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Joined by US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, Governor Kulongoski outlined the steps that Oregon is taking to prepare for the outbreak of an influenza pandemic.

In addition to the newly updated Pandemic Influenza Plan, the state regularly conducts field tests to prepare for a disaster.

Last November, Oregon participated in a Strategic National Stockpile exercise to test the ability of state and local officials to work together to move vaccines and medications quickly to communities.

Oregon has also developed a Secure Health Alert Network website to expedite communications between hospitals and public health entities in emergency situations.

The state has developed a "Hospital Capacity Website" to ...

"I just wanted to tell the team that what they're doing is really uplifting Louisiana," said Gov.

Kathleen Blanco, who met with the men's team Monday.

"We've been through a lot of really difficult and dark days.

We all need some relief, and the spirit that they project has given us a real lift." For southern Louisiana the climb back from the hurricane destruction remains a long one.

New Orleans has only half its pre-Katrina population.

Giant stretches of the city remain filled with empty, wrecked houses.

In southwest Louisiana, where Rita ripped through a month after Katrina, the cleanup continues slowly, with much of the population still scattered and rebuilding still questionable in many areas.

Baton Rouge, about 70 miles northwest of New Orleans, did not get hit as much as spots farther south.

The sto...

"I don't know much about my own family," he stays.

"It goes back three generations in the records and it's a dead end.

Genealogy hasn't been very fruitful to me." As the Internet continues to grow and to provide more sites with more information, could small historical sites become a thing of the past?

This historical society gets more inquiries now that it's online, but the steady stream of people investigating hands-on is lessening.

Even so, archives here and elsewhere will continue to hold the histories of a lifetime.

Sewickley Valley Historical Society, located at 200 Broad St., is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

and by appointment.

For more information on membership, call 412-741-5315.

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