Land Use Booth at the Oregon State Fair

Thrive is working with land use coalition partners on a booth at the Oregon State Fair to promote Oregon's land use system and direct attention to the reasons why Oregon is such a great state to live, work, farm, and play in. We are also celebrating the 50h year of Oregon's pioneering land use system of laws! We are hoping visitors to the booth will come away with a new or renewed appreciation for the value of our land-use planning program. We want Oregonians to realize how important land use is to our quality of life; things look different here on purpose!

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H is for Harvest October 15

H is for Harvest Saturday October 15, 6-9 pm Springhouse Cellar, Hood River Join the Resident's Committee and sponsors Cardinal Glass and Timberline Lodge at one of Hood River’s coolest venues for a harvest inspired evening of live music, delicious food, Northwest wines, and exciting auction items that celebrate our beautiful county and its bounty--and support our 39 years of work protecting farms, forests, wild places and the livability of our community. We’ll provide light appetizers and desserts – and fabulous food truck fare for purchase from Dhaba Dhaba and The Huck Truck. A is for the AMAZING items in our live and silent auctions.  Auction items range from a rare overnight ‘slumber party’ package for up to 24 people at Silcox Hut at Timberline,  eight tons of gravel delivered from Lane’s Excavation for your driveway or landscaping project, a Hood River Wine Country bike tour from MountNbarrel or a week’s stay in…

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March 5th HRVRC to Sponsor Sense of Place Lecture

HRVRC is proud to be a presenting Sponsor for Gorge Owned Sense of Place Lecture, an annual series that seeks to foster deeper understanding of and connection to our landscape and one another. THe 2013-2014 Sense of Place lecture series will be held at Columbia Center for the Arts, located at 215 Cascade Avenue in Hood River. all lectures will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from November 2013 to April 2014. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and lectures begin at 7 p.m. Plan to come early to mingle and enjoy a glass of beer or wine. Upcoming talks: April 2nd - A Nomad's Sense of Place: THe River and Sea Voyages of Amos Berg with Vince Welch

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