Articles by Carina Reed:

11.6
07

A Trek Through McMinnville and Dayton With Travel Oregon’s International Department

The Group

The Group

Good food, great camaraderie, and fly fishing…can you think of a better way to spend part of the day? Recently, five of my colleagues and I had the opportunity to experience all of that.

We started our afternoon with lunch at the Paragon Room at McMenamins Hotel Oregon. Hotel Oregon is a fabulous, historic four-story brick building built in 1905, located in the heart of Oregon’s wine country in downtown McMinnville. The Paragon Room features two large superbly handcrafted pool tables and saucer-shaped light fixtures complete with blinking lights above each table. The fixtures are incorporated within the décor to honor the annual UFO Festival that takes place every May. The UFO Festival began as a tribute to the famous 1950 Trent sighting in which two locals photographed a UFO in McMinnville.

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03/01/07

A Weekend Full of Wine, Seafood, and Creatures of the Deep in Newport

My mother, my daughter and a friend all trekked to Newport for the weekend. We stayed at the Inn at Yaquina Bay in Newport in a King size suite with a microwave and fridge …

02/23/07

Frogz Frolic at the Elsinore Theater

By Carina Reed
I spent this past Saturday night partaking in the wacky world of FROGZ at Salem’s Historic Elsinore Theatre . The production was produced by Imago Theater in Portland and has been on …

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