{"id":1704,"date":"2009-08-25T06:49:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2009-08-25T06:49:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T13:49:57","slug":"madras-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/madras-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras, Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

We came over to Luke and LaVay’s on Saturday. We plan to head home in another two or three hours. Right now, I’m in town, at the Jefferson County Library. A very nice little library with WiFi Internet access for free. (I’ve even used it when they’re closed, just parked in the street.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I took a few pictures here in Madras this morning. But I’m not going to put them up right now (11:11 am). I don’t have time.<\/p>\n

But I wanted to get this post started, so there you are. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n

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My first stop in Madras was Safeway to buy some fuel. Before mine was pumped, I noticed that the guy at the other side of my pump started his car…even though the nozzle was still hitched to his car. Then I heard him put his car in gear and I noticed the car jump a bit.<\/p>\n

“Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!”<\/i> I shouted with generous gusto. (That was great fun!!) He stomped his brakes and I pointed at the fuel nozzle.<\/p>\n

After the attendant took care of that customer, he came over to pump my fuel. And thanked me, “You saved me at least $750!”<\/p>\n

From there I headed off to the other end of town to buy a few items at BiMart for LaVay. But I got sidetracked by a new bronze statue that had just been dedicated yesterday. It’s a tribute to and memorial of one of their native sons, killed in Iraq: Pfc. Thomas Tucker, a 1999 graduate of Madras High School.<\/p>\n

Because Tom enjoyed working with Iraqi children during his Army service, the memorial depicts him helping an Iraqi girl out of a destroyed building:<\/p>\n

\"Fallen<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

This morning, the Oregonian<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

Residents in the Central Oregon city of Madras unveiled a memorial to Army Pfc. Thomas Tucker, the hometown soldier kidnapped and killed in a checkpoint ambush in Iraq three years ago.<\/p>\n

The bronze statue designed by sculptor Rip Caswell shows Tucker reaching up to help an Iraqi girl.<\/p>\n

Tucker and two other 101st Airborne Division soldiers were ambushed south of Baghdad. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, from there, I made it to BiMart. As I sat in my van, I heard a loud roaring sound. Overhead, it seemed. So I got out, looked up, and there it was, taking off from the airport:<\/p>\n

\"World<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

It banked around and came right over me:<\/p>\n

\"World<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The B-17 Flying Fortress Sentimental Journey<\/i> was still in town for the just-concluded “Airshow of the Cascades”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I went into BiMart to my business.<\/p>\n

As I was exiting the BiMart parking lot a few minutes later, I stopped to snap this photo:<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

So long, Apple Peddler Restaurant! I certainly enjoyed eating breakfast there<\/a> with my wife a while ago. (I include that info here since I recommended eating there way back when.)<\/p>\n

After stopping at a thrift store, I went on to the library. It’s a very nice county library. Their Internet area has six computers for public use. They’ve also provided three nice-sized tables for those of who bring our own laptop and notebook computers to take advantage of their free wireless Internet access.<\/p>\n

Nice little town, that Madras.<\/p>\n

Please note:<\/b> Most of the above was written yesterday (ie, Monday, August 24, 2009); the first part in the morning in Madras; the second, late at night here at home near Molalla, Oregon. It seems I was going to write more, but I don’t remember what.<\/p>\n

Besides, this is long enough.<\/p>\n

And I’ve lost interest. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We came over to Luke and LaVay’s on Saturday. We plan to head home in another two or three hours. Right now, I’m in town, at the Jefferson County Library. A very nice little library with WiFi Internet access for free. (I’ve even used it when they’re closed, just parked in the street.) Anyway, I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[276,24],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-photos","tag-madras","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}