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I moved here about 12 years ago, planning to stay for a couple of years. I got a job at the local paper and I liked it so much. I'm still here. I love the natural beauty and the feeling of community that we have in a small town and the sense that you're not anonymous even if people don't know you. They're more willing to help you because there's just more trust here. It's a safer, friendlier place. My husband and I opened the business ten years ago because we saw a need for this type of bike shop that would be full service, family bike store and we've been really happy with the way the community's received us. We feel like we're providing an important service and we feel like an integral part of the community and we hope to be here for a long time. It's a nice place to be involved. It's easy to be involved. This is a fascinating part of the United States when it comes to maritime history.

The Oregon coast is full of some of the most famous shipwrecks ever. There's over 2,000 shipwrecks here at the mouth of the Columbia. In fact, they call it the graveyard of the Pacific and that's one of the reasons why the Columbia River Maritime Museum is here today. Our galleries, over 27,000 square feet of exhibit space, cover all kinds of topics from shipwrecks, maritime history, exploration, canneries, navigation, World War II, Navy activities, and they all focus on one particular spot. The geographic center of the Columbia River mouth, the Columbia River Bar. Near here is the famous wreck of the Peter Iardale located at Fort Steven State Park. This is a great sailing ship that ran aground in the late 1800s. You can walk out on a beach today and actually touch pieces of it, climb over it, watch the tide come in and out. At the Columbia River Maritime Museum, we have a really good collection of relics from that vessel that you can look at as well.

You know, being involved with history professionally, I've got to tell you that OPB is one of the finest assets in the Pacific Northwest. My wife and I and all of our friends that I talked to absolutely couldn't live without Oregon Public Broadcasting. It's a tremendous opportunity to see Oregon from many, many different perspectives. And while I'm talking about OPB, as director of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, I would like to wish Oregon Field Guy an outstanding 10th anniversary, one of my very favorite programs. You know, when one becomes a student of Oregon history, one of the best assets that you become aware of is OPB. Oregon Public Broadcasting offers all of us who live in this fine state and in a Pacific Northwest in general, terrific insights, the opportunity to see the state from many,

many different vantage points. It's a terrific asset and really is deserving of all of our support. As director of the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, I just wanted to share my happy birthday remarks to Oregon Field Guy. That's OPB's finest program in my opinion and my very favorite. This is the 10th year anniversary and thank you very much for doing an outstanding job. Welcome to the Astoria Police Department. My name is Rob Dupree and I'm the Astoria Chief of Police. We're very happy to have you with us in our community today. We're located where the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean come together. Here we are in the Police Department Building and in fact in our Emergency Communications Center. The Astoria Police Department has 16 police officers counting myself and a total of 25 paid employees.

We also have about 10 volunteers. We serve our population within the city limits of Astoria of 10,000 people. This communication center however has a wider scope with the communication center and this equipment that you see behind me. We serve the people in 17 public safety jurisdictions in Class of County. We can from this room dispatch police, fire and emergency medical services anywhere within those jurisdictions. We're very happy to have you here with us today and we hope you come and visit us as soon as you can. Hello and welcome to the Columbia Gorge Hotel. My name is Chavella Lopez and I'm the General Manager at this beautiful property. The Columbia Gorge Hotel was built in 1921. We are listed on the National Historical Register. The owners that we have at this time are Boyd and Halligrades. They purchased the property in 1977 and they are the ones that did the upgrades and the renovations for our lovely property.

