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Mandarin storytime
Jan 19, 3-3:30pm, Woodstock Library (6008 SE 49th Ave,
Portland). Enjoy a storytime presented in Mandarin Chinese and
English. The free readings are for children three to seven years
old with an accompanying adult. For info, call (503) 988-5399 or
visit <events.multcolib.org>.
GARDENER
Oregon Zoo
$19.31 - $24.62 hourly. Deadline: 01/17/2014.
A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra
Jan 19, 4pm, First Unitarian Church (1011 SW 12th Ave,
Portland). Attend a concert featuring Boston’s A Far Cry
Chamber Orchestra, a collective of 17 young professional
musicians committed to expanding the boundaries of the
orchestral repertoire and experimenting with the way music is
prepared, performed, and experienced. To buy tickets, call (503)
224-9842 or visit <www.boxofficetickets.com>.
Please visit our website at <www.oregonmetro.
gov/jobs> for the complete job announcement and a
link to our online hiring center.
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Lunar New Year Special Issue
Jan 20. The Asian Reporter’s Lunar New Year Special Issue
will be published on Monday, January 20, 2014. The issue
features information about the Year of the Horse, horoscopes, a
complete list of upcoming events, and more. To download a copy,
visit <www.asianreporter.com> after January 20.
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Trail Blazers vs. the Rockets
Jan 20, 5pm, Comcast SportsNet. Watch Jeremy Lin and the
Houston Rockets take on the Portland Trail Blazers in the third
matchup between the two squads this season. See related story
by Mike Street, “Jeremy Lin creates harmony away from the
limelight” (AR, February 4, 2013) at <www.asianreporter.com>.
To verify broadcast time, call (503) 736-5140, e-mail <CSNNW@
csnnw.com>, or visit <www.csnnw.com>.
SOLO CONCERTO DEBUT. Concertmaster Sarah Kwak makes
her Oregon Symphony solo concerto debut January 18 and 20 at
Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. The evening features Henryk
Wieniawski’s second Violin Concerto, which the symphony has not per-
formed since 1995. (Photo courtesy of the Oregon Symphony)
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DAZZLING DUBAI DISPLAY. Fireworks erupt from the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, at midnight to celebrate the New Year, in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates. The Persian Gulf city known for glitz, glamour, and over-the-top achievements broke the Guinness World Record for largest pyro-
technics show on New Year’s Eve. The Dubai skyline was a canvas for the dazzling 30-minute show. The display capped off with six minutes of fireworks
that engulfed the city’s manmade, palm-shaped island, with its fronds and trunk shimmering in thousands of lights. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Celebrations in Dubai, London, Las Vegas usher in 2014
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all the people. It’s amazing.”
“TV doesn’t do this justice,” she
said. “You have to be here to believe
it.”
Marcus Ix, 34, visiting from
Germany, gave his wife, Sabrina, a
big kiss when the ball dropped and
confetti rained down.
“This is the best New Year’s Eve of
my life,” he said as the crowd erupted
with cheers and cries of “Happy New
Year!” “It was worth the 13 hour wait
in the cold.”
The annual New York celebration,
which this year featured perfor-
mances from artists such as Miley
Cyrus, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis,
and Blondie, has become part
endurance sport because post-9/11
security measures force spectators
into pens at least 12 hours in
advance, with no food, warmth, or
bathrooms.
“We’ve got adult diapers. We’re
wearing them right now,” said
14-year-old Amber Woods, who came
with friends from the New York City
suburbs to experience the event for
the first time. They entered their
corral at 10:00am Tuesday. For
nourishment, they brought lollipops
and popcorn. For the cold, they did a
lot of jumping in place.
“Every time I say, it’s the last. But
then I come back,” said Yasmina
Merrir, a 42-year-old Washington,
D.C. resident attending her fourth
Times Square ball drop. In 2009,
the cold was so bad, she got
hypothermia. Her legs swelled up like
balloons.
Merrir was fasting and not
drinking anything to deal with the
lack of restrooms. As for the cold, she
recommended vigorous dancing for as
long as you can stand on your feet.
“At a point,” she said, “your brain is
not working anymore.”
Las Vegas held one of its biggest
ever New Year’s Eve celebrations,
with sold-out concerts and an eight-
minute long fireworks show that was
billed as the largest in the country.
The Minus5 Ice Bar Mandalay Bay
started handing out free champagne
for hourly toasts at 11:00am. Tourists
were seen toting novelty drinks into
casinos by noon.
