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Honor Flight Of Oregon The waiting list is getting smaller for the Honor Flights! Honor Flight Of Oregon is under the national Honor Flight Network. Honor Flight of Oregon is honoring our Oregon Veterans by taking them to visit their memorials in Washington D.C.  There are over 1,000 World War II...

Since the deadline for the $8,000 tax credit is fast approaching, I wanted to share this great post written by Leslie Ebersole.From CNNMoney.com, we have just learned that the way the IRS is "handling" the tax credit is turning into yet another stumbling block to helping the real estate market re...

This is a great post that Ryan Shaughnessy wrote several months ago to show how to easily download videos from the internet.  On occasion, it may be permissible to download videos from the internet for use under the "fair use" doctrine.  There are several tools available to capture and download v...

Illinois River - Grants Pass, Oregon The Illinois River begins life as two separate branches that rapidly gain strength as they thunder through the wide Illinois Valley in Southern Oregon. The relentless plunge of these two bodies draw strength from countless creeks and streams, plunging down the...

Lake Selmac Area Homes In Southern Oregon Lake Selmac sits in the southern part of Oregon in the breathtakingly beautiful Illinois Valley. The Lake Selmac Area has around thirty homes for sale, and about twenty lots and parcels of land for sale, from 1 1/2 to 640 acres on which to build. Lake Sel...

The Unforgiven Can't Skate Remember when you first tried to ice skate or roller skate?  Everytime you felt as though you finally had it mastered, down you went again! Well unfortunately, many people who are losing their homes now face this same scenario in their futures. After they have recovered...

Paradise Ranch Resort - Grants Pass, Oregon Paradise Ranch Resort is designed around a championship 18 hole golf course.  Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II designed the Paradise Ranch Resort course.  It is a par 72 with 7400 + of the most beautiful yards in the world planned for this course.  Th...

Riverside Park In Grants Pass, Oregon Riverside Park in Grants Pass was set aside by our founders for the enjoyment of our citizens and guests. People come from all over to Riverside Park to watch the majestic Rogue River as it courses its' way through our city. I recently met a gentleman from Ne...

Harvest Meadows Estates Homes For Sale - Grants Pass, Oregon Harvest Meadows Estates brings green homes to Southern Oregon in a big way. Harvest Meadows Estates is being developed by master builder Kirk Chapman.  Mr. Chapman has made a commitment to be the first to bring "Green Built Certified Ea...

Adopt A Kid In A Day - Rogue Valley Humane Society - Grants Pass, Oregon The Rogue Valley Humane Society needs help.  They just rescued a bunch of Nubian dwarf goats from a home in Jackson County, unfortunately their owner wasn't able to care for them properly.  RVHS suddenly found out that many ...