We have 40 guest rooms to select from. We have some on the garden side which overlooks the beautiful gardens and the felt creek and also on the river side that overlook the beautiful Columbia River. Hi, my name is Toad Douglas and I'm in marketing and customer relations at Full Sail Brewing Company. Full Sail came to Hood River almost in planning stages about 13 years ago. They were looking to open a micro brewery and the competition was already starting up in Portland. We started to look in outlying areas and we were able because of that to get into a smaller community and able to get Oregon State money to help fund a seed money to help fund the project. I love OPV. I watch OPV because it doesn't have commercials and I love the documentaries. I like history so I find those really valuable and fun to watch and I also really like

music specials. You don't watch a lot of TV in the Gorge because there's so many great things to do here so when you turn it on you want quality and it's always there. Cheers, Oregon from Full Sail Brewing Company. Welcome to Hood River. When I was a kid it's kind of a funny story my television died and my parents when instead of getting another one they waited two or three years and then when they finally got into the television they would keep it locked up in the garage and the cabinet and we weren't allowed to watch television except for any OPV show that we wanted to watch or educational program and then we were allowed so many junk hours of television a week so that definitely he's carried on into my adulthood and OPB is one of my favorite stations. Hi I'm Bernie Lurch this is my wife and we're the owner proprietors of Hood River Vineyards

in Hood River Oregon. We've been the owners of this business for the last six years. We located here to Hood River because we think it's a wonderful place to grow grapes and to make wine and to raise children. I've been listening to OPB radio for years I listen to it all day long and the winery gives a lot of variety and interesting subject matter to think about all day and I enjoy the music and all the programs. The reason why I like OPB it always gives me a good choice of something of substance. I have something that I could watch and I could learn something from. The Ken Burns series of both the Civil War baseball and I'm looking forward to the Lewis and Clark those are always insightful for me and my father-in-law he just loves the news hour.

My name is Randy Kiyakawa I'm from Parkdale, Oregon I'm an orchidist I'm a third generation orchids my grandfather came over in about 1913 my father's been farming this site since about 1951. The agriculture is the number one economic factor here in the valley. The Hood River Valley grows mainly pears but there are some apples and cherries growing here in the valley. There's about 200,000 tons of apples pears and cherries growing and there's about 320 growers here in the valley. Of the winter pears the angel's boss can comese it's about 30% that is growing in the entire world. Hood River Fire Department has been in existence since around the turn of the century currently has 10 career staff and about 40 volunteers. We have brand new fire equipment thanks to the citizens of Hood River. New thing for us the last couple of years with tourism this being the windsurfing capital

of the world. We've added a water safety program featuring wave runners and all volunteer staffing to assist wind surfers in need on the Columbia to tell you a little more about that is volunteer lieutenant Jeff Pritchard. Like chief said this is a great program it's all volunteer and lots of the local businesses have really gotten behind us and helped support this program especially though the Columbia Gorge windsurfing association and a special program through Yamaha. The Zims Yamaha aggression made this whole program pretty much possible we primarily go out to rescue and or assist wind surfers in distress or wind surfers with broken equipment or actual physical injuries and it's just great to be out there and help them. The Timberland Gorge Games is a multi-sport and music festival and it takes place in Hood

River and in and around the Columbia Gorge region and to multi-sport and music festival and this region is spectacular and lends itself perfectly to this sort of festival given that we have such world class venues in such close proximity to Hood River and within say a 30 or 40 minute drive. We also have a number of different things in addition to those sports which is pretty unique about this. You don't have to be a high and professional athlete to come out and enjoy what we have to offer here in the region. We've got a kids program which we expanded this year greatly due to its success in past years. We also have concerts, four different music concerts throughout the course of the week and a women's clinic program that we added this year which was very successful. We had some top professional athletes come in and give clinics in their various sports. I-O-P-B, welcome to Astoria!

We're in Astoria, please department and welcome to our town! Greetings from Ben, we love O-P-B! As a teacher I use Oregon field guide episodes in the classroom quite often.

We've seen the trumpeter swans, the episode on possums and my very favorite is the Marble Murlelet episode, so we'd like to thank O-P-B for helping us promote education in Sisters Oregon. What do you guys think of O-P-B? We love O-P-B! Cheers, Oregon, from Follseller for any company! Welcome to Head River! We love O-P-B! Thank you very much!