Big-ticket musical acts Bruno
Mars, John Legend, and Maroon 5
helped lure 335,000 visitors to Las
Vegas by nightfall on Tuesday —
5,000 more than last year, tourism
officials said.
On the other side of the Atlantic,
London welcomed 2014 with a mix-
ture of futuristic fireworks and torch-
lit tradition. The city’s mayor said
this year’s explosive display came
packed with peach-flavored snow,
edible banana confetti, and orange-
scented bubbles. The evening also
included scratch-and-sniff programs,
LED wristbands, and fruit-flavored
sweets.
In Russia, where two suicide
bombings in two days killed 34
people, eerily empty busses lumbered
through the streets of Volgograd,
where authorities cancelled mass
events for New Year’s Eve and asked
residents not to set off fireworks.
President Vladimir Putin, in his
New Year’s Eve address to the nation,
vowed that the fight against
terrorists will continue “until their
destruction is complete,” Russian
news agencies reported.
In Dubai, a Persian Gulf city
known for glitz, glamour, and
over-the-top achievements like the
world’s tallest skyscraper, officials
broke the Guinness World Record for
largest pyrotechnics show on New
Year’s Eve.
The Dubai skyline was a canvas for
a dazzling 30-minute show. The
display capped off with six minutes of
fireworks that engulfed the city’s
manmade, palm-shaped island, with
its fronds and trunk shimmering in
thousands of lights.
More than 260 people were injured
by firecracker blasts and celebratory
gunfire in the Philippines, a nation
marking the end of a year of tragic
disasters, including a November 8
typhoon that left more than 6,100
dead and nearly 1,800 missing.
“Many here are welcoming the new
year after losing their mothers,
fathers, siblings, and children, so you
can imagine how it feels,” said village
chief Maria Rosario Bactol of the
Anibong community in Tacloban, the
city worst hit by Typhoon Haiyan
(also known as Typhoon Yolanda). “I
tell them to face the reality, to move
on and stand up, but I know it will
never be easy.”
Associated Press writers Aya Batrawy in
Dubai, the United Arab Emirates; Rod
McGuirk in Canberra, Australia; Jim Gomez in
Manila, the Philippines; Kelvin Chan in Hong
Kong; Ali Kotarumalos in Jakarta, Indonesia;
Ken Moritsugu, Yuri Kageyama, and Eric
Talmadge in Tokyo; Louise Watt in Beijing;
Hannah Dreier in Las Vegas; and Colleen Long
in New York City contributed to this report.
Oregon-based General Contractor looking for
equipment operators, laborers, pipe layers,
carpenters, truck drivers to work on prevailing wage
projects. Training program available. EOE, women
and minorities encouraged to apply. Fax résumé to
(503) 623-9117, e-mail <ads@jwfowler.com>, or
applications available at <www.jwfowler.com>.
PROGRAM OFFICER
Affordable Housing Initiative
Meyer Memorial Trust is seeking a Program Officer
to lead the implementation of our Affordable Housing
Initiative. We are looking for a strategic systems-
thinker who is skilled at working collaboratively to
tackle complex issues and who gets excited about
exploring innovative solutions to stubborn
challenges. MMT staff must be able to work as part of
a diverse and collaborative team in a mission-driven
and high performance environment. Meyer Memorial
Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to
diversity. Competitive salary and benefits package.
See position description and application instructions
at <www.mmt.org/work-with-us> and learn more
about MMT’s work at <www.mmt.org>. No phone
calls, please. Review of applications begins January
6, 2014, and the application period closes January
14, 2014.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Working Title: Associate Director,
Alumni and Parent Programs
Position Class: Staff
Department: IA Alumni and Parent Programs
Job Summary: To create and strengthen lifelong
connections and goodwill between students, alumni,
parents and the College, within reunion classes and
geographic areas, and within the greater alumni and
College community, by planning and organizing
meaningful events, programs, and reunions and
managing volunteer networks. Expected to engage in
daily contact with a wide range of constituencies of
the College. Expected to collaborate effectively and
extensively within Institutional Advancement and
Public Affairs and Communications, with the
President’s and Dean’s offices, Student Life,
Athletics, Admissions, and academic departments.
Lewis & Clark College will conduct background
checks on the finalist(s). Lewis & Clark College is an
equal opportunity employer.
To apply to this position, please go here:
<https://jobs.lclark.edu/postings/4117>.