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Winter Theater At PCC Sylvania The Theater Arts Department o f Port land Community College w ill perform "You Can’ t Take It W ith You.” from Feb. 29 to March 9 at the PCC Sylvania Campus, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave. Tickets may be reserved by calling 977-4949 weekdays between I p.m. and 5 p.m. Free Cooking Classes A series o f cooking workshops about good nutrition on a tight budget for moth ers-to-be and mothers o f school-aged children w ill be held weekday afternoons beginning in early March at the Historic Kenton Fire House. To registration, call the Kenton Action Plan at 289-6693 or the Columbia V illa services coordinator at 306-5717. Garden Club Forming A garden club is being formed in the Kenton neighborhood with the intent o f enhancing the visual livab ility o f the area and providing home grown fresh pro duce. To start off, the club w ili partici pate in the planting o f a new rose public garden along Interstate Avenue just west o f the Queen Anne Victorian Mansion. Call Alta M itchoof at 285-5873 for more information. Crisis Training Given The Portland’s Women’ s Crisis Line is offering training for volunteer crisis intervention counselors. Female volun teers are needed who are at least 18 years o f age and committed to ending domestic and sexual violence. Contact LcAnn Mederios at 232-9545. P o r t e d nadveOrlaocJo or in m his rookie as a Harlem Globetrotter, meets Adnan Mashia, a Fernwood Middle School m ^ h t ^ r a d e ^ n n g l v s team 's worldwide ortland last week. WUhams, a former University o f Oregon and Benson High School basketball star visited three Portland area schools tate transportation facilities cluding the north costs. The rest o f regions suffered at least $64 million in are reporting over $5.5 m illion dollars in damages during the recent additional highway damages," Lulay said. heavy flooding, according to prelimi “ Shortline railroadsstatewide suffered $14 nary estimates by Oregon Department m illion in damages, including $12 m illion of Transportation engineers. damage to the Port o f Tillam ook Bay Rail State Highway Engineer Tom Lulay said hardest-hit were highways and railroads that fo llo w rivers in the northwestern part o f Oregon. "Northwestern Oregon highways had about $44.6 m illion in damages, including $33.2 m illion in our Portland metro-area region and $11.4 m illion from Lane County north, in road,” Lulay added. The severe storms also disrupted public transportation services statewide, as well as freight and passenger rail services on main line routes. "Things are starting to get back to normal now. Most intercity bus routes arc running again, and Amtrak trains are getting back to normal as problems are being corrected. Freight rail isoperatingon near-normal sched ules,” Lulay said. Hardest-hit were transportation facilities in and around Tillamook, including the W il son River Highway and U.S. 101; Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge; U.S. 30 on the lowerColumbia River; and Cascade Range- highways U.S. 26, U.S. 20, Oregon 22 and Oregon 224 Several coastal state highways were also damaged, including Oregon 36, Oregon 126 and others. The biggest headaches for engineers are slides that piled thousands o f cubic yards o f mud, trees and debris on highways and rail roads, or sinkholes and washouts that made pavement and tracks simply disappear. “ W e’ re still assessinggthe damages, so we believe the total w ill continue to rise as we make closer inspections," Lulay said. OD O T reported that mote than 180 sepa rate road closures or restrictions happened during the flooding. A t the peak o f the storm's impact, about 167 highway closures or restricts were in effect. Transportation emergencies were de clared on a district-by-district basis. Hill, A Guest Of Clinton On Air Force 1 The Black United Fund o f Oregon hosts a workshop on building leadership positions and financial backing for vol unteer and non-profit organizations. The forum w ill be held Feb. 28 at 9 a.m. at the Northeast Police Precinct community meeting room, 449 N.E. Emerson. Reg istration is $7.50. Call Artangia Presley at 282-7973. O Family Center Needs Help Volunteers to assist in shelter pro grams working with women and children are needed at the Volunteers o f America Family Center. Training is provided. Call 232-6562 lor more information. Fire House Cleanup Set A work party to restore the Kenton Fire House, 8105 N. Brandon, w ill take place Saturday, starting at 10 a m. V o l SUBMISSIONS: Community ( alendar information will he given priority if dated two weeks before the event date. c. Haile) Flood Damage To Cost Millions S Community Forum unteers are asked to bring tools, gloves and a smile to help restore the landmark structure. ,P hoto By M ic h a c Amazing Adventures Of Coco-Kaba regon State Treasurer Jim Hill arrived back in Oregon aboard Air Force One last week as part of the official delegation accompanying president Bill Clinton on tour of the flood-ravaged Pacific Northwest. H ill had been attending a meeting o f the National Association o f State Treasures in Washington, D C . when he was invited by Clinton to jo in him on his trip to get a firsthand look at the flo<xl damage in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. “ I was very impressed with the level o f specific information the President and members o f the Cabinet had regarding Oregon and the impact last week s flooding had on specific communities and on individuals, Hill.said. The President seemed particularly moved by stories o f how the flood had hit ordinary people like the farmers in Tillam ook County who lost whole dairy herds to flood waters. It s clear that the federal government w ill provide significant help to both individuals and government agencies hit by the flood. President Clinton s presence like this is both reassuring to the region and indicated the level o f commitment he and his administration have to the state in this time o f need," H ill said. H ill was asked to joinC linto n at Portland’ sTom M cCall Park on the Portland W illamette riverfront where heroic efforts by local govern ment and community volunteers helped stem the tide o f flood waters threatening Portland's downtown. I he Presidents visit is a tribute to those volunteers and the leader ship at ( ity Hall that met this massive challenge so successfully H ill said. H ill had also met earlier in the week with President Clinton at the White House as part of the meetings he was attending in Washington, D C. .' '» ,