In the interest of exploring Newberg as if we were tourists, a couple weekends ago we decided to venture out into the Willamette River with our kayaks. We did this about 5 years ago and found it to be a little scary and disgusting. There didn't seem to be much life on the river, and it was a little smelly. So we were kind of afraid to take our "skin" kayaks down there, thinking they might disintegrate or something. We were pleasantly surprised. It was actually quite nice, not smelly, and we saw birds and signs that there were critters living in the banks. It is still worrisome that people are water skiing and swimming. There were also people camped along the river, and people picnicking. The river is still just not all that clean, especially by Newberg, because of all the agricultural runoff and other scary stuff. But it was a nice day and good to realize that we had a good kayaking opportunity nearby. No swimming though.
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Row, row yer boat, gently up the stream.
You know when and where the school tie originated?
In 1880, the rowing club at Oxford University's Exeter College One men's club, invented the first school tie by removing their ribbon hat bands from their boater hats and tying them, four-in-hand. When they ordered a set of ties, with the colors from their hatbands, they had created the modern school tie. School, club, and athletic ties appeared in abundance. Some schools had different ties for various grades, levels of achievement, and for graduates.
With my own brown eyes in the UK in the '60s I saw a poster promoting a Black Watch Ball, inviting:
Officers and their Ladies, Non-Commisioned Officers and their Wives and Enlisted Men and their
Women.
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