Thank you very much! Special thanks to the Oregon Symphony celebrating 103 years of music for everyone! It seems like the world has discovered paradise here in central Oregon where the fastest

growing county in the state, and there's a lot of stress and pressure from population growth, traffic, increased crime, the need for affordable housing and arts and culture and you get to the end of the week and thank goodness you got Garrison Keeler and Prairie Home Companion because when you can take that little two-hour vacation to Lake Wobigon, it's like everything's just right with the world. I'm the curator of Native Heritage at the High Desert Museum, I'd like to introduce you to our new edition we're building here, it's the Hall of Plateau Indians with a permanent exhibit by hand through memory. What this exhibit will offer is what O-P-B offers to its viewing public and that's an experience with different cultures, this will be the indigenous culture of the region and it will include their interaction with nature, the plants and the animals around them, the artistry

taken from that gathering, what it offers is an exchange of cultures and a hand extended in friendship, much like O-P-B offers. They do a very nice job of representing the various facets of Oregon and we're a very diverse state so it's really nice to see. I'm also highly biased towards Oregon Public Broadcasting because it's the only station I get and if I can't see it on O-P-B I really don't need to watch it. I also listen to a lot of radio and 90% of it is also Oregon Public Broadcasting. Happy 10 big ones from Central Oregon for Oregon Field Guide. O-P-B is one of the most fantastic places to live. We're so close to the mountains and the wilderness which is what I love and that's one of the

reasons that I have llamas is in order to facilitate getting into the mountains. I moved here about 10 years ago and have had llamas in my life for seven or eight years and have been packing with them now for probably five years and they're a delightful way to get out and see the country. We are so close to three different wilderness areas here we are quite lucky. Pretty much anyone of any capability can get up there and see the wonderful country and I think llamas add a delightful experience to getting up in the wilderness. Now O-P-B my absolute all-time favorite show on O-P-B is Oregon Field Guide. I mean Steve Aiman is the best I'm not kidding. In fact I think that it would be fantastic if he could do something on llamas in Central Oregon on O-P-B.

My name is Molly Nason and I watch O-P-B, the children's program. I watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' neighborhood. I watch Sesame Street because Elmo and them teach you your alphabets and reading rainbow teaches you how to read and it helps out in an early age and can the garden. Happy 10th anniversary Oregon Field Guide and Steve Aiman you guys are the most terrific program on O-P-B that comes to you from the Ultimate Lama in Terabon Oregon. Happy 10th anniversary Oregon Field Guide you're the most terrific program on O-P-B. We have had continuous fire service in the Dallas since 1862.

One of the things that helped put this together was the purchase of a Honeyman hand pumper and 1878 the city purchased a new fire pumper, a new steamer. This was the general Jackson. It was given for use to the Jackson engine company and they used it until it was taken out of service in the early 1900s. In 1995, the city of the Dallas and wascoral fire protection district merged into one single unit and short we annexed into their district about a year later. We ended up changing the name to make on the firing rescue. Our volunteer program is a very good system and we have approximately 30 volunteers right now. We like to keep our ranks around 40 to 45. However, we're in the process of recruiting and we're always recruiting so if anybody

wants to become a volunteer, we're more than happy to have them. Out in the street, we'll be in the pump on the plane, bring a nickel tap to be, down on the corner.

Out in the street, we'll be in the pump on the plane, bring a nickel tap to be, down on the corner. Hi, I'm Sam Wolsey and I'm president of the Wasco County of the Dallas Museum Commission and we oversee Fort Dallas Museum, which we have right here.

