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Sunday, November 22
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Community benefits from local school coverage
Just wanted to pass on a big thanks to Polina Olsen and the Southwest Portland Post for the great article in this month’s issue on our school [“Place-based learning key to new Southwest Charter School,” April 2008]. We so appreciate you’re taking time and valuable space to
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One hundred year-old Budda Tree killed in Gabriel Park
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Remnants of the Budda Tree, August 18. (Post photo by Don Snedecor)
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To the Editor:
Do you know Buddha Tree? It's my name for the 100 year-old Maple which graced the path into Gabriel Park. Kali, my dog, and I would visit Buddha Tree on our daily walks, sitting on its burly Buddha-Belly bottom, or just admiring its massive trunk and graceful limbs.
Everyone loved its welcoming accessibility, sharing stories of what this tree meant to them. The tree became meeting place, spot for meditation, climbing, writing, hugging.
When you wrapped your arms around it, the love, given and received, was palpable. It accepted my tears when I lost a dear
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Silent auction, live music benefit MJCC therapy pool
I'd like to invite you all to come to the Mittleman Jewish Community Center's Therapy Pool Silent Auction and Live Music event on Sunday April 22 from 1:30-4:30. It will be held at the MJCC auditorium, 6651 SW Capitol Hwy (where the big green bubble is). Tickets are $36 in advance by calling 503
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Jacobsen property editorials need a positive spin
I would like to express my frustration of the biased and negative reporting
being printed regarding the proposed Jacobsen property in Multnomah Village.
It seems as though [Don Snedecor, in his "Editor's Desk" columns], is reporting only the negative viewpoints, and I would welcome the
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Writer not in agreement with SW Plan
To the Editor:
The letter published in your February 2001 edition concerning the current process to complete the Southwest Community Plan is most disturbing, ["Community-wide meetings needed to open up planning process," by Michael Roche].
The writer complains that opportunities for broad
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