Intel and the 400

There are cranes on the horizon. Not the flying kind, or the commemorate-Hiroshima kind, but the tower kind (which come with new safety instructions..) As many as 5, all in one place.

Intel is expanding! Hey! And towards that end (or maybe completely different, they don't share their state secrets with me) 400 kids showed up in local school districts, while their parents will be attending training.

The letters to the editor of our fair Oregonian mostly are negative. We don't want your state secrets, this is a real imposition! How can we squeeze room for 400 kids in this budget environment! They all cry out.

Well hey, that is a problem I like to have. Expansion. A chance for cultural exchange. A chance for these kids to get to know American kids. And their parents to be trained here. A chance for all of them to contribute to the local economy for their time here.

What is the alternative? For companies to shrink up and dry away like fallen leaves on an October day?? Give me the 400. As the story of the loaves and 2 fishes which fed 500, with leftovers for tomorrow, well somehow we shall find a way.