Posted online, here’s a recap of the February 2012 edition of the Mid-county Memo ….

Tom West, girls varsity basketball coach at Portland Christian for 30 years, was named Oregon’s 2010-2011 National Federation of State High School Associations Coach of the Year.

Former Portland Christian girls varsity coach Tom West, center, holding plaque, was named 2011 National Federation of State High School Associations Coach of the Year. West quit coaching after 30 years at the school. He won three state titles, including a 29-0, undefeated record in 2007.

Art students at Portland Christian Schools will offer their works for sale at the Portland Christian Art Show on Saturday, Jan. 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the secondary campus in east Portland; 12425 N.E. San Rafael St.

Attendees will be able to bid on auction items as well while shopping for original art.

Kento Sato, a Portland Christian sophomore, will display this untitled work at the PC Art show on Saturday, Jan. 14. COURTESY AUBREY PARK, PORTLAND CHRISTIAN ART TEACHER

The $2 admission fee includes light refreshments. Additional fare will be available for purchase. Children six and under are free.

To meet the emergency needs of homeless families in the community this winter, 60 shelter beds were opened for homeless families with children in November by the Family Shelter-to-Housing Partnership, a group of faith-based and non-profit agencies. However, before November was over, the Homeless Family Winter Shelter exceeded its 60-person capacity.

On any night this winter, dozens of homeless families spend the night at Eastminster Presbyterian Church in east Portland. Dozens of kids fill the hallways including, from left, nine-year-old Marley McFallo, five-year-old Daniel, and his seven-year-old brother Elisha Smith, six-year-old Jeremiah Moreno and eight-year-old Dante McFallo. The Human Solutions run shelter needs volunteer overnight hosts. Mid-county Memo photos/Tim Curran

Carolyn Johansen feels she and her husband Jan were designed by God to help other people. For years, while running a small business and raising two sons in the Wilkes neighborhood of outer east Portland, they talked about how they could do just that.

To pursue their dream of helping people look and feel better, when their two adult sons took over the day-today operations of the family business — a measurement testing and calibration company — they opened A Better You, a holistic health spa in Gateway. “This is my second vocation,” said Jan. “I’m still in the National Guard. I’m in the Army band; I do all the programming for both companies. I’m a techno-geek.”

Glisan Commons, a collaborative development by three non-profits planned for Northeast Glisan Street at 99th Avenue, had a Design Advisory — an informal discussion prior to a formal application — with the Portland Design Commission last month. The Commission called for some changes, but generally gave both the project and its design high marks.

The Glisan Commons is a new building slated to occupy the corner of Northeast Glisan at 99th Avenue.

The project is a joint venture by Human Solutions, which provides affordable housing and social services primarily in east Portland; Ride Connection, a transit services provider for the elderly and disabled throughout the city; and REACH Community Development, the city’s largest non-profit, low-income housing provider.

Gateway Elks Lodge selects a teenager from our community each month during the school year to receive Teenager of the Month honors. The winner of this award is chosen from applications from local high school teenagers who strive to make a difference in their school and community. At the end of the school year Gateway Elks Lodge will recognize one of the monthly winners as Teenager of the Year.

Vanessa Harris, Gateway Elks Teenager of the Month. COURTESY SONNY SAECHAO

Keith Alan Bones, 64, a barber at PJ’s II Styling Salon in Gateway for over 37 years, died in his sleep on Oct. 6. He was born in Tillamook on Feb. 21, 1947, the first child of Raymond and Clarice Bones.

He attended Nestucca High School and after graduation, he attended Oregon Institute of Technology for a year.

Keith Alan Bones 1947–2011

Bones enlisted in the Navy in 1966 and served on the aircraft carrier Iwo Jima for four years as an electronics technician. He married Jan Fuehrer in 1968. In seven years of marriage, they had two daughters, Heather and Andrea.

It was not just Parkrose celebrating a birthday last month. The Gateway Center for Domestic Violence Services marked a year of operations at East Burnside Street and 102nd Avenue.

In a report to the Multnomah County Commission last month, Executive Director Martha Strawn Morris reported that more than 2,000 adults and 750 children had paid 7,000 visits to the facility.

One of its main offerings is enabling domestic violence victims to obtain restraining orders against abusers, and last year visitors obtained 557 such orders, nearly a quarter of all obtained in the county. This represented 90 percent of those who sought such orders at the center, as compared to 85 percent at the downtown county courthouse.

Parkview Christian Retirement Community holds its annual Craft Fair, Friday Oct. 28 and Saturday Oct. 29, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Parkview Christian Retirement Community, 1825 N.E. 108th Ave. in Gateway.

Parkview Christian Retirement Community holds its annual craft fair Friday and Saturday.

Many of the items are handcrafted. Residents will be showing everything from books to toys, harvest decorations to Christmas gifts, and lots of baby items.

The PCRC Garden Club will be selling plants at great prices. While browsing the vendor offerings, people attending can treat themselves to the homemade goodies that will be for sale as well.

A rummage sale in support of Eastminster Presbyterian Church’s community mission projects is set for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and 22 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Never know what you will find at a rummage sale. Eastminster Presbyterian is holding its annual rummage sale Friday and Saturday.

The deacons’ regular monthly mission includes financial support to a local chaplain, SnowCap Community Charities and the Portland Rescue Mission’s Shepherd’s Door. The church is located at 12505 N.E. Halsey St. in Gateway.