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Loaves and Fishes Jambalaya Dinner Benefit August 14th

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Loaves & Fishes Center is hosting its fifth annual Authentic Creole Jambalaya Dinner on Saturday, August 14, from noon to 5 p.m.

The culinary team for this event is headed by Loaves & Fishes Centers Board Member Teletha Benjamin and Loaves & Fishes Centers Executive Director Joan Smith, both of whom have connections to Southern Louisiana. The pair will be using a traditional Creole-style recipe passed down in Teletha’s family. This is the fifth year for the Creole Jambalaya event, which raises needed funds to help serve hot meals to in Northeast Portland.

“The daily menu at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center has evolved to include a variety of soul food entrées,” said Center Manager David Lomax. “The food has received such good reviews that we decided to make it available to the general public for one special night. We guarantee a sumptuous feast to delight the tastebuds!”

The menu includes authentic Creole-style jambalaya (a non-seafood version is available), along with bread, salad, beverage and dessert. Cost is $10 for adults, $7 for children and $25 for a family ticket for four. Tickets are available from the center. Meals are available for take-out.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Loaves & Fishes is located at 5325 NE MLK Blvd. in Portland. For more information, call David Lomax at 503.953.8207.

About Loaves & Fishes Centers: Since 1970 Loaves & Fishes Centers has provided a nutritional and social lifeline for seniors through 33 meal sites in Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties and Meals-On-Wheels delivery to homebound seniors. With the help of more than 7,500 volunteers, the nonprofit, nonsectarian agency now serves 5,000 meals daily and more than 1.4 million meals each year. The agency celebrates 40 years of service to seniors in 2010. Visit: www.LoavesAndFishesOnline.org

NECN Portland Public Safety Roundtable

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Organized by the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods:

Join people in your neighborhood for a discussion about what public safety is and how we can address the variety of public safety issues in our neighborhoods.

Tuesday, June 29th 2010, from 6pm to 8pm
NE Coalition of Neighborhoods Office,
4815 NE 7th Ave.
(on 7th Avenue at Wygant, on buslines #6 and #72)
Please RSVP to Celesta Paul
at 503-823-4575 or admin@necoalition.org

Presentation or Discussion Topics to include:
• Crime prevention resources
• Food security
• Air quality and environmental health
• Emergency Preparedness
• Community policing

Why? We have heard from people through the 12 neighborhoods that there are a variety of public safety concerns. In response to this, we have worked with a few neighborhood association board members to design an event that will bring neighbors together with the community resources that can help address your public safety needs.

What will happen at the Roundtable? We will have presentations from different organizations who are addressing public safety in different ways. Then you will be able to meet in your neighborhood groups to determine what specific public safety issues you would like to work on in your neighborhood, and start thinking about how to make that happen.

Sign Up for Public Alerts

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April is National Earthquake Preparedness Month, and in Portland, earthquakes are a constant and significant concern. The City of Portland, in close collaboration with partners in the region, state and federally, is always looking to be better prepared for such an event. Individuals, families, offices and places of business need to be prepared and know about the tools available to them in case of an earthquake or other emergency.

Portland’s Office of Emergency Management (PoEM) unveiled a new feature of the city’s coordinated information website, www.publicalerts.org, designed to rapidly get information out to residents in times of emergency.

You can now go to publicalerts.org, click on the Sign Up button, and register to get voicemail, email and text messages sent directly to your mobile phone in times of emergency. The information you provide is protected and confidential. It takes only a minute to sign up, so register yourself, and tell your friends, neighbors and coworkers about it. In the coming months, they will continue to add features and abilities to the site.

In the meantime, please take a moment to go online, visit www.publicalerts.org, and sign yourself up.

King Spring Clean-Up April 24th

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King’s Spring Clean-Up will be April 24th this year at it’s usual location behind the police precinct at 449 NE Emerson. The Clean-up will run from 9 am to 1pm. The fees will be $5 per carload and $10 per truckload. Volunteers get to dump a load for free! You will be able to dump household junk, scrap metal, building materials, old furniture. NOT ACCEPTED: kitchen garbage, yard debris, hazardous waste. There will be recycling for scrap metal and electronics.

To volunteer contact Irek at: panirek@yahoo.com or 503-793-2114

Art Hop Call for Artists and Vendors

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On Saturday, May 15, 2010 from 11am to 6pm, Art on Alberta will hold its 11th Annual Art Hop with the theme, “ABC: Art Builds Community.” Over 15 blocks of NE Alberta Street will be closed to car traffic to accommodate over 150 artists, craftspeople, music, dance and theater performances, interactive art events along with food and other vendors. This is a free arts event for kids of all ages.

Registration for artists, craftspeople, music, dance and theater performers, interactive art events, food and other vendors is open. For information about registering your vending space, please contact Combustible Media, 503-235-5025 or carrie.locke@combustiblemedia.com.

This year, Art Hop accomplishes a major murals project on NE Alberta Street. Three murals will be painted by area youth groups including House of Umoja, Girls Inc. and the George School under the direction of Skidmore Prize winner Rodolpho Serna. A fourth mural will be painted by the attending public on the day of Art Hop, designed and supervised by Esteban Camacho. Art on Alberta has been facilitating these murals as a gift to two other nonprofits who serve this neighborhood: Sabin CDC and Community Energy Project. Art on Alberta is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the Alberta Art District’s distinct identity through art and educational activities. For more information about Art on Alberta, please visit www.artonalberta.org.

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