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Consider something new on The Evergreen Aviation/ Space Museum & Coastal Tour…

The Pelican Pub & Brewery and Head Brewer, Darron Welch named World Beer Cup^® 2008 Champion Brewery and
Brew master and Best Large Brewpub!

Gold, Doryman’s Dark Ale – American-Style Brown Ale
Silver, Kiwanda Cream Ale – Golden or Blonde Ale
Bronze, India Pelican Ale American-Style India Pale Ale
Bronze, Tsunami Stout Foreign-(Export) Style Stout

Pelican Pub & Brewery Standard Beer Bar Options

Kiwanda Cream Ale

Inspired by one of America’s traditional 19th century beer styles, Kiwanda Cream Ale is pale gold with a fruity, floral hop aroma. A sweet malty flavor and a smooth dry finish round out this tasty, refreshing brew!

 MacPelican’s Scottish Style Ale

Our interpretation of the Scottish Export style, is coppery-amber in color and features a mild, malty aroma. The malty flavor is balanced with Willamette hops to add a little “snap” to the flavor and finish of this rich ale.

 Doryman’s Dark Ale

Our American Brown Ale has a dark brown color, with a balanced aroma of roasted malts and Northwest-grown hops. The sweetness of the ale and crystal malts blend beautifully with the assertive flavors of Cascade and Mt. Hood hops. A brew to be savored.

India Pelican Ale *

Our mascot, Phil the Pelican, got this recipe from his long-lost Indian cousin, and has recreated the flavor of the British Empire with his own American twist. Enjoy the huge Cascade hop aroma, the subtle malty sweetness, and the spicy, citrusy flavor of this robust, gold colored ale. This brew began life as a seasonal beer during our first year and was so popular while we had it, and so frequently requested when it was gone, that we turned it into our fifth regular beer style the second year.

 Tsunami Stout *

It’ll bowl you over with its midnight-black color and rich dark-roasted aroma. Specially blended hops combined with flaked non-malted barley give this brew a full body and a dense creamy head. All elements combine in a solid, lingering finish.

*Subject to higher per-person rates due to higher production costs and higher alcohol content.

For more information about our brewery and our many featured beers; including additional seasonal ales, specialty brews and our own Bridal Ale available, please visit our website at www.pelicanbrewery.com or call for more information!

Nicholas Kristof will feature Lisa Shannon, Founder of Run for Congo Women, in DR Congo in his NY TIMES column on Thursday, February 4th. (This is a new date for those who already knew about it.) See nytimes.com.

Lisa is deep in the area of Congo being terrorized by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). She is posting revealing, on-the-gound blogs at www.athousandsisters.com/blog. They are compelling. Be sure to read “Still Nursing” and “Yeah, it’s like that.” as well as the most recent ones.
 
Lisa will return to Bukavu to lead the 1st Run for Congo Women-Congo on 2/28.  Our sisters will be running to pay it forward by raising funds to help other Congolese women.  Please empower their effort by making even a small donation at www.runforcongowomen.org
MARK YOU CALENDARS NOW (and invite your friends to do the same), for:
APRIL 1st Lisa’s book, A Thousand Sisters, will be released. Savings available now with preorder at Amazon.com & Powells.com. 
Consider forming a book club; it is a great read — No less than Alice Walker gave it a stunning review. Other endorsers include Journalist Lisa Ling, the Presidents of Save Darfur and The Enough Project, renowned Author on Congo Adam Hochschild, and Actresses Emily Deschanel and Robin Wright.
Visit www.athousandsisters.com to view the great book video trailer and watch for postings of her book tour and national media events.
MONDAY, APRIL 19th, PORTLAND, join us at Lisa’s book launch party for A Thousand Sisters at Powell’s, 7:30 PM.  Bring your friends!
JUNE 19th, PORTLAND RUN FOR CONGO WOMEN (3 or 9 mile trail walk or run). 
WANT TO HELP?  YOU MATTER! 
JAN 31st.  For those in Portland, the 1st Portland Organizing Team meeting will be held, 5-7 PM, 1517 SE Holly, Portland OR 97214.  All are welcome.
Thank you for adding your voice to those being raised for the women and children of Congo.
Ann Shannon

www.athousandsisters.com
www.runforcongowomen.org
www.womenforwomen.org

January 27, 2010 Steven Jobs unveiled Apple’s latest gadget – their touchscreen tablet called the “iPad”. The iPad is priced at $499 and should be available in 60 to 90 days. There is no AT&T contract required however AT&T is offering plans for both the Wi-Fi and 3G models. This “over-sized iPod Touch” has functions that range from email to movies, music, and displaying photos along with recipes and books. For more information on Apple’s announcement of their iPad click here.

