A lil' update in my activities: (June 7, 1916--June 7, 2016) The Historic Columbia River Highway Centennial Celebration Planing Committee meets Thursday AM in downtown Portland. Two weeks ago I took on Co-Chairman of the Events Committee. I was actually asked if I wanted to chair it! Yikes! A little practice, please! The biggest inter-agency project I've accomplished before this was to build a 70-ft pedestrian bridge over earthworks at Richmond National Battlefield Parks, with a crew of 6 teenagers and a student intern that the Park's head carpenter told me couldn't be done. Nice, but still not in this league. Bill Failing (former President of the Oregon Historical Society), our Celebration Committee Director and chief fundraiser, will be chairman. Whew!The goals of this first meeting (1/29/15) are to:• Decide what parts of the 1916 event to include in the 2016 event• Decide what time(s) to hold each event (one at Multnomah and one at Vista House)• Decide what order to hold the two events (start at Vista House or Multnomah Falls?)• Begin to define general tasks / to-dos for the events • Begin brainstorming parking and logistical needs and possible solutionsEye'll likely be pretty bleary because probably won't get home 'till midnight from the HCCA-PRG Meeting. I will have begun my 2nd term as President of this venerable Portland antique car club.

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While running from a juvenile court-ordered group home in Portland, Oregon, in 1990, seventeen year-old Arien Danner is catapulted to another time as the result of a freak electrical accident. And so begins a tale of life in the Haight-Ashbury, a pivitol experience of the People's Park riots in Berkeley, and the adventures of a cross-country road trip. The tale concludes at Bethel, NY, the sight of the legendary Woodstock Festival in 1969. With an exploration of the period are elements of coming-of-age, finding love, communal life, and a mystery quest into New Age and Native American magic and spirituality. Though THE WOODSTOCK PARADOX is fiction with a touch of fantasy/sci-fi, it is very well researched and contains many historically accurate details.

I organized summer conservation projects/programs with high school volunteers for the Student Conservation Association, out of Charlestown, NH, at Richmond National Battlefield Parks, in VA. Our crews (6-participants w/ occasional internees) built trails and heavy-duty pedestrian bridges over Civil War earthworks, we undertook re-vegetation & restoration in threatened areas, involved ourselves with environmental & historical education and related activities. Duties included education/wilderness first-responder certification, application reviews, preparitory letters, crew assembly & orientation, planning & overseeing construction, liaison w/Park officials in DC and RNBP, and local departments, ordnance procurement, budgeting, obtaining guest speakers, visiting historic sites, ensuring safety, project oversight, crew recreation, and submitting final reports. I ran 7 crews in Virginia, and one, private project I designed to SCA standards for youth-at-risk at Mt. Hood National Forest, with USDA Forest Service, and Oregon Outreach, Inc., as sponsors.