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December 28, 2011
Review
The Portland Observer looks back at some of our top stories o f the year
Club Scene Murder
Jan. 5 - Authorities were investigating a New Year’s morning shooting outside Club 915 in downtown
Portland that killed Ruben Mata, 32, a security worker at the hip-hop venue.
Concordia’s Big Step
Feb. 9 — Concordia
University in northeast
Portland breaks ground
on a new athletic complex
and playing fields as the
campus, which recently
opened a new library,
blooms into a new and
expanded being of higher
education.
Free Medical for Hard Times
Jan. 19 - Dr. Jill Ginsberg sees patients and helps run the free
community health clinic North by Northeast. She is one of the volun
teer physicians, nurse-practitioners and staff who give up hours each
week to help patients in need.
Best New Artist
Feb. 16 — Esperanza
Spalding, a home
grown Portland
musician, wins the
Grammy for Best New
Artist during a
broadcast from Los
Angeles. She thanked
her friends in Portland
as well as her teachers.
BECAUSE OF YOU
PCC IS BUILDING
OUR FUTURE.
For fifty years, PCC has been providing high
quality education and workforce training, thanks
to community partnership. Now, funds from
PCC's 2008 voter-approved bond measure are
creating new opportunities for people to access
education. Visit bond.pcc.edu to read the
college’s annual report and learn more about
bond-funded PCC improvements and
opportunities near you
IT
Po rtland
Thank you for your
C om m unity
continued support!
OPPORTUNITY THEN NOW ALWAYS
A Family’s Anguish
April 13 — The face of Yashanee Vaughn
appears on hundreds o f reward flyers posted
by her Portland family and friends as they
desperately continue to search for their 14-
year-old girl that went missing nearly one
month ago. Parrish Bennette, 16, has been
charged with her murder.
President Visits Intel
Feb. 23 - President Barack Obama comes to Oregon
to visit a massive, cutting-edge Intel chip-making plant
to learn how to make American kids more competitive
in math and science and promote an American future
that leads in technology.