OTE - Oregon Travel Experience

Maynard Drawson, July 3, 1925 – December 13, 2012
OTE, the Oregon Heritage Tree Program and its committee members were sorrowed to hear of our friend Maynard Drawson’s  passage from this world to the next.
Maynard was instrumental in helping to save some of Oregon’s most important trees. The Oregon Heritage Tree Program would not exist if not for his life’s work preserving trees. All of us involved with heritage trees are …

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Special December 7, 2012 meeting

The Oregon Travel Information Council will hold a special telephonic meeting in OTE’s Salem office on Friday December 7, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The Council will approve minutes from a special November meeting and discuss (or possibly approve) janitorial and rest area contracts for OTE’s supervised I-84 rest areas. You are welcome to download an agenda for reference.
For more information regarding OTE’s governing Council, …

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The Oregon Travel Information Council is the governing body of Oregon Travel Experience. As such, it holds regularly scheduled quarterly meetings. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday October 10, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. The public is invited to attend and give comment.
A summary of the agenda is posted below for your convenience. For more information on the Travel Information Council, visit the Council member web-page and the meetings and …

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Heritage trees to be inducted on Friday October 5, 2012

Oregon Travel Experience (OTE) and the Oregon Heritage Tree Program announce a special dedication of the Shipley-Cook Heritage Grove in Lake Oswego. The ceremony will take place on Friday, October 5, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. in Stevens Meadows on Shipley Drive. Wine tasting by Eugene Wine Cellars (a Shipley-Cook Farm grape customer) will follow the dedication.
OTE’s Interim CEO Tim Pickett said, …

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Celebrating the lastest historical marker installation

Oregon Travel Experience, the City of Lafayette, and the Oregon Historical Program recently dedicated a new historical marker commemorating Lafayette suffragette Abigail Scott Duniway.
The new interpretive marker is located at Joel Perkins Park on 8th and Jefferson Streets in Lafayette.
In Lafayette during the 1860s, Duniway raised a family, established her own school, took in boarders, published her first novel, and worked tirelessly for a woman’s …

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Council to hear public testimony on CEO recruitment and position announcement

A special meeting of the Oregon Travel Information Council will take place on at 10:00 a.m. on August 22nd. The hearing will be held at OTE’s Salem, Oregon headquarters located at 1500 Liberty Street SE, Suite 150, 97302.
The meeting will focus on the agency’s CEO recruitment process. Accompanying documents and a downloadable agenda are provided in the section below for …

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Come see what you missed. Oregon Travel Experience has posted a photo gallery on our Facebook page. We’ve got photos of a nice little plane that’s been lovingly restored, former smokejumpers, the great crowd, the firefighters pancake breakfast and the ceremony
It was a great day and although the temperatures were unbelievably cold for June, the clouds parted, the rain stopped, and the event progressed as planned.
OTE’s Council member George Forbes …

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Oregon Travel Experience is pleased to announce the upcoming dedication of its latest Oregon Heritage Tree Program honoree, the Smokejumper Pine Tree. The Saturday, June 23rd ceremony will take place at 11:30 a.m. at the historic Siskiyou Smokejumper Base. The base is located at Illinois Valley Airport, about four miles south of Cave Junction, Oregon. Please look for signs to the event on Hwy 199 W., as the address on …

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June 13th may have been a chilly day (in fact, it was downright goose-bump weather), but the celebration was outstanding. And, for Government Camp, 40 degrees is considered shirtsleeve weather for fulltime residents.
What were all the tents, cookies, lemonade, and speeches about? It was a big thank you to the many participants who helped save the Government Camp rest area.
The collaborative effort is a prime example of what can be …

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