The City of Tualatin is celebrating its inaugural Brain Awareness Week (June 6-10) to help raise awareness of brain health in our community. FREE Brain Health activities for adults 40 & Better will be held all week long at the Juanita Pohl Center-Tualatin’s Active Aging Center!

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This is a love story. A story about people who fell in love and chose to love others near and far. If you were to meet John and Pam Pries, you would know immediately these two people are in love. John married his bride, Pam, on New Year’s Eve, 1966. In 1977, they became residents of Tualatin, where they raised their children, Britney and Zachary. Full Story

A Revolution Parkour that is! Revolution Parkour (RVPK) was started in 2008 as one of the largest and longest established parkour gyms in the United States. In 2011 Revolution Parkour, under new ownership, underwent an extensive remodel and continues to be one of the most versatile parkour facilities. As the RVPK students continue to grow in ability, multiple students have since become instructors allowing more students to learn parkour across the greater Portland areas. And NOW it is coming to our neighborhood! Yes, RVPK will be opening it’s doors right here in Tualatin.

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Dear Tualatin Life Readers,

I am pleased to say that surgery is scheduled, for April 15th! We were unable to wait for the endoscopic procedure in California, as they were not budging on the price. There is a team of surgeons doing it here in Portland, at St. Vincent. Now, like I have said before, it is a more invasive surgery. It is not endoscopic, but microscopic. I will need a plate, and screws, to attach my bone back on. At my last appointment with them, they explained that they need to open up a bigger hole because of how large the cyst has become, they can’t just go in and suck it out. They need to be able to have a good view of what is going on, because if it has attached itself to other parts of my brain, it needs to be handled very cautiously. They also stressed needing to remove the whole thing, because they don’t know for sure if it is a cyst, or a tumor, given that it has some strange characteristics. Now I know there was many people that had been asking the whole time why I couldn’t just get it done here, but one of the surgeons that is performing it, was unwilling to do it before. Now, he has seen that it has grown and has some discerning characteristics, and has now finally agreed to be a part of the removal.

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The Officer of the Year award is intended to recognize one sworn Member from the Department for their outstanding service to the community and/or to the Department during the past year. This award reflects continuous service throughout the year and not just a single event.

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The Tualatin River Greenway Trail is a 3/4 mile long bicycle and pedestrian facility that promotes active, healthy living while connecting people with nature. The trail meanders through stately trees, provides beautiful views of the Tualatin River, skirts the edge of a bird-filled wetland, and crosses under Interstate 5. The trail provides a safe bike and pedestrian alternative to driving while improving connectivity between residential and commercial areas with public facilities, such as parks and the library. The trail promotes safety by enabling a safe and interesting alternative to crossing over Interstate 5 at the Nyberg Street bridge. Full article

Senior Mitchell Lenneville, and his freshman brother Evan Lenneville-Hutchinson, won in the Poetry Out Loud competition held last month at Village Home in Beaverton. It is the second year the brothers from Tualatin took top honors. Following their win they competed at regionals held at Powell’s Books in Beaverton. Full article

As sure as the sun comes up in the east each morning, spring has come to the Pacific Northwest. As I ready my garden for spring planting, I am reminded that farmers used to plow, disc and harrow their fields each spring. Before the advent of tractors, that meant harnessing the hay burners and hitching them to the plow. With a two-horse team, one would walk in the furrow. It was hard work for the farmer to hold the plow handles down so the plow would go deep enough. The horses were sweaty after a hard day’s work and when the harness was removed, they would roll around on the ground, scratching their back. Full article

All three of the Tualatin residents who are active in the Patriot Guard will be involved next month in escorting a cart customized to transport fallen heroes that are headed for Washington, DC. Annually, Patriot Guard members participate on their bikes in a cross country “Run to the Wall” to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, DC. This year, our Tualatin members are focusing on West Coast escort duties. From the Los Angeles area the ten foot long, five feet wide and five feet high cart continues on to our nation’s capital. Full article

Circa 1996 – Michael Antonelli (left) and Jonathan Crane (right), back in the Coupon Tabloid days.   I think it’s only fitting that on our 7-year anniversary issue I announce that I’m stepping aside as Publisher of Tualatin Life. As most of you know, I started Tualatin Life in Spring of 2009, during a very dark and scary period in our economy and our history. Housing foreclosures, high unemployment, record bankruptcies, the mortgage industry turned upside down were all occurring at once and I felt the need to do something positive for my community and myself. I think it all went very well and things have really come full circle in our economy, as well as the overall confidence of consumers. Another mission I had, and stated every issue, was the goal of promoting a sense of community in Tualatin. To that end, I feel the most success was achieved. Many people were connected, micro local news was featured in a way that created a greater bond between local people, organizations and important local causes that needed a boost to get the attention they needed. I feel great satisfaction about the gains on this front more than any other aspect of the paper. I’ve transferred control of Tualatin Life to a longtime friend and colleague, Michael Antonelli, who I’ve known for over 20 years. He has done the graphics for every article and every ad for Tualatin Life since its inception. While Michael’s great strength has always been graphic design, he’s also been interested in the content and flow of Tualatin Life the entire time. It was very important to me to transition TL to someone who cared about it like I did and had the best chance of keeping it alive and strong. I am highly confident that Michael is just that person. I wish Michael nothing but the best and we will, as we always have, be in great contact moving forward. I’m not going away completely, but my role will be in the background and only on occasion. I’ll be turning my attention to my staffing business, which also has grown as our economy has rebounded. One bit of news that I’m very encouraged about is that Jessi Thorne will be getting the life-saving surgery she needs to remove the cyst from her brain. Check out her article on page 3 for the details that she sent to me last week. Shedding light on efforts like this and so many others has been incredibly satisfying. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the regular (and occasional) contributors to Tualatin Life who made the paper worth reading, delivering articles rich in texture and care, showing the diversity of our readership and our citizenry. Having content supplied by local people who cared was not a typical publishing strategy, but I tried it and it worked out unbelievably well. Lastly, I would like to thank the many advertisers who have never wavered from their support of this paper. They believed in this project and in this community. So I will sign off with a great sense of satisfaction, gratitude and joy. Thank you, Tualatin. Jonathan Crane Past Publisher