3rd Annual Diamond Dinner
The 3rd Annual Diamond Dinner is fast approaching and reservations are now being taken. This year's event will be held at the Masonic Ballroom in downtown Estacada on Friday March 9, 2012. Refreshments and social hour begins at 6:00 pm, with dinner at 7:00. Food will be sponsored again by Sysco Foods. Join us to toast our much anticipated spring season and help raise money for our summer baseball program. This event is a wonderful opportunity for you to meet and greet our players and coaches, while sharing old baseball stories with other alumni baseball players and fans. In addition, there will be many popular Ranger Baseball memorabilia and other extravagant vacations and opportunities through our silent auction. Tickets are $50 per person, or you can purchase a sponsored table for 8 for $350.
Author Robin Cody Slated as Keynote Speaker at Annual Diamond Dinner
Robin Cody was born in St. Helens and grew up in Estacada, Oregon. A graduate of Yale, he taught at the American School of Paris for a decade and was Dean of Admissions at Reed College in Portland before taking up freelance writing in 1984. While writing, he has been a baseball umpire, a basketball referee, and special ed school bus driver.
Cody is the author of Ricochet River, a novel full of rivers, fish and Indian lore. In 2005, The Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission recognized Ricochet River as one of the 100 essential “Oregon books.”
Voyage of a Summer Sun is the non-fiction account of Cody's 82-day solo canoe trip down the Columbia River, from its source in Canada to its mouth at Astoria. With Voyage, Cody won the 1995 Oregon Book Award for literary non-fiction, and the 1996 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award.
Both of those books are in the Oregon State Library’s “150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial,” February 2009.
His most recent book, Another Way the River Has, is a collection of short true stories published by Oregon State University Press in April, 2010.
Cody is the author of Ricochet River, a novel full of rivers, fish and Indian lore. In 2005, The Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission recognized Ricochet River as one of the 100 essential “Oregon books.”
Voyage of a Summer Sun is the non-fiction account of Cody's 82-day solo canoe trip down the Columbia River, from its source in Canada to its mouth at Astoria. With Voyage, Cody won the 1995 Oregon Book Award for literary non-fiction, and the 1996 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award.
Both of those books are in the Oregon State Library’s “150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial,” February 2009.
His most recent book, Another Way the River Has, is a collection of short true stories published by Oregon State University Press in April, 2010.
