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Portland, Oregon
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Portland is a port and the largest city in the U. S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette, the city covers 145 square miles and had an estimated population of 632,309 in 2015, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States. Approximately 2,389,228 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area and its Combined Statistical Area ranks 17th with a population of 3,022,178. Roughly 60% of Oregons population resides within the Portland metropolitan area, named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the industry was a major force in the citys early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous cities in the world. After the citys economy experienced a boom during World War II. Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its liberal political values, and the city has earned a reputation as a bastion of counterculture. According to a 2009 Pew Research Center study, Portland ranks as the eighth most popular American city, the city operates with a commission-based government guided by a mayor and four commissioners as well as Metro, the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the United States. The city government is notable for its planning and investment in public transportation. Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool and this climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the City of Roses for over a century. Keep Portland Weird is a slogan for the city. During the prehistoric period, the land that would become Portland was flooded after the collapse of glacial dams from Lake Missoula and these massive floods occurred during the last ice age and filled the Willamette Valley with 300 to 400 feet of water. The Chinook people occupying the land which would become Portland were first documented by Meriwether Lewis, before its European settlement, the Portland Basin of the lower Columbia River and Willamette River valleys had been one of the most densely populated regions on the Pacific Coast. Large numbers of settlers began arriving in the Willamette Valley in the 1830s via the Oregon Trail. In the early 1840s a new settlement began emerging ten miles from the mouth of the Willamette River and this community was initially referred to as Stumptown and The Clearing because of the many trees cut down to allow for its growth. In 1843 William Overton saw potential in the new settlement but lacked the funds to file a land claim. For 25 cents Overton agreed to half of the 640-acre site with Asa Lovejoy of Boston
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Clockwise: View of Portland with
Mount St. Helens in background; downtown cityscape;
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall;
Pioneer Courthouse;
Mt. Tabor Reservoir; Skyline Memorial Gardens
Portland, Oregon
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Pioneer Courthouse, 1886
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Portland waterfront in 1898
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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Flag
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Community college
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A community college is a type of educational institution. In Australia, the community college refers to small private businesses running short courses generally of a self-improvement or hobbyist nature. Equivalent to the American notion of community colleges are Tertiary And Further Education colleges or TAFEs, there are also an increasing number of private providers, which are colloquially called colleges. Most Australian universities can also be traced back to such forerunners, in TAFEs and colleges today, courses are designed for personal development of an individual and/or for employment outcomes. A Certificate I may only run for 4 hours twice a week for a term of 9 weeks, a full-time Diploma course might have classes 4 days per week for a year. Some courses may be offered in the evenings or weekends to accommodate people working full-time, funding for colleges may come from government grants and course fees, and many are not-for-profit organisations. There are located in metropolitan, regional and rural locations of Australia, learning offered by TAFEs and colleges has changed over the years. By the 1980s many colleges had recognised a community need for computer training, TAFEs and colleges have not traditionally offered bachelors degrees, instead providing pathway arrangements with universities to continue towards degrees. The American innovation of the degree is emerging at some institutions. Certificate courses I to IV, diplomas and advanced diplomas are typically offered, recently, some TAFE institutes have also become higher education providers in their own right and are now starting to offer bachelors degrees programs. In Canada, community colleges are adult educational institutions that provide education and tertiary education. Each province has its own system, as prescribed by the Canadian federalism model of governance. A formative trend was the merging of the then separate vocational training, Canadian colleges are either publicly funded or private post-secondary institutions. There are 150 institutions that are equivalent to the US community college in certain contexts. They are usually referred to simply as colleges since in common usage a degree-granting institution is almost exclusively a university, University degrees are usually attained through four years of study. The term associate degree is used in western Canada to refer to a two-year college arts or science degree, in other parts of Canada the term advanced degree is used to indicate a 3- or 4-year college program. In the province of Quebec, three years is the norm for a university degree because a year of credit is earned in the CEGEP system, the word College can also refer to a private High School in Quebec. The courses offered by these colleges are diplomas, advance diplomas, the duration of these courses usually ranges from six months to two years
Community college
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Pasadena City College (PCC)
Community college
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Joliet Junior College Main Campus, in
Joliet, Illinois the first Community College in the U.S.
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Fullerton College the oldest community college (originally "Junior College") in continuous operation in California, having been established in 1913
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Monroe Community College main campus, in
Rochester, NY
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Multnomah County, Oregon
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Multnomah County /məltˈnoʊmə/ is one of 36 counties in the U. S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 735,334. Its county seat, Portland, is the states largest city, Multnomah County is part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and though smallest in area, it is the states most populous county. Multnomah County was created on December 22,1854, formed out of two other Oregon counties – the eastern part of Washington County and the part of Clackamas County. County commissioners met for the first time on January 17,1855, the county is named after the Chinook word for the lower river, Multnomah and Matlnomaq being alternative, interpretive English spellings of the same word. In Chinook Jargon, Ne-matlnomaq, means the place of matlnomaq or the Ne-matlnomag, the explorer William Clark wrote in his Journal, I entered this river. called Multnomah. from a nation who reside on Wappato Island, a little below the enterence. Note that Clark refers to Sauvies Island as Wappato Island and the lower Willamette River as Multnomah, simply put, Multnomah or down river is the shortened form of nematlnomaq, meaning the down river. Vanport, built north of Portland in 1943 to house workers for Kaiser Shipyards, was destroyed by a five years later. The 1968 voters pamphlet noted that Multnomah County would be the county in Oregon affected by the measure. Since the approval of Measure 5 in 1968, an initiative to merge the county with Portland has been considered and placed on the county several times. The merger would have formed a consolidated city-county government like that of San Francisco, none of these proposals has been approved. In the 2000 presidential election, Multnomah played a role in determining the winner of the states electoral votes. Al Gore carried the county by more than 104,000 votes, enough to offset the nearly 100, the Democratic tilt was repeated in 2004, when John Kerry won by 181,000 votes, and in 2008 when Barack Obama won by 204,000 votes. The US Supreme Court ultimately decided in 2003 that the law was constitutional in US v. ALA, however, the library chose to turn down $104,000 per year of federal funding under CIPA to be able to continue to offer unfiltered Internet access. Multnomah County was one of the few governments in Oregon to approve such a tax increase. Her announcement was supported by three commissioners, but criticized by Lonnie Roberts, who represents the eastern part of Multnomah county and was left out of the decision. Within a few days, several groups joined to file a lawsuit to halt the countys action, but after that, Linn and the three commissioners developed a public feud, with the latter becoming known as the mean girls. The county government has faced significant budget issues, including not being able to open the Wapato Corrections Facility since it was built in 2003
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Multnomah County Courthouse in
Downtown Portland
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Washington County, Oregon
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Washington County is one of 36 counties in the U. S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 529,710, the county seat and largest city is Hillsboro. Washington County is part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, cities in Washington County include Hillsboro, Beaverton, Tigard, and Forest Grove, the countys oldest city. Originally named Twality when created in 1843, the legislature renamed it for the first president of the United States, George Washington. The original boundaries included the entire northwest corner of Oregon before sections became new counties, the Tualatin River and its drainage basin are almost entirely within the county, with the county nearly coterminous with the Tualatin Valley. It is bordered on the west and north by the Northern Oregon Coast Range, on the south by the Chehalem Mountains, and on the north and east by the Tualatin Mountains. The countys major roads include small sections of Interstate 5 and Interstate 205, the Sunset Highway, Oregon Route 217, Oregon Route 47, Oregon Route 10, Oregon Route 6, and Oregon Route 8. Public transportation is operated by TriMet and includes buses, the Westside Express Service commuter rail. Other transportation includes air travel at the Hillsboro Airport, private airfields and heliports, the Provisional Legislature of Oregon created the county as Twality District on July 5,1843. Twality was one of the four districts of the Provisional Government of Oregon in Oregon Country along with Clackamas, Champooick. Columbia, later known as Hillsboro, was selected as the county seat in 1850, Washington County obtained its present boundaries in 1854 with the creation of Columbia County to the north and Multnomah County to the east. The construction of Canyon Road to Beaverton helped Portland to consolidate its position as the port of Oregon. In November 2004, the County and the City of Beaverton agreed to a plan where the city would annex both unincorporated residential neighborhoods as well as areas of land. This would result with Cedar Hills, Garden Home, Raleigh Hills, West Slope being incorporated by 2010, and the communities of Aloha, Bethany, and Cedar Mill at some point after that. Those plans have since put on hold after Beaverton attempted to forcibly annex Nike, Inc. s World Headquarters. Nike successfully lobbied the legislature for a law that would prohibit their annexation for 99 years, since that decision, annexation plans have been halted, and Washington County started urban planning to provide city-level services to the unincorporated urban areas in the county. On January 1,2014,160 acres of Multnomah County in the Bethany area transferred to Washington County, the area had originally been split off from Washington County when Multnomah County was created, and was transferred back to allow for development of the property. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 726 square miles
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Washington County Courthouse
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Current county jail in Hillsboro.
