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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.
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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