The Dallas Museum is this building here, the Surgeons Quarters was built in 1856. At that time, Fort Dallas, between 1856 and 1858, was the most important Fort West of Fort Laramie on the Oregon Trail. What its purpose was here was for to outfit and to supply forts that were east of here, which would be Fort Simco and Fort Walla Walla. But those forts were house troops and through the integration of the three forts, it provided for the peaceful travel of the wagon trains coming across the Oregon Trail. It has been a wonderful opportunity for Fort Dallas because with the Discovery Center, which would be a great interpretive center, we have here the real piece of history that in joined with the Discovery Center makes a wonderful duel and now, with that, we look at being able to bring people in to see what the real history was in the Dallas and this

is really where it's located, as far as history in the Dallas is concerned, this is your focal point. We love to watch OPB. My favorite shows are Nature, Frontline, Nova, Gemlera, Report, what about you, Nick? I like Bill and I of the Science Guy. Right for OPB. Yes, I like OPB television because I like the ancient history and the history and also my husband likes the train shows, those are special within. This is Fort Dallas Museum, you're in the parlor with some really wonderful old artifacts which have been in this room, in this building since 1905 when it first became a museum. The building itself was built in 1856 when Fort Dallas was enlarged during the Yakima

Indian War. The fort had been founded as a very small outpost to help settlers coming west on the Oregon Trail in 1850. It became a lot busier and then gradually with the onslaught of the Civil War and changes in transportation and all by the 1860s was much less important so it had its moments of glory in the 1850s. The building is owned by the Oregon Historical Society now and administered here in the Dallas and is basically devoted to Wasco County history. I'm the park manager and we do have a lot of recreational opportunities in and around the Dallas Dam as well as John Day Dam which is 24 miles up the road.

We have full-time year-round opportunities for people to camp, picnic, hunt and fish and boating. Lots of boating opportunities. We have 22 recreation areas in the vicinity of the Dallas and John Day dams. So come on out and visit us. This is the Anderson House and it's 103 years old this year. The Anderson's are from Sweden, he's Balki English and he brought his sister over and at that time he met Mrs. Anderson in 1895 they made this house and Mrs. Anderson helped build the house by going up the draw about five miles and bringing the logs down after Mr. Anderson had hand-heeled them and had got them ready to put in the house. This room is her front room. She had a rag rug that completely covered the floor and it's as a cushion underneath she used straw.

This room was her guest room and it was a double bed and a lamp stand. The parent's room is downstairs and a large kitchen. Everybody came in the kitchen door. We'd like to tell you about the Dallas Dam visitors train. It's a great train to go for a ride on, it's a real train, not a little one. As a caboose you get to ride up in the back up in the cupolo, kids really like that of all ages. The open car, we can hold all kinds of people, it drops you off over at the dam and people take a tour around, they're going to the powerhouse, look at the fish ladder, they're petrically so there you can look at and all along we're telling you all these things and also people can ask questions and then you get back on the train, right back and I think some of the most fun on our whole tour is riding on the train. People really enjoy that ride. It's free and it takes about 55 minutes. I think there are several reasons that I like that story so much.

First one really, it's almost untouched history, it's really original to when it was built to the turn of the century and it hasn't been messed with yet, it hasn't been fixed up and I think probably one of the other reasons that I really enjoyed is that at every corner every turn you come around a block and there's another inspiration for a painting, there's another idea and they're all over the place. You don't have to get in your car to exhaust yourself painting, it's there just everywhere. It's a wonderful little town, I hope it stays that way. I think the people are one of the real main attractions for me after the inspirational part of being an artist and painting what's here, the flavor of the town, the people in the town are so behind the town and one another that it's just nice to be with the group even though I'm an outsider, they make you feel very comfortable here, very nice friendly

place. Hi, I'm Buddy Custard, I'm a Commander in the United States Coast Guard Presently assigned as the Commanding Officer, the Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast. Presently you're on board that Cutter Steadfast and behind me is our sister ship, the Coast Guard Cutter Alert, where identical ships were both imported out of a story Oregon, right downtown in Pier 17 located next to the Maritime Museum. This is a Coast Guard community, they're very fond of us and likewise we're very fond of this community. There's a strong Coast Guard presence in Astoria, we also have another ship home ported here in Astoria called the Cutter Cow Slip, which is a buoy tender. We also have an air station in Astoria and then there's a motor lifeboat school over Cape Disappointment and a Coast Guard station called Cape Disappointment. We got involved in saving this building because it was going to be torn down.