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The
Washington County Courthouse in Hillsboro
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Downtown Beaverton
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Yamhill County, Oregon
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Yamhill County is a county in the U. S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 99,193, the names origin is probably an explorers name for a local Native American tribe, the Yamhill, who are part of the North Kalapuyan family. Yamhill County is part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is in the Willamette Valley. The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Yamhill Indians and they are one of the tribes incorporated into the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. In 1857 they were forced to migrate to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation created in Oregons Coastal Range two years earlier, the earliest non-native settlers were employees of the various fur companies operating in Oregon Country, who started settling there around 1814. But it was the establishment of the Oregon Trail that led to significant migration to the area, Yamhill District was created on July 5,1843, five years before the Oregon Territory was established. It was one of the four districts created by Oregons first Provisional Legislature, along with Twality, Clackamas. The district was originally over 12,000 square miles, an area that was broken up into twelve present-day counties, Lafayette, the principal trading center of the western Willamette Valley in early Oregon history, was made the county seat in 1847. The county government was moved to McMinnville where it remains today. The Mount Hebo Air Force Station was a Cold War air defense installation from 1956 to 1980, the large radomes protecting the radars from adverse weather effects could be seen silhouetted against the sky from many parts of Yamhill County. In 1900 a Yamhill River lock and dam lock and dam was completed about 1.5 miles downriver from Lafayette, the lock was decommissioned in 1954. The dam was destroyed in 1963 to allow better passage for salmon on the river. The site of the lock and dam is now a county park, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 718 square miles, of which 716 square miles is land and 2.5 square miles is water. It is the fifth-smallest county in Oregon by area, the tallest mountain in the county is Trask Mountain in the northwest corner of the county. The population density was 119 people per square mile, there were 30,270 housing units at an average density of 42 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county is 88. 98% White,1. 47% Native American,1. 07% Asian,0. 85% Black or African American,0. 12% Pacific Islander,5. 08% from other races, and 2. 42% from two or more races. 10. 61% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,19. 6% were of German,11. 4% English,9. 5% American and 8. 4% Irish ancestry. 19. 70% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.17
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Yamhill County Courthouse
Yamhill County, Oregon
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Grain elevator in
Carlton, Yamhill County.
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Clackamas County, Oregon
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Clackamas County /ˈklækəmᵻs/ is a county in the U. S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 375,992 and its county seat is Oregon City. The county was named after the Native Americans living in the area, the Clackamas Indians, Clackamas County is part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is in the Willamette Valley, originally named Clackamas District, it was one of the four original Oregon districts created by Oregons Provisional Legislature on July 5,1843 along with Twality, Champooick, and Yamhill. The four districts were redesignated as counties in 1845, at the time of its creation, Clackamas County covered portions of four present-day U. S. states and a Canadian province. The Columbia River became the boundary of the county in 1844. Soon after John McLoughlin staked a claim in Oregon City. Oregon City was also the site of the federal court west of the Rockies in 1849. The plat was filed in 1850 in the first plat book of the first office of records in the West Coast and is still in Oregon City, in 1902, the Willamette Meteorite was recovered from a field just outside present-day West Linn. As of August 2005, Clackamas is the first county in Oregon to have four models of governance for its communities, like the rest of Oregon, it has cities and rural communities. After completion of a process began late in 1999, the county adopted an ordinance on August 11,2005 which defined hamlets. By the November 30,2005 deadline, three communities had submitted petitions to start the process of becoming one, boring petitioned to become a village, but the application was rejected in a town hall referendum in August 2006. The communities along US26 near Mount Hood from Brightwood to Rhododendron petitioned to become The Villages at Mount Hood, Beavercreek petitioned to become a hamlet, and was officially recognized as such in September 2006. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 1,883 square miles. The county includes parts of two forests, Mount Hood National Forest and Willamette National Forest. The population density was 181 people per square mile, there were 136,954 housing units at an average density of 73 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 91. 27% White,2. 45% Asian,0. 71% Native American,0. 66% Black or African American,0. 17% Pacific Islander,2. 28% from other races, and 2. 46% from two or more races. 4. 95% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,20. 7% were of German,11. 6% English,9. 1% Irish and 7. 5% American ancestry
Clackamas County, Oregon
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Clackamas County Courthouse
Clackamas County, Oregon
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Forest west of
Clackamas River Valley.
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Mount Hood reflected in Trillium Lake
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Clackamas River flowing through
Milo McIver State Park
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Columbia County, Oregon
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Columbia County is a county in the U. S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,351, the county seat is St. Helens. It was named for the Columbia River, which forms its eastern and northern borders, Columbia County is part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Portland metropolitan area and is located in Northwest Oregon. The Chinook and Clatskanie Native Americans inhabited this region for centuries prior to the arrival of Robert Gray, captain of the ship Columbia Rediviva, in 1792. The Lewis and Clark Expedition traveled and camped along the Columbia River shore in the later known as Columbia County in late 1805. Columbia County was created in 1854 from the half of Washington County. Milton served as the county seat until 1857 when it was moved to St. Helens, Columbia County has been afflicted by numerous flooding disasters, the most recent in December 2007. Heavy rains caused the Nehalem River to escape its banks and flood the city of Vernonia, Columbia County received a presidential disaster declaration for this event. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 688 square miles and it is Oregons third-smallest county by land area and fourth-smallest by total area. The population density was 66 people per square mile, there were 17,572 housing units at an average density of 27 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 94. 42% White,0. 24% Black or African American,1. 33% Native American,0. 59% Asian,0. 10% Pacific Islander,0. 79% from other races, and 2. 53% from two or more races. 2. 51% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,21. 2% were of German,10. 8% English,9. 4% American,9. 3% Irish and 5. 4% Norwegian ancestry. 21. 10% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.06. In the county, the population was out with 27. 30% under the age of 18,7. 00% from 18 to 24,28. 10% from 25 to 44,26. 00% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 100.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.10 males, the median income for a household in the county was $45,797, and the median income for a family was $51,381. Males had an income of $42,227 versus $27,216 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,078, about 6. 70% of families and 9. 10% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11. 60% of those under age 18 and 7. 00% of those age 65 or over
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The Columbia County Courthouse in St. Helens
Columbia County, Oregon
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The CC Rider transit service links the county to Portland and points in Washington County, including connecting with
TriMet buses and the
MAX light rail system in eastern Hillsboro.
