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Low Income Fares Wanted Beloved Pastor Remembered
services, the advocates suggest TriMet
increase tax and advertising revenues.
TriMet currently makes around $4
million from company advertisements
on transit vehicles, train stations and
bus shelters, nearly $13 million less
than what San Francisco made from ad-
vertising, the advocates say.
“We want to make sure that TriMet
receives the message that we are not go-
ing away and we will continue to remind
them of how important an issue this is,”
says OPAL member David Bouchard.
“We will always be the watchdogs mak-
ing sure they’re doing right by us, the
riders. We have the right to be heard.”
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body pays in a household.”
The proposal is patterned after Seat-
tle’s LIFT program and San Francisco’s
Lifeline pass, where a 200 percent pov-
erty line threshold makes San Francis-
co’s discounted pass cost $35 and Se-
attle’s at $54, nearly half of the normal
$99 price.
For those living within 100 percent of
the federal poverty line, the advocates
suggests a fare matching TriMet’s Hon-
ored Citizen pass for senior citizens and
disabled riders, which is $28 per month.
To pay for the new rider benefits and
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Texas.
She helped start the the North by North-
east Community Health Center, one of
Portland’s first free health clinics, along
with an autism center.
Here’s a statement sent out by the
North by Northeast Clinic:
“Our hearts are heavy and full as we
share the sad news that our beloved
co-founder, Pastor Mary Overstreet
Smith, passed away after a long illness.
While the loss is still sinking in, we are
filled with memories of the wisdom, love,
encouragement and laughter she shared
with us over the past ten years. Nine
months after she and Dr. Jill Ginsberg met
in November 2005, the doors of North
by Northeast Community Health Center
were opened to our first patients. Pastor
Mary loved to say that this meeting was
“pre-destined,” and she was so proud of
how far we have come. We know Pastor
Mary touched countless lives here in Port-
land and beyond. So many people lost a
great friend and champion.”
Mary Overstreet-Smith was born Nov.
2, 1937 in Gulfport, Miss. She moved to
Portland in February 1965. She was the
mother of six children and was preceded
in death by a son, Michael Forbes.
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C alendar
September 2016
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
1
World War II began,
Hitler invaded
Poland, 1939
5
6
First Continental
Congress Convened
(1774)
Read a Book Day
Pilgrims set sail from
Plymouth, England
(1620)
12
13
Labor Day
National Chocolate
Milk Shake Day
Jesse Owens
Olympian, born
1913
19
International Talk
Like a Pirate Day
Poet John Keats
Wrote ‘To Autumn’
in 1819
26
Johnny Appleseed
born John
Chapman, in 1774
National Peanut Day
Positive Thinking
Day
7
Grandma Moses
born, 1860
(painter)
14
Francis Scott
Key wrote ‘Star
Spangled Banner’
in 1814
International
Literacy Day
King Richard the
Lion-Hearted born,
1157
15
Make A Hat Day
National Hispanic
Heritage Month
Begins
21
22
First Railroad
Station Opened
Magellan started his
search for the Spice
Islands In 1519
World Gratitude Day
International Peace
Day
H.G. Wells born,
1866
First Day of Autumn
Elephant
Appreciation Day
U.S. Post Office
Opened In 1789
27
28
First Airport Opened
(1909)
William the
Conqueror Invaded
England, 1066
FRIDAY SATURDAY
2
3
National Blueberry
Popsicle Day
U.S. Treasury Dept.
Established, 1789
8
20
Crush A Can Day
First Steam
Locomotive Run
(1825)
R
29
The U.S. Army was
established in 1789
9
Teddy Bear Day
California became
the 31st state in
1850
16
Collect Rocks Day
National Play-Doh
Day
Mayflower Day
23
California Native
American Day
Nintendo founded
in 1889 - made
playing cards
30
Edgar d’Aulaire
born, 1898
Safety Pin Invented
(1849)
Barkley the Dog’s
Birthday (Sesame
Street)
Treaty of Paris
Signed, 1783
SUNDAY
4
Newspaper Carrier
Day
Google First
Incoporated (1998)
10
11
Swap Ideas Day
Elias Howe patented
the sewing
machine, 1846
National
Grandparents Day
Make Your Bed Day
World Trade Center
attack in 2001
17
18
Citizenship Day
Constitution Day;
In 1787 U.S.
Constitution signed
24
First Toy Store Opened
National Bluebird of
Happiness Day
Supreme Court
established, 1789
The New York Times
was first published
in 1851
25
Good Neighbor Day
(4th Sunday)
Mary Poppins
Debuted in 1964