2022 Columns

December 2022

  • December 1, 2022 – Saying goodbye to Pamela Kerns Petersdorf
  • December 8, 2022 – no column
  • December 15, 2022 – Gigette hi-jinx and Christmas decorating
  • December 22, 2022 – no column
  • December 29, 2022 – Happy New Year to 2023; new book project for Pat

November 2022

  • November 3, 2022 – no column
  • November 10, 2022 – 2022 Mid-Term Election commentary
  • November 17, 2022 – Lorane Thanksgiving dinner; Gigette
  • November 24, 2022 – no column

October 2022

September 2022

  • September 1, 2022 – Family celebrations; travel
  • September 8, 2022 – Support for community organizations
  • September 15, 2022 – no column this week
  • September 22, 2022 – no column – on vacation
  • September 29, 2022 – no column – on vacation

August 2022

July 2022

  • July 7, 2022 – No column
  • July 14, 2022 – No column
  • July 21, 2022 – Emerging from a dark tunnel; Bohemia Mining Days; Lorane and Crow events
  • July 28, 2022 – Local history; Petroglyphs

June 2022

  • June 2, 2022 – No column
  • June 9, 2022 – Lorane Growers’ Market; riding lawn mowers
  • June 16, 2022 – 2022 Graduation; Yellowstone flooding
  • June 23, 2022 (The Chronicle) – Jim’s back surgery; Pat’s new book, “Picking the Orchard Clean (Creswell edition)
  • June 23, 2022 (Fern Ridge Tribune News) – Jim’s back surgery; Pat’s new book, “Picking the Orchard Clean (Fern Ridge edition)
  • June 30, 2022 – Jim Edwards’ surgery; 2022 Crow Car Show

May 2022

April 2022

March 2022

  • March 3, 2022 – Sale of Lorane Family Store; new owners, Meva and Balmeet Singh
  • March 10, 2022 – Community Communications Forum, Lorane Talent Show, C-A-L sports
  • March 17, 2022 – St. Patrick’s Day; Ukraine
  • March 24, 2022 – Toby, BB and Joey, our fur-babies
  • March 31, 2022 – no column

February 2022

  • February 3, 2022 – no column
  • February 10, 2022 – Photoshoot for the Lorane Family Store family
  • February 17, 2022 – Rural Art Center activities and programs; Creswell Grange’s “The Spice of Life Food Drive”
  • February 24, 2022 – Saying good-bye to Lou Dell (Doughty) Hayes and Shauna Allen

January 2022

  • January 6, 2022 –  Pat’s personal opinion column on the one-year anniversary of the Insurrection of the U.S. Capitol building
  • January 13, 2022 – BLM Carpenters By-Pass Mountain Bike Trails; the Lorane Family Store
  • January 20, 2022 – Administering the Lorane, Oregon Facebook page
  • January 27, 2022Groundwaters magazine issues available