Winners

1. The October issue of Worth magazine listed Marilyn Bergen of Portland's Capital Management Consulting and Dirk Edwards of Edwards & Meyers as two of the county's best financial advisers. On the morning after the Oct. 27 market dive, Bergen proudly told WW, "I didn't get a single call from my clients." That's not because their stocks survived the plunge, but because she advises them to expect such things. "You don't put your grocery money or next year's mortgage in the market," she says.

2. Oregonian business reporter Roger O. Crockett was hired away by the nation's most popular business magazine. Crockett, who focused on telecommunications and technology issues for Oregon's biggest daily, will be reporting for Business Week's Chicago bureau.

 3. University of Portland professor Terry Favero was chosen as Oregon's professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation. Favero, a biologist who researches exercise physiology, practices what he teaches. Students report that he often gets so excited during lectures that he leaps over chairs and on top of desks.

Losers

2. Oregon Citizens Alliance honcho Lon Mabon has decided to make another run at curbing gay rights next year. Once again, he'll have a potent foe. Fred Meyer lobbyist Cheryl Perrin is one of the lead petitioners on a proposed ballot measure for 1998 to bar employer discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Perrin's keeping a low profile on the issue, waiting to see how a similar measure fares in Washington state on Nov. 4.

3.Guests at Shilo Inns will have to brave the elements to get a copy of Astoria's daily newspaper. The Daily Astorian racks were pulled from Shilo's Seaside and Warrenton locations last week after the paper reprinted a WW editorial critical of owner Mark Hemstreet's video-poker profits.