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.