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Our Mannequins Are NAKED!!

May 3, 2011

…or they will be, come June.Please keep this wholly inappropriate vision from becoming a reality. All it takes is helping the fine folks at Frontier Communications pick the t-shirt design […]

Photo of the Day: Muriel Minkler Gives First Aid With A Smile

May 3, 2011

Red Cross nurses work in the First Aid Clinic at the Belk Activity Center shelter. Muriel Minkler of the Oregon Trail chapter of the Red Cross takes a pulse from […]

Making A Difference Across The County

May 2, 2011

As you know, we’ve been sending volunteers to help with relief efforts in Alabama. And, let me tell you, each and every one of them is amazing. Not only are […]

Sending Help and Hope to Alabama

Apr 29, 2011

Today we’re deploying three Oregon volunteers to Alabama. Tomorrow morning one more will hop on a plane bound for Birmingham. Other volunteers are already on the ground, and have been […]

Saturday: Win Tickets to the Timber’s U.S. Open Match on May 3rd!

Apr 28, 2011

Can’t make it to our Portland Timbers Blood Drive on May 7th? This Saturday, April 30th, all presenting donors at both our Clark County and our Portland Donor Centers will […]

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up

Apr 27, 2011

Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling […]

Eat Ice Cream, Help Firefighters

Apr 26, 2011

Portland is expecting some unseasonably cold weather on Wednesday night, which means that you should DEFINITELY want to eat ice cream. Right? Right. And the only thing better than ice […]

What The Heck Is Liquefaction?

Apr 25, 2011

As you might imagine, we’ve been talking a lot about earthquakes lately, especially the risk of a Cascadia subduction zone quake right here in Oregon. One word that has come […]

Red Cross + Loads Of Hope

Apr 22, 2011

I’m a fairly stoic person, but it’s always the heart-tugging commercials that bring me down. This one, for example, always makes me a little teary… The first time I saw […]

Prints Of The Taishô Earthquake

Apr 20, 2011

In 1924, the Japanese publisher Hoshino Seki issued a set of thirty-six prints depicting scenes from the aftermath of the September 1, 1923 great Tokyo earthquake. He commissioned six artists […]