December 27, 2011 | 7:30pm | FREE
Jack London Bar
529 SW 4th Avenue Portland, OR
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The great ice age Lake Missoula Flood left scars literally from Montana to the Pacific Ocean. Join us as artist, photographer, and writer Rick Thomposon presents his research uncovering the effects of the Lake Missoula Flood in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington. This catastrophic flodd propelled over 500 cubic miles of water, ice, rock and mud across eastern Washington, further cut the Columbia River Gorge, covered the Willamette Valley with up to 400 feet of water and left gravel bars mile wide and hundreds of feet high. With color photo, topographical maps and space photos Mr. Thompson will show some of the signs still visible today.

Mr. Thompson:
A native Oregonian, Mr. Thompson is President of the Lower Columbia Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute who loves to share the beatury of the great Northwest. Though geology is not his profession, it is his passion. Being intrigued by the land formations, huge boulders and glacial erratics, Mr. Thompson embarked on a ten-year study to show that unlike the massive expanses of flood features in Easter Washington this area has its own treasure chest of scablands, flood channels and dramatic story to tell.

Take the free shuttle December 17 through January 1. The shuttle pick-up location, which will be marked with a sign, will be at PSU’s parking garage #3 (entrance on SW 12th Avenue or SW 13th just south of SW Market). Click here for a map to the garage.
Parking in PSU’s parking structure is free to Pittock Mansion visitors for the first three hours. When you arrive, go to one of the parking machines in parking structure #3, and you will see three choices: 1. Daily Parking, 2. Hourly Parking, or 3. Pittock Shuttle. Select the 3 for Pittock Shuttle, and then enter coupon code 62782 in the keypad to obtain your free parking permit.

- Shuttle service will be provided by a 12-passenger van, which will have a window sign identifying it as the shuttle to Pittock Mansion.

- The shuttle vans are non-accessible (i.e. unable to load wheelchairs on and off automatically). However, TriMet offers some door-to-door neighborhood shuttle service through their Ride Connection program.  Find out more at http://www.trimet.org/access/index.htm.
- Shuttle vans may have extra cargo space for strollers, but do not have children’s seats for transportation.

- Return trips will depart the Mansion on the half hour with the last departure leaving the Mansion at 4:30 p.m.

This eco-friendly and budget-friendly option is being offered for the fourth year, thanks to a partnership with America’s Hub World Tours. For details, contact Pittock Mansion. Please call ahead to confirm shuttle service during inclement weather.

Historic Central Library in downtown Portland is the heart of the Multnomah County Library system. First opened in September 1913 and extensively renovated in 1994-97, Central Library has more than 17 miles of bookshelves! Central Library offers books, audio and visual materials, periodicals and electronic resources in English and Spanish that can be accessed on site or from a home computer. Central Library also houses collections in Chinese, Russian and Vietnamese. Some 130 computer search stations are available to Multnomah County residents.

Check out Central Library : Portland’s crown jewel by Richard Ritz to learn more about Central Library.

• Check this place out! Take a kids’ tour of Central Library

Location, phone

• 801 S.W. 10th Avenue
• Portland, OR 97205
• 503.988.5123
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