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December 17, 2014 ^Jortlanb (fibseruer Page 15 C lassifieds / B ids Metro To Place Your Classified Advertisement M etro o p e ra te s the O regon Convention Center, Oregon Zoo, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts and Expo C e n te r and p ro vid e s transportation planning, recycling, natural area and other services to the region. Phone: 503-288-0033 Fax: 503-288-0015 Visit www.oregonmetro.gov/iobs for current openings and a link to our online hiring center. e-mail: classifieds @portlandobserver.com Metro is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer SUB BIDS / SUPPLIER QUOTES REQUESTED 4 Towers: Group 1 Gallagher Plaza: 2140 NW Kearney St Northwest Tower: 335 NW 19th Avenue Select and Competitive Bid Packages Available for trades excluding Fire Protection, Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical and Fiber Reinforced Polymer. See bid packages for details. Bid Release on Nov. 24, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. P hoto by M ike B ivins /T he P ortland O bserver Bids Due: December 23,2014 Portland-grown hip-hop performer Mic Capes remembers when he started putting his thoughts to words with poetry in the Fifth grade. Today, h e’s leading a hip hop renaissance in St. Johns, where he can be found performing solo and with local hip-hop contemporaries Glenn Waco and Rasheed Jamal, collectively known as The Resistance. Plans available on 11/25/14 at: Walsh Construction Co./Oregon, and electronically at Builder’s Exchange of Washington (Public Bid), 0AME (Oregon Assoc of Minority Entrepreneurs), SW Washington Contractors Assoc., DJC, Oregon Contractor Plan Center, iSqFt Hip Hop Renaissance For Questions, please contact: c o n t i n u e d f r o m page 9 “We found ways to get money man,” Capes said, Explaining the trials and tribula tions of growing up poor, he gives me a couple of tales of childhood adventures that had me bursting at the seams with laughter. First as Capes explained that if you put a can on a stick and insert it repeatedly into the return machine you could fool the machine and get a nickel refund; and second when he tells me about the times his friends (Capes never actually participated in the act), would run onto an idling bus, swipe the unpunched trans fers, find out the punch code for the day, and help themselves to free bus rides. Having scrounged for change to catch TriMet in my childhood, I could empathize. Currently, things have changed dramatically for Capes. When the Benson Polytechnic alumni and former varsity football player is not testing the water with fresh verses on Twitter, he is taking classes at Portland Community College. He plans to eventually transfer to Port land State to get a bachelor degree in psychology or social studies. When he is testing the water on Twitter, it is to his 800 followers, as w ell as his th o u sa n d -p e rso n Instagram following. These are modest numbers as far as social media are concerned considering some have millions of followers. B ut for a person who has come as far without stopping as Capes has, you can only expect those numbers to increase with every verse, track and album he creates. Capes also works in the commu nity as an after-school activities co ordinator. H e’s helped kids at Roosevelt High School write and record music; he’s tutored kids at Fabian Elementary; and is currently at Riggler Elementary doing sports activities and tutoring four days a week. Last summer, he gave back at Peninsula Park in north Portland doing day camps for local kids. “It’s rewarding,” he says. “I like just being a positive person in their lives.” While Capes has personally sold around 200 copies of Rise & Grind, he has made it available for down load free of charge at datpiff.com. You can also keep a look out for his sophomore album Concrete Dreams in the first quarter of 2015. On Twitter? 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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS METRO UNDERWRITING SERVICES RFP 2 8 9 4 Metro, a metropolitan service district organized under the laws of the State of Oregon and the Metro Charter, located at 600 NE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR 97232-2736, is hereby requesting sealed proposals for Underwriting Services for the sale of approximately 60 million of revenue bonds for development and construction of the Oregon Convention Center Hotel. Sealed proposals are due no later than 2:00 p.m. January 5,2015, in Metro’s business offices at 600 NE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR 97232-2736, Attention: Sharon Stiffler, Procurement Analyst, RFP 2894. Solicitation documents can be viewed and downloaded from the Oregon Procurem ent Information Network (ORPIN) at http:// orpin.oregon.gov/open.dll/ Metro may accept or reject any or all bids, in whole or in part, or waive irregularities not affecting substantial rights if such action is deemed in the public interest. Metro extends equal opportunity to all persons and specifically encourages minority, women-owned and emerging small businesses to access and participate in this and all Metro projects, programs and services. Metro and its contractors will not discriminate against any person(s), employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, political affiliation or marital status. Metro fully complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related statutes and regulations in all programs and activities. For more information, or to obtain a Title VI Complaint Form, see www.oregonmetro.gov.