There was the Catholic Church decided that they were going to vacate the building in 1970. So we formed a nonprofit group, had to go before the City Council, quickly there was a landmark commission formed, they put a sort of a stay of execution you might say on the building. The City Council gave us 60 days to raise the money and we scrambled around and we're able to achieve that. It's really a fairy tale story. The acoustics in this building are just phenomenal, everybody that comes here and sings and that is one of the things that we try to encourage is the use of the building, of course. And people just love to sing here. The organ is the Killigan organ, it's the original organ and it is beautiful to hear. The altar is new as a mid-40s, that is. It's a carer marble from Italy and they brought ours and it's over and installed that.

So that is not a part of the original church. The windows in the building are done by the Povey Brothers, they came from the East Coast during the turn of the century and there are also examples of their windows and it's in Salem and some of the state buildings and other places in Oregon. We feel really fortunate and blessed that we were able to keep it. I'm Carol York and I'm a Hood River County Commissioner also in the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and involved in a lot of community activities. I started visiting Hood River in about 1981 and yes I am a windserver, but we moved here in the mid-80s, my husband and I moved our business here because this is a great place to live. You walk down the street, you go to the post office, you see people you know, you see people

you don't know, everybody says hello to each other and it's just a wonderful place to live or to visit. Our television to me is about the freshest, most informative form of television that we have going. I've been a member for 25 years and have not tired of it yet and I hope it keeps on going for another 25 years at least. What I find really interesting about Astoria is it's not just another tourist town, it's a real town, a real place with a strong sense of community and it also has a magical quality that tends to draw artistic, creative, entrepreneurial people, you get writers, artists. People who want to start a business are something about it that draws them here and it makes

for a really lively town. I opened River Sea Gallery here in Astoria about a year ago and five years ago I wouldn't even have considered Astoria as a spot to do that because the downtown was overrun with junk stores and rowdy taverns but in the past few years there's been a real sense of awakening here. It's a town on the turn and I feel like I've done something at just the right time in the right place, the arts community here is really becoming a vibrant presence. Greetings from Ben, we love OPP. Have a great day, or we can do a lot of that. So When I watch TV, I watch OPB. My children love Sesame Street. They were raised on it, and

I'm a big mystery fan. That's how I relax on Thursday nights. The Dallas is a great place to live because of the quality of life. It's a wonderful place to raise your family. It's a safe place that people are friendly and outgoing. It's the best it Oregon has to offer. In addition to that, we have wonderful recreation opportunities. We have windsurfing on the river, we have world-class fishing, we have hiking in the mountains. You name it and we got it. Columbia Gorge is an absolute beautiful place to live, and

it's just the best place in Oregon to be. The Dallas is also a great place to do business. We have a lot of opportunities here because our cost of living is low. The cost of doing business is relatively low compared to the rest of the state of Oregon. We have a lot of industrial opportunities and areas for us to grow inside the scenic area where you can live and work and still be close to Portland where you can enjoy all the amenities of the metropolitan area. Oregon Public Broadcasting is important to my family and myself due to the diversity of programming available. There seems to be something for everybody in the family from National Geographic's nature series, music evening at the Pops, Austin City Limits. There's something for everybody, from the youngest member of the family to myself. We just thoroughly enjoy watching Oregon Public Broadcasting. My family and myself would urge all Oregonians and people living in southwest Washington to join us in supporting Oregon Public Broadcasting.

We really have enjoyed Oregon Public Broadcasting here because of some of the things that make us relate to ourselves and the programming that you show. The most recent thing that comes to mind is the Lewis and Clark special that you showed. That's very important to the people of the Dallas because as you all know, this was one of Lewis and Clark's verified campsites. So it was very interesting to watch that whole story unfold and to see where we fit into history. That's a very good thing for the community to be able to tie back to our roots through the programming of OPP. I am a volunteer at the Discovery Center in the Wasco County Museum in the Dallas. It's a wonderful place to work and I'd say work because it's also a play. I think I truly enjoy it because I've had an opportunity to learn so much about the history of the area.

