4 RAPS Club Reports Larry Sawyer captured this view behind North Falls when the RAPS hikers trekked in Silver Falls State Park May 18. Bridge Group fans the deck June 12 The RAPS Bridge Group meets at 1:00pm Tuesday, June 12 at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave. For further information, call Colin Dunkeld, 503-292-0838. Please call no later than noon Friday, June 8. Newcomers are always welcome. --Colin Dunkeld RAPS Hikers head to the Gorge Nine hikers walked the Canyon Trail May 18 in Silver Falls State Park from South Falls to North Falls. We welcomed new hikers Steve Brennan and Diane Sawyer and a grandson of the Terdals. Bob Lockerby also joined us. We have moved the date of the Columbia Gorge June hike to Friday, June 15, to include Laureen Nussbaum, who will be visiting from Seattle. This hike will be up the Wahkeena Falls Trail and down the Multnomah Falls Trail. There is some elevation gain but the hike is not strenuous. We will have our sack lunch at Wahkeena Springs, a favorite spot of the late Rudi Nussbaum. Meet at the SE corner of the Gateway Transit Center parking garage at 9:30 am Friday, June 15. Please confirm your participation to Larry Sawyer at 503-7711616 or larry_sawyer@comcast.net. --Larry Sawyer Book Club reads ‘Half the Sky’ The RAPS Book Club meets at 1:00 pm Tuesday, June 19 at the home of Maxine Thomas at 6535 SW Canyon Court in Portland. Contact her at ondangwa@yahoo.com or 503-291-1279 to RSVP and for directions. We will discuss Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, son and daughter-in-law of Portland State professors Jane Kristof and the late Ladis Kristof. This nonfiction book is described in a New York Times book review by Irshad Manji (Sept. 17, 2009) as follows: An ancient Chinese proverb goes that women hold up half the sky. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn want that to be appreciated — on the ground. In the opening pages of this gripping call to conscience, the husband-and-wife team comes out swinging: “Gendercide,” the daily slaughter of girls in the developing world, steals more lives in any given decade “than all the genocides of the 20th century.” No wonder Kristof and WuDunn, whose coverage of China for The New York Times won them a Pulitzer Prize, declare the global struggle for women’s equality “the paramount moral challenge” of our era. Looking ahead, we will read The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht for July. --Mary Brannan One topping or five? Brian Lewis (left) gets ready to enjoy his Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, served up at the RAPS Ice Cream Social on May 17. About 35 RAPSters attended the event, which included swing dance lessons by a local disc jockey.
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