I’m excited that Eric Corliss will be joining our Chapter as Emergency Services (ES) Director on May 19, 2008. Eric has great leadership experience at the national, regional, state and […]

They say you can’t really predict earthquakes. But I know, with absolute certainty, that one will hit my office sometime this week.  …Okay, before I freak anyone out, it’s just […]

Someone should nominate these people for next year’s Breakfast of Champions.  (If anyone knows who they are. The article doesn’t say.) KGW covers the story here.

The results are in! Looks like most of our blog readers (78%) are doing well in the “knows how to use an extinguisher” and “has an evacuation plan” categories. But only […]

A 5.2 Earthquake shook Illinois this morning.  I know what you’re thinking. “In the Midwest??” Yes. In the Midwest.  Growing up in the midwest, I assumed that Earthquakes were something […]

Growing up, Portland got snow several times each year…just enough for school to be cancelled for a few days. Those were the days when snow was a blast — inspiring […]

Gentrification. It’s a hot topic in Portland, and especially in the North Portland area where our building stands. Today’s Oregonian has an article about an innovative program that seeks to generate healing and […]

Do you see it? Up above? Yesterday, the marketing team was messing around with our e-mail signatures to see if we might use that as a tool to promote the […]