Eliot Neighborhood Minutes 1/9/2012
Board Meeting Minutes 2011-12-12
Pepper Box
Nothing tastes better than a fresh home-made traditional tortilla stuffed with shades of green avocado, ripe tomato, Tillamook Cheddar Cheese and scrambled eggs covered in a generous topping of green chile crema. I mean nothing. This is what I eat, not on Monday, because the Pepper Box, a food cart at Dreamer’s Marketplace, is closed on Monday but as soon as I can I walk down there every Tuesday around 10 am.
Al Forthan Memorial Scholarship Summer Bike and Hike
Bringing the Sun to the Northwest
As a native Oregonian, every year at this time, I wonder to myself, “Can it get any worse?” But this year the weather seems particularly bad. I do need to remind myself that even while I write this article the sun is shining brightly outside. Maybe it just takes us awhile in the Northwest to regain the comfort that the sun really does come out again, after our nine month dreary winters. Let’s talk about better, brighter things though.
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VOA Scholarships for high school seniors
You’d be hard-pressed to find another academic scholarship named after a drug dealer. Then again, you’d probably never find a drug dealer quite like Al Forthan. The fine print here is that Al Forthan, once a crime lord in North Portland, eventually got clean. He went to prison nine times, ravaged his body with heroin, and controlled the illegal drug market in North Portland for years. But in April 1992, Al entered the addiction treatment program at the Men’s Residential Center (MRC) and began to change his life.
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