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PAGE 4 | August 18, 2017 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Portland Labor Day Picnic Sept. 4, 10 am - 5 pm, Oaks Amusement Park Scavenger hunt teaches kids about unions (and they might win a bike) A scavenger hunt for chil- dren ages 1 to 18 will be presented by Labor’s Com- munity Service Agency (LCSA). Participants will use clues found in a “pass- port” to find various unions at the picnic. For example, a clue might be: “We are the union that delivers your mail six days a week.” An- swer: National Association of Letter Carriers. Partici- pants must find the NALC picnic site (look for sig- nage) and have their pass- ports stamped there. Children can pick up passports at LCSA’s booth at the picnic starting at 10 a.m. Once they obtain the required number of stamps, kids return their passport to the LCSA booth, where they will be eligible for a drawing to win a bicycle (donated by the Interna- tional Longshore and Warehouse Union). All participants get union- made cookies, provided by Franz Bakery, whose em- ployees are represented by Bakers Local 114. For more information, call LCSA at 503-231-4962. Labor Day blood drive challenge: Which union will be tops this year? Northwest Oregon Labor Council and Labor’s Com- munity Service Agency team up with American Red Cross again this Labor Day for a blood drive competition. Bloodmobiles will be parked at the picnic from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Organizers are asking that union members pre-register so donations can be collected as quickly as possible. The blood donation process takes about an hour. The la- bor organization that col- lects the most units of blood will have its name added to a perpetual trophy, plus bragging rights for the entire year. Oregon Feder- ation of Nurses and Health Professionals Lo- cal 5017 is the defending cham- pion. Oregon Nurses Association rep- resents nurses at the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross, and Teamsters Local 223 represents support staff there. You can pre-register on- line at redcrossblood.org. Plug in sponsor code “NOLC.” For more infor- mation, call 503-231-4962. For out-of-work union families, free food and drink at the picnic Labor’s Community Service Agency (LCSA) will pro- vide free food and drink scrip for union families who are verified to be out of work and want to take part in the Labor Day picnic festivities at Oaks Park. Scrip will be limited to a certain amount per family on a first-come, first-served basis. “We want everybody to be able to come out and have a good time,” said LCSA Executive Director Eryn Byram. “We’ll verify their union membership and call members back with instruc- tions on where to pick up their scrip at Oaks Park.” To make arrangements for scrip, call Labor’s Commu- nity Service Agency at 503- 231-4962 and leave a mes- sage that you would like some scrip for the picnic. BUY UNION Look for the union label when back-to-school shopping W ith students returning to school soon, make sure you’re filling your kid’s back- pack with union made school supplies. Here is a list of shop- ping items to look for: • Boise Paper: Products — Boise X-9, Business Choice, FasCopy, Flagship, Grand and Toy, Office Depot, USA Xerographics, W.B. Mason and Xerographics (United Steelworkers Local 159). • International Paper: Ham- mermill, HP Everyday, Digi- tal Papers, Accent Opaque, Springhill Opaque Colors and Uncoated Bristols, and Williamsburg Offset. For a full list of products go to www.internationalpaper.com. (Steelworkers). • Mead Westvaco/Acco Brands: At-A-Glance, Day Timer planners and organiz- ers, Five Star school supplies and organizational gear, lined paper, Mead school supplies NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 in Portland, Oregon as a voice of the la- bor movement. Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non-profit mutual benefit corpo- ration owned by 20 unions and councils including the Ore- gon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in Oregon and Southwest Washington. and Really Big Coloring Books (Communications Workers of America, Steel- workers). • Pacon: Products — Art1st drawing/sketch Pads, Array card stock and bond paper, Art Street construction paper, Bordette Decorative Border, Classroom Keepers storage, Colorwave tagboard, Coro- buff 3D decorative back- grounds, Decorol Art Roll pa- per, Ecology recycled paper, Ella Bella photography back- drops, Fadeless Paper, Flame- less Paper, GoWrite! dry erase pads, Kaleidoscope col- ored paper, Little Fingers construction paper, Neon flu- orescent-colored paper prod- ucts, Peacock colored paper products, Plast’r Craft model- ing material, Present-It easel pads, Rainbow Colored Kraft duo-finish paper, Riverside construction paper, Spectra ArtKraft duo-finish paper, Spectra Art Tissue tissue pa- per, Spectra Glitter, Trait-tex yarn and Tru-Ray construc- tion paper (Steelworkers Lo- cal 2-1822 and Local 2-1822- 01). • Roaring Spring: Sub-brands — Boardroom, Emoticons, Turn to Page 5 LABOR DAY Sept. 4 th Come Join Us! 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