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Page 4 The Skanner July 6, 2016 News Events & Announcements Community Calendar 2016 brought to you by Portland Metro THURSDAY, JULY 7 FAMILY FUN NIGHT AT PLAYLIVE NATION: Grab the family and en- joy a night of gaming at the lounge. PlayLive Nation Dream Big Community Center is providing the community with a family friendly event. 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., 8700 NE Vancouver Mall Dr. #278, Vancouver. NU SHOOZ – RIVERVIEW SIX TO SUNSET CONCERT: Bring a lawn chair or blanket and your dinner or purchase food from local vendors in the park. Kick of the summer concert series with Portland’s very own Nu Shooz. Free, fun, family – friendly. 6 p.m., Esther Short Park, W 8th St. & Columbia St., Vancouver. ADDICTED TO HEROINES COMEDY SHOW: The show features hilar- ious clever standup, wonderful music, nerdy monologue jokes and thoughtful, funny interviews. There will be awesome prizes too. Free. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Show starts at 8 p.m. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E. Burnside St. PHOTO COURTESY OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY Visit us at a store near you SummerWorks On July 1, a large group of young people ages 16 to 24 gathered at the Oregon Historical Society in southwest Portland to celebrate the annual SummerWorks kickof event. One thousand teens and young adults will be employed through the program, which ofers work readiness training for all youth participants and pays all the costs associated with screening and matching youth to job sites, job coaching throughout the work experience and employer-of-record services. This Multnomah County’s sixth year partnering with Worksystems, the city of Portland and several other organizations to make SummerWorks possible. The program pays for the wages of its young participants, 93 percent of whom are low-income; 76 percent are youth of color. FRIDAY, JULY 8 JOB & COLLEGE FAIR: 4 p.m. – 6 p.m., Highland Christian Church, 7600 NE Glisan St. Portland News Briefs SATURDAY, JULY 9 Portland to Celebrate Refugee Communities July 8 15TH ANNUAL MISSISSIPPI STREET FAIR: 200+ local vendors & crafts, over 40 bands, open air gallery, dunk tank, shops, beer & wine gardens, food carts and much more. 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., Free admission, family-friendly. Mississippi Ave between Fremont St. and Skidmore St. COMMUNITY COOKOUT AT KING SCHOOL PARK: : NE Portland will stand together to make the neighborhood a safe and friendly place. The event is free, open to the public and will bring to- gether NE Portland neighbors for family- friendly activities. The day will include face painting, clowns, musical performances, water games and so much more. 4 p.m. – 7 p.m., King School Park, 4906 NE 6th Ave. MET 2016 SUMMER PICNIC NEIGHBOR APPRECIATION, AND EID PARTY: The Muslim Educational Trust Family would like to invite you to join us for hours of fun at MET’s 2016 Summer Picnic. The summer picnic features lunch, a dunk tank, jump house, henna, face painting and more. Lunch and some activities are for a charge. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., MET Community Center, 10330 SW Scholls Ferry Rd., Tigard. SISTERS NETWORK OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON CHAPTER MONTHLY MEETING: The meeting will be at 10 a.m. at the June Key Delta Center, 5940 N. Albina St. SATURDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 9 – 10 WILLAMETTE VALLEY LAVENFER FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THE CHE- HALEM CULTURAL CENTER: The inest celebration of lavender and art. The festival ofers stellar music and other activities for your entertainment. 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday. Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E. Sheridan St., Newberg. THURSDAY, JULY 14 PETTY FEVER – RIVERVIEW SIX TO SUNSET CONCERT SERIES: Named Tribute Band of the Year two years in a row, Petty Fever provides a stunning salute to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Bring your blankets and lawn chairs enjoy food from local ven- dors or bring your own. 