RAPS club reports —5— Bridge Group meets Feb. 13 Our next meetingwill be at the home of Irene Place at Willamette View at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13. If you would like to play or have any questions about the group, please call (503-292-0838) or email (colipat@easystreet.com) Colin Dunkeld as soon as you can and no later than Friday, Feb. 9. —Colin Dunkeld Hikers to ramble a railroad line The next hike will be on Friday, Feb. 23, on a section of the Banks-to-Vernonia linear park. Because this is an old railroad line, any elevation gain is not perceptible. We will hike a different section than our April 2005 hike. Lunch will be at a restaurant in Vernonia. We will meet at 9:00 a.m. at the Cedar Hills Shopping center by Big Lots and car pool from there. This is the shopping center on Parkway next to Highways 217 and 26. It is not the larger Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton on Cedar Hills Boulevard. An alternate meeting place will be at the park headquarters next to the old trestle. We welcomed a new member of our group last month. Linda Dodds joined us on our Jan. 26 Springwater Corridor hike. The weather was cool but clear. A pair of woodducks were among our bird sightings. Some of us also saw muskrats. After the hike, we had lunch at the Powerhouse Pub at the McMenamins Edgefield facilities. Please confirm your participation for our Feb. 23 hike with Larry Sawyer at 503-771-1616 or larry_sawyer@comcast.net by Thursday, Feb. 22. —Larry Sawyer Snow is no match Book Club A few intrepid souls, including two new members, met on snowy Tuesday, Jan. 16, to discuss The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. This book, a winner of the Booker Prize, was described by Sally Jacobsen as postmodern fiction. There really were at least four story lines throughout the book: written narrative of the protagonist who wrote about her own life, fiction novel based on a romance between the protagonist and her lover, science fiction novel written by the lovers, and short newspaper articles about the characters in the book. This complex structure of the novel was confusing for some of us, especially in the early chapters. Eventually, the interwoven stories came together, and we found it to be an intriguing and rich read. The next gathering will be at the home of LaRay Barna on Feb. 20 at 1:30 p.m. Her address is 17560 SE Walta Vista, Oak Grove. Contact her at barnal@pdx.edu or 503-786-9630 to RSVP and for directions. The February selection is Saturday written by Ian McEwan, a Booker Prize-winning author. The novel is described on the back cover: In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne—a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children—plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him. Looking two months ahead, we selected The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards for March and The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason for April. Come join us! —Mary Brannan RAPS hikers refuel after the Jan. 26 Springwater Corridor hike. Left to right: Laird Brodie, Robert Pearson, Marge Terdal, Linda Dodds, and Mary Brodie. Photo by Larry Sawyer Awards nominations due March 16 Please check out the enclosed instructions for the nominations for the RAPS Faculty-Staff awards for 2006-07. The deadline for the submission of nominations is March 16. Submit nominations or questions to Darshana Patel, 503-725-3447, raps@pdx.edu.
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