Founding Members of the Oregon/Portland FanForce includ: Imperial Jedi, Bowen, Erik...

May 25, 2002 Portland Meeting, Broadway Metroplex, Downtown. Organized by WinduWasher

May 26, 2002, JediWookie (became Co-City Rep, Portland, Oregon), started the discussion of having a Chapter in Portland. Helped by ImperialJedi and Bowen

June 11, 2002, FanForce get together to watch AOTC at Evergreen Parkway theater. Organized by JediWookie and Bowen. Four attended: JediWookie, Bowen, ImperialJedi and WinduWasher

August 31, 2002, Portland had its third official meeting. Now they can become a FanForce Chapter.

September 1, 2002, Portland FanFance (tentative name) becomes official. Bowen becomes City Rep. Stateless becomes Vice Rep.

September 4, 2002, discussion of proposed FanForce names begins....Portland FanForce vs. Oregon FanForce.

September 20, 2002, Jedi_Nailbiter starts poll to select name of Chapter. Portland FanForce wins out (35%), Oregon FF and PDX FF tied for second (20% each), Kaminoan Paradise/Forest Force/Fan Forest in forth (15%), and 10% other.

February 25, 2003, Bowen steps down as City Rep. and JimSideous becomes "Interim City Rep".

March 21, 2003, Portland FF meeting. JimSideous, JawaFett, BeccaFett and Vengeance in attendance.

March 24, 2003, JimSideous and Mara_Jade_Fan (RSA) officially changed the chapter name from Portland FanForce to Oregon FanForce. The name of the chapter was changed because it seemed inappropriate to continue calling your group the "Portland FanForce" when many of your members do not live in Portland. JimSideous agreed to be the permanent Chapter Rep of Oregon state providing that when someone else was willing and able to take over the Portland FanForce, that he would be made Chapter Rep of the Salem OR Fanforce.

August 23, 2003, JawaFett becomes interim Chapter Rep.

September 7, 2003, Larena_Jade starts the most successful Popcorn Story to date. As the story progresses Vengeance is stuck up a tree, George Lucas goes on the warpath, everybody turns up with lightsabers, Brook and Larena debate who invited giant man eating pickles to the techno party, Brook clones himself and battles a giant Britney Spears, Ash re-clones Brook with a malfunctioning lightsaber amd everything goes to hell.

September 24, 2003, Larena_Jade hesitantly starts a religion thread.

October 14, 2003, Darth_Tokyo attempts to start an Oregon Fan Force collaboration Fan Film.

April 26, 2004, the official countdown thread for ROTS is started by Kurt_Wagner846.

March 7, 2004, Portland Comic Book Show at the Memorial Coliseum. Jawafett attends. Other Fan Force members in attendance: UNKNOWN.

September 19, 2004, Larena_Jade returns from her trip to Russia and ends a long silence in the Oregon Fan Force.

January 4, 2005, Larena_Jade starts another successful Popcorn Story that surpasses her previous, as well as Brook's Popcorn Stories. This time, they group ends up lost and Brook is taken over by some evil force that wants to destroy the others. The end is a cliffhanger, where Larena frees Brook from his trance, and with Crash they plan to fool then destroy the evil force while looking for Atticus. Crash turns out to be evil in the end.

May 20, 2005, Larena_Jade begins the countdown to the ROTS DVD.

May 31, 2005, Vengeance, Atticus, and Larena_Jade get together to see ROTS in theaters.

July 19, 2005, Larena_Jade declares war on the OFF Beast. The Fan Force is split into opposing sides. (Lol, had to include this one)

August 26, 2005, OFF has a meeting at a Baja Fresh.

November 8, 2005, Crashdown starts the Oregon Fan Force Survey.

(HISTORY GAP)

March 18, 2006, Portland OFF meeting at "It’s a Beautiful Pizza" in Portland. Organized by GrumpyDevil. In attendance: GrumpyDevil and T'Igor, Ayn & Bill, JawaFett, Crashdown & Blue, and AugiBenDoggie. This meeting is the start of a fairly active OFF group in Portland.

May 21, 2006, May OFF meeting hosted by Ayn and Bill, in Portland. In attendance: Ayn and Bill, GrumpyDevil, JawaFett, CrashDown and Blue.

June 24, 2006, June OFF meeting hosted by Ayn and Bill. We had a Star Wars Trivia Pursuit party. In attendance: Ayn and Bill, CrashDown and Blue, GrumpyDevil and T'Igor, brigandarklung and AaylaPants, XecoFreemoon, Maraskywalkerii, and JawaFett. The winners shall remain nameless to protect their identities from retribution.

July 10, 2006, CrashDown becomes Oregon FanForce’s new Chapter Rep, after a long period without having a CR.

July 22, 2006, July OFF meeting combined with 501st BBQ Picnic at Willamette Park in Portland. In attendance: CrashDown, Blue, GrumpyDevil, JawaFett, MaraSkywalkeriii and XecoFreemoon, along with many 501st and Dark Side Troopers members.

July 27, 2006, The Oregon FanForce has a new banner, designed by CrashDown. It features images of Portland at night, Mt. Hood at night with a meteor, and Multnomah Falls; with Star Wars Images and Charters in between. OFF had a banner contest/poll and there were three other great entries, including entries from Brook_33, GrumpyDevil and Vengeance.

August 16, 2006, GrumpyDevil makes and official Oregon FanForce web site (www.OregonFanForce.com), "A gift to the forum from Grumpy". For his efforts the OFF gives Grumpy the official title "Oregon FanForce Website Designer". Way to go GD !

August 19, 2006, Jawafett hosts a BBQ OFF meeting at his place in Estacada. A very large group showed up and had a great time. How large? I forgot to take a count....sorry, but it was LARGE.

August 25, 2006, GrumpyDevil hosts a meeting at his house to discuss forming a new Rebel Legion chapter in Portland.

September 17, 2006, MasterKeyan organizes an OFF meeting at Silver Falls State Park for a BBQ and lots of SW activities. MasterKeyan (with wife) , GrumpyDevil (with son), XecoFreemoon, brigandarklung and Amber, RSG-503, JawaFett (and brother), and Quick2 all attended. It was great fun.

September 20, 2006, MasterKeyan starts a thread entitaled "CARPOOLING...we need to talk this one out, everybody...seriously..." To make a long story short.....discussion on this thread almost slit the OFF membership in half and resulted in a couple of members temporarily leaving the forum. THIS IS WHY I LOVE INTERNET FORUMS.....

October 7, 2006, The Oregon FanForce and Dark Side Troopers teamed up to put on the Star Wars Independent Film Festival, at the Historic Hollywood Theatre in NE Portland. The festival showcasing short Star Wars related films made by fans for fans. In conjunction with the film festival, the Portland based Dark Side Troopers charity group had the drawing for a full set of Stormtrooper Armor. All proceeds from admission went directly to the Oregon Food Bank. GrumpyDevil and XecoFreemoon lead the festival effort.

October 11, 2006 through January 1, 2007, OMSI has a Star Wars exhibit "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination". Many OFF members visited the exhibit and also volunteered in Star Wars costumes in the exhibit.

November 11, 2006, Ayn attempts to organize a Life Day celebration. But alas, the Holidays makes organization of another celebration impossible. Maybe next year.

November 27, 2006, Larena_Jade (our Official Embassador) formally announces that she will no longer post on the OFF until further notice. She cites family harmony as her reason. We await her return.