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Columbia County Sheriff's Office
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Portland Public Schools (Oregon)
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Portland Public Schools is a public school district located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the largest school district in the state of Oregon and it is a Pre K-12 district with an enrollment of approximately 48,500 students. About 85 schools and 50 special needs sites are maintained within the district, in the 1850s, when the first public schools were formed in Portland, free education was still a new concept. The first term will commence on Monday, the 15th inst. at the schoolhouse in this city, the directors would recommend the following books to be used in the school, viz. Sandler’s Series of Readers and Spellers, Goodrich’s Geography, Thompson’s Arithmetics and Bullion’s Grammar. John Outhouse, the schoolteacher, was paid 100 dollars a month, the school was held in a school house at the corner of First and Oak Streets, in what is now Northwest Portland, and had just 20 students at first. The early public schools were met with some criticism, abigail Clarke was hired at the beginning of the third term in 1852, due to increased attendance and a $1600 tax to pay for the schools. She was paid 75 dollars a month, and taught at a new building, on First. By the third term,126 students were enrolled in all, Clarke was known to thrash boys who made a sport of rapping on the windows of the school, which faced out to the street. She continued to teach until the summer of 1853, when she moved to Oregon City, in December 1854, Thomas Frazer wrote a notice in The Oregonian to try to create a school board for Portland. Many responded, and the first school consisted of Thomas Frazer himself, William S. Ladd. The first superintendent of Multnomah County was L. Limerick, who was appointed in January 1855, on December 18,1854, the school board organized two school districs, named School District Number 1 and School District Number 2, divided by Morrison Street. On March 31,1856, they were merged into a single School District Number 1, School District Number 1 opened a school in fall 1855, presumably replacing the school started by Outhouse and Clarke. This school was presided over by Sylvester Pennoyer and closed in six months, in 1858, a new schoolhouse was built, financed by canceling school for a year. The school was located at Sixth and Morrison and named the Central School, the Central School location was later occupied by the Portland Hotel and is now Pioneer Courthouse Square. A high school, Portland High School, was opened in 1869, in the 1860s, the school budget was very low, about $10 per student per year. In 1867, shoemaker William Brown, one of approximately 200 black people living in Portland. The Colored School opened in fall 1867, discontinuing in 1872 when a referendum supported integration. By December 1873,30 students in the district were black, by the end of the 1870s, there were four elementary schools, Central School, Harrison School, Colored School, and North School
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Portland Public Schools
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is one of the most popular green building certification programs used worldwide. Developed by the non-profit U. S. LEED also has grown from six volunteers on one committee to 119,924 staff, volunteers, LEED standards have been applied to approximately 83,452 registered and certified LEED projects worldwide, covering around 13.8 billion square feet. Many U. S. federal agencies and states and local governments require or reward LEED certification, however, four states have effectively banned the use of LEED in new public buildings, preferring other industry standards that the USGBC considers too lax. Proposals to modify the LEED standards are offered and publicly reviewed by USGBCs member organizations, GBCI also certifies projects pursuing LEED. LEED has evolved since 1998 to more accurately represent and incorporate emerging green building technologies, the pilot version, LEED New Construction v1.0, led to LEED NCv2.0, LEED NCv2.2 in 2005, and LEED2009 in 2009. LEED v4 was introduced in November,2013, until October 31,2016, new projects may choose between LEED2009 and LEED v4. New projects registering after October 31,2016 must use LEED v4, LEED2009 encompasses ten rating systems for the design, construction and operation of buildings, homes and neighborhoods. Five overarching categories correspond to the available under the LEED professional program. Up to 10 additional points may be earned, four points may be received for Regional Priority Credits. Its owner must share data on the energy and water use for five years after occupancy or date of certification. Each of the categories also have mandatory measures in each category. The weighting process has three steps, A collection of buildings are used to estimate the environmental impacts of any building seeking LEED certification in a designated rating scheme. NIST weightings are used to judge the importance of these impacts in each category. Data regarding actual impacts on environmental and human health are used to assign points to individual categories and measures and this system results in a weighted average for each rating scheme based upon actual impacts and the relative importance of those impacts to human health and environmental quality. The LEED council also appears to have assigned credit and measure weighting based upon the market implications of point allocation, in 2003, the Canada Green Building Council received permission to create LEED Canada-NC v1.0, which was based upon LEED-NC2.0. Many buildings in Canada are LEED certified in part due to their Rainwater harvesting practices, LEED certification is granted by the Green Building Certification Institute, which handles the third-party verification of a projects compliance with the LEED requirements. The certification process for design teams is made up of two applications, one including design credits, and one including construction credits. All of the LEED credits in each rating system are assigned to either the design application or the construction application, the design credits include those that are the purview of the architect and the engineer, and are documented in the official construction drawings
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Tower at PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh, opened in October 2015, is the greenest Skyrise ever built and exceeds the current criteria for a LEED Platinum certified building.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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The Gold and Platinum rating of
David L. Lawrence Convention Center in
Pittsburgh, is the first convention center in the world to have such certifications.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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1225 Connecticut Avenue, in
Washington, D.C., is the first redeveloped office building on the
U.S. East Coast to receive LEED Platinum status.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh has multiple LEED certifications, including the world's only Platinum-certified greenhouse and a Platinum-certified and
net-zero energy Center for Sustainable Landscapes.
