OPI is honored to announce Bob Welch as our 2010 keynote speaker. Bob Welch has been a columnist with The Register-Guard for 10 years. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has honored him six times for his columns that blend heart, humor and hope. Mr. Welch is the author of 12 books, his latest being "My Oregon II," a collection of 108 Register-Guard columns appearing from 2005-2009. He speaks coast to coast and is the founder of the Beachside Writers Workshop in Yachats, Oregon.