The New Era - All about Sweet Home since 1929

Dec. 30, 1971

Cats like to travel, but surely Minnie didn’t intend to go to Portland when she crawled up under the hood of the neighbor’s car.

When Jack Kerr’s car pulled out of the driveway in the morning, Minnie’s adventure began.

She went to work with the Kerrs, first to the high school where Mrs. Kerr is a librarian, then to the Sweet Home Ranger Station with Kerr. All day she stayed in that small space above the left wheel.

On a normal day she would have been driven back to home territory when the Kerrs finished work, but that day the car went to Portland to pick up their so...