…Er, cross half full I guess. Anyway, we’re past the halfway mark for our fundraising goal!We’re at $18,664.56Candy gram sales are also in full swing. ($1.50 to send a little […]

Two exciting pieces of news regarding Red Cross bloggers: 1. Our online specialist, Erica Arevalos, has contributed an enlightening article on emergency water supplies to the Portland Water Bureau blog. […]

Thanks to Good Morning America, I just learned of a lot of exciting new technologies related to safety training. Follow this link and watch the video to learn about them […]

Yesterday afternoon was the kick-off event for Campaign RED, our annual workplace giving campaign, and I think the sugar buzz has yet to wear off. (I ate one too many […]

Apparently he wanted a job. Today we spotted a rooster wandering around our parking lot in front of the “now hiring” sign. I feel sorry for HR who will have […]

Whew! Topoff is over, which is a good thing for many, many people around here. It was an extremely valuable exercise and every department here at the OTC learned something […]

Who doesn’t like pumpkin pie? Well, me, actually. I like it fine, it’s just not one of my favorites—which is why I brought half of a homemade pie I was […]

Okay, so not Blazers players. But it’s a fantastic story nonetheless! Bob Burke is an advance scout and former assistant coach for the Blazers. Recently he was in southern California […]

On July 9, I blogged about the usual Friday activities of myself and my co-workers. If you recall (or if you scrolled down to see), we get good eats and […]

Let me begin by offering a sincere apology to the hordes of loyal readers of this blog for missing my new normal two-week blog interval last week. I suppose I […]