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January 23, 2019
Pacific Power Replacing Meters
Installations
coming first
half of year
Pacific Power is bringing more
efficient and effective smart me-
ters to residential and business
customers in the Portland area,
replacing thousands of aging elec-
tric meters throughout the first
half of the year.
About 78,000 new meters
will be installed for area custom-
ers. This includes parts of north,
Pacific Power is installing smart meters for residential and busi-
ness customers in the Portland area.
northeast, southeast, and down-
town Portland, as well as May-
wood Park. The installations are
set to begin next week and will
continue in the area through June.
“We’re installing smart me-
ters in Portland as part of a state-
wide upgrade for the homes and
businesses we serve,” said Diana
Knous, Pacific Power’s regional
business manager for Multnomah
County. “It’s a project that will
enable our communities to take
advantage of faster, more efficient
energy technology.”
The new smart meters will
instantly track outages, mean-
ing faster service response and
shorter outages overall; let cus-
tomers view their power usage
hour-by-hour, so they can ad-
just their activity to reduce both
their carbon footprint and bill;
provide businesses with detailed
usage reporting which will help
them cut costs and make invest-
ments in items that help their
business grow; and update the
grid to work more efficiently and
better integrate renewable power
sources.
“This upgrade brings a future
of reliable and efficient power to
our region and to our state,” said
Knous. “We are connecting com-
munities throughout Oregon, im-
proving the way we power our
customers’ lives both at home and
at work.”
Miracles Club Scholarships
A special events committee
of the Miracles Club invites the
community to join them during
the presentation of college schol-
arships of $500 awarded to two
Jefferson High School students
while also supporting efforts to
grow the program for other local
high schools such as Grant, Ben-
son and Roosevelt.
The non-alcoholic and non-
profit social club named its schol-
arship fund is in honor of long-
time recovery advocate Harry
Watson.
“We are proud to honor a great
man who made a huge impact in
the lives of people in recovery,”
said Martin Rivers.
The scholarships presentation
will take place on Saturday, Feb.
2 at 6 p.m. at the Miracles Club,
located at 4200 N.E. Martin Lu-
ther King Jr. Blvd. For more
information, email themiracles-
clubsec@gmail.com or stop by
the club.
Gun Control
C ontinueD from p age 3
with people across the state who
support the cause. Those groups
and individuals include safety or-
ganizations, those who worked on
gun legislation in the past, medi-
cal professionals, and members of
law enforcement, organizer Rev.
Mark Knutson of Augustana Lu-
theran Church in northeast Port-
land, told the Portland Observer.
“As faith leaders we understand
when you come to a place of obsta-
cle you just regroup and work even
harder to go the next step. That’s
what we did,” Knutson said.
The Supreme Court ruled last
year that Petition 43, the original
initiative of the campaign, needed
to be re-worded due to vague lan-
guage. It was later withdrawn be-
cause the group ran out of time to
gather signatures by the deadline.
The new bills, which were first
submitted back in September, are
expected to receive official num-
bers by the end of the week.
Lift Every Voice organizers,
meanwhile, invite the community
to convene again for a vigil and
rally with supporters on Sunday,
Jan. 27 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at
Augustana Lutheran Church, 2710
N.E. 14th Ave.