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Swine Flu And You: 3 Secret Ingredients For Preparedness
After posting today’s official swine flu preparedness tips (please read the full list), I thought I should share with you my own three key ingredients for shooing away the flu: […]
From Halibut to Hazelnut
Housemade ravioli with roasted beets, local goat cheese and horseradish cream. Halibut cheeks ‘picatta’ with quanciale, lemon and capers, accompanied by salt cod mashed potatoes. Hazelnut brown butter cake with […]
Swine Flu And You: More Ways To Prepare
Today the Red Cross released our official recommendations for swine flu preparedness. It’s a good checklist for staying healthy and being ready should you need to take a few sick […]
Fire Preparedness by the Numbers…
Following up to the post on the Oregon Trail Chapter’s weekend mitigation project, here’s a more numerical layout of what the Red Cross accomplished during the Hazelwood and Mill Park […]
Cheap Ice Cream Alert!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream…especially when it’s just 31 cents. If you head over to participating Baskin Robbins’ stores tonight from 5-10 p.m., you can […]
Disaster Action Team Responses
On April 24, a family had a fire in their mobile home in Boardman. The family lost everything they own in the fire. The American Red Cross volunteers from Morrow […]
Swine Flu and You.
The recent news on Mexico’s virulent flu strain is important to publicize. Public health depends not just on the preparedness of first responders and hospitals, but individuals taking initiative in […]
Meet Floyd Pitts, Chief Diversity Officer
This morning, we had a very special visit. Floyd Pitts, Chief Diversity Officer for the American Red Cross, stopped by our chapter and hosted a roundtable discussion about diversity and […]
Helping Out In Hazelwood
Well, we did it. Over the weekend, dozens of Red Crossers headed to outer SE Portland’s Hazelwood and Mill Park neighborhoods with a message of preparedness. And residents heard it […]
Myth-Busting: Blood Donor Eligibility and Blood Pressure
Q: I have low/high blood pressure; am I eligible to donate blood? A: Depending…read on! According to the Red Cross Blood Eligibility Guidelines, people with high blood pressure still might […]