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Gas Prices Set Record
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America are higher than they ’ ve
ever been in April, according to
AAA.
In Oregon, gas prices also set
a record for the month, with the
price of regular unleaded aver­
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The high prices are blamed on
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supply and demand with added
upward pressure on the price of
crude oil from unrest in northern
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Africa and the Middle East.
AAA says pump prices have
also been on the rise due to the
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to the more expensive summer- Shell Food Mart at Northeast Broadway and Martin Luther King Jr.
blend gasoline.
Boulevard. Plus and other premium fuels were over $4 a gallon.
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Image Award Nominee Comes Home
Author will share
experiences at local events
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Portland native and New York Times Bestselling
author Heidi Durrow returns to childhood home to visit
Portland Community College which adopted her award­
winning debut novel as its annual campus-wide read.
The author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky which
The Oregonian named a Top 10 Book of 2010, will visit
each of the four Portland Community College campuses.
Durrow, who attended Harriet Tubman Middle School
and graduated from Jefferson High School, has received
numerous awards and accolades for her debut novel
including writer Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize
for Literature of Social Change, and a nomination for
Outstanding Literary Debut for the NAACP Image
Awards.
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky centers on a biracial
girl who moves to Portland after she survives a tragedy
in which her family dies. Hailed as one of the Best Novels
of 2010 by the Washington Post, the book has become
a book club favorite and continues to climb the New
YorkTimes Bestseller List.
Durrow was-the first person in her family to go to a
four-year college. She is a graduate of Stanford Univer­
sity, Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and
Yale Law School.
Currently, she is the co-host of the award-winning
weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat; and the co-founder
and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary
Festival, an annual free public event, that celebrates
stories of the Mixed experience. She is an occasional
essay contributor to National Public Radio. Ebony
Magazine recently named her as one of its Power 100
Leaders of 2010.
Durrow’s scheduled appearances are Wednesday,
Portland native Heidi Durrow, who was nominated
for Outstanding Literary Debut at the 2011 NAACP
Image Awards, will speak about her book, "The Girl
Who Fell from the Sky” at a series of events at
Portland Community College,
April 13 from 10a.m. to 11:30a.m. in the Great Hall at
PCC’s Southeast Center; Wednesday, April 13 from
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rock Creek Campus; Thurs­
day, April 14from9a.m. to 10:30a.m. in the Moriarty
Arts and Humanities Building Auditorium, Cascade
Campus; and Thursday, April 1 from 1:30p.m. to 3 p.m.
in the Performing Arts Center, Sylvania Campus.
The Southeast Center event is a panel discussion
on biracial identity. All of the events are free and open
to the public.