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Oregon Commission on Black Affairs will
meet 9am – noon Saturday, Aug. 16th, at
Portland Community College Cascade
Campus, Terrell Hall, Room 112, 705 N.
Killingsworth St. Portland.
Guest speakers will include:
• Nora Meier, OCBA Intern, will report on
research in minority advancement in
Apprenticeship to Journeyman.
• Jeri Williams, community leader, will
speak on sex trafficking prevention.
• Antoinette Edwards, City of Portland
Director of Youth Violence Prevention,
will speak on the Black Male Achieve-
ment Initiative.
Find out more at www.oregon.gov/ocba.
Free Child Safety Seat
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Portland Parks &
Recreation Offers Pools,
Park Fountains, Splash
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The Beaverton Police Department in a
partnership with Safe Kids Washington
County conducts a free child car seat clinic
on Saturday, Aug. 16, at Kuni Collision
Center located at 3725 SW Cedar Hills
Blvd, Beaverton, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
This clinic is designed to teach parents
and caregivers how to properly install and
use a child safety seat. A properly installed
and used child safety seat will greatly
decrease the chance of your child sustaining
a serious or life threatening injury during a
motor vehicle crash.
A certified technician will help parents
and caregivers learn to install and use their
child safety restraints properly. No appoint-
ment is required just drop by during the
event. Each car seat check will take about
30 minutes.
Hughes Memorial uMC
and Bright Star
Ministries host
Community unity Jam
2: Stop the Killing, from
noon to 5 p.m. in the
parking lot of the
Hughes memorial uMC
at 111 NE Failing St.
Legendary music DJ
J.W. Friday serves as
emcee, with a clothes
closet, free haircuts for
kids from Hands of
Favor (above), free
hotdogs, doll-making
and other art activities.
For more information
call Hughes Memorial
at 503-281-2332 or
Bright Star Ministries at
503-208-1867.
The Trailblazers Boys and Girls Club
holds Back to School Family Day for fami-
lies who are already enrolled in the BGC,
this Friday, Aug. 15, 1-4 p.m. 5250 NE.
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The event features music, food, entertain-
ment, with a taco cart and prizes for
families. Parents can register their child for
the 2014-2015 school year.
There’ll be a back pack and school supply
give away and teens vs staff basketball
game in the gym.
For more information call 503-282-8480,
or e-mail bfrontdesk@bgcportland.org.
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PP&R has seven outdoor and six indoor
pools, a great way to cool off as the mercury
moves to miserable levels. Our pools offer
open play swims, water exercise classes,
junior lifeguard training, junior swim
instructor training, summer swim teams,
and more!
Park fountains are enjoyable ways to keep
cool. For a list of the ones labeled as “inter-
active” – they allow wading, splashing and
play: www.portlandoregon.gov/parks
Portland Parks & Recreation’s splash pads
around the city are open to help you stay
cool! Splash away through the end of Sep-
tember, hours are 11 am to 9pm.
Splash pads can be found at the following
PP&R parks: Columbia Park - North Lom-
bard & Woolsey; Essex Park - SE 79th &
Center; Earl Boyles Park - SE 112th &
Boise; Elizabeth Caruthers Park - 3508 SW
Moody; Farragut Park - North Kerby & Far-
ragut; Grant Park - NE 33rd & US Grant
Place; Kenton Park - 8417 North Brandon;
McCoy Park- North Trenton & Newman;
Northgate Park - North Geneva & Fes-
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senden; Peninsula Park - 700 North Rosa
Parks Way; Pier Park - North Lombard &
Bruce; Raymond Park- SE 188th & Ray-
mond; Stark Street Island - SE 106th &
Stark.
For more information go to www.port-
landoregon.gov/parks.
Sensational Summer Fruit
Celebration
The Annual Hood River County Sensa-
tional Summer Fruit Celebration is
Saturday and Sunday, August 15-17, at
Packer Orchards & Bakery (and throughout
the Hood River Fruit Loop, 3900 Highway
35, Hood River.
Packer’s will be offering fresh Graven-
stein apples, peaches, and berries. Visitors
will also find peach milkshakes and
smoothies, fresh pies and empanadas, a cou-
ple dozen varieties of cookies, jams and
pepper jellies, pickled veggies, ice cream,
nuts, gifts, and so much more.
For more information call 541-234-4481.
City Of Portland Seeks
Volunteers for 311 Focus
Groups
The City of Portland has contracted with
Spencer Stern Consulting to assess the
potential for development and possible
implementation of a more centralized Cus-
tomer Relationship Management system
and 311 Call Center.
Volunteers are sought to give feedback on
how community members currently use
City services, how they feel about their cur-
rent experiences, and their opinions on the
potential of a 311 system for the City of
Portland. To gather this type of information,
we are asking for community volunteers to
participate in a 2-hour focus group session
with our 311 Assessment Project Team.
If you are interested in volunteering to
participate in any of these focus groups,
please contact 311 Project Manager Laura
Wolfe by Monday Aug. 18 with your pre-
ferred
session.
Write
or
call
laura.wolfe@portlandoregon.gov, 503-823-
4762.
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Vancouver.
Saturday August 16
GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD FESTIVAL. Workshops,
backyard habitat certification, bamboo splitting,
kids tree planting, music, and much more. 11
a.m. – 5 p.m. on N. Kerby Ave. next to Peninsula
Park.
Sunday August 17
If you have an event you want to share
with the community, email it two weeks
in advance to The Skanner at
info@theskanner.com
2ND ANNuAL COMMuNITY PLAY DAY! There will be
lots of fun activities for families: Live music, food
vendors, face painting, sports activities and
much more. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Arbor Lodge Park,
6825 N. Delaware Ave.
Thursday August 21
Thursday August 7
Friday – Sunday August 15 -17
HOOPS ON THE RIVER. 2014 Hoops on the River 3
– on – 3 Tournament. After a one year hiatus the
event will return bigger and bolder. This event
starts Friday at 3 p.m. and runs through Sunday
at 4 p.m. Esther Short Park, 605 Esther St.
SAY HEY! This multicultural event provides a great
opportunity to enjoy an evening of meeting new
friends and learning about what makes our
community a great place to live and work.
Everyone is welcome to attend. 5:30 – 8 p.m. 2
World Trade Center Plaza.
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COWABuNGA CHENISTRY AT BELMONT LIBRARY.
Students perform amazing chemical reactions as
they measure and mix ingredients and discover
substances with strange and surprising properties.
3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Belmont Public Library, 1038
SE Cesar Chavez Blvd.
Saturday August 23
1ST ANNuAL EAST PORTLAND HOuSING AND
RESOuRCE FESTIVAL. A family fun festival: Activities
include market/information vendors, free
giveaways, food court, live music and much
more. Noon – 8 p.m. Lents Park, SE 92nd &
Holgate Streets.
PIRATE AND PRINCESS PARTY AT LLOYD CENTER.
Radio Disney and Lloyd Center are hosting a
Sofia the First and Jake the Pirate themed party.
Enjoy music, crafts, games and much more. 11
a.m. Lloyd Center Shopping Center, 2201 Lloyd
Center.