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January 6, 2017 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
HAPPENINGS
Retirement party for Labor’s Community
Service Agency’ s Vickie Burns Jan. 17
A retirement party for Vickie
Burns, executive director of La-
bor’s Community Service
Agency (LCSA), will be held
Tuesday, Jan. 17 from 5 to 8
p.m. in the banquet room at
1125 SE Madison, Portland.
The event is an “open house”
with appetizers and a no-host
bar.
Burns, who is retiring this
month, has served as executive
director of LCSA since May
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2010. Prior to that she was the
agency’s office manager for 17
years. Over the years she has
worked tirelessly to ensure
unions know where to go when
they have a member in need,
whether for food, shelter or just
to talk with.
Burns has also served as la-
bor’s voice on several work-
force investment boards and dis-
located worker programs
throughout the region.
“Her decades of service to
thousands of labor families in
need are unparalleled and de-
serving of a celebration,” said
Bob Tackett, executive secre-
tary-treasurer of the Northwest
Oregon Labor Council, and
president of LCSA’s Board of
Directors. LCSA is a partner-
ship of labor and United Way of
the Columbia-Willamette.
For more information, call
503-915-0083.