Singer, writer and teacher Amber Flame leads a workshop about identity based on her performance piece Skin Stories & Other Half-Truths: A Reclamation Project, Dec. 6 at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center.  She performed her one-woman show through the weekend. Photo by Susan Fried

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Senior Services' Transportation Program provides an essential service to seniors in Seattle communities by arranging transportation to medical appointments.  Currently the program urgently needs more volunteer drivers ... every week the program turns away 10, 15, or 20 seniors who call us for help due to the shortage of drivers ...

Los Angeles businessman Kim L. Hunter, an alumnus of the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business, has donated $25,000 to the university ... The new scholarship will be distributed to a student from an underrepresented background pursuing a degree in marketing ...

MUSICA Entertainment & Early Education presents The Columbia City Holiday Kids Fair, at the Historic Columbia City Theatre, Saturday, Dec. 13, Noon - 3 p.m. The Columbia City Theatre is Seattle's oldest vaudeville theatre. Formerly a playground for Jimi Hendrix music wizardry, the current theatre offers a classic show stage, a state of the art audio recoding studio, and a video production facility ...

Pastor Jerry Gutierrez knows people are experiencing trouble these days, and he hopes he can help. The pastor of My Father's House Ministries is holding a toy and shoe giveaway from noon to 2 p.m. on Dec. 13 at Irvington Covenant Church, 4046 NE MLK Blvd. "We just want to be a blessing for people ...

• OREGON FOOD DRIVE
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The holiday season is here and the Portland Police Bureau Sunshine Division needs your help. The Sunshine Division is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides emergency food and clothing to families and individuals in need year round. The need is even greater this year, and there are a number of ways individuals or organizations can help ...

The state of Oregon is currently recruiting interested members of the public for the Oregon Statewide HIV Prevention Planning Group. The group is charged with developing a comprehensive HIV Prevention Plan for Oregon, prioritizing populations in need of HIV prevention services and developing a menu of options for specific types of services and interventions. They are looking to recruit new members ...

Flexing his solo strength for the first time, rapper/poet/activist Mic Crenshaw is showing that he's more than just a piece of the puzzle. After nearly 15 years of recording and playing ... "Thinking" is not an album that reverts to cheap tricks or fake street songs. It's deadly serious in the subject matters he encounters and challenges – government corruption, failed relationships, personal destruction, oppression ...