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Volume LII • Number 23
New Shelters
Approved
Measure 114
Paused
Budget in place to
make sites for
the homeless
New setbacks
postpone gun
control law
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‘City
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of
Roses’ Wednesday • December 07, 2022
Committed to Cultural Diversity
2 Brothers
Charged with
Murder of
Local Teen
Julia Mines executive director of The Miracles Club (photo by Mark Washington)
Miracle Club’s Galato Resumes
After 2-Year Covid Delay
Director shares her
own recovery story
By Beverly Corbell
At the lowest point of her life, Julia
Mines was sent to prison for drug use.
But then she got out, went through years
of recovery programs, got sober, earned
two masters degrees, and now runs the
agency that helped her on that path.
Mines is executive director of the Mir-
acles Club, a job she has held for three
years after getting sober and going to
school and getting a masters degree in
management and leadership, and later on
another masters in social work.
“Miracles is where I had to come to be
in a clean and sober place so I wouldn’t
venture down the old streets that I used to
venture down,” she said.
Thousands of people have been helped
in the Miracles Club 25-plus years of ex-
istence, and to celebrate rebuilding many
lives, restoring families and renewing
their communities, on Dec. 10 the non-
profit will hold its annual Magic of Mira-
cles fundraiser at Crowne Plaza Portland,
1441 NE Second St. from 7 p.m. to mid-
night. Tickets are available at the Mira-
cles Club website, miracles club.org.
The event, originally planned for 2019,
was to be a 25th anniversary celebration
for Miracle’s Club, but was delayed for
two years because of the pandemic.
So this year’s gala will celebrate a
“25-year-plus” anniversary for the Mir-
acle Club, Mines said, and she invites
everyone to “come dressed to slay and
ready to play as we celebrate recovery
in PDX.”
The gala will include a raffle, plated
dinner and dancing to DJ Surrender and
more, Mines said.
“It’s just for us to get together and
show all the magic that has happened
here in the last 27 years,” she said. “A
lot of people got clean here and I don’t
have the exact number, but I’d say it’s in
the thousands.”
Tickets for the fundraiserare $100 for
a single seat or $3,000 for a table for
eight that includes “front row seating, a
‘shout-out’ at the event, their logo on the
program and website, and a gift bag and
a raffle ticket.” The single ticket includes
dinner and a raffle ticket.
Miracles Club offers a wide spectrum
of services for those trying to escape
from drug addiction, with a mission to
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17 year old Sergio Hunt (photo provided
by family)
Men face multiple
charges for 2021
hit-and-run
Two brothers have been charged in con-
nection with a shooting and hit-and-run
that left 17-year-old Sergio Hunt dead May
of last year according to the Multnomah
County District Attorney’s Office.
Keyshawn Pervish, 21, and Omarian
Pervish, 18, were arraigned on second-de-
gree murder, unauthorized use of a vehi-
cle, first-degree robbery and possession
of a stolen vehicle. Omarian was also ar-
raigned on a charge of unlawful use of a
weapon. According to the attorney’s office,
the brothers and people they knew were
in possession of a stolen Audi. The victim
was driving the vehicle when Omarian al-
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