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Tom's Blog

From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

Tom’s Tidbits- The first closure of the Sellwood Bridge

Greetings! The new year is bringing a huge change, not only to our Sellwood neighborhood but to the entire region. 

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What NOW?!! Toons- Last year’s laughs

  And click any of the thumbnails below for a version large enough to actually read..

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Drew’s Kitchen- 2012 Full Menu

Without a doubt, our longest running and most consistently popular column is Drew’s Kitchen.  Drew Pearson, one of our Service

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2012 Year In Review- Our Feature articles from 2012

It’s our privilege to send you this newsletter each month, and we don’t take that privilege lightly.  You didn’t have

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Shop Talk- Cleaning up the Shop for 2012

You may have noticed that Tom Dwyer Automotive Services is a little different from most automotive shops.  Because we’re different,

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Sellwood Bridge Closure- The Sellwood Bridge is closed from Jan 17th -24th. Here’s what we’re doing about it.

January is a month for Your Car Matters to take it easy.  We have fun going back and looking at

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Health Notes- Another year of healthy living

Yes, we’re known as the company that’s “trusted to keep your vehicles safe, breakdown-free, and operating at their best”.  We’re

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Sellwood Bridge Update- Last year for the Bridge comes to a close

2012 was a huge year for the Sellwood Bridge as construction finally got under way in earnest.  January will bring

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Book Spotlight- 2012 Book Floodlight

One feature of our shop is the extensive reading and lending library in our lobby.  If you see something you

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Humorousness- Our first year of yuks

In March we started another column for your reading pleasure… Humorousness.  Just like any other work environment with a computer,

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Popcorn Shorts- A big bowl of Popcorn from 2012

Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really

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News To Make You Furious- Our Yearly Wrap-up Of Wrath

When the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill passed in 2009, it went almost unnoticed.  We were so furious

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