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Mid-County legislators’ tackle funding problems in Salem
Sun and Mun rise together in Menlo Park
Budget cuts hit Mid-County services and people hardest
Gateway leaders wrestle with housing goals, strategies
Fun O Rama
Mid-County scholarship program gives local women a chance to earn and learn
Senator Frank Shields Introduces Bill to Use Gas Tax Revenue to Fund Schools
Mid-County’s state Senator Avel Gordly tours mobile classroom
Now is the time to think about lawns

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Submissions for each month are due by the 15th of the previous month. Please have submissions for April in by Monday, March 17. We prefer e-mailed submissions sent to Dawn Widler, Department Editor at editor@midcountymemo.com. You may also mail complete information to 4052 N.E. 22nd Ave., Portland, OR, 97212-1503, phone 503-287-8904 or fax 503-249-7672.

Help Snow-CAP support our community
Snow-CAP, a Community Action Program, benefits many people in our area. This is made possible by the local volunteers who donate their time or money to help support those less fortunate in the community. One much-needed service provided by Snow-CAP is a food delivery program for low-income seniors called Food 2 You.

Volunteers are needed to help deliver these much-needed meals to 60 local seniors. Volunteers need to have their own car and be able to lift 25 pounds. This is a once a month obligation and can be done on the way home from work. For more information, please call Judy Alley at 503-674-8785.

Snow-CAP runs several food and clothing programs for low-income residents of the Mid-County area. These programs have served over 4,000 different families in the last year. This translates to over 65,000 visits for various services. These programs include distribution of food boxes, produce distribution on Tuesdays, a co-op-type program called Community Basket, and a community garden, as well as many more.

Activities for seniors
The East Portland Community Center offers the Cherry Blossom Senior Program to help keep seniors fit and having fun. Looking for new friends, new activities or a way to become part of the community? The senior program at East Portland Community Center might be the answer. Jointly sponsored by Loaves and Fishes, Multnomah County Aging Services, and Portland Parks and Recreation, this program offers daily and weekly activities, as well as van trips and special events. Check out their program. The East Portland Community Center is located at 740 S.E. 106th Ave. For more information or complete class listings call the East Portland Community Center at 503-823-3450.

Citizens in the lead
Do you have ideas that would benefit Portland’s water system, but don’t know how to get the money to them into action? Now is the time for citizens to step forward.

The Community Watershed Stewardship Program, a partnership between City of Portland’s Environmental Services, Portland State University and the Northwest Service Academy, has grant funding available of up to $5,000 per project for citizen-initiated watershed enhancement projects located in the City of Portland.

Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 9. Application materials and information can be found online at http://www.cleanrivers-pdx.org/get_ involved/stewardship.htm. To request that an application be mailed to you or more information, please call Amber Marra, Grant Coordinator at 503-823-5740 or email amberm@bes.ci.portland.or.us.

Trees are coming!
Over 50 neighbors in Wilkes, Parkrose and Parkrose Heights have ordered trees from Friends of Trees, with funding assistance from the Bureau of Environmental Services.

The Boy Scouts from Troop 606 will be lending their hands on planting day, and volunteers are needed to make the day a success. Especially needed are drivers with pickup trucks to help haul the trees and mulch to their new homes. Helpers are also needed at Tree Central (Our Savior Lutheran Church, N.E. 112th Avenue and N.E. Skidmore Street) to serve refreshments and coordinate our crews. Crews will gather at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 12 and can plan on about three hours of work.

To celebrate growing the new urban tree canopy the group will meet at Tree Central at the end of the planting for more food and thanks.

To volunteer or to find out about getting a tree planting going in your neighborhood, call the appropriate person: For Parkrose and Parkrose Heights, please call Christine Czarnecka or Kellen Hull 503-256-2330 x26. For Wilkes neighborhood, please call Alice Blatt at 503-253-6247.

Shaver Elementary is an example of success
Shaver Elementary School’s Principal, Tom Klansnic, is part of a Leadership Roundtable group that meets to seek new ideas in raising student achievement at the third grade level. The group focuses on “all third graders meeting the CIM benchmark”. This group is composed of educators in the community and several people from the mayor’s office. There are twenty schools from East County, including Shaver and Prescott Elementary schools. Directors of Education from all the Universities in the City of Portland were invited to the last meeting, focusing on obstacles and successes in our schools.

A presentation was made by the leaders of the group showing schools that were considered very successful. Shaver Elementary school was one of the few selected as an example of a successful school.
It is not a fluke that children have continuously done well at Shaver Elementary the last four years. The standards have been raised by a combination of purposeful and meaningful curriculum and teachers and staff members that are highly motivated and trained to organize and teach.

Shaver Elementary thanks parents for their support, because this couldn’t happen without the partnership of home and school.

For more information about Shaver Elementary, please call the school at 503-408-2850.

Is your house safe?
Lead poisoning can have devastating effects on young children. Lead poisoning can cause permanent health problems such as learning disabilities and brain damage. Help protect your child. If you live in an older home with old, lead-based paint or other materials, your child may be in danger. If you have a child 6 years old or younger and live in a home that you own built before 1978, you may be eligible for a free lead assessment check from the City of Portland. Assistance is also available to reduce exposure to harmful lead paint and dust that can cause lead poisoning in young children.

Once a free risk assessment has identified lead hazards in the home, a lead hazard reduction grant of up to $10,000 may be offered to eligible households.

Parents interested in a free risk assessment or concerned about lead poisoning prevention should call the LeadLine at 503-988-4000.

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