Mayor's, Legislators, and staff reception

Tonight (Jan 3, 2007) was the Oregon Mayor's Association and League of Oregon Cities welcome reception. It was an opportunity to meet with many of Oregon's mayors, and mayor elects. The mayors were asked to bring gift baskets from their individual communities. I only had time to visit with Fisher Implements, Linn Benton Tractor, Ampac Seed Company and Barenbrug. They were all very helpful and provided me with an assortment of items from tractors (toy) to seed, representing our community very well. There were many legislative assistants who also come to these receptions and the gifts that were submitted were raffled off to these aides, a small reward for their hard work. The winner of the Tangent Gift Basket was Patrick Sieng, (below) who is the Legislative Assistant to Oregon Representative Jean Cowan.