I try to adapt the program that I give really to the diaries that have the Oregon Trail women and we talk about what they wore, what they did, what their duties were and some the hardships and the things that they help their children with. I do it by using of course various kinds of props and one of them really is an Oregon Trail doll. This was dug up about 50 years ago on the trail and so I use that as a prop. I brought with me this morning my little pen question and this goes back five generations in my family. So the things that I use are old things that were family pieces and treasures to me and therefore the women brought treasures as well as toys for the kids, books, bibles, all of these things. That's a way of learning. You know we really do enjoy the Oregon project broadcasting. There's a lot of the programs

that are so well done and are certainly a learning experience. I think the best thing about it is it's good clean television. The kids love it and my very favorite one of course is keeping up appearances, one of the English programs on Saturday evenings. So it's been a lot of fun having that available to us. The wonderful thing about our facility I think is not only are we a museum and an interpretive center but we're located in an area that has so many resources. When you leave Portland you go through an area of very high rain and a rain forest as you move on within an hour you're in a full desert. We have incredible historical and cultural resources here. In the gorge we have wildflower species that are not seen anywhere else in the world. We have one of the most spectacular waterfall regions in the country, in the world.

So coming here brings you many more resources than just this building and that's one reason why we like so much being here. For me, OPB is a wonderful resource not only for our community, for our whole region. It's a nice wind, television in Portland recognizes that we exist out here. It gives us riches that we cannot get on regular television and for me personally OPB radio is my lifeline as I drive from Hood River to the Dalles to come to work. Hi, we're B-Ship, Mid-Combie, Fire and Rescue. We love OPB. I'm Captain Ed Goodman, I'm happy to welcome you here to the Dalles Oregon. Our police department

is a 20-man department, has a variety of programs, officer in the school and of course our bike program and Brent Larson here would like to say a few things about our bike program. Yeah, actually this is our new bike, latest acquisition for the bike patrol which has been an operation here in the Dalles about two and a half years. A lot of positive feedback from the business owners downtown and the tourists make a lot of tourist contacts. I carry around some extra boat shurs and some city maps here in my bicycle, hand those out on a frequent basis. Make the rounds if you will kind of like foot patrol with a bike. Keep a patrol car loaded up on the pad just in case I meet it outside the range of pedal power here and go back up my fellow officers. Well hello, OPB is visiting us here in the Dalles and we're glad to have him and I also would like to say that it's one of my favorite stations to watch and all I have to add is play more bean.

We're happy to have OPB here visiting us today and my house Thursday nights are real TV night as we call it because we watch this old house an Oregon field guide on OPB every week and we hope you will too. My name is Rick A. Zlan. I'm with the Wasco County Sheriff's Office. I'm a detective sergeant with the sheriff's office. We do a lot of search and rescue. We have a marine patrol that works the high lakes also on the Columbia River. We have a detective unit. We have a narcotics unit that works in narcotics here and the patrol division. One of the reasons that I moved here is the small community atmosphere also the wonderful weather that we have. We have sunshine for the biggest share of the year. It might get a little cold or a little warm

at times and the wind does blow a little bit but overall it's pretty even temperatures. It's a real nice place to live. It's quiet most of the time. You know I don't have very much time to watch TV with all my county commission meetings and so forth but when I watch TV I do watch OPB. I like to watch the news hour with Jim Lara because it shows two sides of every story. It's nice to see a balanced point of view. I like to watch seven days because I can keep up on what's happening statewide which is sometimes difficult to do when you're so busy in your own small community. I don't have cable TV at our house. I live in a rural area but I do get OPB from the repeater tower and so I have to watch on HF-68 and it comes in really well and I really appreciate the fact that OPB will send signals out so that those of us who aren't on cable can watch the TV.

