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September 11, 2002 Page A6 Food Bank Calls For Volunteers The Oregon Food Bank is ask ing for help in the fight against hunger. At least 40 people are needed each week to sort and repackage donated food. The agency serving the Port land metropolitan area from its headquarters in northeast Port land. is estimating that as many as 700,000 people will have eaten at least one meal from an emergency basis enables us to efficiently get donated food out to agencies, and in turn, low income individuals. Volunteers who can commit to a weekly or monthly shift are the driving force behind this program," saidOFB Volunteer Program Man ager Ellen Curtis. For information on how you can volunteer, call 503-282-0555, exten- sio n 3 0 0 , or e-m a il volunteer@ oregonfoodbank.org. food box in the last year. The need is 16 to 18 percent higher than in previous years. To meet the increase in both requests for donated food and donated food product, Oregon Food Bank needs more volunteers to help in projects that range from repackaging food to tending a new urban garden at the hunger relief agency’s warehouse site. “Having volunteers on a daily Vandals Hit Abandoned School The Portland School District is receiving complaints about vandalism and graffiti at the abandoned Whitaker Middle School site. The northeast Portland school was closed more than a year ago because o f mold and other maintenance issues. The district wants to tear it down and build a new middle school. In the meantime, Portland Police have proposed using the building to conduct drills on school terrorism. The school opened as John Adams High School in the fall o f 1969. photo by M ark W ashington /T hf . P ortland O bserver “work with me one on one” Metro Auto Wholesale 7238 SE Foster Rd. 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