Where to go today? Hmmmm. Let's try Banks, Oregon. Embien (from the STCC) is from there (I think).The photos are: 1) the Quail Valley Golf Course in Banks, 2) the Sunset Speedway Park, 3) the Trail Bridge on the Banks-Vernonia State Trail (it runs from Banks to Vernonia), and 4) the Green Mt. Road near Banks.
Banks is a small town in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,286 at the 2000 census. The 2007 estimate is 1,435 residents.
Banks is located close to a bustling metropolitan area yet far enough away to enjoy a relaxed country lifestyle. Located near Portland in rural Washington County, Banks offers its citizens and visitors the best of both worlds.
Agriculture and the timber industry are very important to the economy of the Banks area. There are many farms, dairies and livestock operations located here. Private and public forest land provides employment for timber workers. Although the area is primarily agricultural and forest land, many citizens of Banks are not involved in agriculture or timber work. Many residents commute to jobs in the Portland metropolitan area.
The citizens of Banks are a diverse group of people. Farmers, loggers, merchants, retirees and professionals from all walks of life can be found here. In spite of recent growth and a rise in property values, Banks still keeps its friendly small town atmosphere.
Nestled in the scenic foothills of Oregon's coast mountain range, the Banks area offers a wide variety of cultural and recreational opportunities. Three golf courses and several parks are nearby. Antique and craft shops, a public library and several restaurants are located within the city limits. The Spirit of Oregon dinner train winds into the coast mountains from the nearby town of Roy. Concerts, art exhibits and speaker's forums are offered at Pacific University in nearby Forest Grove, located 10 miles south of town. Award-winning wineries are located nearby. Downtown Portland is just 30 minutes away and the spectacular Oregon Coast can be reached in less than an hour.
Agriculture and the timber industry are very important to the economy of the Banks area. There are many farms, dairies and livestock operations located here. Private and public forest land provides employment for timber workers. Although the area is primarily agricultural and forest land, many citizens of Banks are not involved in agriculture or timber work. Many residents commute to jobs in the Portland metropolitan area.
The citizens of Banks are a diverse group of people. Farmers, loggers, merchants, retirees and professionals from all walks of life can be found here. In spite of recent growth and a rise in property values, Banks still keeps its friendly small town atmosphere.
Nestled in the scenic foothills of Oregon's coast mountain range, the Banks area offers a wide variety of cultural and recreational opportunities. Three golf courses and several parks are nearby. Antique and craft shops, a public library and several restaurants are located within the city limits. The Spirit of Oregon dinner train winds into the coast mountains from the nearby town of Roy. Concerts, art exhibits and speaker's forums are offered at Pacific University in nearby Forest Grove, located 10 miles south of town. Award-winning wineries are located nearby. Downtown Portland is just 30 minutes away and the spectacular Oregon Coast can be reached in less than an hour.
The early pioneers settled in Banks around 1840 using Government donation land claims of 640 acres each. The Peyton Wilkes land claim is the site of the present town of Banks.
William Mills donated part of his land in 1870 for a cemetery-- now called Union Point Cemetery. The Post Office was started in the late 1890's. The Government required submission of two names for the Post Office. St. Michaels and Banks were submitted and the Government picked Banks because it was shorter and rarer. Robert Banks, for whom the town was named, lived next to the Union Point Cemetery on Banks Road.
The community church was started in 1908 and built by Mike Schrammel and Phil Parmley. The first town bank was built in 1909. In 1921, the town of Banks was incorporated--population 75. Reservoir and water system came in 1924 for $30,000, and a sewer system in 1938 for $10,000.
In 1910, 100 Japanese families came to Banks and started raising strawberries. By 1950, acreage had grown to where the 1950 Bar-B-Q program program reported that 4,000 tons of berries were handled annually in Banks.
William Mills donated part of his land in 1870 for a cemetery-- now called Union Point Cemetery. The Post Office was started in the late 1890's. The Government required submission of two names for the Post Office. St. Michaels and Banks were submitted and the Government picked Banks because it was shorter and rarer. Robert Banks, for whom the town was named, lived next to the Union Point Cemetery on Banks Road.
The community church was started in 1908 and built by Mike Schrammel and Phil Parmley. The first town bank was built in 1909. In 1921, the town of Banks was incorporated--population 75. Reservoir and water system came in 1924 for $30,000, and a sewer system in 1938 for $10,000.
In 1910, 100 Japanese families came to Banks and started raising strawberries. By 1950, acreage had grown to where the 1950 Bar-B-Q program program reported that 4,000 tons of berries were handled annually in Banks.
Today's Jumble (10/1/08):
MYLAN = MANLY; ALLEG = LEGAL; RILIXE = ELIXIR; EXCOBI = ICEBOX
CIRCLED LETTERS = NLGIIBO
When the manager let off steam he was---
"BOILING"
Today is National Day of the People's Republic of China. It's also Homemade Cookies Day, World Vegetarian Day and International Day for the Elderly.
Other things on this day in history:
331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
911 - During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1787 - Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 - Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1843 - News of the World began publication in London.
1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards.
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.
1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
1890 - The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
1898 - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 - Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 - First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1961 - Baseball: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees engage in an epic battle to break Babe Ruth's single season home run record of 60 in 1927. Maris ends up hitting his 61st against the Boston Red Sox, passing Ruth
1964 - The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 - Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 - Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou.
1965 - General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
1966 - West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 - Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1978 - Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 - The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
1987 - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.
1989 - Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"
1991 - New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
1994 - Palau gains independence from the United Nations trusteeship administered by the United States of America.
1998 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2005 - Bombing kills 19 people in Bali.
2007 - Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom.
911 - During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1787 - Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 - Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1843 - News of the World began publication in London.
1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards.
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.
1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
1890 - The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
1898 - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 - Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 - First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1961 - Baseball: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees engage in an epic battle to break Babe Ruth's single season home run record of 60 in 1927. Maris ends up hitting his 61st against the Boston Red Sox, passing Ruth
1964 - The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 - Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 - Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou.
1965 - General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
1966 - West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 - Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1978 - Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 - The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
1987 - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.
1989 - Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"
1991 - New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
1994 - Palau gains independence from the United Nations trusteeship administered by the United States of America.
1998 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2005 - Bombing kills 19 people in Bali.
2007 - Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom.
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