Community Calendar

Keeping All Women Safe Nonprofit is proud to announce our upcoming Big Fundraising Event — Bringing together Top Experts to share powerful knowledge, practical tools, and live Q&A in an interactive Zoom setting. Right Knowledge Is Empowerment.

🌟 For only $25, you’ll gain access to presentations that can truly make a difference in your safety, awareness, and life choices. This is a rare opportunity for access to Top Professionals for information and to ask your questions at a value that is incomparable!

🌟 We look forward to seeing you there and building stronger, safer communities together. Help us continue to Help You - Our Community.

👉 Registration Is Open until 24 hours before each presentation module!
See Full Information Here:
https://keepingallwomensafe.com/kaws-academy-2025/

Monday October 20th 7:00 to 8:00 pm

Hood River author Kathy Watson will be at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland to read from her debut novel, Orphans of the Living. Watson will be joined in conversation by Shirleen Holt of Medford.

Watson and Holt worked together at Oregon Business magazine in the 1990s, where Watson was editor in chief and Holt was managing editor. The two will talk about how Watson adapted her mother’s family story for this novel, what is sometimes called “autofiction.” They’ll talk about how Watson created scenes in the long-ago town of Maxville, OR, in the Wallowa Mountains. They’ll discuss what it’s like to be writing and selling a novel in the chaotic world of book publishing, with nearly 2,000 new books coming out each week.

Orphans of the Living follows the Stovall family’s early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they encounter racism, poverty and inequality across the American South and West.

The novel is a 2025 Literary Titan Book Award Gold Medalist in Fiction. Early reviews include this one from Willy Vlautin, winner of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and author of eight novels, including The Horse:

“Orphans is a stunning debut. Where has this writer been hiding? It’s all blood and soul and heartache and survival. A story of the powerful and the powerless. I can’t recommend it highly enough and I can’t wait to see what she does next.”

With the publication of her first novel, Orphans of the Living, Watson is returning to her first love: fiction. She lives in Hood River, where she writes, leads a chefs collective, and runs and hikes the Columbia River Gorge with Stu and Satchel, the world’s best dog.

Three brand-new haunted houses (The Silver Scream, Forbidden Fortress, Slayers) anchor a full-blown festival of fear on select nights Oct 3 – Nov 1, 2025. After you claw your way out of the mazes, challenge the Carn-Evil Funhouse, brave the pitch-black Complex: Blackout, loose arrows at Zombie Archery, or cram into one of three mini escape games (Bus 666, Trap House, The Hot Seat). Midway lights stay blazing with Oaks Park thrill rides, a haunted vendor market, coffin-ride “Buried Alive,” food, bars, and roaming monsters—all covered by one grounds pass. 1,000-plus five-star reviews can’t all be wrong.

• Hours & place: 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, Portland, OR 97202—free parking right on the riverfront midway. Gates and rides open one hour before haunt time.
• Tickets: Online General Admission from $23–$40 (prices rise closer to Halloween). Add VIP, All-Access, or ride bracelets at checkout to slash waits and pack in more screams.
• Who should come: Intense scares—best for ages 12+. Event runs rain-or-shine under ample cover. Costumes welcome (no full masks/props).

Get your crew, pick a night, and lock in your spot at ScaregroundsPDX.com before Portland’s biggest haunted event sells out.

Rogue Valley Growers and Crafters Market is a richly woven tapestry of farmers, ranchers, crafters, food processors, board and staff dedicated to the land at-large and our beautiful valley community in particular.

We're dedicated to putting our utmost effort and passion into the soil and food that sustains you. Through hard work and innovative practices, we strive to provide the best. During the outdoor season, we host up to three markets a week for the best access to the incredible bounty our bioregion has to offer.

Tuesday Ashland Market, March 4th-November 25th
ScienceWorks*
8:30a-1:30p

Rogue Valley Growers and Crafters Market is a richly woven tapestry of farmers, ranchers, crafters, food processors, board and staff dedicated to the land at-large and our beautiful valley community in particular.

We're dedicated to putting our utmost effort and passion into the soil and food that sustains you. Through hard work and innovative practices, we strive to provide the best. During the outdoor season, we host up to three markets a week for the best access to the incredible bounty our bioregion has to offer.

The award-winning Oregon State University Land Steward training helps landowners learn about their property and develop a management plan. This 11-week program covers critical topics like wildfire risk reduction, forests, soil health, wildlife, habitat, pasture management, stream care, water capture and distribution, and much more.

The award-winning OSU Land Steward training helps landowners learn about their property and develop a management plan. This 11-week program covers critical topics like wildfire risk reduction, forests, soil health, wildlife habitat, pasture management, stream care, water capture and distribution, and much more.

Parent Project is a 10-week series where we go over topics like improving family relationships, using effective discipline to improve school attendance and performance, reduce substance use and negative peer influences, and how to address destructive behavior. It is an opportunity to meet with other parents in similar situations in a judgement free zone and begin to develop a new support system. When you feel like you have tried everything and nothing is working, we can help.
Join us on Tuesdays at the Gene Lucas Community Center beginning September 30th from 6pm-8pm. Dinner and Childcare are provided.
707-617-8160

Keeping All Women Safe Nonprofit is proud to announce our upcoming Big Fundraising Event — Bringing together Top Experts to share powerful knowledge, practical tools, and live Q&A in an interactive Zoom setting. Right Knowledge Is Empowerment.

🌟 For only $25, you’ll gain access to presentations that can truly make a difference in your safety, awareness, and life choices. This is a rare opportunity for access to Top Professionals for information and to ask your questions at a value that is incomparable!

🌟 We look forward to seeing you there and building stronger, safer communities together. Help us continue to Help You - Our Community.

👉 Registration Is Open until 24 hours before each presentation module!
See Full Information Here:
https://keepingallwomensafe.com/kaws-academy-2025/

Meet the six faces of climate denial, not as caricatures to dismiss, but as recognizable patterns of thought that still shape how we talk about climate change. By giving these patterns names, we gain new language for spotting them in everyday discussions and for engaging more thoughtfully with friends, colleagues, and communities.

Rather than trudging through old arguments, this talk offers a framework for understanding why denial persists in many forms and how recognizing it can open space for more nuanced, constructive conversations
about solutions.
Formerly contracted with the Department of Human Services, he supported low-income families reentering the workforce, while also coordinating refugee support events with partners like the Center for Nonprofit Legal Services. Daniel is a speaker at business and industry conferences across Oregon.