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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
Kate Brown
Thrive
Fighting
Everyone
Spent
Make
Where
Place
Oregon
Career
My local newspaper, the 'Bend Bulletin,' interviewed me while I was at high school after I had just signed with the University of Oregon. I remember I wore a University of Oregon hooded sweatshirt, and they took a picture of me in the long jump pit. I was freezing!
Ashton Eaton
Me
Remember
School
Long
Picture
Bend
Took
Local
Signed
High
High School
Had
Freezing
Jump
Pit
Just
After
While
Wore
Newspaper
Oregon
University
I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
Benjamin Percy
Outside
Western
Up
Just
Grew
Oregon
Acres
Served
Playground
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
Brendan I. Koerner
Day
Labor Day
First
State
Following
Colorado
New
Massachusetts
Make
Became
New Jersey
Labor
Quickly
Official
York
New York
Holiday
Oregon
Jersey
Suit
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
Christopher Atkins
Feeling
Trees
Guy
He
Over
Island
Pine
Owned
Wanted
Decided
Place
Oregon
Planted
Who
Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois.
David Mixner
Best
President
President Clinton
Gays
States
Carry
Must
New
Concentrated
Massachusetts
Most
California
Clinton
Michigan
York
New York
Where
Order
Oregon
Lesbians
Organized
Illinois
Washington
Among
Numbers
When I first came to Oregon, the annual amount spent on production was $1 million to $1.5 million. By the time 'Leverage' was done, there had been over $100 million in production that year.
Dean Devlin
Time
First
Year
Spent
Had
Over
Annual
Came
Been
Done
Oregon
Production
Amount
Million
Leverage
By The Time
We're going to come back to Oregon, whether it's with another show, or a pilot, or a movie. We love working up there. I think it's got one of the most amazing talent pools of any state in the union.
Dean Devlin
Love
Pilot
Amazing
Think
State
Back
Talent
Come
Most
Most Amazing
Another
Got
Up
Any
Going
Movie
Whether
Pools
Oregon
Working
Show
Union
NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
Frances Beinecke
Hope
Law
Ocean
Stretching
Waters
Our
Border
More
Network
Parks
Shared
California
Spots
Pass
Underwater
Mexican
Oregon
Creating
Helped
Bring
Draft
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
Francis Parkman
Great
Independence
Setting
Additional
Several
Out
Point
Had
Joseph
Parties
California
Around
Were
Heard
Camps
Reports
Oregon
Farther
Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs.
Greg Walden
Good
Generation
Wind
Power
Energy
System
Independent
Jobs
More
Columbia
Investing
Development
New
Environmentally
Along
Makes
Sources
Friendly
Southern
America
Cell
Whether
Central
While
Fuel
Oregon
Energy Sources
Creating
Paying
I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.
Greg Walden
Work
Government
Family
Youth
People
Wonderful
Young
Active
Cascade
Federal
Federal Government
Taking
Like
First-Hand
Am
Encouraged
Role
Experienced
Center
Bar
Central
Young People
Oregon
Organizations
I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
Gregory Harrison
Family
Three
Big
Month
About
Schedule
Had
Development
New
Big Family
Itself
Times
York
Move
New York
Which
Them
Oregon
Production
Coast
Rehearsal
Workshops
Actual
Four
When I first started snowboarding, it was something that was only really done in the winter. Mount Hood in Oregon was the magical exception.
Gretchen Bleiler
Winter
First
Hood
Magical
Something
Only
Exception
Mount
Snowboarding
Done
Oregon
Really
Started
I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.
Harmon Killebrew
College
Football
Go
Oregon
Baseball
Play
Set
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
Herbert Hoover
Business
Age
School
Practice
Firm
Boy
Years
Salem
Left
Office
Oregon
Profession
I was living down in this awful little redneck town in Oregon, and everyone else was living in Seattle, so we rented a house in Portland, between the two.
Isaac Brock
Down
Living
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Between
Town
House
Redneck
Little
Oregon
Seattle
Awful
Portland
Two
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.
James Avery
Training
Half
Othello
Shakes
Shakespeare
Half Years
Years
Festival
Did
Where
Oregon
Two
I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
Jeff Merkley
Food
Father
Job
Table
Put
His
Up
Southern
Grew
Oregon
Worker
Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.
John C. Calhoun
War
Thought
Important
Considered
About
More
Mexico
Than
Oregon
Avoid
England
Two
John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
Kate Brown
Leader
Visionary
John
Oregon
High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
Kate Brown
Education
Best
Business
People
Achieve
Public Education
Poverty
Living
Other
Appropriate
Way
Best Way
High-Quality
Support
Combined
Reducing
Goal
Public
Oregon
Plan
Number
Needed
I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
Katee Sackhoff
Life
Knowledge
Reservation
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Kind
Had
Outsider
Like
Around
Always
Up
Grew
Oregon
Reservations
Amount
I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
Katee Sackhoff
Trek
Addicted
TV
Allowed
Because
Were
Lot
Up
Grew
Oregon
Original
Dad
Star
Growing
Star Trek
Growing Up
Watch
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland.
Katherine Dunn
Sometimes
Later
Several
Stations
Followed
Crops
Small
Small Town
Town
Doing
Years
Western
Labor
Did
Oregon
Migrant
Farming
Near
Portland
Gas
Early
Starting
I landed in Los Angeles where I've stayed, with one year-long exception when I returned to Ashland as an actor in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Kim Rhodes
Stayed
Angeles
Shakespeare
Exception
Returned
Los
Los Angeles
Festival
Where
Landed
Oregon
Actor
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