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THURSDAY, JUNE 15
INFORMATIONAL MEETING ON THE FOOTBRIDGE OVER BURN-
SIDE.:Learn about the community fundraising campaign and
construction plans for an elegantly designed pedestrian bridge
to create a safe passage over the busy road along the Wildwood
Trail between Washington Park and Forest Park. Free and open
to all that are interested. 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m., World Forestry Cen-
ter, Cheatham Hall, 4033 SW Canyon Rd.
Darrell Grant Wins Emmy
SATURDAY, JUNE 17
SENIORS, DO YOU WANT TO REMAIN IN YOUR OWN HOUSE OR
A[ARTMENT AS YOU AGE?: If you want to learn more about
North Star Village, part of the nonprofit Villages NW, attend
this meeting. You’ll learn all about North Star Village, including
membership, programs, services and volunteer opportunities.
Noon – 1:30 p.m., Good Neighbor Pizza, 800 NE Dekum St.
ECOFEST: PARTYFOR THE PLANET: Ecofest, free community
event! Celebrate sustainability and environmental awareness.
This family-friendly outdoor festival at Salem’s Riverfront Park.
Festival includes, healthy food & beverages, kid’s activities, per-
formances & yoga. Lots of fun activities for the whole family. $5
suggested donation, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Riverfront Park, 200 Water
St. NE., Salem.
2017 JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION: “Education is Empowerment”.
Celebration includes: Grandma’s Best Pie Contest, Spoken Word,
Hip Hop Music, Family fun and much more! 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Clark
College, Foster Hall, 1933 Ft. Vancouver Way., Vancouver.
TASTE OF TIGARD FOOD FESTIVAL: Sip, Stroll and Savor! Come
meet the entrepreneurs who create food & beverage products
in Tigard. Then sample and share their unique offerings. This
festival is free & open to the public. You may purchase a pre-or-
dered tasting passport for $15 which entitles visitors to a sam-
ple from every vendor. 11 a.m. – 7 p.m., Tigard Heritage Street
Trail, 12345 SW Main St., Tigard.
Oregon Public Broadcasting received 13 Emmy Awards from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences, which took place on June 3 in Seattle. Among the winners was Portland-based jazz pianist Darrell Grant, who won Best
Musical Composition/Arrangement for Oregon Experience - ’Jazz Town:’ Portland’s Golden Jazz Age. Grant has released eight albums as
a bandleader, along with numerous recordings as a sideman, and continues to be both an educator and leader in the arts. As a tenured
professor of jazz studies and the associate director of the School of Music at Portland State University, Grant is also the founding
director of the Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute.
Portland News Briefs
Community Organizations Hold
Bystander Training
In the wake of the May 26 stabbings of three men
who came to the aid of two young Black girls on a
MAX train in Portland, several community organiza-
tions are holding workshops to train participants in
bystander intervention and de-escalation.
The Skanner has learned of two upcoming events.
June 17 Bystander Intervention Training at Oregon
Peace Institute
The Oregon Peace Institute, in collaboration with
Students United for Nonviolence will lead a three-
hour introductory bystander intervention training
to help community members address potential vio-
lence in public spaces. The event will take place from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 17 at the Oregon Peace Institute,
3315 N Russet St. in Portland.
Trainers will teach participants how to de-escalate
situations using proven methods that give support to
individuals who are being targeted by hate, oppres-
sion, and even violence.
If you do not know what to do when you see others
being targeted, or you are being targeted yourself,
this will be a great opportunity to learn strategies
and share ideas.
For more information, email oregon.peace.insti-
tute@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/
oregonpeace/.
MONDAY, JUNE 19
FAMILY GAME DAY: Play with our “Giant Game Sets” including
big chess, connect four and tic tac toe. Add to the fun and bring
your swimsuit to play in the Teacher’s Fountain! 1:30 p.m. – 3:30
p.m., Director Park, Downtown Portland.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21
CAREER FAIR! Please join us at the Hilton Portland and Execu-
tive Tower for this Career Fair. Please bring 10 to 15 resumes,
dress business professional, This is a free event for job seekers.
