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Schools Budget Improves
Citing an improved fiscal outlook, the Portland
School Board voted Monday to add $ 19.6 million
to its current budget year, including the addition of
roughly 30 teaching positions. However, a dispute
still rages over a labor agreement with teachers
and placing $14 million in reserves that union
leaders say should go directly into the classroom
and to teachers.
Help for School Dropouts
The City Club of Portland released a draft report
Friday calling for more infrastructure and sup
ports that will help more young adults who lack a
high school diploma prepare for college and a
career. About 336,000 adult Oregonians lack a
high school diploma or alternative General Edu
cational Development (GED) credential.
We are Hiring Drivers for our Transportation Office!
Hermiston, OR
In the first year driving for Walmart, the average full time
Walmart Driver will earn $76,000 per year working a 5.5
day work week.
Oregon 3rd for Job Growth
Walmart drivers earn:
• Mileage Pay
• Activity Pay
• Hourly Pay
■ Regular schedule and reset
hours at home, not on the
road
Oregon has the third-highest percentage of job
growth in the nation. The federal Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported Tuesday that Oregon posted a
2.4 percent increase in 2013. Only North Dakota
and Florida expanded at a faster clij>. Washington's
job base grew by 1.9 percent.
-Training Pay
- Weekend Premium Pay
Quarterly Safety Bonus
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice.
January 29, 2014
to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the
age of 94. Seeger popularized "We Shall Over
come" as a protest song during the modem Civil
Rights era.
31 Pounds of Meth Seized
A drug runner was busted on 1-84 east of
Portland Monday with 31 pounds of metham
phetamines in his vehicle, at an estimated street
value of $1.5 million. Portland police said the
drugs were in a suitcase in the trunk.
Minimum Wage Justice
O regon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden
visited Green Zebra Grocery in north Portland
Monday to talk about the growing income in
equality in America and to call on Congress to
raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10 and
then provide annual increases linked to the cost
ofliving.
Gorge Hikers Rescued
Four lost hikers were safely escorted down a trail
to Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge
T h u rsd ay night. T hey w ere h ik in g from
W ahkeena Falls to Multnomah Falls when they
walked down a trail that ended in a washout.
They turned around but couldn't make it out
before darkness fell.
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CAUTION
"ICE ON BRIDGES
REDUCE SPEED
Folk Singer, Activist Dies
South Hit with Ice, Snow
T he b a n jo -p ic k in g
tro u b a d o u r
P ete
Seeger, a political ac
tivist who sang for
migrant workers, col
lege students and star-
struck presidents in a
career that introduced generations of Americans
A rare blast of snow, sleet
and ice hit the U.S. South
t o
on Tuesday, prompting
three states to declare a
state of emergency, clos
ing the New Orleans airport and causing chaos
on roads for drivers unaccustomed to the dan
gerously slick conditions.
Charles Washington
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