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Esther Short Park, W 8th St. & Columbia St., Vancouver. FRIDAY – SATURDAY, JULY 15 – 16 6TH ANNUAL OREGON BERRY FESTIVAL: The Oregon Berry Fes- tival ofers an array of delicious bites and fun! Including two days of an All-Berry Market Place, musical entertainment, cook- ing demos and so much more. Admission is free! Friday noon – 6 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Ecotrust, NW 10th Ave. & NW Johnson St. FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JULY 15 – 17 6TH ANNUAL SALEM ART FAIR & FESTIVAL: Over the course of See Community Calendar on page 5 The annual Portland Refugee Celebration Day will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. July 8 at the East Portland Community Center, 740 SE 106th Ave. Portland’s own celebration of World Refugee Day, this event honors the cultures, stories and histories of Portland’s di- verse refugee communities. Last year Oregon welcomed 1,357 refugees, most coming from Cuba, Burma, Somalia and Iraq. With the crisis in Syria and Europe, those numbers will certainly go up this year, as more refugees make Ore- gon their new home. The event is organized and sponsored with the collaboration of the Oregon Department of Human Services, Portland Parks and Recreation, Sponsors Organized to Assist Refugees, Lutheran Community Services Northwest, Immigrant & Refugee Commu- nity Organization (IRCO), Catholic Charities, Oregon Bhutanese Community Organization, Burmese Com- munity Organization, Iraqi Society of Oregon, City of Portland, and many other ethnic associations who are volunteering and contributing their time. Oice of Neighborhood Involvement Crime Prevention Program The Portland Police Bureau encourages neighbors to host a National Night Out party in your neighbor- hood to get acquainted with neighbors and reinforce existing relationships. A party can be as simple as in- viting neighbors to bring over a chair and a potluck dish and sit in the front yard. It may be a more elabo- rate one with a street closure, organized activities or an event in a park. To make your Portland party oicial, you will need to register with the City at portlandoregon.gov/oni/ nno. The beneits of registration include the ability to request police or ire ighters to attend your event, noise variances, party ideas and more. Although it is beneicial for safety oicials to meet neighbors at this event, there are no guarantees that police and ire will be able to attend all registered parties despite their best eforts to do so. National Night Out Details: NNO Date: Tuesday, Aug. 2 Registration: www.portlandoregon.gov/oni/nno Registration Dates: June 7-July 19. Find a party in your neighborhood: Toward the end of July, ind an event near you at www.portlandore- gon.gov/oni/nno The irst National Night Out (NNO) event, organized decades ago, had a simple premise. Neighbors would sit on their porches and turn on their porch lights because crime was less likely to happen on a street where neighbors were out, connected and observant. NNO has become an annual event celebrated across the country on the irst Tuesday in August. On this day, neighbors host and attend small block parties or neighborhood events to strengthen their relation- ships with one another in the spirit of creating safer neighborhoods. City Seeks Volunteers for Street Tree Inventory Project Through the Tree Inventory Project, Urban Forest- ry is helping Portlanders take action to improve their community’s street trees, one neighborhood at a time. The Tree Inventory Project began with a pilot neigh- borhood street tree inventory in 2010. Since then, the project has grown in leaps and bounds, and many neighborhoods have partnered with Urban Forestry to inventory street trees and create action-oriented neighborhood tree management plans. To date, vol- unteers have identiied, measured, and mapped more than 150,000 street trees. Active neighborhood groups interested in trees be- gin by gathering volunteers to help conduct a street tree inventory. Volunteers are guided by Urban For- estry staf, who provide training, tools, and event or- ganization. Together, information is collected on tree species, size, health, site conditions, and available planting spaces. Data are analyzed by Urban Forest- ry staf, and indings are presented to neighborhood stakeholders at an annual Tree Summit at the end of the season in November. At the summit, neighbor- hood groups begin developing tree plans: They form a working neighborhood tree group and set achiev- able strategies to improve existing trees, expand tree canopy, and connect the neighborhood with city and nonproit resources. The resulting Neighborhood Tree Plan is based on the current status and health of neighborhood street trees and provides recommen- dations for speciic neighborhood actions to improve canopy. In the past, neighborhood groups have orga- nized pruning workshops, secured funding to widen small planting strips, and planted street trees. To register to volunteer or get more information, visit https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/53181. Seattle News Briefs LANGSTON Launches to Strengthen Black Arts and Culture in Seattle The Seattle Oice of Arts & Culture is pleased to announce the founding of LANGSTON, an indepen- dent non-proit arts organization based in the heart of Seattle’s Central Area. LANGSTON’s mission is to strengthen and advance community through Black See Briefs on page 5