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Newberg, Oregon
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Newberg is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the city is home to George Fox University, as of the 2010 census, the city population was 22,110 making it the second most populous city in the county. Ewing Young, after leading pioneering fur brigades in California, came to Portland in 1834 and settled on the west bank of the Willamette River near the mouth of Chehalem Creek, youngs home is believed to be the first house built by European-Americans on that side of the river. Later, Joseph Rogers settled near the Willamette River at what is now Newberg in 1848, the community was known early on as Chehalem, and later as Rogers Landing for Rogers who founded the settlement, and who died in 1855. In 1883, the community was platted, incorporated in 1889, tradition holds that this town was named by its first postmaster, Sebastian Brutscher, for his former hometown of Neuberg in Germany. One of the current streets, Brutscher Street, is named after him, Newberg was one of the first communities in Oregon to hold Quaker services. It was incorporated as a city in 1889, the citys oldest surviving newspaper, The Newberg Graphic, was established Dec.1,1888. Friends Pacific Academy, renamed Pacific College in 1891 and then George Fox University in 1949, was founded by the Quakers in 1885, George Fox University is classified by U. S. News & World Report as a first-tier regional university and Best Value school. The campus resides in the center of the city, surrounded by university-owned housing, the town was dry, meaning no alcohol could be sold within the city limits, for a good part of its early history. Newberg is located on Oregon Route 99W about 25 miles southwest of Portland, springbook, once a separate community, is now considered part of Newberg. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 5.81 square miles. It averages 176 feet in elevation, as of the census of 2010, there were 22,068 people,7,736 households, and 5,398 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,798.3 inhabitants per square mile, there were 8,265 housing units at an average density of 1,422.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 85. 9% White,0. 8% African American,0. 8% Native American,2. 2% Asian,0. 2% Pacific Islander,7. 0% from other races, and 3. 1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13. 5% of the population,23. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the family size was 3.12. The median age in the city was 32.8 years. 25. 2% of residents were under the age of 18,13. 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24,27. 1% were from 25 to 44,21. 9% were from 45 to 64, and 12% were 65 years of age or older
Newberg, Oregon
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City Hall
Newberg, Oregon
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Hoover-Minthorn House
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Newberg Friends Church
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George Fox University campus
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Hillsboro, Oregon
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Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the State of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. At the 2010 Census, the population was 91,611. For thousands of years before the arrival of European-American settlers, the Atfalati tribe of the Kalapuya lived in the Tualatin Valley near the site of Hillsboro. The climate, moderated by the Pacific Ocean, helped make the region suitable for fishing, hunting, food gathering, settlers founded a community here in 1842, later named after David Hill, an Oregon politician. Transportation by riverboat on the Tualatin River was part of Hillsboros settler economy, a railroad reached the area in the early 1870s and an interurban electric railway about four decades later. These railways, as well as highways, aided the growth of the city to about 2,000 people by 1910 and about 5,000 by 1950. Hillsboro has a government consisting of a city manager and a city council headed by a mayor. In addition to industry, sectors important to Hillsboros economy are health care, retail sales. The city operates more than twenty parks and the mixed-use Hillsboro Stadium, modes of transportation include private vehicles, public buses and light rail, and aircraft using the Hillsboro Airport. The city is home to Pacific Universitys Health Professions Campus, notable residents include two Oregon governors. The first people of the Tualatin Valley were the Atfalati or Tualaty tribe of the Kalapuya, the valley consisted of open grassland maintained through annual burning by the Atfalati, with scattered groves of trees along the streams. The Kalapuya moved from place to place in good weather to fish and hunt and to gather nuts, seeds, roots, important foods included camas and wapato, and the Atfalati traded for salmon from Chinookan tribes near Willamette Falls on the Willamette River. During the winter, they lived in longhouses in settled villages, some near what became Hillsboro and their population was greatly reduced after contact in the late 18th century with Europeans, who carried smallpox, syphilis, and malaria. Of the original population of 1,000 to 2,000 Atfalati reported in 1780, in 1855, the U. S. government sent the survivors to the Grande Ronde reservation further west. The European-American community was founded by David Hill, Isaiah Kelsey, and Richard Williams, the locality went by two other names—East Tualatin Plains and Columbia—before it was named Hillsborough in February 1850 in honor of Hill, when he sold part of his land claim to the county. On February 5,1850, commissioners chosen by the legislature selected the community to be the seat of the county government. Hill was to be paid $200 for his land after plots had been sold for the site, but he died before this occurred. The towns name was simplified to Hillsboro
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From top:
City Hall,
Chief Kno-Tah,
Main Street Bridge, fountain at
The Streets of Tanasbourne, Downtown with
Mount Hood and
Tuality Hospital in the background, and
Intel 's Ronler Acres Campus
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Shute Park sculpture
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Hillsboro's Civic Center and City Hall
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Ronler Acres Intel campus
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Washington County Museum
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Washington County Museum is a history museum located in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1975, the museum is operated by the Washington County Historical Society with a mission of preserving the history of the area, the museum moved the main exhibit space to downtown Hillsboro at the Civic Center in November 2012. The prior museum space remains as a library at Portland Community Colleges Rock Creek Campus. In the 1930s, local historian Albert E. Tozier donated his collection of artifacts, books, maps, beginning in 1939, the artifacts were displayed at Hillsboros Carnegie Library. In 1956, the Washington County Historical Society was incorporated, in 1962, the society looked at using Shute Park as a possible home for their museum, temporarily moved their collections to the parks pavilion. Then in 1975 the county decided to start a formal history museum, from 1975 to 1987, Washington County owned and operated the museum. During that time the museum was in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, in 1982 a new museum was built at the Portland Community College campus at Rock Creek, and it opened in January 1983. Then in September 1987 the Washington County Historical Society took over operations at the museum, in 2007, the museum began a $1.7 million expansion of the facility to more than double the size of the museum. The museums annual fundraiser featured Oregon State Beavers basketball coach Craig Robinson as the master of ceremonies in 2009, the museum moved into a space at the Hillsboro Civic Center in a return to downtown Hillsboro, opening in November 2012. The new space covers 12,400 square feet on the floor in the commercial portion of the center. After signing a lease, the museum was set to complete $1.5 million in improvements to both the new space and the former location at PCC. The former museum building at PCC underwent renovations in 2015, and remains a repository for the county archives, after securing a traveling NASA exhibit of the Hubble Space Telescope, the museum opened the new exhibit space in November 2012. Renovations of the exhibit space at Rock Creek and additional improvements at the Civic Center are planned to be completed at a later time. An exhibit exploring the history of the Bracero Program is also a featured exhibit, to coincide with the inaugural season of the Hillsboro Hops minor league baseball team, the museum opened an exhibit in June 2013 spotlighting the history of baseball in the county. The museum fired director Sam Shogren in June 2014, the director in 2016 is Mark S. Harmon, the museum closed for several weeks in February 2015 to retrofit exhibit walls for seismic upgrades. The museum received 5,000 visitors annually at the PCC Rock Creek campus locations 5, the downtown Civic Center location, Mobile Museum Program, and the Research library now serve about 11,000 visitors annually. The museum operates a store in the Civic Center location selling books about local history, historical toys. The PCC Rock Creek location is the Robert L. Benson Research Library with over 25,000 images, more than 1,400 maps, and over 500 books along with other historical records and newspapers
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Grand opening of the new exhibit space in Hillsboro in 2012
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Washington County Museum
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Inside the old building at PCC
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
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The United States Army Corps of Engineers, also sometimes shortened to CoE is a U. S. Although generally associated with dams, canals and flood protection in the United States, the Corps of Engineers provides outdoor recreation opportunities to the public, and provides 24% of U. S. hydropower capacity. The corps mission is to Deliver vital public and military engineering services, partnering in peace and war to strengthen our Nations security, energize the economy and their most visible missions include, Planning, designing, building, and operating locks and dams. Other civil engineering projects include flood control, beach nourishment, design and construction of flood protection systems through various federal mandates. Design and construction management of military facilities for the Army, Air Force, Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve and other Defense and Federal agencies. The history of United States Army Corps of Engineers can be traced back to 16 June 1775, colonel Richard Gridley became General George Washingtons first chief engineer, however, it was not until 1779 that Congress created a separate Corps of Engineers. One of its first tasks was to build fortifications near Boston at Bunker Hill, the first Corps of Engineers was mostly composed of French subjects who had been hired by General Washington from the service of Louis XVI. that the said Corps. Shall be stationed at West Point in the State of New York, until 1866, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy was always an officer of engineer. During the first half of the 19th century, West Point was the major and, for a while, the General Survey Act of 1824 authorized the use of Army engineers to survey road and canal routes. Separately authorized on 4 July 1838, the U. S and it was merged with the Corps of Engineers on 31 March 1863, at which point the Corps of Engineers also assumed the Lakes Survey District mission for the Great Lakes. In 1841, Congress created the Lake Survey, the survey, based in Detroit, Mich. was charged with conducting a hydrographical survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes and preparing and publishing nautical charts and other navigation aids. The Lake Survey published its first charts in 1852, in the mid-19th century, Corps of Engineers officers ran Lighthouse Districts in tandem with U. S. Naval officers. The Army Corps of Engineers played a significant role in the American Civil War, many of the men who would serve in the top leadership in this institution were West Point graduates who rose to military fame and power during the Civil War. Some of these men were Union Generals George McClellan, Henry Halleck, George Meade, and Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, the versatility of officers in the Army Corps of Engineers contributed to the success of numerous missions throughout the Civil War. They were responsible for building pontoon and railroad bridges, forts and batteries, the destruction of supply lines. The Army Corps of Engineers served as a function in making the war effort logistically feasible. This method of building trenches was known as the zigzag pattern, from the beginning, many politicians wanted the Corps of Engineers to contribute to both military construction and works of a civil nature. During World War II the mission grew to more than 27,000 military, included were aircraft, tank assembly, and ammunition plants, camps for 5.3 million soldiers, depots, ports, and hospitals, as well as the Manhattan Project, and the Pentagon
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Colonel Debra Lewis, the Gulf Region Division Central District commander with Sheik O'rhaman Hama Raheem, an Iraqi councilman, celebrate the opening of a new women's center in Assriya Village that the Corps helped construct in 2006.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dredge Tauracavor 3 in New York Harbor.
