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Midwest Via East PDX

June 4, 2013 by

How To Know If The Food Is The Real Deal Going out to a theme restaurant in Portland? Heading downtown for some delicious ethnic food? The choices are endless. Chinese food isn’t the only thing in Chinatown, but it’s a good bet you’ll find a place you like. Other restaurant tells that let you know where they’re coming from: a […]

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Boomers Know Portland?

May 30, 2013 by

How To Tell If Someone Just Showed Up You’ve been in the group where one person explains Portland from the ground up. Everyone listens while they down HUB beer. They tell historical stories like an OPB documentary. You’re impressed until you find out they moved here six months ago. Still, give them credit for trying […]

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The Last Word

May 28, 2013 by

You Can’t Erase A Carved Stone Coming out of the closet is one thing, but leaving an inscription on your gravestone seems to leave no doubt. Do the people he served with visit his grave? Do those in his unit who know what he did hold him in high regard? They should. Gay or straight, […]

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BEST GUN QUOTE

May 8, 2013 by

Lock And Load, Clear Down Range, Rock And Roll Are Portland baby boomers worried about the firearms debate? From the press the city gets you’d think it hard to fit anything between a free range egg-white omelet, an organic latte, and a happy light session with a book on tape. But yes, the gun nuts, the anti-gun, […]

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Uno, Dos, Tres

May 4, 2013 by

What Are You Doing On Cinco de Mayo? If you don’t have a good answer, head out for Hillsdale, one of Portland’s thriving neighborhoods. From a health fair, to farmers market, to an art show, you’ll be in the right place. Be sure and stop by the Portland Wellness Center table for a face paint, pop […]

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HAPPY BOOMER BIRTHDAY

March 21, 2013 by

THE STATE OF OREGON CELEBRATES WITH BOOMERPDX What’s the best part of an Oregon birthday party? It happens on Valentines Day. The big room at the Oregon History Center fills up with Portland Baby Boomers, among others. Everyone looks like they’re ready to load up the wagon and hit the Oregon Trail again.

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AUTHORS FOR BOOMERPDX

January 25, 2013 by

Is A Writer’s Birth Order Important Or Not? Zelda? To create better context for Dead White Male Authors, or DWMA, Boomerpdx and Think Tank 121 offers 20th Century giants of letters’ birth order to the general public. Director of Writing / Maintenance, Story Teller, no relation of the physicist Edward Teller, presented a paper from […]

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