“Never pass up a chocolate chip cookie,” Leon Taylor laughs.   Sporting a white beard and wearing a red fleece with jeans, he looks like a modern Santa Claus (despite pairing his cookie with tea instead of milk).  For the past three Decembers, Leon has embraced the role of Santa. It started when his church needed […]

Jon Gice moved fairly often throughout his career in the insurance industry. And his retirement in 2016 brought one more relocation.  “My daughter, my son-in-law, and two grandkids live here (in Portland). So, it was a magnet to move from Connecticut to Oregon,” Jon said.  Jon and his wife happily helped take care of their […]

Jack Robinson and his three friends stood over a half-built furniture set, aligning stubborn nuts and bolts that would soon shape up to be a brand new glider and coffee table. The directions were complicated and the materials were heavy, but that didn’t stop them from cranking out three of those sets within a couple […]