Innovative New Public Library Concept in Portland, Oregon
The Tool Library Allows Community Sharing of Construction Tools. Tools Can Be Checked Out for Use in the Manner Books Can Be at an Ordinary Library
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Located at 5431 NE 20th street , the North Portland Tool Library offers anyone over 18 years of age membership to join and borrow tools from a selection of more than 500 types of construction tools. The service is free of charge operating as a non profit organization. It is a really interesting concept that may eventually find wide acceptance and spread. So often one has to go out and buy a tool that one uses once or maybe twice and then never needs it again. Need a crescent wrench for a one time plumbing problem? The tool library might have one on the shelf. For more information just go to their website @ http://www.northportlandtoollibary.org 503-754-0534 for hours.
5421 NE 20th, Portland, Oregon 97211
Best Kept Secret Park in Lake Oswego Great for Bike Riders, Walking and Running with Scenic River Views Lex Loeb Contributor Network . Lake Oswego does not like to advertise some of its best attractions for fear of attracting non-locals. The area has many interesting treasures almost no one from the Portland area bothers to explore. Lake Oswego has long had the cache' of an upper middle class white Anglo Saxon enclave that does not want the company of everyone from the Portland Metro Area coming in. One can't blame the present day city for trying to protect itself against crowds of non local strangers using their public facilities. Anyone who has been to lake Oswego actual lake knows it is a privately owned body of water that does not welcome the public access in anyway. That is not true of the Oswego Furnace Tower in George Rogers Park or Old River Drive that connects to the park's main pathway up along the Willamette river front. Along most of Old River drive the fro...
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