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Mississippi River Improvement, 1890.
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Portland metropolitan area
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The Portland metropolitan area or Greater Portland is a metropolitan area in the U. S. states of Oregon and Washington centered on the principal city of Portland, Oregon. The OMB defines the area as comprising Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill Counties in Oregon, the areas population is estimated at 2,348,247 in 2014. Portions of this are under the jurisdiction of Metro, an elected regional government which. As of the 2010 census, there were 2,226,009 people,867,794 households, the per capita income was $27,451. The Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro Metropolitan Statistical Area, the 23rd largest in the United States, has a population of 2,226,009, of them,1,789,580 live in Oregon while the remaining 436,429 live in Washington. It consists of Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Columbia and Yamhill counties in Oregon, as well as Clark, the Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA Combined Statistical Area 2015 population estimate is 3,110,906, ranked 18th largest in the United States. This area includes the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, Salem, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area, major cities in the region in addition to Portland include Beaverton, Gresham, Hillsboro in Oregon, and Vancouver in Washington. Portland is where Interstate 84 ends at Interstate 5, both highways in the Pacific Northwest. Other primary roads include Interstate 205, a bypass of the urban core, U. S. Route 26. Both US26 and US30 go to the Oregon Coast, SR500 runs from Interstate 5 to SR503. Padden Parkway runs from NE 78th St and east to NE 162nd Ave, Transit service on the Oregon side is generally provided by TriMet. In addition, Sandy Area Metro serves Sandy, South Clackamas Transportation District serves nearby Molalla, Canby Area Transit serves Canby, service in Clark County is provided by C-Tran. The Portland MSA also hosts a number of sports, including college. The high school rugby championships are annually in the Portland MSA
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Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
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The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is a science and technology museum in Portland, Oregon, United States. It contains three auditoriums, including a theatre, planetarium, and exhibition halls with a variety of hands-on permanent exhibits focused on natural sciences, industry. Transient exhibits span a range of disciplines. Beginning in 1903, odd artifacts were displayed in hallways and alcoves in Portland City Hall arranged by Colonel L. L. Hawkins, when the collection was evicted in 1936, about 12,000 artifacts were stored throughout the city. On November 5,1944, the Oregon Museum Foundation was founded with the mission of establishing an Oregon Museum of History, Science and it displayed its first collection of natural history objects at the Portland Hotel. Subsequent small exhibits occurred around town to generate interest and donations, in 1949, a house at 908 NE Hassalo was donated to establish the museum. Within a year, the Pacific Northwests first public planetarium opened in a dome on the front lawn, by 1955, OMSIs annual attendance had grown to 25,000. The need for expansion led to building a new site at Washington Park. This opened to the public on August 3,1958, following a dedication by the governor on June 7. The two attractions remained neighbors, sharing a lot, until 1992. By the mid-1980s,600,000 people per year were visiting the building, property that included the historic Station L power plant was donated by Portland General Electric, and building construction was paid for by a fundraising campaign. In 1992, OMSI opened at the new site, which continues to be the current location, the construction integrated the existing PGE turbine building and included the creation of a 330-seat OMNIMAX theater. The facility also includes a 200-seat planetarium with Digistar 3 technology, in 2004 the Turbine Hall was closed from September through November for renovations in which the Discovery Space and Technology Lab changed places and a new Inventors Ballroom was added. Also added were a stage area for public exhibit demonstrations. The museum started planning for an expansion of the facility in 2006, in 2008, OMSI began finalizing the plans for the expansion, which was estimated to cost about $500 million and would double the size of the museum. The OMNIMAX dome theater closed in September 2013 for conversion into a conventional flat-screen movie theater that is not IMAX but still has an extra-large screen, renamed the Empirical Theater, it reopened in December 2013. OMSI has five different specialized exhibit halls, a planetarium, the USS Blueback was purchased by OMSI in February 1994. This submarine appeared in the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October before being towed to its present location and it was opened to the public on May 15,1994, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in September 2008
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OMSI at its 1958–1992 location, with
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Location within Portland, Oregon
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OMSI viewed from the
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The
USS Blueback submarine at rest on the
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TriMet
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Created in 1969 by the Oregon legislature, the district replaced five private bus companies that operated in the three counties, Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas. TriMet started operating a rail system named MAX in 1986. It also provides the operators and maintenance personnel for the City of Portland-owned Portland Streetcar system, in addition to rail lines, TriMet provides the regions bus system, as well as LIFT paratransit service. There are 659 buses in TriMets fleet that operate on 78 lines. In Fiscal Year 2013, the system averaged almost 316,700 rides per weekday and operates buses. TriMets annual budget for FY2014 is $489 million, with half of revenues coming from a district-wide payroll tax. The district is overseen by a board of governors appointed by the states governor. In 2014, the agency has around 2,500 employees and it has its own boundary, which currently encompasses an area of about 533 square miles. TriMet was formed in 1969 after disputes between the Portland city council and Rose City Transit Company, the company that previously operated the bus system serving the city. These were taken over by TriMet on September 6,1970, eighty-eight buses owned by the four suburban companies were transferred to TriMet, but many were found to be in poor condition and the TriMet board soon took action to replace them with new buses. As of January 2016, TriMet operates a total of 659 buses on 78 routes,145 MAX light rail cars on five lines, and 268 LIFT paratransit vehicles. Each of the five MAX and 12 of the bus lines are designated as Frequent Service lines and this connection is at the Wilsonville Station of TriMets WES Commuter Rail rail line. Columbia County Rider, the transit service for Scappoose, St. Long-range transportation planning for the metropolitan area is provided by Metro. Metro also has authority to take over the day-to-day operations of TriMet. TriMet runs the MAX Light Rail system, and contracts with Portland, fares on MAX are the same as TriMet bus fares, and fare collection uses a proof-of-payment system with ticket vending machines at each station. Fare inspectors patrol the system randomly, incidents of violence on the system have led to calls for more security, and some have argued that more thorough checking of fares would improve riders overall feeling of safety. The TransitTracker system uses satellite tracking on buses and sensors in the MAX tracks to predict arrival times at stops, additionally, TriMet is partnering with Google Maps to install Bluetooth low energy beacons on MAX platforms, allowing nearby Android device users to directly receive schedule and alert information. TriMet trains operate using reporting mark TMTC and it was reduced to only seven dates per year in 2011 and was discontinued entirely in July 2014
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A now-obsolete
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A digital bus schedule at a stop at on the
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TriMet's first paint scheme was this orange and white, worn by all vehicles from 1971 until 1980 and by a portion of the fleet (the oldest buses) until 1991.