Group Tour: Attractions Around Woodburn

Looking for something new! I contacted Kristin Graybeal with Woodburn Area Tourism Group and founded some amazing options for groups coming to Portland or the surrounding area.  Interested contact her directly or view the list of some of the option we have listed for you.

 Kristin Graybeal
124 W Lincoln St.
Woodburn, OR 97071
Phone: 503-982-8221
www.alwaysfreshdiscoveries.com
blog! www.alwaysfreshdiscoveries.blogspot.com

  Al’s Garden Center:  www.als-gardencenter.com

 Antique Powerland Museum:  www.antiquepowerland.com

 Bauman’s Farm & Gardens:  www.baumanfarms.com

 French Prairie Gardens:  www.fpgardens.com

 Settlemier House:   www.settlemierhouse.com

 Woodburn Drag Strip:  www.woodburndragstrip.com

 Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm:  www.woodenshoe.com

 Restaurants:    Glockenspiel Restaurant :  www.glockenspielrestaurant.net

 Vitality at Wellspring :  www.iamvitality.com

A message from…

Portland Central Young Life (located in Portland, Oregon) is putting on an auction to benefit youth in the inner city on May 14, 2010.  While most of the parents in our southeast and northeast neighborhoods are excited to send their kids to summer camp, the majority do not have the means to pay for this experience — let alone support their child’s involvement in our mentoring program throughout the year.
 
Because of the lack of resources in this community, we are reaching out to businesses like yours to donate items or services to our yearly auction.  All gifts are tax deductible (Tax ID# available upon request), and no gift is too small.
 
If you are interested or would like more information, I would be more than happy to help and would love for you to participate in this event. 
 
You can also go to our website: www.portlandcentral.younglife.org
 
Thanks!
 
Sincerely,
 
Jana Lee
Auction Assistant Director

Aaron Kelsay
Auction Director | Portland Central Young Life
akelsay@gmail.com | 503.819.7578

Jana Lee
Auction Asst Director | Portland Central Young Life
jana.m.lee@gmail.com | 503.250.2619

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Survivors still emerged from collapsed buildings in Haiti’s devastated capital Sunday, nearly five days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the impoverished island nation.

U.S. and Turkish rescuers plucked three people, including an American woman, from the rubble of a supermarket Sunday, and were continuing to search for more people in the ruins. The survivors had been living on the store’s supply of food and water, rescuers said.

Elsewhere, a team from New York rescued a 55-year-old man from the remains of a four-story building after using a rescue camera to locate him. And an Israel Defense Forces team said Sunday it had rescued a Haitian government worker from the ruins of a customs office Saturday.

The rescues lent a sense of urgency to those still working to find signs of life among the collapsed buildings, who know that time is running out for those still alive. Nearly 30 international rescue teams continue to comb the disaster areas for more survivors.

While there has not been an official count, U.N. estimates of the number of casualties in the capital alone range from 100,000 to 150,000.

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By Friday, 13,000 bodies had been recovered, said U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Edmond Mulet. Among the dead are 16 Americans, the State Department said Sunday.

More than 300 U.N. staffers are unaccounted for. Thirty-seven are confirmed dead, including the top two civilian officials at the U.N. mission in Haiti, a peacekeeping and police force established after the 2004 ouster of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Why Haiti is different

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was in Haiti Sunday and visited the site of the U.N.’s collapsed mission. He assured survivors of U.N. assistance despite the organization suffering the gravest loss in its history.

The United Nations “will continue to work with the major international donors who have been generous enough to provide humanitarian assistance, dispatching search-and-rescue teams. This is a moment of sadness but it is also a moment of Haiti’s need,” he said.

