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... that Oregon's Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center (Hillsboro clinic pictured) started in a garage and now has over US$20 million in annual revenue?
... that irrigation canals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley have dramatically transformed the Snake River Plain ecoregion in southern Idaho?
... that the Laurel Valley Store in Laurel, Oregon, opened in 1893 and is still in use?
... that an aborted family picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in Oregon instead of California?

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