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MAX train traveling on the Yellow line (Interstate Avenue)
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Willow Creek Transit Center
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The Willow Creek/Southwest 185th Avenue Transit Center is a light rail station and transit center on the MAX Blue Line in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located near the intersection of Baseline Road and 185th Avenue on the edge of the city, it is the twelfth stop westbound on TriMets Westside MAX. From 2006 to 2007, the station saw nearly 950,000 passengers, artwork at the stop represents a reading motif, as a library was planned for the station, but never built. Willow Creek is near the Oregon National Primate Research Center and the rest of the Oregon Health & Science Universitys West Campus in the Tanasbourne neighborhood. Planning for a rail system on Portlands west side started in 1979. The line originally was to terminate at Willow Creek/185th, but lobbying by Hillsboro mayor Shirley Huffman, plans for the station originally called for the construction of a branch of the Hillsboro Public Library at the stop. Due to cost overruns when building the Robertson Tunnel through the West Hills, the library was canceled, TriMet also canceled plans for security cameras at the station. The park-and-ride lot opened on March 3,1997, served by two bus lines, because it was ready for use, on September 12,1998, Willow Creek Transit Center opened along with the rest of the Westside MAX line. The park-and-ride lot was filled to 67% capacity on average within a few months of the MAX lines opening, by December 1999, Willow Creek was the second-busiest station in terms of boardings on the Hillsboro portion, averaging 2,313 per day. The park-and-ride lot was the fifth busiest on the MAX system by March 2000, a woman at Willow Creek was hit by MAX train in November 2000. A nearly 400-unit apartment complex was adjacent to the station in 2003. In 2005, a stabbing occurred at the stop, and in 2007 a rider forced off the MAX by TriMet then attempted to assault someone at the apartment complex. In 2008, TriMet secured a grant from the Transportation Security Administration to allow the agency to add security cameras to the station. Portland Community College began construction of a center at the station in 2008. Willow Creek is located just northwest of the intersection of Baseline Road, the station includes a park-and-ride lot along with racks and lockers for bicycles. With 595 parking spaces, the lot is the second biggest park-and-ride on the MAX line after the Sunset Transit Center. As with all MAX stations, it is Americans with Disabilities Act compliant and has vending machines on the island-type platform. Willow Creek also has a stand next to the bus plaza
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Platform at the station
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Bus area with platform in the background
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TriMet bus being passed by a CC Rider
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Hillsboro Intermodal Transit Facility
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Hillsboro Intermodal Transit Facility is a parking garage with extensive bicycle facilities located in Hillsboro in the U. S. state of Oregon. Opened in 2010, HITF also has 20,000 square feet of commercial space, the $16 million facility was a joint project between the city, Pacific University, and Tuality Healthcare. At that time, officials hoped to begin construction in 2009 on a four-level structure, in April 2009, the project was awarded $2.34 million in federal stimulus funds. In February 2009, the city approved a contract with Skanska USA for construction of the project with a bid of $13.1 million, officials hoped to begin construction that spring, though the city still needed to find $4 million to fully fund the project. In August 2009, a ceremony was held at the construction site. Senator Ron Wyden, Mayor Jerry Willey, state representative David Edwards, construction had already begun at the time of the ceremony. The city hoped to attain LEED silver certification for the due to its environmentally friendly aspects, including solar power. Hillsboro would own the facility, with Portland Community College signed on as a tenant for the commercial space. Construction was scheduled to begin in late July 2009 on what had been a lot for the hospital. Besides the parking spaces, the called for Bike Central,15 electric vehicle charging stations. Additionally, the roof was to include panels and possibly wind turbines at a later time. On August 31,2010, the facility opened with a ceremony that celebrated both its opening and the opening of the second building at the neighboring Health Professions Campus. Dignitaries at the event included Hillsboro mayor Willey, state senator Bruce Starr, the facility actually opened in September. PCC moved its Hillsboro Education Center from near the Hatfield Government Center MAX station into the HITF in September 2010, an indoor bicycle facility with secured parking for bicycles and showers opened in October 2010. The facility came in third in its category, the facility is located between Baseline and Washington streets and between Seventh and Eighth avenues in Downtown Hillsboro, a half block away from the Eighth Avenue MAX station. Power for the charging stations comes in part from the panel array situated on the roof of the structure. These panels came from SolarWorld’s local plant in the city, the concrete-and-steel structure has a brick veneer and stands five-stories tall, with the fifth floor uncovered. HITF has 794 parking spaces total, as well as nearly 20, Skanska USA built the structure for the city of Hillsboro, while LRS Architects did the design work and Catena Consulting Engineers provided engineering on the project
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East side of the structure in 2010
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The structure in December 2009
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The structure in March 2010
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Electric vehicle charging stations
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Northwest Athletic Conference
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The NWAC was originally formed in 1946 as the Washington State Junior College Athletic Conference. In 1961, the state Legislature removed a legal roadblock that had barred the establishment of colleges in counties with four-year colleges. After the Legislature took action, the number of schools in the WAACC nearly doubled, three years later, the conference was renamed the Washington Athletic Association of Community Colleges. In 1970 the conference admitted its first non-Washington member, Mt. Hood Community College of Gresham, Oregon, at that time, the WAACC became the Northwest AACC, reflecting its two-state membership. The NWAACC merged with its Oregon counterpart in 1983, resulting in a 26-member circuit stretching from southwestern Oregon to the Canada–US border, on July 1,2014, the conference announced that they were becoming the Northwest Athletic Conference. The NWAC, now with 36 members, is the largest community college conference in the United States and it is not affiliated with the National Junior College Athletic Association, but acknowledges on the NWAC website athletes representing conference schools in the NJCAA wrestling tournament. Following the nine members, Columbia Basin College joined in 1955. Initially, the conference offered football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, in 1963 wrestling was added, followed by cross country in 1965 and soccer in 1974. The document set forth the philosophy of the conferences athletic program. 1963, Birth of Oregons Conference In 1963, five Oregon schools joined to form the Oregon Community College Athletic Association, charter members were Blue Mountain, Central Oregon, Clatsop, Southwestern Oregon and Treasure Valley community colleges. The conference more than doubled in size in the 1968-69 school year, 1970s, The NWAACC and the Rise of Womens Athletics During the 1970s, the newly renamed NWAACC saw the growth of womens sports at its member institutions. Womens athletics were governed by the Northwest College Womens Sports Association until 1978, volunteer athletic directors had overseen conference functions and activities until the addition of womens athletics. The subsequent increased workload caused the NWAACC to convene a five-member hiring committee, Bosone retired in 1992 and was succeeded by Dick McClain, a longtime baseball coach in Corvallis, Oregon. 1983, Merger Community college athletics in the Pacific Northwest changed dramatically in 1983, the merger between the Washington and Oregon colleges has helped the NWAACC become a strong organization. Since 1984, nine other colleges have added intercollegiate athletics and/or became NWAACC members, today, The NWAACC was renamed the Northwest Athletic Conference on July 1,2014 and has 36 member schools. Fall Cross Country Soccer Volleyball Golf Winter Basketball Wrestling Spring Baseball Softball Golf Outdoor Track and Field Tennis NWAC Homepage NWAC TV
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Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC)
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Chemeketa Community College
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Chemeketa serves over 30,000 students each year in a district that covers 2,600 square miles in Marion, Polk, most of Yamhill, and part of Linn counties. Chemeketas history began in 1952, when the Salem School District started the Salem Technical-Vocational School to provide training for the unemployed, two programs, Nursing and Electronics, were offered and were occupied in the school at the corner of 3rd and Gerth St. NW. In 1957, student records were lost in a fire at the district office, in 1969 the college district was formed, and a competition was held to name the new college. The winning entry came from dental assisting student Susan Blum, who wrote in her submission that the term Chemeketa means a gathering place. In December 1969, the Board of Education approved the name Chemeketa Community College, property was purchased off of Lancaster Street and the current building 22 was constructed as the first official building. The college also operates the Wine Studies Center which includes a vineyard and houses its winemaking. This program was the first of its kind in Oregon, Chemeketa offers Associate of Applied Science degrees and certificates in more than 40 professional-technical programs, as well as an Associate of Arts—Oregon Transfer and a General Education degree. Chemeketa Community College is well known for its nursing, fire science, viticulture, list of Oregon community colleges Chemeketa Community College
