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Coffee Fair 2011

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Coffee Fair 2011The 2011 Coffee Fair takes place Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2011 at the World Forestry Center (4033 SW Canyon Road).

Fuel your caffeine addiction with Coffee Fair, a special event dedicated to espresso, lattes, and the plain ol’ Cup O’ Joe. Smell, taste, and learn about specialty coffees from knowledgeable local roasters.

Activities and workshops include coffee cuppings, [coffee] home brew workshops, and how to brew the perfect cup. The K&F Coffee Lounge set up at the fair will be offering coffee drinks, coffee tastings, and complimentary WiFi. At the Roasters Corner try coffee from over 10 roasters and coffee themed treats.

The fair runs 10am to 3pm both days. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors (62+), and $5 for children (3-18).
Visit the World Forestry event page for more details, including a vendor list.

October 31, 1805: Lewis and Clark Reach the Cascade Rapids

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Cascade RapidsIntrepid explorers Lewis and Clark faced one of their toughest challenges when, on October 22, 1805, they reach Celilo Falls. The falls were the beginning of a 55 mile stretch of rapids, falls, and generally dangerous river conditions.

It took the explorers two days to portage several miles around Celilo Fall’s 38 foot drop. At The Dalles the non-swimmers portaged, and the foolhardy swimmers decided to shoot the rapids in their canoes . . . and they survived!

Finally, on October 31, 1805, the expedition reached the grand Shute, later known as the Cascade Rapids,

The rapids were the . . .

. . . final barrier to the broad, swift, flat waters of the lower Columbia. What Lewis and Clark called “the great Shute” was a four-mile stretch where the river ran “with great velocity fo[a]ming & boiling in a most horriable manner” (Oct. 31, 1805). ) The party cleared the last of the Cascades on November 2, at times portaging along a well-used Indian trail.

Sex at Dawn (2-November-2011)

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Christopher Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships, will be appearing at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne) on Wednesday, November 2, 2011.

Join us for an evening sure to titillate the most cerebral among you, featuring a humorous and fact-filled lecture and Q&A that will blow away centuries of misconceptions about why we mate, why we stray and what it means for modern relationship.

Hosted by Eleanor O’Brien of Inviting Desire fame and Gabriella Cordova of ErosFestNW (two women oozing with biology).

Find out lots of things you should have learned in high school but didn’t. Science class was never this much fun!

Christopher Ryan, PhD, co-author of Sex at Dawn, has lived and worked all over the world. His research draws upon his multi-cultural experience . . . and focuses on trying to distinguish the human from the cultural. Dan Savage has called Sex at Dawn the single most important book about human sexuality since Alfred Kinsey unleashed Sexual Behavior in the Human Male on the American public in 1948.

This event is Sex, Love, & Spirit.

Doors open at 6pm and the event start at 7pm. This show is 21 and over (minor w/ adult allowed). Visit the McMenamins’ website for ticket information.

October 30, 2000: Steens Mountain Wilderness Established

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Steens MountainOn Monday, October 30, 2000 President William J. Clinton signed the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act, establishing the Steens Mountain Wilderness and adding nearly 175,000 acres to Oregon’s inventory of protected wilderness lands (The Oregonian, 31 October 2000).

It took the threat of a national monument designation and hundreds of hours of sometimes contentious meetings, but Republicans and Democrats along with environmentalists and ranchers were able to craft legislation designating the acreage in southeast Oregon as the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area.

Ranchers and local residents received assurances they would have a say in how much of the public land around them is managed. Environmentalists secured nearly 100,000 acres of “no-grazing wilderness” on the 30-mile long ridge.

“I believe this sets a precedent that will be replicated time and time again to protect other extraordinary places, not only in my home state of Oregon but throughout the Western United States,” Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio said Monday.

Steens Mountain is located in the Alvord Desert in Harney County. The mountain is a large fault-block mountain that stretches 50 miles and rises from 4,200 feet to peak at 9,733 feet.

Credit: Steens Mountain photo by Sam Beebe / Ecotrust on Flickr. Used here under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) licence.