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After five days missing on Mount Adams, Derek Mamoyac is home safe and sound. He’s dehydrated and healing a broken ankle but should be just fine. A rescue dog tracked him down about 2 PM yesterday. Here’s the full recap from the Gazette Times:
http://gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/10/18/news/community/2aaa02_climber.txt
While the economy may not be doing so hot on the whole, not everyone is feeling the pinch according to this story in the Registerguard:
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/business/1052157-41/story.csp
Editor’s note: At Goodnews PDX we are hearing similar stories in Portland, Seattle, Salem . . . all over. Even though stories come out everyday about the perils of the economy, stuff like this is PROOF that the world is NOT collapsing and we CAN come out of this as a nation. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
This from the Oregonian . . .
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/33_oregon_counties_will_share.html
The long debated County Timber Payment plan got worked into the 700 billion dollar “bailout” . . . dropping three quarters of a billion dollars into local banks accounts.
Florence Snyder is home safe tonight.
The 87-year old woman, barely five feet two, with silver hair and retro eyeglasses dropped her husband off at 10:30 this morning before heading of to a function at the couples church. She never showed at the church and didn’t come home early that afternoon as planned.
Husband Allen says the love of his life does get confused sometimes but she’s never disappeared before. Sheriff’s deputies tracked her down at a local convenience store this evening. Snyder didn’t know where she was but wasn’t hurt or in any sort of immediate danger. She’s safe and sound.
Editors note: You always hear when someone goes missing and they are NOT found . . . it’s a blessing to hear when a search goes right.
Check out this from the Gazette Times out of Corvallis:
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/10/17/news/top_story/3aaa01_dogstar1017.txt
Kobie, formerly a Guide Dog (dropped from the program due to allergies), has found a home on the large and small screens. He’s working alongside comic genius French Stewart and perennial powerhouse Morgan Freeman.
Just out of curiosity, do you think the other dogs sit and stare at him at the dog park, afraid to approach and ask for a paw print autograph or do all the mutts mob him trying to get a lock of his fur?
A not-quite-one-day-old baby girl and her mom are doing just fine after a bit of a scary delivery. Apparently, the tot didn’t want to wait until they arrived at the hospital to make her grand debut. Mom gave birth on I-205 near the Stafford Road interchange.
Special kudos go to mom’s sister. That area of 205 is a bit sparse in terms of signage and landmarks. You’re three miles north of I-5 and a few miles south of West Linn / Lake Oswego / Oregon City so she had to hop out and run (at around 4 in the morning mind you) to find some sign of where the delivery was taking place so she could alert the 9-1-1 operator.
Five Ridgefield High grads have earned AP scholar awards based on their scores on the Advanced Placement exams. Cameron Conley, Samuel Padula, Brandon Pickett, Christine Woodward and Emily Marso each earned a three or higher on three or more total exams.
AP classes are college-level and passing the end-of-year exams earns the student college credit. Of the 1.6 million kids to take exams last year, only about 18% earned the Scholar Honor.
From the “Hell Yeah” file special kudos to James Roberts, an employee at Boat Works in Wilsonville. Apparently a woman was driving through the area when four kids on a train trestle overhead (allegedly) threw a rock at her sunroof, cracking it and causing her to nearly get hit when she veered into traffic after the startling impact.
The victim, who wasn’t hurt, reached out to Roberts who was working nearby. Cops say he then ran down ALL FOUR TEENS and held them until the authorities showed up. Two of the suspected stone throwers are looking at multiple charges. And James Roberts is officially the “GoodNewsPDX Stud of the Week.”
Vancouver Urban Forestry wants to help all of us learn how to properly trim our leafy outdoor friends. They’re offering a free tree pruning workshop November 1st at the Marshall Community Center on Mcloughlin. For info go to www.cityofvancouver.us/urbanforestry
$31,491.08. That’s how much CAMEO, an organization formed in memory of Breast Cancer victim, Cathy Mayer, raised this year for the YWCA Clark County SafeChoice Domestic Violence Shelter. On top of the cash donation they collected a ton of toys for children living at the shelter. The bulk of fundraising took place at the group’s “Blue Rendezvous” event at the Pearson Air Museum. That cash donation has been earmarked to pay for a children’s advocacy specialist at the shelter, someone who will help kids heal and avoid repeating the cycle of domestic violence. If you want to get involved, go to www.encouragingothers.com.
For now, we can only say Kudos to you, Cameo!
