July is starting out as a pretty good month already, with relief from the unbelievable record heat, the lifting of Covid restrictions as we cross the 70% statewide vaccination…
Category: President’s Message
President’s Message – June 2021
May was a Big Month! Welcome to (almost) summer! A stretch of warm weather last week offered a preview of abundant sunshine and shirtsleeve outdoor dinners, but as I write…
President’s Message – May 2021
If your calendar didn’t remind you, the glorious stretch of sunny weather last month confirmed that it is indeed springtime in Oregon, and that means it is time for our…
President’s Message – April 2021
Tilting the Axis Toward Trout Although the chilly rains of late March feel more like late winter as I write this, the tilting axis of planet earth has passed through…
President’s Message – March 2021
After February’s snow and ice and the resulting power outages for many people in the Willamette Valley, it’s a delight see the sunshine on a comparatively balmy 56 degree day…
President’s Message – February 2021
That’s Winter Fishing! Happy February! Punxsatawney Phil has decreed another six weeks of winter, which appears to have been confirmed by the major nor’easter that dumped several feet of…
President’s Message – January 2021
Welcome to 2021. As I write, the U.S. Capitol Building is currently overwhelmed by political protestors who have shut down the Senate and the House proceedings and forced an evacuation…
President’s Message – December 2020
After spending most of the year dealing with the pandemic, I won’t be sorry to bid 2020 adieu. Our family, like many, celebrated a much smaller Thanksgiving than usual. …
President’s Message – November 2020
Wow, what a month! A tumultuous presidential election that is undecided as of this writing, a rising tide of Covid-19 cases in Oregon and most of the country, and…
President’s Message – October 2020
Welcome to the first full month of fall! I spent a weekend in Central Oregon visiting my in-laws in Sisters. It was a short trip to celebrate family birthdays…
