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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma; COLOR: #000000"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>In This Issue:<BR>1. Oregon Encyclopedia Sets Nov. Speakers<BR>2. <SPAN style="COLOR: black">Covered Railroad Bridge Dedication Featured</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The Oregon Encyclopedia History Night series continues with Ray Tercek’s talk, “Politics and Crime in Portland: Drug Enforcement in the 1980s” at 7 p.m., Nov. 21 at McMenamins Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan, Portland. In the 1980s, the Portland Police Department uncovered a massive drug conspiracy headed by cocaine dealer Jose “Pepe” Chavez. Part of what would become one of the largest drug trafficking conspiracy investigations in the nation, Police Sergeant Ray Tercek shares his experiences breaking the conspiracy and negotiating the politics of City Hall.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Geologist Jim O'Connor will present “The Bridge of the Gods: Folklore, Forests, and Floods” at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 29 at McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale. Derived from a much larger Bridge of the Gods that blocked the Columbia River in about 1450 AD, today’s Bridge of the Gods is an 1800-foot-long bridge that spans the Columbia River at Cascade Locks. The earlier “bridge” was the result of the Bonneville Landslide, which almost certainly gave rise to the Native American story of the Bridge of the Gods and how they “could cross the river without getting their feet wet.” </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">In Bend, Terry Krueger’s talk, "Buffalo Bill and the Origins of Pop Culture” will begin at 6 p.m. Nov. 29 at McMenamin's Old St. Francis School, 700 NW Bond St. Colonel W.F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody traveled through Oregon beginning in 1902 with his Wild West show of cowboys, Indians, Mexican “ruralies,” “Cuban Patriots,” “Roosevelt Rough Riders,” and more. He became an icon of the Old West, largely shaped by his own marketing, and his influence on western culture arguably helped shaped our current culture of celebrity. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">For more information, visit: <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">www.oregonencyclopedia.org</SPAN></U> or email Tania Hyatt-Evenson at <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">pdx05508@pdx.edu</SPAN></U> or call (503) 725-3990.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">The City of Cottage Grove will host an Open House beginning at 2:30 p.m., and Dedication ceremony at 4 p.m., at the newly restored Chambers Covered Railroad Bridge Dec. 3 </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Constructed in 1925 by the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railroad, the Chambers Bridge accommodated steam engines pulling logging trains into the J.H. Chambers mill. After the mill closed during the 1950s the bridge languished until purchased by the city in 2006, which began restoration on the bridge in 2010. The only remaining example of the covered railroad bridges that used to dot the Oregon landscape, and the only one west of the Mississippi, the Chambers Bridge has been a part of the Cottage Grove community for over 86 years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and one of only eight bridges of its kind in the United States, the newly restored bridge serves as a reminder of Oregon's timber and railroad heritage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p> </o:p></P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">To get to the bridge, exit I-5 at Cottage Grove, travel south on Highway 99 to Harrison Avenue, turn west on Harrison to Old River Road, and then turn south on Old River Road. Chambers Bridge is off of Old River Road just south of Harrison. For more information, visit <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">www.cottagegrove.org/chambers.html</SPAN></U> or call (541)942-5501.</SPAN></DIV>
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