Get your Choose Local Card Our dollars do make a difference. Where you spend your hard earned money has a significant impact on your community. It can even affect your own employment. For every dollar you spend with a locally owned business seventy-percent of that dollar goes back into the local economy. When you spend a dollar at an out-of-state owned company over sixty-percent leaves the state. The more money that stays here, the better off we all are. When you show the Choose Local card you are stating that you support locally owned businesses. These businesses appreciate your support by providing you an instant benefit of reduced prices, or free upgrades, or some other offer. To find out where to get your card, click the link!
Sleep Country Foster Kids Program For 23,000 Northwest foster kids, changing homes often means getting behind in school. To help them get a good start, Sleep Country USA is collecting school supplies for local foster kids. But they can’t do it without you. Bring your gift of gift of paper, pens, crayons, pencils, rulers, dictionaries and more to Sleep Country. Call 1-888-88-SLEEP for the store nearest you. Sleep Country knows, not everyone can be a foster parent but anyone can help a foster child.
Melissa Cross in Portland September 16th
The Voice Project presents Melissa Cross and her ‘ Zen of Screaming New Breed Vocal Seminar’ in Portland, September 16th from 6:30-10pm. Learn to sing, scream and survive at the vocal event of the year with Queen of Scream, Melissa Cross and the Zen of Screaming. Hosted by Vocal Powerhouse, The Voice Project . Tickets are $69 or $89/with DVD. To purchase tickets or get more information: http://www.zenofscreamingpacificnorthwest.com or 503.284.9488.
Milwaukie High School Golf Tournament Come support Milwaukie High School's Golf Scholarship Program Tournament on October 4th, 2008. Click for more information.
UCP Walk and Roll Hundreds are expected to turn out to show their support for children with disabilities and their families on Saturday, September 13, 2008. Individuals from across Oregon and SW Washington will join together to bring awareness of children with disabilities in our community. The Vera Katz Eastside Esplanade Plaza has been selected once again for the fourth annual Walk ‘n’ Roll disability awareness event for United Cerebral Palsy of Oregon and SW Washington. For information on how to sign up for the Walk’n’Roll, visit www.walknroll2008.kintera.org
2008 Northwest Down Syndrome Association Buddy Walk
Please join us at the Buddy Walk this year on Saturday, October 4, 2008, at the Rose Quarter Commons (One Center Court, Portland, OR 97227)! Participate as an individual, as a family or a large group. Registration fee is minimal. Registering is important for our records, and no one will be turned away if the registration fee is a burden.
Local Live Music! Got plans tonight? Check out one of these awesome local acts in and around the Portland Metro Area!
Guide Dogs for the Blind KGON and Entercom Portland are very lucky to have our own Barb Daschel raising Guide Dogs and including these wonderful puppies in our everyday lives. Iggy, Tyrus, Georgeanne, and now Formosa are part of the reason we love to come into work! If you would like to be a puppy raiser, or need any other information on Guide Dogs, log on at www.guidedogs.com.
