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Page 14 December 28, 2016 C LASSIFIED /B IDS SUB BID REQUEST Tri-Met Washington Park Station Improvements Portland, Oregon Bids Dues: 1/12/2017 @ 2:00 PM Bid Documents: email braunea@hswc.com for link Howard S. Wright 1455 NW Irving Street, Suite 400 Portland, OR 97209 Contact: Aaron Braun 503-220-0895 Metro runs the Oregon Zoo, Director of Operations, Oregon Convention Center, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts , Portland Expo Center and Portland’5 Center for the Arts and provides services that cross city limits and county lines including land use and transportation planning, parks and nature programs, and garbage and recycling systems. $78,905.00 - $118,358.00 annually. Deadline: 1/3/2017 These opportunities are open to First Opportunity Target Area (FOTA) residents: This area includes the following Photo by C hrista M C i ntyre /t he P ortland o bserver zip codes located primarily in The building housing McCoy Academy at 3802 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd has been sold to N, NE and a small portion of Visit oregonmetro.gov/jobs for SE Portland: 97024, 97030, developers and the non-profit private high school serving underserved students in Portland for more current openings and a link to 97203, 97211, 97212, 97213, than a generation is facing closure. our online hiring center. 97216, 97217, 97218, 97220, 97227, 97230, 97233, 97236, Metro is an Affirmative Action / and 97266, whose total annual Equal Opportunity Employer income was less than $47,000 Clark College is currently for a household of up to two sociation would like to save the donations and fundraisers. 400 C ontinued FroM F ront accepting applications for a full- individuals or less than $65,000 building from the wrecking crew, students have graduated from the time Associate Vice President of for a household of three or more. McCoy operates under an um- but it’s not very likely they can school since 1988, kids who oth- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This Visit oregonmetro.gov/FOTA for brella organization called Oregon stop another giant box of condo- erwise would have not earned a position reports to the college the complete job announcement Outreach and has other branches miniums as a replacement, adding high school diploma. President, serves as a member and a link to our online hiring in Molalla, Scappoose, Vernonia to the explosion of other develop- McCoy’s founder and exec- of the Executive Cabinet, and center or visit our lobby kiosk and Rainier. But, the Portland site ments in gentrifying Portland. utive director remains commit- serves as the liaison between at Metro, 600 NE Grand Ave, is special to the students, neigh- TVA Architects which has de- ted to the students in her charge. the college and the community Portland. signed a number of new proper- She has aligned her entire life to bors and the black community. to support the College’s Social ties in the area, including the King helping kids that society has giv- A longtime sanctuary from Metro is an Affirmative Action / Equity Plan. The salary is Street Lofts, MLK West and a new en up on, a dedication that has gang violence and one of the first Equal Opportunity Employer $89,883 annually. Closing date: development at Northeast 13th Av- earned Becky Black a Breakfast drug free zone in Portland, Mc- 1/30/17. For complete position enue and Alberta Street, is in the of Champions Educational Award Coy Academy started off as the description, requirements and planning stages for constructing a 5 from the Portland Red Cross; an Advertise with diversity first charter school in Portland in to apply, access our website story, 89 unit complex with parking. A.F. Gray Award for Achievement response to the city’s first gang-re- in at www.clark.edu/jobs. Clark Mary Garofalo from Everett from Warner Pacific College; a lated shooting at Columbia Villa. College Human Resources, 1933 The Portland Observer The academy has one of the lon- Custom Homes, which is over- Virtue of Generosity Award from Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, gest histories of serving children seeing the development, said incarcerated students at the Hill- Call 503-288-0033 WA 98663 (360) 992-2105. AA/ in Portland who face economic, each unit will be priced at mar- crest Youth Facility; a 972nd email ads@portlandobserver.com EO employer. employment and social hurdles by ket rate, supporting a demand Point of Light award from Pres- giving them access to an accred- for multi-family housing options ident George H.W. Bush; and a Lewis Hines Award for Services ited academic program, mental within the city’s core. McCoy has faced its own chal- to Children in a honor she shared egaL otices health services, drug and alcohol lenges over the years. It was the with former First Lady Hillary counseling and resources towards first alternative school in Port- Rodham Clinton. Last year, she planning for college. land before it was granted a char- was presented the Mayor’s Spirit Many McCoy graduates are the ter, and barely more than a year of Portland award. first in their family to get a high later the first to have its charter On the current fundraising to school diploma. Most of them go revoked. A City Club of Portland save the school, Black told the onto community college, Portland report from 2002 notes: “While Portland Observer, “Right now State University or join the mili- the Portland School District we’re trying to raise enough mon- tary. maintains a public position of co- ey to keep alive what we have. The “What’s beautiful about our operation and support for charter ideal would be to have enough program is we work in such a schools, charter school advocates money to bring in all the students small setting with the students for Need to publish a court document or notice? Need an affidavit of multiple hours a day. We get to re- charge that the district actively who are calling us, knocking on publication quickly and efficiently? Please fax or e-mail your notice ally know the student. We get to works behind the scenes to chal- the door and wanting to come in.” for a free price quote! McCoy Academy has set up a know what’s going on in their life lenge efforts to establish charter schools in Portland.” donation button on their website and at home,” said Katie Carpen- Fax: 503-288-0015 Despite all the odds, McCoy to make contributions. Visit ore- ter, McCoy’s director of program e-mail: has kept its doors open by the gen- gonoutreach.org/our-schools/mc- development and educator. classifieds@portlandobserver.com The King Neighborhood As- erosity of the community through coy-academy/ The Portland Observer Counting on a Miracle L N