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Chemeketa Community College
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Dallas campus
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Clackamas Community College
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Clackamas Community College is a community college located in Oregon City, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1966, it is one of the largest community colleges in the state of Oregon, Clackamas Community College offers courses at three campuses, the central campus in Oregon City, Harmony Community Campus in Clackamas, and the Wilsonville campus. Extension sites are located in the towns of Canby and Molalla. CCC is also the college to offer an urban agriculture certificate in the state of Oregon. Clackamas Community College is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, programs at Clackamas Community College are approved for the education of veterans. CCC provides programs and courses in academic transfer, career and technical education, workforce development, business training and development, literacy/basic skills, in 2009–10, CCC served more than 38,000 students and had approximately 8,900 FTE. Clackamas Community College opened in 1966 with 693 part-time students taking classes at Gladstone High School, two years later, ground was broken for Clairmont Building on the Oregon City Campus – CCCs first permanent home. The college has expanded significantly in the years since, and is now a network of three campuses serving a student body of more than 25,000 students, with more than 1,300 classes taught each term. Clackamas Community Colleges main campus is located in historic Oregon City, located off of Interstate-205, Highway 213, the Harmony Community Campus offers courses to train students for jobs in the healthcare field. The colleges newest building not only houses the center for health education, it also offers a variety of student services. The Harmony Community Campus is centrally located in North Clackamas, close to the Clackamas Town Center, CCC general education courses are also offered, in the evenings and on weekends throughout the year, for various degrees including the Oregon AAOT Transfer degree. The Wilsonville campus broke ground in 1991 and it is located at 29353 Town Center Loop East in Wilsonville. Clackamas Community College competes in the Northwest Athletic Conference as the Cougars, CCC offers 11 competitive college sports including mens baseball, womens softball, men and womens basketball, track, cross country, womens volleyball, womens soccer and wrestling
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CCC Oregon City Campus
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Mount Hood Community College
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Mt. Hood Community College is a public community college in Gresham, Oregon, United States, named after Mount Hood. Hay 2013- Dr. Debra Derr The main campus occupies 212-acre in Gresham, other facilities include the Maywood Park campus, the Bruning Center for Allied Health Education and area public schools. The college is relatively short distance from the nearby communities Sandy and Clackamas. MHCC enrolls nearly 30,000 students each year and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The colleges programs include nursing, funeral science, integrated media, automotive technology and transfer opportunities to local universities toward B. A. degrees in humanities, the college is financed by local property tax funds, state reimbursement funds and student tuition. Local voters established the college tax base in 1968 and approved tax increases in 1970 and 1980. MHCC is home to an Eastern Oregon University 4-year degree program in either Business Administration or Education, the classes are held in the same manner as a regular 4-year institution, under the Eastern Oregon University - Mt. Hood Metro Center. The college has a student government, almost thirty different student clubs. Mt. Hood Community College competes in the Northwest Athletic Conference, the college nickname is the Saints in reference to the St. Bernard mascot. There are four teams including baseball, basketball, track and field. There are five womens teams including volleyball, softball, basketball, track and field, the college features a large aquatics center, which includes an indoor swimming pool
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Mt. Hood Community College
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Lane Community College
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Its motto is Transforming Lives Through Learning. Lane is governed by a Board of Education consisting of seven publicly elected, unpaid members who have responsibility for establishing policies and overseeing programs, Lane is one of seventeen Oregon community colleges authorized by the Oregon legislature and regulated by the Oregon Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development. Green career programs at Lane include watershed science, water conservation, energy management, renewable energy, English as a second language non-credit courses are offered in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Adult basic skills classes target students who have not earned high school diplomas with preparation for the test of General Education Development. For its promising results in improving developmental English completion rates, Lane was named one of 16 community colleges in the 2014 national cohort of Leader Colleges by Achieving the Dream, tRiO STEM is a government funded program offering student to student tutoring for free to eligible students. Eligibility is determined by the criteria, students must be enrolled in a 2-year program at Lane or transfer program to a 4-year college or university. They must have the intention of finishing there program within 3 years of enrollment at Lane, have proof of citizenship or permanent residency. As well as those requirements students must meet two of the three following criteria, be a first generation student, student with disability, and/or a low income student. Tutors are trained in at least two such as math and science. Some of the assistance provided to students includes, resources such as books, computers, one important aspect of the program offered to students is a strong support network of genuinely concerned staff and fellow students. The program helps students be prepared for the challenges of university live, emphasizing organizational skills, self time management, balancing home and school live, and encouraging students to maintain strong relationships with instructors and professors. Student progress is tracked to help them on the path of success at all times. Of the 33, 600+ students attending Lane during academic year 2013-14,60 percent were in programs and 40 percent were in non-credit classes. Approximately 37 percent of students attended full-time and 63 percent attended part-time. The average age of students in Fall 2014 was 27 years. Credit female students outnumbered males by 49.6 percent to 47.5 percent, just under 75 percent of Lane credit students self-reported as Caucasian.9 percent and African American students represented 2.2 percent. In December 2010, the became the second community college in the United States to open a tribal longhouse, after Peninsula College. The college has over 650 American Indian students, and annually one of the largest powwows in the Pacific Northwest
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Lane Community College Building 1
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Main Campus
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Satellite center in Florence, Oregon
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Umpqua Community College
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Umpqua Community College is a community college located approximately six miles north of Roseburg, Oregon, United States. The college has sixteen campus buildings located on 100 acres bordering the North Umpqua River, the campus also features a track, tennis courts, and an outdoor pool. In 2009, a vineyard was added to the campus, about 3,300 full-time students and 16,000 part-time students attend UCC. Umpqua Community College serves the greater Douglas County region with the exception of Reedsport, after visiting other campuses, the group wrote a report, and in 1960 the Chamber of Commerce formed an Education Committee with Wayne Crooch as its chair. In February 1960, the Roseburg School Board was asked to approve a program of college courses. The request was approved and an agreement was established with Southern Oregon College, Harry Jacoby, assistant Superintendent of the Roseburg School District, was named coordinator of the project. The first college courses were offered in 1961, classes were first held in rented facilities in Roseburg. The cost was $5 per term and $11 per credit, after meeting the legal requirements for forming a college district, the Oregon State Board of Higher Education ordered establishment of the proposed district on December 11,1962. Voters supported formation of the district by voting 3,190 yes and 825 no on March 30,1964, the same election also established the first seven-member board of directors. At the first board meeting on April 2,1964, Ralph Snyder was appointed registrar, the land for the campus,98.5 acres of pasture land along a bend in the North Umpqua River, was donated by Elton and Ruth Jackson. The Board accepted the site in February 1965, College construction was funded by a serial levy passed in May 1965 and a bond issue passed in 1968. Additional financing came from interest earnings, state funding, and federal grants, classes were first held on Phase I of the new campus in Fall 1967. In September 2010, the school started construction on a $6.7 million viticulture education facility to be the home of the schools Southern Oregon Wine Institute. Planned to be opened in 2011, the 24, 000-square-foot building will be named the Danny Lang Teaching, Learning, on October 1,2015, a mass shooting occurred at the school campus. Ten people, including the gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, were killed, seven to nine others were wounded, the active shooter, a 26-year-old male student at UCC, killed himself following a very brief gun battle with the first responding police officers. Notable alumni include Alek Skarlatos, one of three Americans who tackled the perpetrator of the attempted Thalys train attack in France in 2015