Parking across the street Tower $5-$6. 9 a.m. – noon, Portland
Hilton and Executive Tower, 521 SW Sixth Ave.
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 23 – 25
June 25 Bystander Intervention Training at Living
Room Realty
Living Room Realty will host a bystander interven-
tion workshop facilitated by Teressa Raiford of Don’t
Shoot Portland from 2 to 5 p.m. June 25 at 1401 NE Al-
berta.
The goal of this workshop is to learn how to be an
ally when encountering threats to others, and how
to reduce danger for the most vulnerable while
keeping ourselves and others safe. Organizers are
asking for a suggested $5 to $20 sliding scale dona-
tion to benefit Don’t Shoot Portland, with no one
being turned away for lack of funds. Space is limit-
ed to 70 people. Please RSVP at www.facebook.com/
events/1986912874871316.
25TH ANNUAL GOOD IN THE HOOD MULTICULTURAL MUSIC, ARTS
& FOOD FESTIVAL: The GITH music and food festival is the largest
multi-cultural festival in the Pacific Northwest. This three-day
festival opens with a community parade that travels through
NE Portland and ends at Lillis – Albina Park, N. Flint St. & N.
Russell St. 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
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school through Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. the parade ends at
Lillis – Albina Park. 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
THE NAACP PORTLAND BRANCE INVITES THE COMMUNITY TO ITS
MONTHLY GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING: President Jo Ann
Hardesty and executive leadership will provide update on cur-
rent and future initiatives. Noon – 2 p.m. New location: Concor-
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SERIES”! Art, exhibit, theatre and community dialogue.
Explored impact and solutions to youth and gun vio-
lence. This is a free event and no reservations are re-
quired. Simply attend and participate if you’d like! 4 p.m.
– 8 p.m. Concordia University, Hagen Campus Center, NE
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27th & Holman St.
The Vancouver Avenue First
Baptist Church is pleased to
announce its Capital Campaign
Improvement Project to reno-
vate its lower level spaces of their
Historic Church site listed on the National Register of
Historic Places. Through this endeavor, the church
is committed to fostering community livability and
greater communal participation among its neigh-
bors, by connecting cultural engagements, along
with providing adequate spaces for educational pro-
grams for youth, and social service programs offered
by the church.
On June 7, Prosper Portland awarded the renovation
project $62,500 through its Livability Grant Program
to support the capital improvements; other grant op-
portunities are being sourced to support the project.
This vibrant venture includes a major renovation of
the Public Assembly Fellowship Hall; once finished,
the hall will be one of the largest venue spaces avail-
able in the heart of North Portland community for
rental for weddings, receptions, company gatherings
or meetings, bar/bat mitzvahs, workshops, rehears-
als, or community performances. A community con-
ference hall will also be designed and made available
to community groups and small non-profits looking
for a meeting place.
Other property improvements include the en-
hancements of an enlarged commercial grade kitch-
en area, the redevelopment of the public entrances,
Two ADA Restrooms, the installation of two educa-
tional classrooms designated for the afterschool iUr-
ban Teen Program, and the installation of the first
Portland permanent exhibition hall that features the
history of African Americans in Portland and the
Albina area; a 900-square foot museum that seeks to
highlight, and bring to understanding American his-
tory through the lens of the local African American
experience. The museum will become a popular edu-
cational spot for local school field trips, and tourists
visiting Portland.
The renovation project has many community sup-
porters that include Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Or-
egon Black Pioneers, Travel Portland, New Seasons
Market, Portland Public Schools, Portland Parks Bu-
reau, The LINKS, Inc, the World Arts Foundation,
Inc., Avalon Flowers, Vanport Mosaic Project, Del-
ta Sigma Theta Sorority, Portland State University
Black Studies Department and many others.
Seattle News Briefs
Department of Financial Institutions
Warns Public of Property Buying
Scam
The Washington State Department of Financial
Institutions (DFI) urges consumers verify that any
escrow agent they do business with is authorized to
do business as an escrow agent. DFI received a re-
port that a Washington State consumer lost more
than $30,000 in a scam involving a fake escrow agent.
See Briefs on page 5
