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High Schooler Helps Identify How Hurricanes Intensify
A hurricane is not one, big, homogenous blob of swirling weather. It’s made of many individual bands of rain. So when they say the eye of the storm is growing, what’s […]
Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up
Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the major (and sometimes small, but interesting) international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of nice little bite-sized […]
Flickr Finds: A Red Cross Welcome
See more Red Cross photos from the Inauguration right here.
What Is…The Red Cross?
Do you Jeopardy? I used to…every night. It was always a competition around the house to see who could come up with the right answer first. Thank goodness it was […]
Obama Wants You…To Volunteer
The National Day of Service might be over, but that doesn’t mean that your commitment to volunteerism has to end there. A while back, I mentioned that Obama’s acceptance speech […]
Sign Up For Singles CPR Today!
Okay, it’s official. Go ahead and sign up now: www.oregonredcross.org/SinglesCPR And spread the word! The more people who attend (and enjoy) our first installment, the more likely we’ll get to […]
Imagine The Trauma Of Losing Everything…
This weekend, I received an update from our Disaster Action Teams that almost brought me to tears. It didn’t initially sound like an unusual situation — a house fire, one […]
Top Chef. Hero.
I’ve shared my fandom of Bravo’s Top Chef before, but even though I enjoy the show, I never really felt one way or another about the judges. Well, that’s all […]
Disaster Action Team Responses
The long weekend saw the following reponses: Saturday, Jan. 17: Two adults in Troutdale had their home destroyed by fire. Disaster Action Teams assisted with food, clothing, lodging, medications, and […]
Evil Robots and Old-Fashioned Back-Ups
You never know when super-intelligent robots bent on galactic supremacy could hack all your digital records. Oh, wait, I’m thinking of Battlestar Galactica (the final season of which premieres tonight […]