Happy Birthday, Corvallis!
That's right, kids... today is our town's 150th birthday. For those of you keeping track at home, that makes this a sesquicentennial celebration. If Corvallis went to New China Buffet today, it would get a free meal and a cake! If Corvallis went to McGrath's Fish House, it would get a birthday song while wearing a silly fish hat! Of course, there's also the ubiquitous sombrero with Polaroid photo at several Mexican places in town and Evergreen Indian Restaurant gave Corvallist kid a rose on her birthday one year.
All restaurant weirdness aside, there are several events planned throughout the year to celebrate our little town growing up, starting with a kickoff party today at ArtCentric from 3 to 5 p.m. There is a website dedicated to the sesquicentennial celebration that you may as well bookmark now, because this party will continue throughout the year. You don't want to be left out.
Corvallis was incorporated on January 28, 1857. It shares a birthday with Alan Alda, Elijah Wood and Sarah McLachlan, among various other events. Corvallis's Aquarian horoscope indicates that the coming year will bring "obstacles, duties, and responsibilities that overwhelm you." Fortunately, Corvallis still feels like a young town and won't have to be put in a home anytime soon.
As a side note, this blog turned one a few weeks ago. For those of you keeping track at home, that's uh... nothing, apparently. Anyway, time for cake!
All restaurant weirdness aside, there are several events planned throughout the year to celebrate our little town growing up, starting with a kickoff party today at ArtCentric from 3 to 5 p.m. There is a website dedicated to the sesquicentennial celebration that you may as well bookmark now, because this party will continue throughout the year. You don't want to be left out.
Corvallis was incorporated on January 28, 1857. It shares a birthday with Alan Alda, Elijah Wood and Sarah McLachlan, among various other events. Corvallis's Aquarian horoscope indicates that the coming year will bring "obstacles, duties, and responsibilities that overwhelm you." Fortunately, Corvallis still feels like a young town and won't have to be put in a home anytime soon.
As a side note, this blog turned one a few weeks ago. For those of you keeping track at home, that's uh... nothing, apparently. Anyway, time for cake!
posted by Corvallist at
2:29 AM
7 Comments:
Huh, I hadn't known that, thank you for pointing it out. Yeah my blog says I live somewhere else but I've lived here for 32 years now.
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nolocontendere, at 5:12 AM
Happy Birthday -- to our town and to your blog!
We are looking forward to the storytelling festival next weekend.
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Anonymous, at 10:06 AM
PS - Corvallis was born in the Year of the Snake. (According to this site )
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Anonymous, at 12:02 PM
I rode out Highland today and even though it was Sunday I was constantly being passed by cars. I was hoping to have a peaceful bicycle ride, and it used to be possible in that area, but since Corvallis keeps growing, it is going to be harder and harder to just ride out of town and find uncrowded roads. The new development planned for Harrison will also affect easiest way for me to get out of town on my bicycle. I wish that Corvallis could basically stop growing. Why is that impossible? The main cause of environmental deterioration is population growth.
I know why it is impossible: there's no way to regulate the population. Still, it is depressing to see more and more of the land replaced by houses.
I realize this is off topic, but a lot of your posts are about development in Corvallis.
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Christopher Farrell, at 4:18 PM
A lot? Okay... actually very few posts about development, percentagewise, but to some, that's too many.
Overpopulation is a problem, I agree, but Corvallis is growing at a fairly reasonable pace compared to much of the third world, or even towns like Sacramento. I am all for encouraging people not to over-breed, but within reason. We shouldn't have tax breaks or credits for more than two kids, in my opinion. But Chinese-style limitations? Not so much.
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Corvallist, at 7:26 PM
Development is an interesting topic, and something that needs to be discussed and debated. I don't think you have been posting about it too much or too little.
What I was saying is that, from a bike riding perspective, there is already too much traffic. If we have any growth, it will get worse. I'd prefer to return to the traffic levels of like maybe, 1977. That would be good. Not possible though.
I couldn't believe the number of cars on Highland on a Sunday. Then when they build that megachurch, some fanatic will probably mow me down in their hummer on the way to getting baptized.
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