Former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, will travel to the country on Monday to meet with officials and deliver aid supplies, his foundation announced Sunday. He is set to meet with Haitian President Rene Preval and other members of the local government as well as aid workers, to discuss how to proceed with recovery operations.

The visit comes two days after President Obama announced the formation of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, a major fundraising effort for victims of Tuesday’s earthquake led by Clinton and former President George W. Bush.

Presidents Bush, Clinton team up for Haiti

On Saturday, a man said to be the head of the capital city’s tax office was carried out of the rubble on a stretcher, to wild cheers from residents. And a 2-month-old baby with broken ribs was pulled out and airlifted to Florida in critical condition.

But in many cases, rescue operations turned into recovery ones.

A Los Angeles rescue team answered the desperate pleas of a mother who believed her young daughter was trapped alive beneath the rubble of a day care center in downtown Port-au-Prince.

They searched for eight hours Saturday. At some point, the distinct sounds of tapping from within the crushed concrete stopped. As rescue personnel pulled away, the mother — who stood praying silently during the rescue efforts — stayed put, holding on to hope.

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More California rescuers patiently chipped away at concrete and debris Sunday morning, trying to reach a woman who sent a text message saying she was buried beneath the ruins of a collapsed bank. The Los Angeles County Search and Rescue team had been looking for the woman since Saturday afternoon when a text arrived: “I’m OK but help me, I can’t take it anymore.” But the hours ticked by, with no sign she was still alive.

Despite the best attempts by aid groups, the country remains in dire need of food, water and medical aid.

In open fields, abandoned stadiums and empty warehouses in the capital, relief workers set up makeshift hospitals. Residents flocked to them en masse.

Dr. Jennifer Furin with Harvard Medical School was tending to about 300 patients at one such hospital on a U.N. compound near Port-au-Prince’s airport. Without immediate surgery, a third of them will die, she predicted.

The Port-au-Prince airport remained overwhelmed by the influx of air traffic bringing in supplies, although an overhead photo Sunday showed activity and numerous planes on the ground

CNN Reported: The 6.2 mile-deep quake hit 220 miles off the coast of Ushuaia, Argentina, at 7 a.m. ET, the geological survey said. There were no immediate reports of damages and injuries. The 6.2 mile-deep quake hit 220 miles off the coast of Ushuaia, Argentina, at 7 a.m. ET, the geological survey said.

Limited amount of news! Have you heard anything……?

The Columbia River Plateau was created by a series of basalt flows.  The flows covered 164,000 square kilometers — portions of northeast Oregon, southwest Washington and western Idaho.

The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,300Port m)C deep, the canyon stretches for over 80 miles (130 km) as the river winds from westward through the Cascade Range forming the boundary between the State of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. The Columbia Gorge American Viticultural Area is located in both states. The Columbia River Gorge is a spectacular river canyon cutting the only sea-level route through the Cascade Mountain Range.

In addition to its natural beauty, the gorge also provides a critical transportation corridor and one of the most popular recreational locations in the Pacific Northwest. Atmospheric pressure differentials east and west of the Cascades create a wind tunnel effect in the deep cut of the gorge, generating 35 mph (56 km/h) winds that make it one of the finest and best-known windsurfing and kiteboarding locations in the world. The hatchery, located on the Washington side of the river near Hood River is one of the most popular places to windsurf.

The gorge also contains the greatest concentration of waterfalls in the Pacific Northwest, with over 77 waterfalls on the Oregon side of the gorge alone. Many are along the Columbia River Highway, including the notable Multnomah Falls, which, at 620 feet (188 m), is often claimed to be the second tallest year-round waterfall in the United States.  Learn more

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — “With their churches flattened, their priests killed and their Bibles lost amid the rubble of their homes, desperate Haitians prayed in the streets on Sunday, raising their arms in the air and asking God to ease their grief.” Click here to Learn More

The largest earthquake to strike Haiti in more than a century caused chaos in streets choked by a massive dust cloud. “A huge billow of dust” caused by “buildings crashing down,” hung over the… Click here to  Learn More.