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Avalon Flowers
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OR 97204 • 503-796-9250
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Cori Stewart--
Owner, Operator
• Birthdays • Anniversaries
• Funerals • Weddings
Open: Mon.-Fri. 7:30am til 5:30pm
Saturday 9am til 2pm.
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Dozens of people fill conference room to get information about jobs and construction contracts
for the Multnomah County Central Courthouse Project and the Gladys McCoy Health Department
Headquarters.
Networking for Jobs
County recruits for courthouse, health department builds
New Greater Faith
Outreach Ministries
Presents
1st Annual Family andFriends Day
“Reaching Beyond The Sanctuary”
Sunday December10th, 2017 | 3:30pm
Guest speaker – Superintendent Tate
12105 Ne Prescott, Portland OR 97220
(470)-265-8236 • (971)-352-9390
Hosted by Lead Servant Pastor Byrone Bolton
Your Invited to come join us for Family and Friends day!!!
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ers with opportunities as the coun- and health department offices,
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The
Week
in
Review
Former Trump
national se-
curity adviser
Michael Fly-
nn
pleaded
guilty Friday
to lying to
tends to move the U.S. Embassy
the FBI about
to Jerusalem.
conversations
Embattled Conyers to Resign
with Russia’s
Embattled
ambassador,
Democratic
a sign that the investigation by
Rep. John
special counsel Robert Mueller
Conyers
is intensifying. The plea provides
said Tues-
the clearest picture yet of coordi-
day
that
nation between Flynn and other
he’ll
step
Trump advisors in their contact
down from
with Russian officials to influence
his seat in
international polity.
Congress
Trump Embassy Move to
amid a na-
Jerusalem Called Dangerous tionwide reckoning over sexual
Palestinian President Mahmoud harassment in the workplace. Co-
Abbas warned President Trump nyers, who was the longest serv-
Tuesday that moving the Ameri- ing member of the U.S. House,
can embassy from Tel Aviv to Je- was facing investigation into
rusalem would risk the peace, se- multiple allegations that he sexu-
curity and stability of the Mideast ally harassed women who worked
and the world. Abbas said Trump with him.
called him Tuesday to say he in-
Washington Jr.
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Def Jam Founder Steps Away
Def Jam Re-
cords founder
Russell Sim-
mons said Fri-
day that he is
stepping away
from his com-
panies follow-
ing a second
sexual mis-
conduct allegation. Screenwriter
Jenny Lumet said she was prompt-
ed to speak out after Simmons’ de-
nial of a separate 1991 allegation
of misconduct by another woman.
Governors for Kids Health
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown joined
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
Tuesday to lambast the GOP Con-
gress for letting the Children’s
Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
expire. States are being forced to
dip into their own budgets to keep
children and pregnant mothers
on their health insurance plans,
and many could have to end that
coverage unless Congress acts
soon. Nearly nine million children
across the country are at risk.
Jim Nabors Dead at 87
Jim Nabors, the actor best known
for playing the character Gomer
Pyle on “The Any Griffith Show”
in the 1960s, died Thursday in Ha-
waii. He was 87.
Embers Gay Nightclub Closes
Embers Avenue, a Portland
dance and drag show venue that
has served Portland’s LGBTQ
community for around 50 years,
closed suddenly on Friday. Rep-
resentatives of the beloved ven-
ue said Steve Suss, the main
owner of the club, had a massive
stroke and could no longer oper-
Court Allows Travel Ban
The Supreme Court on Monday
allowed the Trump administration
to fully enforce a ban on travel to
the United States by residents of
six mostly Muslim countries pend-
ing a ruling from two cases wind-
ing through the federal courts.
The lower courts have continued
to find problems with the policy.