In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.

* 1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.

Astoria is the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

* Bannock people, a Native American people of what is now southeastern Oregon and western Idaho

The central Oregon county of Deschutes is the fastest-growing in the state.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

The Oregon District is a historic residential and commercial district in southeast downtown Dayton.

D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971.

Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland and the U. S. states of Oregon, Washington and Montana.

Physician-assisted suicide is thus not classified as euthanasia by the US State of Oregon, where it is legal under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, and despite its name, it is not legally classified as suicide either.

Eugene () is a major city of the Pacific Northwest located in the state of Oregon.

It is the second-largest city in the U. S. state of Oregon and the county seat of Lane County.

It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.

Eastmoreland is an early-twentieth century, tree-filled neighborhood in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States.

* 1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U. S. state.

It is landlocked, surrounded by the states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

* 1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

* 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous " exploding whale " incident.

Even so, Stassen was still leading Dewey in the polls for the upcoming Oregon primary.

His mother, Margaret Green Reed, was the daughter of a leading Portland citizen who had made a fortune through three enterprises: as owner of the first gas works in Oregon, owner of the first pig iron smelter on the west coast, and as second owner of the Portland water works.

Most of his service with the 4th U. S. was in the Pacific Northwest, starting with a topographical survey mission to the Willamette Valley in 1855, during which he became involved with the Yakima War and Rogue River Wars, gaining experience in leading small combat teams, being wounded ( a bullet grazed his nose on March 28, 1857, at Middle Cascade, Oregon Territory ), and some of the diplomatic skills needed for negotiating with Indian tribes.

In Portland, Oregon, on the 150th Anniversary of Howard's acts of valor on June 1, 1862, while leading his troops at the Battle of Fair Oaks ; a commemorative wreath was laid by the Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission at the site of General O. O.

The British owned Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ), a leading fur trader, constructed a number of large forts / trading posts in the vast Oregon Territory to profit, specifically, from the beaver trade.

* William Price Hunt, leading Astor's overland party, explores Snake River Valley and much of future Oregon Trail.

BONFIGLIO has been a concerto soloist with leading orchestras around the world including the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Leipzig M D R-Radio Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Madrid Radio Television Española Orchestra, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the Estonia National Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, the Mexico City Philharmonic, as well as the Milwaukee Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Utah Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, the National Symphony at Kennedy Center, the Louisville Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality began requiring a permit for farmers to burn their fields in 1981, but the requirements became stricter in 1988 following a multi-car accident in which smoke from field burning near Albany, Oregon obscured the vision of drivers on Interstate 5, leading to a 23-car accident in which 5 people died and 37 were injured.

He and eight other leading citizens established the Oregon Exchange Company, which became the de facto territorial mint for a short time.

Jackson continued his on court success with a storied four-season career at the University of Oregon, leading the Ducks to an Elite Eight finish in 2002 NCAA Tournament as a sophomore.

His father, Tom Graham, starred at the University of Oregon from 1969-1971 where he became the all time leading tackler in Duck football history and a 2001 inductee into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame.

He was a two-year starter at quarterback on the football team, leading the Glencoe Crimson Tide as deep as the Oregon state quarterfinals.

Courtney Campbell, director of the Program for Ethics, Science and the Environment at Oregon State University, says, " Some traditions and leading figures in conservative Protestantism who were opposed to human cloning for reproductive reasons have come to see that given the ambiguity about their own views about the status of embryonic life, and given the potential for health benefits, they could be opposed to reproductive cloning, but affirm therapeutic cloning.

With those initial recordings and the follow-ups Distant Hills and Winter Light ( all on Vanguard ), Oregon established itself as one of the leading improvisational groups of its day, blending Indian and Western classical music with jazz, folk, space music and avant-garde elements.

Support Our Communities-PAC ( SOC-PAC ) was formed in 1993, leading to the defeat of the OCA's proposed ban on the recognition of homosexuals as a minority group in 1994, and the creation of what is now known as Basic Rights Oregon.

They thought they had glimpsed the Willamette Valley, and learned from the Indians of a trail leading to Oregon City, but returned to Tygh Creek about five days after their departure.

