to Jake. Therefore in late March they placed him on a medical priority list here in Portland at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.   To read full article “CLICK HERE”

Five years ago, my wife and I decided that it was important to bring Irish Culture to Tualatin. We are 20 year residents of Tualatin and felt there was a need. Most of our events are in the Winona Grange (WG), 8340 SW Seneca Street. We came up with the name of S and A Irish Entertainment and refurbished our website this past year with the professional help of Daniel Payne.   To read full article “CLICK HERE”

I often hear those statements from friends, family, and club members. They always make me cringe. In most cases, you can reach your health and fitness goals by simply getting your mind right. What does that mean? It means if you really want to feel better, lose weight, get stronger, be faster, or feel more confident, you must be 100% focused on meeting your objective. Elite and recreational athletes do it. Why can’t we?   To read full article “CLICK HERE”

  I am asking for donations to help a local Sherwood family with medical bills, with day-to-day living expenses and to lift the crushing worry about money while they deal with their mother fighting to survive cancer. I am hoping to raise lots of money for the family, and need your help. Jennifer Vranizan, is a petite, smiling, wife and mother of 3. After getting her kids to school she often goes for a run. Well, she used to go for a run. Now she is running for her life as she tries to stay ahead of a horrible cancer. Jennifer has Diffuse Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. I don’t know what most of those words mean, but I do know that it is killing Jennifer.    

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The strip of Boones Ferry Road from its intersection with Tualatin Road to the Tualatin-Sherwood intersection has changed drastically through the years. On the east side, the Robinson’s brick store, erected in 1912, still stands, but was moved about 30 feet east a few years ago, and now serves as a restaurant with the Veterans of Foreign Wars using the upstairs. A pumice stone post office stood between the brick store and the little building that had served as a variety store, restaurant and TV repair shop. Next was a service station that had many owners. Seneca Street housed what was called the “white store,” then a meat market, a shake shop, and Hanegan’s gas station. Across Nyberg Herman and Mary Silvey started a lumber company where Clark Lumber Company now does business. The Silvey sons, Vincent “Vint” and Don expanded the business and built a large building fronting Boones Ferry. The Silveys were all members of the Methodist Church next door, and the building’s clipped roof matched the church’s similar design.   To View Full Story “CLICK HERE”

Right now, women’s’ opportunity for education and basic survival are threatened in the hobbled, politicized economy in Zimbabwe. Professional photographer and Tualatin resident Paul Sivley has sat next to the 13 year old girls in Zimbabwe not going to school because their mothers have to spend their very limited funds on HIV meds and food. There is no room for school fees and the daughter lacks any hopeful role models. On a more positive note, Paul has talked with women in Zimbabwe who have led lives of amazing inspiration, working for the benefit of others without expectation of personal material gain – yet they toil silently in the shadows of Zimbabwe because of geographic isolation or the lack of media to bring resources to their efforts.   To View Full Story “Click Here”

View fantastic photos taken by Eric Hermann and David Dahle of the 2012 Tualatin Crawfish Festival! Excellent snap shot of our community coming together for a tasty treat!!

As naturopathic physicians my colleagues and I have been known to be obsessed with health. Considering that so much of America’s very expensive conventional “health” care system is devoted to helping people survive and linger as long as possible with illness, we feel righteous in our obsession. Our clinic name “True Health Medicine” wants to impose upon everyone who notices it the notion that “health”, is something different from having all of your symptoms controlled with prescription medications. We are not anti-medication, there is a time and place for everything. We too provide prescriptions for medications that control symptoms, just ask Patrick over at Tualatin Pharmacy.   To View Full Story “CLICK HERE”