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Oregon Family Farmer is the Talk in the State Capitol

(Left to Right) Former Senate Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli, House Minority Leader Mike McLane, Senate President Peter Courtney, and House Revenue Chair Representative Phil Barnhart take a look at McLane’s cover article in the Fall 2017 issue.

(Left to Right) Former Senate
Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli, House
Minority Leader Mike McLane, Senate
President Peter Courtney, and House
Revenue Chair Representative Phil
Barnhart take a look at McLane’s
cover article in the Fall 2017 issue.

Senator, Coach, Firefighter; but Most of All a Farmer

Oregon State Senator Chuck Thomsen

BY NAOMI INMAN

Flanking the eastside of the Hood River Valley, and just to the south of Whiskey Creek Road, a fair stretch of Eastside Road winds along miles of winter pear orchards, dotted with vintage farm homes.  A modest but dignified, crisp, white, salt-block home has stood as a Thomsen family residence for the better part of a century. Continue reading