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Neat PEOPLE: Meet Oregon’s own Sara Jackson-Holman

June 3, 2010 by karenvitt  
Filed under Neat PEOPLE, Neat STUFF

By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
It’s our job here at The Neat Sheet to pounce on fashionable Portlanders and dig into their style secrets, but today we’re taking a Neat PEOPLE day trip to Bend, Ore., home of 21-year-old college student-slash-chanteuse Sara Jackson-Holman. Tonight, Jackson-Holman will celebrate the launch of  her first full-length CD, [...]

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Make a day trip out of adopting a cat

August 19, 2009 by karenvitt  
Filed under Neat STUFF

Last week I tagged along with my boyfriend on a story assignment to a cat safe house in Madras, Ore. Jacques is the pet columnist for The Oregonian, and he was interviewing a woman who has opened her home to more than 40 homeless cats. Because the county shelter there only accepts dogs, Sandra Ballard [...]