It takes a lot to stump an engineer. Bob Topping, director of Industry Partnerships at the Chemeketa Center for Business and Industry, recalls the time he went with engineers on a visit to a local school to assess and rehabilitate its vocational training program. Because of budget cuts the school hadn’t used any of its drill presses or lathes in seven years.
By Kathy Cook Hunter Ethan Hupp, 18, wants to help people and thinks he has found the perfect way to do it. After volunteering as a cadet with Drake’s Crossing Fire Department since he was 13, he’s decided to make firefighting his career. “My dad (Jan Hupp) actually was a volunteer around there for eons,” said Hupp, remembering his […]
Ingrid Evjen-Elias understands some people may drive by the entrance of The Oregon Garden and wonder why something hasn’t been done to make the 13-acre area more attractive.
An assistant for SPROut – or the Sustainable Plant Research and Outreach Center – Evjen-Elias has spent many hours working in the Garden’s lower wetlands.
“This is such a lovely area,” she said on a recent September morning. “It’s a peaceful and quiet spot.”
