Honoring first responders and hometown heroes, the Mt. Hood Adventure Park at Skibowl is offering a 50 percent discount to them and their guests this weekend and next.

Skibowl owner Kirk Hanna said, “We are happy to extend this discount to the public servants who contribute so much to our communities. With the summer crowds gone, Fall is an ideal time to enjoy the activities at Skibowl.” Valid for up to six people, any police, firefighter, active-duty military or emergency medical technician — with proper identification — can take advantage of the half-price discount.

Mt. Hood Skibowl Adventure Park Slide

On Sun., Sept. 11 Portland Fire & Rescue will receive a Blue Star Memorial Marker — a memorial plaque honoring military and civilian first responders — from the Portland chapter of the Garden Club of America

Portland Garden Club District Director Jennifer Nash and PF&R’s Training Staff Captain Kyle Wochnick will conduct the ceremony in the newly constructed Blue Star Memorial Reflection Garden with PF&R’s Honor Guard posting the colors at PF&R’s Training & Safety Facility, 4800 N.E. 122nd Ave. in east Portland beginning at 2 p.m.

Oregon State Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. President, Garnet Ascher is dedicating the marker.
Past Portland District Director, Nancy Ebsen, is accepting the marker on behalf of Portland District Garden Club and Pastor Peter Warner is leading an invocation.

The September issue of the Mid-county Memo posted online. A re-cap of its content follows …

Proposed changes at Glendoveer Golf Course and Fitness Trail is this month’s main front page feature story. Glendoveer lovers and government haters showed up en masse for the heated open house last month.

Lee Perlman pens a piece about east Portland tours conducted by Oregon State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D) for candidates for City office is the subject of the second story on this month’s front page. Smith took candidates on a tour of east Portland low-lights, highlighting the decades of City neglect for Mid-county.

Jodi Taylor is nutritional services manager for the David Douglas School District. She is responsible for planning nutritional, healthy and tasty meals for over 10,000 students— three quarters whom receive free or reduced lunch — on tight budgets in 10 elementary schools, three middle and two high schools buildings never designed to hold such numbers. How does she do it?

The lunch lady gets a bad rap. Kids criticize cafeteria food for everything from its looks to ‘that’s not how mom makes it at home…’ Parents scrutinize the nutritional content of corn dogs. Administrators weigh headaches of implementation. In addition, they all take it out on the lunch lady.

The August issue of the Mid-county Memo is posted online. A re-cap of its content follows …

This month’s issue has a front page feature story about the Native American Youth and Family Center housed in an old elementary school on Columbia Blvd. in east Portland.

Lee Perlman pens a piece about the results of the recently revived Barn Bash, a western style party that was annually held at Rossi Farms in Parkrose for ten years before it ended in 2007, is the subject of the second story on this month’s front page.

TriMet’s MAX Red Line to Portland International Airport opened Sept. 10, 2001, what happened the next day made its opening ironic and insignificant in the big picture. The attacks seriously wounded the airline industry, consequently the new rail line to the airport, the first train-to-plane connection on the West Coast.

Ten years later, dignitaries —  Port of Portland Executive Director Bill Wyatt, Portland Development Commission Executive Director Patrick Quinton and Travel Portland Executive Vice President of Convention and Tourism Sales Brian McCartin and TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane — gathered at the Red Line’s terminus at PDX to mark 10 years and the 10 millionth ride. “The Red Line was the first of its kind, built years, if not decades ahead of schedule because private funds helped to build it and the Cascade Station development at the entrance to PDX,” said TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane

The July issue of the Mid-county Memo is posted online. A re-cap of its content follows …

This month’s issue has a front page feature story about a birthday party for three centenarians held last month at Providence’s ElderPlace Glendoveer facility in Mid-Multnomah County.

The revival of the Barn Bash, a western style party that was annually held at Rossi Farms in Parkrose for ten years before it ended in 2008, is the subject of the second story on this month’s front page.

The June issue of the Mid-county Memo is posted online. A re-cap of its content follows …

This month’s issue has feature stories about new school gardens at two Mid-county elementary schools. The first at Shaver Elementary in the Parkrose School District, the other at Mill Park Elementary School in the David Douglas School District.

An update on the close Parkrose High School bond vote held in May.

This month’s edition also has a feature story on how David Douglas High School’s music program won a Grammy Gold Signature Award — that included a $5,500 cash prize — given annually to high schools with outstanding music programs.

Your April issue of the Mid-county Memo is posted online. The re-cap of its online content follows …

This month’s edition has stories about: the Senior Prom held at Care Center East; the Parkrose High School bond vote in May; a round up of east Portland high school winter activities; Bradford’s Sports Lounge — formerly the Candy Store; the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting where activists demanded action on the many plans to make life better in east Portland; the Portland Plan Fair held last month at Mid-county’s Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization and the Portland Airport Master Plan’s final approval from the city .

The February issue of the Mid-county Memo was posted online last week.  This month’s issue contains stories about east Portland’s Lost Arts Kitchen, the University of Western States and the Portland Housing Bureau’s proposal last month to “adjust” the territory of one of its programs: the Single Family New Construction Limited Home Tax Exemption or LTE.

In this month’s issue you’ll also find a story about the fund raising event held at the Refectory restaurant last month for the Parkrose Senior All-Night Party, a story about how the American Legion’s Portland Post #1 fixed the flag at Glendoveer Golf Course and an obituary for a Parkrose artist, Mark Phillips and an update on the planning for Gateway Park.