Farm in Oregon City area expands Kunekune breeding efforts
Unexpected circumstances during wildfires last September help out Kristopher Buxton.
Buxton Farm has been having new litters of Kunekune pigs every couple of months send to Montana, Utah and several surrounding states as the popularity of the newly-registered pasture breed explodes worldwide.
Kristopher Buxton, who owns the Kunekune farm near Oregon City on Dillman Road, said the Disney character of pigs have become a beloved breed for their loving, loyal and carefree characteristics that remind people of Labrador retrievers. We could all use some cute piglets in our lives right now, Buxton said. They are a pasture pig, so you do not feed them waste or scraps; they get everything they need from the pastures and/or large yards and some water.
Rejection is always out there, but it doesn t have to beat you February 17 2021
I have another the bad-news letters in my newspaper file, but they don t bother me nearly so much as they used to.
If you were raised the way I was, it s quite possible you weren t expected to amount to much. It was made clear as I approached high school graduation that I was not likely to go to college, because (A) I had terrible grades (a 1.75 GPA, which is a high D), and (B) nobody in our family had the money to pay for college.
I should also add here that if my parents were to hear that I was in trouble with a teacher, principal, coach, bus driver or anyone else in any position of authority, their reaction was always, OK, what did you do this time?
Oregon City s Lunar Ladies bring home second straight grand prize
Robotics team from Gardiner Middle School, Oregon City High School earns NASA honors.
Oregon City s Lunar Ladies won Oregon s grand-champion award in NASA s Mars challenge for the second year in a row in December.
In the process, they were selected as national co-champions with three other teams from across the U.S., at the same time earning recognition as the only all-girl team to win the NASA challenge.
As the only repeat winners in the nation, the Lunar Ladies robotics team from Oregon City High School and Gardiner Middle School took advantage of their extra free time in 2020 to again win the Mars challenge.