Posted on: February 3rd, 2012 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
How the rain, floods, and snow impacted OTE.
Highway business signs
What types of businesses can be on a logo sign?
Are you a business owner looking for better exposure and a way to capture a steady stream (pardon the pun) of traffic. Do you think only major chains can be posted on those signs?
We’re happy to say …
Posted on: December 7th, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in News & Press, Newsletter | No Comments
Congratulations Oregon Historical Marker Committee!
The Oregon Community Foundation announces its decision to award a grant to Oregon Travel Experience’s Historical Marker committee.
The $6,500 grant will be used to create a new historical marker interpreting the Jedediah Smith route, one of 16 designated historic trails in Oregon.
Oregon Travel Experience and the marker committee will partner with the Oregon …
Posted on: November 10th, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in News & Press, Newsletter | No Comments
Coffee: grounds for community enrichment
With the holidays rapidly approaching, Boardman and Eastern Oregon non-profit organizations find themselves scrambling for donations. The need is increasingly great—not just for Thanksgiving or Christmas—but year-round.
From helping Hermiston high school pupils pay student body fees to covering rent and electrical bills at an Irrigon senior center, the free coffee served …
Posted on: September 23rd, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
We are your frontline experience: The TIC Signs Program
The crew in action
Josh Flores and Josh LoBue park their state vehicle on the side of the freeway. Wearing bright orange safety vests, the two men step carefully from the truck, while only a few feet away, traffic whizzes by at 60 miles an hour. As part …
Posted on: September 23rd, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
Many hands, many heroes: Free Coffee Program volunteers
As the Travel Information Council (TIC) 2011 vision focus on highway users, it’s increasingly clear we don’t operate within a vacuum. Making sure motorists take frequent safety breaks and arrive home safe and secure is one of TIC’s common shared goals with regional volunteer groups. When TIC assumed …
Posted on: September 23rd, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
Travel Plaza Customer Spotlight: Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
May is here, and in Woodburn there is a sea of color—row upon row of tulips in bloom. The weather is finally cooperating after a long wet spring and the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival is in full swing. Trolleys are fired up, food vendors are busy grilling homemade …
Posted on: September 23rd, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
Class of 2011 Heritage Trees
As spring approaches, TIC is looking forward to April 30, 2011. Two honorees have been selected for the statewide dedication: A Camp Oregon Caves Port Orford Cedar Tree and Harry & David’s Comice Pear Trees.
Please join TIC, special dignitaries, and tree lovers everywhere when we gather together in Medford at Harry …
Posted on: September 19th, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
Customer Spotlight: Pizza Schmizza
The Oregon Travel Experience’s (OTE) blue Interstate and off-Interstate sign program was launched in 1975. The ubiquitous logo signs alerting motorists to services and activities near freeway exits may have state and federally mandated names, but what they really provide are business name recognition and a potential for increased sales.
As part of …
Posted on: September 19th, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
History Speaks: Audio Cell Phone Tour at Camp Adair
Even on a cold gray November day, people find their way to Oregon’s historic Camp Adair. Just off the main route of Highway 99 to Corvallis, the remains of what was a WWII US army training camp is a popular destination. The old encampment is accessed via …
Posted on: September 19th, 2011 by Madeline MacGregor in Newsletter | No Comments
Heritage Grove Memorializes 10th Mountain Division
If you have ever traveled on Highway 26 to North Plains, Oregon, you may have noticed a small grove of trees taking root over the last 12 years. The trees at milepost 54 memorialize a group of very special Oregonians—the state’s late members of the 10th Mountain Division.
During the summer …