May 2014
NEWS
The Southwest Portland Post • 3
Free medical and dental clinic May 17 at
Wilson High School
By Erik Vidstrand
The Southwest Portland Post
Cars and trucks line up to drop off recycling at the annual SWNI spring cleanup.
(Photo courtesy of Sharon Keast, SWNI)
SWNI spring cleanup to be held May 10 at
Portland Christian Center
By Lee Braymen-Cleary
The Southwest Portland Post
Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. is
holding its annual spring cleanup
May 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
at the Portland Christian Center at
5700 SW Dosch Road (near Beaver-
ton-Hillsdale Highway).
This year’s event is also a pilot
project for Reuse Alliance. Gener-
ally, each spring the neighborhood
coalition collects scrap metal, yard
debris, wood and bulky waste.
This year the neighborhood co-
alition will also collect bicycles for
the Community Cycling Center,
household items for the Commu-
nity Warehouse, electronics for Free
Geek and high quality building
materials for Habitat for Humanity.
The spring cleanup provides
Southwest residents with an ideal
opportunity to tidy their homes
and yards as well as serve greater
community needs.
This year more volunteers are
needed than ever. Some are needed
to collect litter, direct traffic and help
unload donated materials from cars
and trucks into drop boxes.
Still other volunteers will be
invaluable in collecting donated
materials from those seniors and
the disabled who cannot themselves
transport them. For more informa-
tion call 503-823-4592 or stop by the
office (in the Multnomah Center,
7688 SW Capitol Hwy).
A free medical and dental clinic
will be held on Saturday, May 17,
from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Wil-
son High School. All services are
free and open to the public without
health insurance.
Southwest churches are collabo-
rating with Compassion Connect,
a nonprofit organization, to offer
this one day compassion clinic.
Hundreds of uninsured guests are
expected to receive medical, dental,
and chiropractic examinations.
Other services being offered in-
clude eye and foot care, haircuts,
and social services. Free childcare
will be provided.
Compassion Connect has orga-
nized similar clinics around Port-
land and the surrounding suburbs
since its inception in 2006. This
would be the first of such clinics in
Southwest.
Curt Lemrick, a dentist and co-or-
ganizer of the event, has performed
volunteer dentistry at a number of
these clinics and felt the desire to
provide much-needed aid closer to
his home.
“Without the benefit of insurance,
the cost of basic dental treatment
can be unaffordable for many,”
Lemrick said.
“There are people in our commu-
nity who haven’t been to the dentist
in years for whatever reason. This
clinic is being organized to help
those people get the treatment they
need.”
“For many, Obamacare hasn’t ei-
ther kicked in, or people have had
trouble enrolling,” said Tom Barker,
a member of Riversgate Church in
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