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Your retail windows are some of the most important real estate at your disposal. So, how are you making them work for you? more...

Own Your Ass[ets] is a five-part workshop series that teaches small business owners how to take control of the assets that will make your business relevant on the Internet and optimize your web presence. Sign up for a single class or for the entire series. Make Your Blog Content Easy to Create, Find and Share April 17, 6:30-8:30PM 3 Things Every Small Business Needs to Be Relevant in Local Search April 24, more...

SMART ENERGY—A NEW CATEGORY OF FUNCTIONAL BEVERAGE Smart energy beverage products represent a new category in the functional/energy drink market category. Smart energy beverages are different than many of the energy drinks on the market today. Today’s energy drinks offer large quantities of caffeine and toxic B vitamin levels with the associated side effects and complications. Many individuals who more...

Myoptic Optometry has launched a new program to fill a substantial need within Portland's documented immigrant and refugee community. Dr. Summy To, O.D., owner of Myoptic optometry (3978 N. Williams Avenue), started providing free vision screenings and needed full eye examinations to people from all over the world this summer. Portland’s Immigrant & Refugee Organization (IRCO) receives up to 100 new more...

Portland, OR – A contractor for the Portland Water Bureau has started construction on a new section of supply of pipeline on SW 10th Avenue, near SW Chestnut Street. The Carolina Mains Project will take about 10 months to complete under normal weather conditions. For the first four months, the work will involve making pipe connections to the three existing Burlingame water storage tanks at 6932 SW 10th more...

This fall, Neighborhood Notes is hosting its first workshop series called Owning Your Ass[ets] where we'll discuss how small business owners can take control of the assets that will make their businesses relevant on the Internet. More information coming soon; mark the following dates on your calendar: September 12 September 26 October 10 October 24 more...

Vintner’s Cellar is the first in the city of Portland that not only offers wine by the glass and bottle, but allows patrons to make their own wine. Patrons choose from a wide variety of wine grapes from flavored fruit wines such as peach chardonnay, to Italian Barolo, to Pinot Noir (to name a few). The juice is then prepared for fermentation where it sits in a restricted area for a specified length of time in more...

Chef’s training under renowned Roy Yamaguchi brings fresh appreciation for fish and Northwest seafoods to the menu July 20, 2012 (Lake Oswego, Ore.) – Five Spice Seafood and Wine Bar in Lake Oswego has a new executive chef. “We’re thrilled and very proud to have Chef Joe Anderson with us at Five Spice Seafood and Wine Bar,” says general manager, Tim Mattera. “He has an more...

Judy Richardson never thought of selling lavender products as a career goal. In fact, it all started as a dream. “I was sitting on my acreage in NE Portland on the Columbia Slough watching my horses when I visualized a sea of purple flowers. I didn’t know what they were, but I knew they meant something.” It wasn’t until she began exploring classes at Oregon Extension in 1995 that she saw her more...

AFS Intercultural Programs is looking for families to host foreign exchange students arriving in Portland this August from across the globe. These students have been selected by the U.S. State Department Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs to be ambassadors for their countries, to attend a local high school, share their culture, and help change the world. Hailing from countries of the former Soviet Union, more...