The Local Arrangment Committee (LAC) welcomes attendees to Portland
and has put together several social events for the Microscopy &
Microanalysis '99 meeting that we hope registrants and their families
will enjoy. A list of those events and other happenings in the greater
Portland area can be obtained on our web page at: http://
www.ohsu.edu/core. Briefly, for those of you arriving on Saturday and
who would like the opportunity to have a taste of the region's
award-winning lagers, porters, and stouts that evening, there will be a
brew bus tour of several of the local pubs. On Sunday morning, for the
golf enthusiast, we are sponsoring the annual golf tournament at the
spectacular Skamania Lodge in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. The
course is located right off the Columbia River, in Washington, not far
from Portland.