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The Eastside Human Services Forum, Eastside Homelessness Advisory Committee and the City of Bellevue have secured a site for the temporary Eastside Winter Shelter for homeless men. The groups worked together with several partners to identify and lease a portion of a Sound Transit-owned site at 1899 120th Ave. N.E. in Bellevue.
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Your Neighborhood! Your Voice! This Rosewood Initiative Community Center event gives you the opportunity to weigh in on housing in the metro area. The meeting is Wednesday, Nov. 20, from 4-6 p.m. at 16126 SE Stark St. in Portland.
READ MOREThe public is invited to discuss current and future Library services with City Librarian Marcellus Turner from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Lake City Branch of The Seattle Public Library, 12501 28th Ave. N.E.
READ MOREIn recognition of National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week Nov. 17-23, Share will host their second annual 'Hungry & Homeless in ClarkCounty: Get the Facts' on Tues. Nov. 19, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Vancouver Community Library, Columbia Room. Event is free to attend and open to the public; register on-line at sharevancouver.org.
READ MOREMultnomah Youth Commission's Youth Against Violence Committee is looking for youth 13 to 21 to help prevent violence in our communities. Youth Against Violence will organize the 3rd Rob Ingram Youth Summit Against Violence for March 2014.
READ MOREPugetSoundOff.org is hosting the 2nd Annual Youth Voices Against Violence Audio Contest.
READ MOREThe African American Alliance for Homeownership will hold the 15th annual African American Homeownership Fair from 10am -3 pm Saturday, Oct. 26, in the Legacy Emanuel Hospital atrium, 501 N. Graham St., Portland.
READ MOREToday, there's a consensus among experts in the scientific community not only that global warming is occurring, but that man-made climate change might not be reversible. Meanwhile our inept politicians continue to pass around the hot potato in the face of readily-observable phenomena like receding glaciers and the melting of the polar ice caps.
The Women of Vision Ministry at Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church will be holding the 5th annual "Be a Blessing" Giveaway this Saturday, Sept. 3 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the church, 3138 N. Vancouver Ave.
The showing includes only a small portion of the vast new archives of the church's artifacts that the Oregon Historical Society has collected and organized since its donation late last year. The archives, . . .