ADVICE FROM 100-YEAR-OLD ARCHITECT: FIND A JOB YOU ENJOY "When you have something you love to do, it keeps you alive," Fisher said Monday after receiving Green Thumb Inc.'s annual "America's Oldest Worker" award. "I never had dying in my mind at all because I love my work and spent so much time at the office"...
OREGONIAN CELEBRATES 112TH BIRTHDAY There's a reason Geneva McNicholl, known to many as Grandma Mac, has lived to age 112: eating like a logger. McNicholl, apparently the oldest living Oregonian, liked to cook hardy "meat and potatoes" meals, and always had dessert...
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December 10, 2001
Oregon's North Coast is Dance Epicenter On Oregon's north coast, grace is most often measured by how fast a person can work the rigging of a fishing boat. But for 50 years, Jeanne Peterson's dance studio has taken the children of countless blue-collar workers and produced world-class ballerinas...
December 9, 2001
Holiday Colors: Red, White and Blue As he does each year, Gerald Wilhite used his ocean-fishing rod to cast strands of lights over the limbs of his front yard's towering oak and maple trees. He untangled coils of green wire and dangling bulbs, then nimbly wrapped them around evergreens...
December 8, 2001
The Evolution of Old Saint Nick Cheaper, mass-produced goods and smaller, more prosperous families made it possible for American parents to live up to the image of a fat, generous Santa Claus and his big bag of toys...
December 7, 2001
Oregon Christmas Tree Access Restricted If you're planning to go into the forest in Oregon to cut down your Christmas tree, forest service officials are recommending you wait a week or so. Christmas tree permits are still being sold for $5 apiece...
Kids Choose Toys of Lasting Value Shannon McGrael Dalton cannot recall a lot of the toys she received for Christmas while growing up. But she will never forget the Lego set that her brother passed down to her in the 1960s. She still recalls sitting in a red dress with a white ribbon in her hair, building a large ranch-style house from...
December 6, 2001
U.S. Kids Send $1.5+ Million to Help Afghans A toothbrush and toothpaste. A knit cap. Almonds. Soap. And candy. That's just a sample of what is being shipped to Afghan children, thanks to donations from American kids. President Bush, who urged American children to donate $1 to their Afghan counterparts...
Picture Books Set Holiday Mood They give us the chance to snuggle up on a long winter's night, to set traditions of reading on the eve of a holiday, and to explain to the littlest in the family what Christmas or Hanukkah really means. These holiday picture books are just a sampling of the rich supply of stories parents can read...
Toy Test
Kids from all over the nation -- including Portland -- tested more than 6,000 toys and came up with their
favorite 20 gadgets, games and goodies. Just conducting the tests required 12 tons of toys, two tons of batteries
and 16,000 preschool-aged kids...
December 5, 2001
60 Years Later, Pearl Harbor Remembered Zenji Abe recalls "cold chills went up and down my spine" as his squadron of dive bombers from the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi broke through the clouds and entered a storm of anti-aircraft fire. Still wearing his pajamas in his haste to get airborne...
December 4, 2001
Oregon's Capitol Christmas Tree Lit The lighting ceremony for the state Capitol Christmas tree in Oregon was held Tuesday evening. The tree is located in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Salem. Portland General Electric donated the lights...
Oregon Artists Help Adorn White House Three Oregon artists helped decorate this year's White House Christmas tree. The Oregon Arts Commission invited Salem artist Paula Portinga Booth, Dough Roy of Sheridan and Steve Tucker of Portland to depict historical homes or churches for the tree...
Laura Bush Ensures a White Christmas Whatever Mother Nature decides, first lady Laura Bush ensured a white Christmas for the White House by blanketing the mansion's State Floor with 800 pounds of artificial snow. With crystal snowflakes and silvery icicles covering 49 live fir trees throughout...
December 3, 2001
Americans Reshuffle Priorities After Attacks Terrorism at home and war abroad have affected everything from the toys Americans buy to the people they pay attention to. It has made volunteering in and lavish corporate holiday parties out. Americans are opting for homey pursuits like renting movies...
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