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A year ago this September, the outside of the Billy Webb Elks Lodge looked a lot like it had for the last several decades — rundown. But times change, and the old Elks Lodge is changing with it. The windows are no longer covered with large sheets of plywood; the roof is no longer leaking water nine months out of the year; the weather-worn siding has been replaced; and other work is on the way....

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Gwendolyn Chambliss of Seattle has been honored with Mayor Greg Nickles' 2008 Small Business Award. Her business, the GP Institute of Cosmetology....


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Sunshine Dixon plans more community partnerships, involvement

Poised to launch itself into a major growth phase, The Urban League of Portland is tapping one of the most dynamic women in the Pacific Northwest to drive their grassroots expansion.
Sunshine Dixon – an artist, activist, organizer, writer, businesswoman – is the League's new community organizer.
She'll be presiding over the Urban League's Do the Right Thing Literacy Festival this Saturday, Sept. 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the North Portland Library on North Killingsworth Street.
"I think it's amazing that the word 'together' also says 'to get there,'" Dixon says. "I want to see the community come together, I want to see partnerships develop; I want to see people move forward beyond their barriers."
Born and raised in Oregon, Dixon spent her childhood in the family home just off North Killingsworth Street. She attended Humboldt Elementary School, Ockley Green Middle School, Jefferson High School, Portland Community College and Portland State University.
A turning point in her life was when a local adult recruited her to volunteer with a nonprofit group for the first time. ...


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Homeland Security is rated worst-run federal bureaucracy

The federal agency responsible for preparing the country to cope with terrorist threats and natural disasters, the Department of Homeland Security, is one of the least accountable and poorest managed federal agencies.
That's according to the administration's own ratings. The 2008 President's Management Agenda Scorecard, published June 30, which measures the efficiency of federal agencies, found that on three out of five performance measures the Department of Homeland Security has "serious flaws." Only the U.S. Veterans Administration was rated equally poorly in three areas.  The Department of Defense was the only other federal agency to receive the lowest rating for its efforts to improve performance. Rep. Peter DeFazio, the single Oregonian in Congress assigned to a Homeland Security Committee, said the department is too large and disparate to function well.
"Homeland Security has been disastrous," DeFazio told the Skanner. "It's a $40 billion bureaucracy.


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The Urban Renewal Agency for the City of Portland

Portland Development CommissionThe Urban Renewal Agency for the City of Portland, OregonPortland is…


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First in the nation, project sets up sites to engage participation

Being the first in the nation to do something is never easy. And Monique Hall's voter registration efforts are no exception.
The mother of eight children is helping to organize a voter registration drive lead by the Parent Policy Council at a number of Portland-area Head Start locations


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In October, Portland's urban airwaves will sound a lot more like the Northwest. Local Hip Hop impresario Cool Nutz is teaming up with the new Jammin' 107.5 FM and a cadre of local artists for the upcoming Northwest Breakout Show. Featuring quality and upcoming regional artists from Oregon, Washington and Northern California ...


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Bulletin Board

What's happening for you in Portland this week? Read here a day-by-day diary of free community events to fill your spare time. For a full calendar please click on "Read the complete article" below….

 


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Bulletin Board

What's happening for you in Seattle this week? Read here a day-by-day diary of free community events to fill your spare time. For a full calendar please click on "Read the complete article" below….

 


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Norman Lawerence performs with his band on Sept. 14 at the 2008 Pike Place Market Buskers' Festival. The festival celebrated buskers – also known as street performers. Many of the Northwest's finest street performers entertained Pike Place Market visitors.

Photo by Susan Fried


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