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North by Northeast Community Health Center now
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appointments with our health care providers. Since 2006,
our priority is on serving the local African American
community and on reducing the deadly effects of high
blood pressure and diabetes. If you have limited (or no)
income and need health insurance, we can help you apply
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July 30, 2014
The Week 11 Review
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sis and tests of the electronic meters, which are
relatively new, show they didn’t perform optimally
and in ‘extremely rare cases’ could catch fire.
PGE says they plan to resolve the issue by the end
of this October.
As part of a White House initiative titled ‘Great
City Schools,’ 60 big-city public school districts
across the nation, including Portland Public Fire Destroys Line of Cars
Schools, released a pledge last week to improve Investigators are calling a w eekend fire that
the academic and social outcomes of boys and destroyed a line o f cars at the Canyon Park
young men of color.
A partm ents in Beaverton intentionally set. The
determ ination o f arson was based on material
Mercy Corps Makes Strong Presence in Gaza evidence, T ualatin Valley Fire and Rescue of
With 87 staff members on the ground in the Gaza ficials said Tuesday. Five vehicles and a carport
Strip, Portland-based non-profit Mercy Corps w ere destroyed by the fire. The inferno’s heat
has the largest aid presence there next to United also dam aged at least half a dozen more ve
Nations. Since the start of the conflict, more than hicles, a nearby m ailbox structure, and a fence.
120,000 people have fled their homes in order to
evade the intense fighting.
Lightning Hits Venice Beach
Venice Beach in California turned deadly when a
Lloyd Center Plans $50 Million Renovation lightning bolt stuck the water Monday, killing one
Thursday, Cypress Equities, which owns Lloyd man and injuring at least 13 others according to
Center Mall, announced it is set to begin an 18- emergency officials. The Los Angeles County
month $50 million renovation of the shopping
coroner’s office has noted however that it is too
center, the largest remodel since it was enclosed soon to determine “whether [the deceased] died
in a project that began in 1989. The redesign will from "a lightning strike, drowning, or being trampled
see more exterior storefronts and pedestrian- by the crowd."
focused entrances, reconfigure the m ail’s center
court with a spiral staircase and a slightly smaller Victims of Sandy Win Lottery
and newly placed ice rink.
Seventeen siblings, who suffered losses at the
hands o f Superstorm Sandy in 2012, announced
PGE Meter Exchange
they will be splitting a $20 m illion lottery prize
Portland General Electric last week announced that was won on Friday. A lottery spokes
that it will begin swapping out 70,000 residential
w om an said the siblings range in age from 53 to
meters that could be defective. An internal analy 76.
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