Knife show features many, varied activities.
Byline: The Register-Guard April in Eugene has a certain edge to it. That would be the annual Oregon Knife Show, now in its 29th year at the Lane County Fairgrounds and now "The Largest Knife Show in the World!" - according to the sponsoring Oregon...

BLADES BATTLE.
Byline: Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard CRESWELL - The man responsible for the fighting edge carried on some of this country's most dangerous military missions works here in a wood-frame shop, amid drill presses, belt sanders, grinding wheels, a kiln, a drafting table and the sound of chickens...

Gadgets & gizmos: although major pieces of kit, such as a backpack and a tent, are essential for outdoor life, it is often the less obvious accessories which, once used, become the first thing on your packing list. Steve Watkins discovers size isn't everything. (Geographical Crucial Kit).
Multi-Tools A simple knife is no longer enough for the wilderness. Nowadays you need to have a multi-tool that can cut, screw, skewer and file, among other things. Luckily, there are whole ranges of funky ones available. Victorinox led the way in this field in 1891 with...

DEQ seeking to clean water at logging site.
Byline: The Register-Guard SWEET HOME - The state Department of Environmental Quality is proposing an interim cleanup of chlorinated solvents in the groundwater at the former Ridgeway Logging site here. The agency wants to inject vegetable oil into the ground to enhance natural biodegradation of...

Bicol's Tabak festival starts today.
The five-day celebration of the Tabak Festival in Tabaco City kicks off today with various activities for both local and foreign visitors. A spectacular fireworks display, street parades, trade fair and exhibits, sports competition, drum and bugle corps exhibition, variety show, and the search for Mutya ng...

ACROSS THE CITY.
Pawnshop robbed in Valenzuela; P2.5-M pawned articles taken Burglars victimizing pawnshop struck over the weekend carting away an estimated P2.5 million of pawned articles in Valenzuela City. Police said the suspects first rented a stall adjacent to JDC Pawnshop located at Alba Compound, Barangay Gen....

Arkansas tough: dozier knives built for the long haul.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you make knives for hard use in extreme sporting and survival situations it helps to have paid your dues. Bob Dozier earned his scruff in the swamps and bottoms of north Louisiana hunting deer and boar as a kid at a time when killing...

Multi-tasking mania! Pocket tool power.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For a while there, it was quiet. Most of us had a multi-tool stashed in our glove box but forgot it was there. Our old Boy Scout and Swiss Army knives had long since been relegated to the back of a dresser drawer collecting sock...

George R. Jurgiel, 86.
WORCESTER George R. Jurgiel, 86, of Worcester, died Friday, October 17th after a very brief stay in Holden Nursing Home. He leaves two sons, Stephen P. Jurgiel and his wife Diane, and Gregory R. Jurgiel, Jr., both of Worcester; a daughter, Pamela A. Rossetti and her husband John of...

Knifemaker: Darrel Ralph.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] It's not enough for Darrel Ralph to simply make great knives that excel at slicing, he has to dance on the edge while doing it. State-of-the-art technology and traditional knifemaking may sound like an oxymoron to some, to Ralph it's an opportunity to smack the...