Fred Colgan moved to Oregon a decade ago to retire. Instead, the former carpenter and contractor wound up using his skills to help develop a highly efficient, institutional rocket stove, co-founding Institutional Stove Solutions, or InStove, in 2012. The Cottage Grove nonprofit humanitarian organization has made and placed 1,100 stoves in twenty-seven countries, sixteen of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Alan Peterson was an avid outdoorsman, but he didn’t even own a fly rod when he landed his first job out of college with Loon Outdoors, a small fly-fishing company in Boise. In 2007, he had an opportunity to buy the business and seized it. Three years later, Peterson moved the headquarters to his idea of an outdoor mecca: Ashland.
When Joshua Graner, a board-certified acupuncture and Chinese medicine practitioner, saw there were few options for military veterans to receive free alternative medical treatments in Southern Oregon, he decided to do something about it.
Tailored Coffee Roasters is a new kid on the block, sitting on 5th Avenue between High and Pearl streets in Eugene.
Owner Jon Casteel, 35, grew up in the wine business. He devoted years to working hisway up from cellar rat (a fruit sorting manual laborer) to cellar master (a production and machine-maintaining guru) before founding Casteel Custom Bottling in 2006.
IMAGINE FACING an uncontrolled wall of flames during a wildland fire, or being a first responder on an accident scene. Those are uncomfortable scenarios, but add in too-tight pants or a broken jacket zipper, and the gear failure distractions could potentially be life threatening.
This is why people hate bike lanes, ”Marc Schlossberg yelled over his shoulder while riding a bike lane on E. 13th Ave., in Eugene. Schlossberg and a city planner from Redmond, Scott Woodford, were sandwiched between two lanes of traffic—a lumbering bus to the left, and a pack of sedans vying for territory in a turn lane to their right.
ANGELA HASELTINE POZZI grew up in Port- land and spent summers in coastal Bandon at her grandparents’ house. The beach became her peace of mind, so when she lost her husband in 2007 to a brain tumor and “everything turned upside down,” she left Portland for this childhood sanctuary.
AN UNFINISHED SKIFF hung two stories up in a workshop scattered with industrial tools, scrap wood and works in progress. Cut pine mixed with the smoky char of ground metal. The scent lingered like dust in the air.
