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October 2008
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By: Amy Troy When you're expecting, you'll hear this comparison. At seven months into your pregnancy your baby is, statistically, the size of a football. Well, we've hit that ... Got a nice post to my last blog from Lane. He wrote: "Wonderful job, morning crew at KGW Newschannel 8. You really stand behind what you mean when you say, "Where the News Comes First". I will NOT watch any other news station in town, you cover everything that I need to know in the morning to start my day. Plus, when your reporters aren'... Wow! This morning's thunder and lightning was a little too close for comfort for our Newschannel 8 reporters and photographers. One place you don't want to be during a storm is outside doing a live shot. The microwave vans broadcast with their masts sky high-- creating the ultimate lightning rod. Shortly before 7am during our Sunrise show the lightning sent both of our crews scrambling for safety. I just talked to the reporters invol... I think there are a lot of us with Olympic hangovers every morning. We're drinking up these 2008 Beijing Olympics and hanging in there until closing time each night. We're groggy the next day, because we've bellied up to NBC's beautiful HD coverage of all the excitement and drama and we can't back away. Who can turn down another round of Mi... Let me put my own twist on the old joke-- "a funny thing happened on my way to the....." In my case, the "funny thing" happened on my way to see an outdoor concert at the River House restaurant in West Linn Sunday. Dan Reed was there playing a low key acoustic set (after flying in from New York to play The Bite of Portland the night before.) He's a long time friend-- he and my husband Blake played together back ... His name is J-R Mcdowell and while he was here with us, he taught those lucky enough to know him much about grace. I only spent a few hours with J-R earlier this summer when we met him at the Providence Center for Medically Fragile Children. We were there to do a story on his many accomplishments in his young life. ... |
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