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Danny Lang Center
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Umpqua Community College
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Margaret Carter
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She served in the Oregon House of Representatives until 1999, and then in the Oregon State Senate from 2001 to 2009. She served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Vice Chair for Ways and Means and she announced her resignation from the Senate effective August 31,2009, and took a post as Deputy Director for Human Services Programs at the Oregon Department of Human Services. In 2015, she was considering a return to the senate. Born Margaret Hunter in Shreveport, Louisiana, on December 29,1935, her parents were Hilton and she was raised there in a family of nine children by her father, a Baptist minister, and her mother, a cook at the school cafeteria. After earning the honor as salutatorian in high school, she received scholarships to Grambling State University where she briefly attended before meeting who would become her first husband. After getting married she had five daughters by the age of 28 and she arrived via train on December 1,1967, and began working odd jobs. In Oregon, she re-married, adding four stepchildren, but divorced after a few years to Elvis, in 1970, she enrolled at Portland State University where she then graduated from in 1972 with a bachelor of arts degree in education. Carter then earned a masters of education in psychology from Oregon State University in 1973, in 1973, Carter began working for Portland Community College as a counselor. Republican leaders recruited Carter to run for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1983 and they hoped to unseat the incumbent in a heavily Democratic district in Northeast Portland. Carter won as a Democrat in 1984 and began serving at the 1985 legislative session representing District 18 and she became the first African-American woman elected to the Oregon Legislative Assembly. In the House she worked to pass legislation that ended state controlled investments in South Africa during apartheid and legislation to observe Martin Luther King, in 1998, she was a candidate for the office of Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction, but lost to Stan Bunn. Carter was a member of the Oregon House until January 1999, in November 1999, she became the president of the Urban League of Portland, serving until May 2002. Also in 1999 she retired from Portland Community College and she was then elected to the Senate in November 2000. In 2005, she became president pro tempore of the Oregon State Senate and was unopposed in the 2008 election and she resigned from the Oregon Senate in 2009 in order to take a job at the Oregon Department of Human Services. None of the bills ever became law, Carter became director of community engagement in 2012 and saw her salary decreased
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Margaret L. Carter
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Samantha Hess
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Samantha Hess is a professional cuddler, an author, and the creator of the Certified Cuddlers Certification Program. Hess was born and raised in Sacramento, California and her father is a postal carrier. Hess attended California State University-Fullerton before she decided to drop out, in 2009, she received her Associate of Arts and Sciences Degree in Fitness Technology from Portland Community College. She decided to have such a job after watching a video of two men offering hugs for money, later on, she learned of a woman in New York City who ran an identical business and was inspired to pursue it as a career. Prior to that event, she worked as a personal trainer, during her career she was interviewed by many broadcast and print media outlets including KOBI, The Daily News KATU KHOU, KCTV and many others. In January 2014 she was interviewed by Biz Journal where she shared her plans for Cuddle Up to Me with Portland Business Journal Editor Rob Smith and she said she plans to model after ZoomCare. Her clients are people with disabilities or who suffer from traumatic stress. In May 2015, Hess appeared as a 10th season contestant for NBCs Americas Got Talent and her audition consisted of cuddling Nick Cannon with techniques The Cleopatra, The Claw, and Mother of Pearl. After the audition, the four formed a pile on top of Nick on the couch. Although Howard voted No, Heidi Klum, Mel B, and Howie Mandel all voted Yes, in July 2015, during Judge Cuts Week 1, her audition consisted of cuddling special guest judge Neil Patrick Harris with techniques The Fortune Cookie, The Sidewinder, and The Romeo. Howard, Heidi, Mel B, and Howie all buzzed the act and she was the first contestant in season ten to receive all Xs during Judge Cuts Week. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon
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Samantha Hess
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Jon Hill (chef)
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Jon Hill is an American chef who was White House Executive Chef from October 1,1987, to January 7,1988. He was the first American-born chef to serve in the capacity, Hill was born in Spokane, Washington, about 1954 to Victor M. Hill, a chef and instructor of hotel-motel and restaurant management at Spokane Community College. His grandfather was also a chef, Hill fell in love with fine cooking at the age of 16. After graduating from school, he studied restaurant management under his father at Spokane Community College in 1974. Hill excelled at sauces and the presentation of cold food, rusch later called him the best of the 18 graduates of 1977, and had high praise for his skills and attention to detail. He also called Hill one of the best students he ever had, rodney Stoner, food and beverage director at The Greenbrier, called Hill definitely one of the outstanding graduates in the history of the school. Hill then enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where he received his degree in restaurant. Hills professional career began as a Chef de partie at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel in Kohala, after five years at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hill was transferred to a position as executive sous-chef at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. Kim Dietrich, chef de cuisine at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel at the time, called him an exciting and all-around chef, a perfectionist, loyal, and extraordinarily gifted at detail work. After two or three years at the Arizona Biltmore, in September 1986 Hill took a position as the chef de cuisine at the Westin Cypress Creek Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. At the Westin Cypress Creek, Hill oversaw a staff of 100 and he was noted for his delicately flavored sauces and finishes and for his exquisite skill as sculpting ice and tallow. Jen Campbell, food and beverage administrator for the entire Westin Hotels chain, praised Hill as gregarious, care-free, raymond Sylvester, general manager of the Westin Cypress Creek, called Hill gifted with a great disposition an extraordinary sense of organization. Hill first came to the attention of the White House in 1979, Hill was still a student at the Greenbriar, and his class made a visit to the White House to see its kitchens. White House Executive Chef Henry Haller made Hills acquaintance at that time, Haller approached Hill about taking the White House job. White House Chief Usher Gary J. Walters also learned about Hills reputation from chefs and culinary experts around the country, after a two-month search, the unmarried about 20 to 30 candidates were seriously considered for the job. Hill was one of three or five finalists allowed to audition his cooking skills for First Lady Nancy Reagan and he was chosen for the position of White House Executive Chef about August 19. He won the position largely Haller endorsed him, and because his colleagues felt he was exceptionally well-organized. with a flair for imaginative presentation and he was the first native-born American to become White House Executive Chef. Hill oversaw a staff of just three, two sous-chefs and a pastry chef
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Jon Hill circa 1987
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Matt Keeslar
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Matt Keeslar is a former American actor. Matt Keeslar was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Fred Keeslar and Ann Ferguson, at eighteen, Keeslar moved from Adrian, Michigan to New York City to attend the Juilliard School. The Juilliard faculty had selected him to one of twenty spots in Group 24. Keeslar is known for his roles in Waiting for Guffman, The Last Days of Disco and Scream 3, Keeslar starred in the 2008 ABC Family series The Middleman. He established a working relationship with South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California. Keeslar retired from acting in 2010 to pursue a career in science and he penned an essay about the struggles with his acting career and subsequent decision to enroll at Portland Community College. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College with a degree in May 2014. His biology thesis explored the effects of antimalarials on the brains of frogs, while at Reed he played the Father role in Sarah Ruhls Eurydice. Matt Keeslar is married to Grammy nominated singer Lori Henriques, renaissance Man Quiz Show Safe Passage The Run of the Country A Streetcar Named Desire A Brothers Promise, The Dan Jansen Story The Stupids Waiting for Guffman The Deli Mr
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Matt Keeslar during
The Middleman panel at
Comic-Con in July 2009.
