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Articles from the December 13, 2013 edition


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  • Eight ways to protect your garden from ice and cold

    Dec 13, 2013

    By Denise Ruttan The Arctic blast that recently chilled much of Oregon might make you worried about your plants. Ross Penhallegon, a horticulturist with the Oregon State University Extension Service, advises several ways to protect your landscape from frigid conditions. "Insulation is the key thing for people to think about," said Penhallegon, a horticulture professor in OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences. "The biggest issue is that it's only December. This is the first of many cold spells. We still have the rest of December, January,...

  • The Taming of the Rascal: Edouard Chambreau’s redemption in Portland

    Dec 13, 2013

    Temperance protest By Finn J.D. John In 1853, a French-Canadian gambler, fighter and all-around rascal by the name of Edouard Chambreau arrived in the brand-new town of Portland, ready to go into business. Chambreau had just come from the gold fields in northern California and southern Oregon, where he’d been wandering from town to town, fleecing miners and other gamblers and running from the occasional angry mob. But the previous year, he had met a woman – a nice, respectable girl by the name of Barbara Ann McBee. Despite his fearsome r...

  • A look around Blue River

    Dec 13, 2013

    McKenzie River Reflections...