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The Cascade Institute hosts a National
School Choice Week Policy Picnic, Jan. 30,
at noon, they say to raise awareness about
the need to empower parents with the abili-
ty to choose the best educational environ-
ments for their children. These options
include high-performing public schools,
public charter schools, magnet schools, pri-
vate schools, online learning, and home-
schooling.
Cascade Institute founder Steve Buckstein
hosts, and participants must pre-register
because space is limited. Bring your own
brown bag lunch, the Institute supplies cof-
fee and cookies.
The picnic is at the Cascade Policy Insti-
tute office at 4850 SW Scholls Ferry Rd.,
Suite 103. Call 503-242-0900.
PCC Hosts Oregon
Transfer Days around
Portland
To assist students transferring to a four-
year college or university, Portland Com-
munity College holds Oregon Transfer Days
at all of its campuses during a week in Feb-
ruary.
Oregon Transfer Days are a partnership
involving four-year universities and all of
the state’s 17 community colleges. First
launched by a coalition of admissions pro-
fessionals in 2007, the annual Oregon
Transfer Days outreach tour brings admis-
sions and recruitment professionals from
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the state’s seven public universities, private
and out-of-state colleges to the community
colleges.
Assistance is offered from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. each day, on Monday, Feb. 18 (Upper
Mall, College Center Building, Sylvania
Campus, 12000 SW 49th Ave.), Tuesday,
Feb. 19 (Mall, Building 3, Rock Creek
Campus, 17705 NW Springville Road),
Wednesday, Feb. 20 (Mt. Tabor Hall, South-
east Center, 2305 SE 82nd Ave.) and Thurs-
day, Feb. 21 (Cafeteria, Student Center,
Cascade Campus, 705 N. Killingsworth St.).
The transfer days are open to any commu-
nity college student, whether they are plan-
ning to transfer, or just starting to consider
their four-year degree opportunities.
For more information about PCC’s Ore-
gon Transfer Days, contact Kathleen
Bradach, academic advising specialist, at
971-722-4578,
or
by
e-mail
at
kbradach@pcc.edu.
Free Red Cross Class
Prepares Oregonians
for Unforeseen Disasters
The American Red Cross hosts free
monthly preparedness classes in which Ore-
gonians can learn how to get ready for
unforeseen disasters, 6-7 p.m., the last Tues-
day of every month at the Oregon Trail
Chapter, Tillamook Room, 3131 N. Vancou-
ver Ave.
Together We Prepare, a free community
education class that provides information on
how to prevent, prepare for, and respond to
disasters by making personal disaster plans,
establishing family meeting places and
addressing emergency communication
strategies. Participants learn how easy it is
to assemble a disaster kit and have the
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Barber’s Book
PHOTO BY HELEN SILVIS
The Cascade Institute
Policy Picnic
Celebrates School
Choice
Barber Franklin Whatley wondered why he had never seen a textbook for
clipper haircutting. So he decided to create his own. Now, Whatley hopes
his book, “The Art of Clipper Cutting: A Guide to Clipper Cutting
Fundamentals,” will be adopted by Cosmetology schools around the
country. Whatley, who works for the Terrell Brandon Barbershop on
Northeast Alberta Street, has just been appointed to the Oregon Board of
Cosmetology.
opportunity to ask questions related to indi-
viduals’ preparedness plans.
In 2013, classes will be held on Feb. 26,
March 26, April 30, May 28, June 25, July
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30, Aug. 27, Sept. 24, Oct. 29 and Nov. 26.
No class will be held in December.
For more information call 503-284-1234.
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P ORTLAND 2013
B ULLETIN B OARD
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in advance to The Skanner at
info@theskanner.com
Friday February 1
2013 OREGON BLACK HISTORY MONTH
CELEBRATION THEME: A WHOLE NEW WORLD.
Portland Annual Diversity Event: Education,
entertainment, youth participation, advances in
diversity and inclusion principles. Located at
Historic The Hotel Monaco, 506 SW Washington.
This is a free event for the public.
Friday – Saturday February 1 & 2
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January 30, 2013
23RD ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF ART: BUCKMAN ART
SHOW & SELL RETURNS TO SE PORTLAND. The
longtime fixture in the Portland art scene benefits
Buckman Arts Focus Elementary PTA. Children
activities and much more. Friday $5 per person
age 5 and older. 5 – 9 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 5
p.m. $2 suggested donation. Buckman Arts
Elementary School, 320 SE 16th Ave.
Sunday February 3
FREEDOM FIGHTER EXHIBIT. You are invited to
come see The Glider Lehrman Institute of
American History National Exhibit of Fredrick
Douglass. Roosevelt High School students bring
you interviews based on local Freedom Fighters
on Social Justice. 9:30 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. Mt.
Olivet located on the corner of N. Chautauqua &
N. Willis
Tuesday February 5
NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY: IHOP TO OFFER FREE
PANCAKES TO GUESTS NATIONWIDE. While
celebrating Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
30th anniversary. On this day the restaurant
chain hopes to raise $3 million as the first
national fundraising campaign to kickoff the
2013 fundraising year. 7 a.m. – 10 p.m. IHOP
Restaurants Nationwide. Donations will be greatly
accepted for this event.
Wednesday February 6
WHAT’S THE LEAST I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HEALTH
CARE REFORM? The event is free and everyone is
invited. Presentation and discussion will be at 7
p.m. at TaborSpace Community Room and
Coffeehouse, 5441 SE Belmont in the Mt. Tabor
Presbyterian Church.
Sunday February 10
CELEBRATING AFRICAN/BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
LITERATURE AS A TOOL FOR JUSTICE AND
LIBERATION. You are invited to a very interesting
and dynamic discussion about literary fiction as
a tool for justice, liberation and forward human
progress. This event is free and open to the
public. 7 – 9 p.m. Red & Black Café, 400 SE 12th
St.
FREE AT LAST? LET THE ELDERS POINT THE WAY. Delta
June R. Key Center, 5940 N. Albina Ave. 3:30 –
5:30 p.m.