Vanguard editors share their favorite ways to get outside
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Winter is over, and for a few months, Portland won’t be blanketed in grey clouds and rain. Many Portlanders will look to take advantage of this limited window of warm air and sunny skies, but If you’re having a hard time deciding what to do or are looking for new ways to get outside, here are some of our favorite activities that get us out of the virtual newsroom to enjoy the weather.
Morgan Troper, Arts & Culture Editor: I got a dog this time last year, so I’ve become very acquainted with the dog parks across Portland. Spending time around a bunch of strangers and their dogs was something that made me a little uncomfortable at the start of the pandemic, but going to the dog park with my Texas Heeler whose name is Jet, after the Paul McCartney and Wings song, naturally has become one of my favorite outdoor pastimes.
by Marsha Walton
Rachel Owen earned her Ph.D. in soil science, studying
the impact of a changing climate on wetland ecosystems and landowner perceptions of climate threats. But some of her other skills, as a diplomat and a “science translator,” are just as crucial in helping Missouri lawmakers navigate complicated scientific issues.
Owen is the executive director of MOST, The Missouri Science and Technology Policy Initiative. In 2016, she started the group with two other graduate students to explore what science advising at the state level might look like.
The aim was to make non-partisan experts available to state legislators; to answer questions about the complex science topics crossing their desks.
By Sarah Mayhew Craddock
Flow: One of Rachel Ducker s wire sculptures, one of which will be won by a donor this evening
Sarah Mayhew Craddock is inspired by Oxford Circle women Women are amazing. I’ve always thought so. From octopus-esque matriarchal family members to political and celebrity figures that have inspired me throughout my life (Kate Adie, Joanna Lumley, Sinead O’Connor, Judi Dench, to name but a few). I don’t mean to infer men aren’t amazing, but whereas men seem to amaze me and then plateau, women never cease to amaze me, particularly when it comes to philanthropic efforts.
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