4 years ago
I visited the Sustainable AGriculture and Environm...
I visited the Sustainable AGriculture and Environment Center after my recent 50th high school class reunion in Hermiston, Oregon. After graduating in 1965, I worked for four college summers at the Union Pacific Railroad's Hinkle Yard and Ordnance Section just east of Boardman. The Port of Morrow was then just shaping itself around its new shore lands elevation along the Columbia River caused by the brand new John Day Dam reservoir. My SAGE Center visit was very impressed with the level of agricultural reclamation on former government lands and the scientific effort being taken by the Port and its corporate partners in creating a haven of sustainable economic enterprise--to even providing soccer fields and space for a riverfront parkland/marina for sustaining its neighboring West End community. Its growth to having now become the second largest Port in Oregon is truly amazing!