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Angela Hult of Portland, Ore., cherishes girlhood memories of peacefully trolling on Puget Sound, while her father would bait her hook and tell her stories of his boyhood. Now 38 and a community-relations director, Hult spotted an opportunity to share that kind of time with him again. At 70, her dad Jim Hajek was lamenting that his old fishing pals were gone or infirm and that his back pain kept him from making the rugged trips he used to enjoy. He leaped at Angela's offer to fish together at the Salmon Falls Resort in Ketchikan, Alaska. She picked...
...Hailing from Yamhill, Ore., Kristof had never seen Harvard before he arrived on campus to begin his freshman year...
MICHAEL PATMAS West Linn, Ore...
That just one dragon-boat festival could turn a loner athlete into a committed groupie is no surprise to Jeff Campbell. He watched his first dragon-boat festival in Portland, Ore., in 1993 and left transformed. "[It] has this visceral feel that appeals to everyone," Campbell says. "The beat of the drums, the spray of the water from the crashing bow of the boat, and 20 people working as one to breathe life into the dragon...
...weekly farmers' markets at 29 of its hospitals and has switched to milk from cows raised without synthetic hormones at all its medical centers. Organic fruits and vegetables are now being served at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. In Hermiston, Ore., Good Shepherd Health Care System banned potato chips in favor of baby carrots and replaced beef with antibiotic- and hormone-free bison. "It has 75% less fat than beef and a third less fat than chicken," says dietitian Nancy Gummer...