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Gazette Archive
February 2024 Gazette (PDF) Bell ringing on Veterans Day, Thank You to our 2023 donors, In memoriam: Bob Lamb, and 2023 in review.
May 2023 Gazette (PDF) Garden Home Community Library 40th Birthday Bash, Zak, Lee, and Lois Hyslin, Century Home with Robert Pearson, Garden Home Cooks!, and Dorothy Johnson’s children visit.
November 2022 Gazette (PDF) Installing a Century Home plaque, displaying our dolls in the Library along with their histories, and reader responses about The Big Blow of 1962 (The October storm).
March 2022 Gazette (PDF) We remember Gerry Frank. We’re excited about our new businesses, Recreation Center re-opening, our history displays in the Garden Home Library, and a special thank-you to our generous donors.
August 2021 Gazette (PDF). Trader Joe’s and ACE Hardware, Hideaway Park beaver dam, Historic Day home now houses Local Leaf, Century Homes, The Garden Home Community Library reopening.
April 2021 Gazette (PDF). Jan Fredrickson’s bulletin board, 2016 Garden Tour, Gerry Frank, Historic Garden Home street signs, Discover Garden Home!, and Century Homes.
December 2020 Gazette (PDF). 10th Anniversary Special Edition of the Garden Home Gazette newsletter.
October 2020 Gazette (PDF). Old Market Pub and Brewery, Luke and Michelle Middlebrooks and the Oregon Electric Railroad Line, Library, local businesses, Beaverton Schools, and remembering Warren Cook, A Look Backwards at some of our stories for our 10 year anniversary, Subscribing to the Garden Home History Gazette.
May 2020 Gazette (PDF). 10th Anniversary of the Garden Home History Project, COVID19, Garden Home Cooks! display in the library display cabinet, 1936 aerial photograph updates, blooming of the Oleson Gardens, photos of the Garden Home History Project Board of Directors, excerpts from some of our favorite stories from the website, and Garden Home History Through The Years in photos.
November 2019 Gazette (PDF). Preparing for the Holiday Bazaar, Grocery Store Closing, Hunt Club Childhood of Mike Norris, M.D., Clark N. Stephens obituary, Board meetings and presentations, THANKS for your donations, Printed Gazettes, Treasurer Marie Pacella, and Activities and Programs Year in Review.
August 2019 Gazette (PDF). New history cabinet in the newly expanded Library, photo of Don Dunbar and Molly Carlisle. Stories on Andrew Gorman’s totem pole, and Glenn and Isolda Steele. Garden Home History Board picnic. Garden Home School faculty of 1971.
June 2019 Gazette (PDF) Memoir from Postmistress Lana Smith, Ole Oleson and Polly Philena Patton Oleson, History display at the Garden Home Library hallway
April 2019 Gazette (PDF) Korean Society, history of Garden Home Post Office and postal safe, Alpenrose, obits: Babbitts, Don Sprague, Marlene Tufts
November 2018 Gazette (PDF) Veterans event, Holiday Bazaar, Oregon Trail, Halloween graveyard display
August 2018 Gazette (PDF) Garden Home School Class of 1958 Reunion, Bonney and Woodward family, Wisher and Lane family, history of Multnomah Blvd, Ginny Mapes reception, bell ringing event
2018 April Gazette (PDF) Church bell, Robert Gertsch, Nancy Donner, Bruce Koester, water tanks, Cannery talk
2017 December Gazette (PDF) Dorothy Johnson, Pat Boone, Black Rock Coffee construction, officers
2017 July Gazette (PDF) Ice cream social event, cemetery tour event, Garden Home Market Place name change, new businesses, Garden Home Facebook page by Ginny Mapes
2017 February Gazette (PDF) Big snows in Garden Home, heart research, bell ringing event, chocolate candy contest, school bus, elephant on Westgard, the Cannery
2016 August Gazette (PDF) and BHS history chronology special insert (PDF) Reunion Garden Home School and Beaverton High, Garden Tour, Century homes, Godwin, Moore obituary, Upchurch memoir
2016 May Gazette (PDF) Garden Tour, Steele, Patti Waitman-Ingebretson, Margaret Simmons Patton, Murder on Garden Home Rd.
2016 February Gazette (PDF) Aerial maps, t-shirt sales, Kaplan Century home event, Beaverton High School celebration
2015 November Gazette (PDF) Bell ringing event, Marugg, Fredrickson, Nordia Center
2015 January Gazette (PDF) 2015 calendar, Fanno Creek Trail signs, railroad talk
2013 Fall Gazette (PDF) 2014 calendar, note cards, Lillian, Olive Oleson, Westgard, Larry, Linda Monk
2013 Spring Gazette (PDF) Gerry Frank, large Garden Home sign work, donors, Koeber, Eliz. Newton, Bette Waldele Sturtevant
2012 Summer Gazette (PDF) 100th Anniv. Garden Home School event, Feldman, Wilcox, Churches, WW2 plane crash, Jack Steele, donors, Treasurer’s report
2012 Spring Gazette (PDF) Open house Fogelbo, Unitarian building, Historic Garden Home street signs, Feldman Fanno Creek Dairy
2012 Winter Gazette (PDF) Street signs, 2012 calendar, Ole and Polly Oleson, WW2 plane crash, Doc Hickman, Hal Pallay, Elizabeth Lambert Wood
2011 August Gazette (PDF) 100th Anniversary of first Garden Home School, first calendar of vintage photos
2011 June Gazette (PDF) Von Bergen Dairy, Schanen-Zolling house, Becvars, Whitney’s cannery, Dorothy Johnson
2011 February Gazette (PDF) Baseball photo, slide show, Crescent Grove cemetery tour, Clark Stephens, Don Smith, Leona Whitney, Garden Home Extension
2010 May Gazette (PDF) Our beginning! Carolyn Ernstrom Welch, Poutala, Olive Stott Gabriel, George Babbitt, website development by Stan Houseman
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