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Hood River is a very unique place. It has a long history. It even mentioned in the journals of Lewis and Clark. They mentioned on their way down the river in 1805 of an Indian encampment on a river. The city became incorporated in 1895 so we have about 103 years of history as an incorporated city. It's a very unique place. It's very interesting to live here due to a lot in fact of the friendliness of the people and the openness and also the beautiful scenery and the activities that are available here when surfing, mountain biking, hiking this type of activity. But we still haven't lost the small town atmosphere. I moved here to be a teacher and I figured two years the teacher was a good resume to move on. That

was 27 years ago. So the place grows on you. I can't emphasize enough how important Hood River is and the friendliness of the people around here. That's what has made the city grow and be such a viable part of the Columbia Gorge. Shanghai and in Astoria is a locally produced show that's now in its 14th season and we produced by the Astros Street Opera Company, where a local historical, historical musical melodrama. It was written by a student from Class of College in 1984 and from there the actors and directors have taken it and built upon it for a year after year. It's an all-community produced amateur actors and semi-professional actors join us. It's all written around the local Scandinavian community. So there's a lot of inside jokes about the Finns and the Norwegians and the Scandinavians and we encourage everybody to join us. It's a good time.

It's a family show. It's a lot of fun. It's more like an event and we've become a real tradition in Astoria. I'm Nancy Montgomery, one of several owners and workers at the Columbia River Coffee House and Theatre. There's a Repertory Theatre Company in the back here in 90s. Space will have a, what we're working towards is a summer season, Repertory Theatre Company where we'll bring in artists from outside the community, professional artists to come in and work in conjunction with the community. The rest of the year we want to be open to the community as essentially a community performing space to bring in music, children's theatre, Christmas shows, readers' theatre, have reading seminars, whatever we can come up with to allow the community to speak. And that's our goal. We're trying to be something

for the community. My kid and I both love OPB mostly because of Sesame Street. There's that home nostalgia thing for me and it's all new for her. But in addition Arthur and all the other kids chose the main thing for me is that she's not watching commercials all day long and saying, I want, I want, I want. She's instead learning and watching and interacting, which is fun to see. From under the bridge, the Repertory Theatre welcomes OPB to Astoria. There's that bass! Welcome to Astoria!

Hi OPB! Welcome to Astoria! I'm Jerry Alderman from Astoria Fire Department. I'm the operations chief here. I've lived in the area all my life and I've been on Astoria Fire Department for three years. I've been a volunteer at a neighboring department for 25 years. Astoria Fire Department has been

an operation since 1870. We currently have 14 career people. We have 11 volunteers and we operate out of two stations. We have three engines and a fire boat and a hazardous materials band that we use for response for the area. We're the Astoria Police Department and welcome to our town! Congratulations Oregon Field Guide on your 10th anniversary! My family and I really enjoy the programming on both radio and television that we received through OPB and like the High Desert Museum, OPB stands for the very highest quality and the very best service for its audiences.

We're in Central Oregon. We're proud of our quality of life with our gorgeous mountains and lakes, many outstanding golf courses, parks, rivers and campgrounds, fine dining and shopping, world-class resorts and first-class community institutions like the Central Oregon Community College and the High Desert Museum complete the picture. That's why we turn to the high quality of programming at Oregon Public Broadcasting to enlighten, inform and entertain us. Thanks OPB for adding to our Central Oregon quality of life. As we all know, television is a very fragmented industry with dozens of channels available for viewing. OPB is one terrific fragment, whether it's for nature shows or classical music or history. OPB is the place you can always go. I've made Central Oregon my home because of the beauty of the environment and because

of the people who live here, their commitment to the community is outstanding and one thing we like about Central Oregon is what OPB brings to us and the way of culture and information. Everything could be better. Well at the Shoesbury, we're proud to underwrite OPB because it's what we watch. Our employees like it, our customers like it and more importantly, my children like it. They enjoy the nature programs and the children's programs and I enjoy the news and commentary programs and there's something there for everyone. And here in Central Oregon it gives us something special from the other side of the mountains as well. So at the Shoesbury, we're very proud to underwrite OPB. Well Oregon certainly is a beautiful state and I think all the residents of Oregon understand that and appreciate that. And I think OPB programming illustrates those points to people