Gen. Doug Pritt and the 41st Brigade Combat Team of Oregon were designated as the head of Joint Task Force Rita, leading the multi-state National Guard relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Hurricane Rita.

In Oregon the movement's large intentional community of the early 1980s, called Rajneeshpuram, caused immediate tensions in nearby towns such as The Dalles, Oregon, at the peak of which a circle of leading members of the Rajneeshpuram Oregon commune was arrested for crimes including a deliberate food poisoning attack calculated to influence the outcome of a local election.

In 1994, the salmon catch was smaller than usual in the rivers of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, causing concern among commercial fishermen, government agencies, and tribal leaders.

Cranberries are a major commercial crop in the U. S. states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec.

Larger commercial growers often ship long distances ; in the United States, most of them are located on the west coast ( Oregon, Washington state and California ).

In 1887, following the construction of the Oregon Short Line, most of the railroad facilities were removed to Pocatello where the new line branched off the U & NR but Eagle Rock was fast becoming the commercial center of an agricultural empire.

J. Donald Kroeker designed the first commercial geothermal heat pump to heat the Commonwealth Building ( Portland, Oregon ) and demonstrated it in 1946.

For many years Linn City was a political and commercial rival to the adjacent town of Oregon City, but it suffered a series of natural and man-made setbacks.

For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of Oregon as home to Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, the only commercial nuclear reactor in the state, which supplied electricity to Portland and its suburbs starting in March 1976.

The Southwest Oregon Regional Airport is a public airport located in North Bend and the only commercial airport on the Oregon Coast.

Regional commercial aviation service is through Eastern Oregon Regional Airport located three miles outside Pendleton.

It remained a major commercial center until the 1880s when it withered before the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.

However, Alaska Airlines announced afterward it would begin new routes to Austin from SJC, and would upgrade service to Portland, Oregon, which was run by regional subsidiary Horizon Air, to commercial jet service which began on September 2, 2009.

In terms of commercial passenger boardings, the Eugene Airport is the second busiest airport in Oregon with 393, 504 enplanements in 2011 ( behind Portland with 6, 808, 486 enplanements and ahead of Medford with 301, 742 enplanements ).

Hazelnuts are produced in commercial quantities in Turkey, Italy, Greece, Georgia, in south of the Spanish region of Catalonia, in the UK county of Kent and in the American states of Oregon and Washington.

Old Spice's agency created a bathroom set in Portland, Oregon and had their TV commercial star, Isaiah Mustafa, reply to 186 online comments and questions from websites like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Digg and others.

In summer 1987, General Motors filmed the introductory commercial for the 1988 Buick Regal in Portland, Oregon and vicinity, including the St. John's bridge, the Astoria-Megler Bridge, and on the Columbia Gorge.

As an example of this, in 2006 and 2007 Oregon's SEIU Local 503, OPEU ( Oregon Public Employees Union ) built on its earlier successes in organizing state-paid " long-term care providers ", including homecare workers ( in-home care providers ) and family-child-care providers, by organizing " commercial " adult foster home providers who receive state funding.

In the spring of 2007 the state Employment Relations Board ( ERB ) verified that a significant majority of the commercial providers across Oregon had signed authorization cards supporting forming a union, and Governor Ted Kulongoski signed an executive order recognizing commercial adult foster care providers as a union, and opening the path to contract bargaining.

Trial commercial services with Talgo cars in the United States commenced in 1994 between Seattle and Portland, and from 1998 different trains have been used on the Amtrak Cascades services from Vancouver, British Columbia south to Seattle, Washington, continuing south via Portland, Oregon to Eugene, Oregon.

Around 1910, the silent-era " Film Row " began with a film exchange in the Pathe Building 2025 Third Avenue ( near Virginia Street, roughly at the southern tip of Belltown ); eventually, silent-era film exchanges in Seattle serviced approximately 470 commercial movie theaters throughout Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

In October 1973, a Portland, Oregon business owner delivers a message to Governor Tom McCall in response to his executive order curtailing commercial lighting during the 1970s energy crisis.