Photo by Tom Dieterich Photo by Fran Davidson 4 RAPS SHEET n OCTOBER 2023 Upcoming RAPS events OCTOBER 8TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 Book Group: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott. Contact Joan Shireman at joanshireman@gmail.com 8WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18 Hiking Group: Wilson River Trail off Highway 6 in the Oregon Coast Range. Contact: Tom Dieterich/Cilla Murray, tgdieterich@earthlink.net 8THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 Presentation by Tom Potiowsky, professor emeritus of economics: “‘The Recession is Coming! The Recession is Coming!’ Or Is It ‘Waiting for the Godot Recession’? What’s a Forecaster To Do?” Noon, 298 SMSU. NOVEMBER 8WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Hiking Group: Newall Creek Canyon (Oregon City). Contact: Tom Dieterich/Cilla Murray, tgdieterich@earthlink.net 8THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Presentation by Ann Cudd, Portland State’s new president. 333 SMSU. Note: President Cudd speaks to RAPS at 11 a.m., with lunch to follow. 8TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Book Group: The Music of Bees: A Novel by Eileen Garvin. Contact Joan Shireman at joanshireman@gmail.com. DECEMBER 8THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 Annual Holiday Brunch, held at Augustana Lutheran Church. JANUARY 8THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 “Divest Oregon: Confronting Climate Risks to PERS and the Planet,” presentation by Rory Cowal, instructor in the PSU School of Music and volunteer with Divest Oregon, a statewide grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations seeking to have the Oregon State Treasury divest pension funds of fossil fuel holdings. Room TBA. RAPS HIKING GROUP—The September hike venue was the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge, which was established in 1987 to offset lowland habitat loss caused by construction of the Bonneville Dam. The hikers included (left to right) Mary Lane Stevens, Karin Waller, Cilla Murray, Tom Hard, and Tom Dieterich, as well as photographer Fran Davidson.
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