across the state of Oregon and in particular here at Smith Rock, two part series at OPB on Oregon Field Guide did about the restoration process that was going on and is ongoing here at Smith Rock State Park. I think that kind of programming helps people across our great state to understand not only the high desert ecosystem, east of the Cascades but develop a understanding and appreciation for not only the ecological and geographical differences that we have in our state but to give them a little bit more knowledge for appreciation too. I'd like to wish Oregon Field Guide a happy 10th anniversary. Ben firefighters enjoy watching Oregon Field Guide whenever we get the chance. Happy 10th

anniversary Oregon Field Guide. Well greetings from sunny sisters and I appreciate the opportunity to lend my support for Oregon Public Broadcasting. As I think about sisters in OPB I struck with a number of similarities where each of us tries to be different than our peers around us and sisters we have our 1880s architectural theme where as you walk down our streets you see a western town and get to enjoy the backdrop of the mountains and Oregon Public Broadcasting offers unique shows to my family like Magic School Bus and Bill Nye the Science Guy and in my favorite Oregon Field Guide and so we each try and be different and in their offer Oregonians something that we have too much of in the world and that is plain vanilla and so like my family we'd ask each person to support Oregon Public Broadcasting and also jump in their cars and come over and enjoy sisters too.

So I'm sisters Oregon I'd like to wish a happy 10th anniversary to the Oregon Field Guide. Not only do we like the science, arts, history, the whole gamut of great things on OPB but I particularly like the concerts. Everything from Yanni to Arlo Guthrie. It's like having a concert in your front room. The sound is wonderful and watch OPB and listen. As a teacher I use Oregon Field Guide episodes in the classroom quite often. We've seen the trumpeter swans the episode on possums and my very favorite is the Marble the Merle Let episode. So we'd like to thank OPB for helping us promote education and sisters Oregon. What do you guys think of OPB? We love OPB!

I'm Bob Hastings. I'm president of the Hood River City Council and I'm also chairman of the Urban Renewal District and I'd like to welcome OPB to Hood River. One of the things that I think is really unique about Hood River in addition to its friendly atmosphere and friendly people is our Urban Renewal District. We initiated the Urban Renewal District in 1987. We will be completed. We must be completed by 2015. We've done three streets and one parking lot so far. And in the three streets that we've done we've buried all the utilities. We have incorporated street trees, classic light poles, benches, replaced all the streets and the sidewalks as well. Everybody is really excited about that. Hello, Oregon. We're the city of Hood River Fire Department and we love OPB. OPB programming is best because you can't get that anywhere else on radio as well as TV.

I wake up every morning to OPB radio and my day wouldn't be complete without it. Yes, my name is Jeff Heeter. I'm with the Hood River Cragrats, Mountain Search and Rescue Unit, based here in Hood River. We've been organized since 1927 so that makes us the oldest Mountain Search and Rescue Unit in the United States. We've got about 80 members, about 40 widths that are active in search and rescue organizations here in this area. About half of our missions are up on Mount Hood. The rest of them involve trails and hiking lakes and the Columbia Gorge and just regions around here in Hood River County and Wasco County. I'm pleased you asked me to tell you what OPB means to me and it's particularly fun to be able to do here at this OPB Outpost. This is an experiment that we developed

with OPB to try and get you folks more directly involved in communities throughout the state. I tend to listen to the radio side more than watch television and what I really appreciate is the diversity and depth of your programming. It's wonderful when you're driving 50 miles roundtrip to Bender, 300 miles roundtrip to Portland to hear all the wonderful varied programming on the radio side and to get into stories deeply enough so that you actually learn something. It's a wonderful service you provide. Twenty-three years ago, I started the stitching post. Having been a home economics teacher and a quilter, it was a way for me to combine two things that I really enjoy doing. In the area, there aren't a lot of radio stations to choose from and my husband and I discovered OPB which was pretty exciting and I find that...