http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124639828149106300 FRIDAY JULY 3 Job Finders Support Group — Every Friday, noon to 2 p.m., Capitol Hill Library, 10723 S.W. Capitol Highway. Free. Cleon Cox, 503-684-3581. King City Genealogy Club — 1 p.m., first Friday of the month, King City Town Hall. Info: Jan Hill, 503-579-9684 or LaVerne ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124639780053746500 Ray A. Dunn Jan. 18, 1921-June 22, 2009 Native Oregonian Ray A. Dunn died in Lake Oswego on June 22. He was 88 years old. He was born on Jan. 18, 1921, near Dairy. He lived in Klamath County until 1993 and in Tualatin and Salem until 2003, when he moved to Lake Oswego. In 1943 he was drafted ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124639741381967000 When McKay Elementary principal Mary Jean Katz decided to put together a team to participate in a Destination ImagiNation competition, she called on parent Eric Winger and asked if he’d like to get involved. Winger enthusiastically agreed, a team of fifth-graders was formed, and the students ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124639716118914600 Sherwood resident Janis Miglavs’ book, “Oregon: The Taste of Wine,” won top honors at the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Ben Franklin Awards in New York City last month. The gold medal was in the Regional category, competing against all books nationwide with a ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124639685616567100 The Beaverton Civic Theatre opens the third show of its 2009 inaugural season this month with Virginia Kidd’s “Happily Ever Once Upon,” a whimsical play set to entertain all ages with a limited production run of three weeks from July 9 through the 23rd. Show times are Thursdays ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124588846297903600 Dorothy A. Gaarde June 25, 1931 - June 14, 2009 Dorothy A. Gaarde died peacefully at her home on June 14, surrounded by her loving family. She was 77. She was born on June 25, 1931, in Columbus, Kan., and moved to Oregon in 1944. She graduated from Tigard High School in 1950 and married her ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124588802744303000 An intermittent Cub Scout and Boy Scout when he was a boy, Patrick Tuohy now bonds with sons Bryce, 15, and Brenden, 10, through Boy Scouts. As scoutmaster of Troop 224 for the past 2½ years, Tuohy watches over the boys at their Tri-County Gun Club meetings in Sherwood and out in the ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124588788061833800 In the upcoming Broadway Rose Theatre Company’s production of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” audience members may sense a feeling of real familiarity between the two male leads, and it won’t be acting. Leif Norby, who plays Lawrence Jameson, and Wade Willis, who plays Freddy ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/features/story.php?story_id=124588722726148200 Mary Jo and John VanNortwick love their beautiful garden in Tualatin, and now the rest of the world – or at least people who purchase tickets for this year’s Foundation for Tigard Tualatin Schools’ Seeding Our Future Garden Tour – will be able to appreciate it, too. The ...