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May 27, 2015
Kris Andrzejeski (left) and Toby Service remove a front door awning that was leaking and causing dry rot as part of a volunteer crew working to make repairs to the north-
east Portland home of a low-income and disabled woman.
Healthy Housing
Challenge
Volunteers give
back to help
disabled woman
A group of volunteers worked
hard transforming the northeast
Portland home of a low-income,
disabled woman, making it easier
and healthier for her to live there.
They removed excess trees and
scrub brush; mowed the over-
grown yard; and installed a front
deck, new gutters, new washer
and drier, and grab bars inside and
outside so the occupant can get up
and down the stairs more easily. A
front door awning that had been
leaking and causing dry rot was
also removed.
“We got a lot of work done,”
said team co-captain Toby Ser-
vice of Wells Fargo, of the May 16
event, drawing a group of Wells
Fargo and rebuilding Together
Portland volunteers.
Co-captain Kris Andrzejeski,
also of Wells Fargo, said the res-
ident was very excited to have the
new porch and deck in the front.
“She can’t do maintenance. We
alleviated a lot of the yard mainte-
nance she would have to do. That
was a really big help to her,” An-
drzejeski said.
By the end of the day, the vol-
unteers had filled a large dumpster
to the top with debris from the
yard and interior.
Wells Fargo donated $15,000
for the work as part of its support
of the Healthy Housing Challenge,
a joint project of the National
Center for Healthy Housing, Wells
Fargo and Rebuilding Together.
Strip Clubs Bust
C ontinued from P age 3
spiring to promote illegal acts
of prostitution at the business-
es throughout that time. Kan-
dace Desmarais, 63, and Gilbert
“Mace” Desmarais, 50, both
of Milwaukie, were both also
charged with participating in the
conspiracy alongside Owen.
Authorities said dancers paid
the club $15 per shift, and then
charged up to $160 for each
30-minute “private show” they
provided. Part of that charge, $60,
would go back to the business
owners. Those charged would re-
portedly use that money to stock
strip-club ATMs, and then get re-
imbursed for the dispensed money
from out-of-state electronic fund
transfers.
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