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Event date: Oct 28, 2010

Event location: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 3rd Floor, Ballroom

Are you looking to learn more about the issues you care about and find out how to do more meaningful work? Pursue your passion and explore ways to further your social-impact career through graduate school! At the Idealist.org Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good, you will have an opportunity to meet graduate admissions representatives from local, national, and international programs to discuss professional development more...

Event date: Sep 14, 2010

Event location: Multnomah County Central Library

Join Jeanne Brandt of The OSU Extension Service to learn how to preserve the bounty of ripe tomatoes from your summer garden. Jeanne will share the most recently recommended methods for preserving tomatoes and show us how to make delicious salsas. These methods are based on the latest, very extensive research. In the US Bank Room Space at library programs is limited. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served more...

Event dates: September 10th, 2010, September 17th, 2010, September 24th, 2010

Event location: Multnomah County Central Library

This three-part series of classes is designed to help you improve your job search strategy. Learn more effective ways to find job listings online; set up a Google Reader account to speed up finding a job; create a strong resume using Microsoft Word; and apply for jobs. Registration means you'll attend all three classes. Current Enrollment: Spaces Available: 9 ( Min: 2 Max: 9 ) Registration Info: Open: August 20, 2010 more...

Event date: Sep 8, 2010

Event location: Multnomah County Central Library

Multnomah County Library will host a celebration, “Literacy is Freedom” in honor of International Literacy Day, 9/8/10. Meet representatives from community colleges, nonprofit and community-based organizations who reach out to help adults with their goals of gaining citizenship, GED certificates, learning English and improving reading skills. Literacy has many definitions, but having the life skills to form and strengthen more...

Event date: Sep 2, 2010

Event location: Multnomah County Central Library

Diet, exercise, toxic chemicals, and stress can influence the risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, diabetes, and heart disease. Learn how to reduce your risk for these diseases, delaying or even preventing disease onset. Recommended reading: Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging by Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and Science and Environmental Health Network (www.agehealthy.org). In more...

Event date: Sep 19, 2010

Event location: Multnomah County Central Library

What is the role that prisons serve in our country? Is it possible to envision a world where people are safe and secure and where there is accountability, but without a reliance on a prison system that may not reduce crime but, in some cases, actually cause it? Participants in this program will begin by exploring what they know about prisons. After a brief multimedia history of prisons and alternative justice systems, Walidah more...

Event date: Sep 22, 2010

Event location: Multnomah County Central Library

Listen to Oregon poets read from their works. This monthly program is organized by local poets to highlight two to three poets each reading. Space at library programs is limited. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. more...

Event date: Sep 4, 2010

Event location: Public Domain Coffee

Come by on Saturday at 11 a.m. for our Home Brewing Class to learn more about the different brewing methods we use at the store, and how the right techniques and tools will allow you to bring that coffee shop quality home. Also, join us every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. to cup coffee with our roasters and baristas. They’ll guide as you compare new seasonal offerings, coffees from other roasters, or a personal favorite. more...

This article is sponsored by Cyan/PDX. We'd like to thank them for promoting Portland's University District, Downtown and all the neighborhood has to offer. There’s been a lot of talk about the Cyan/PDX and its light carbon footprint. With its über energy efficient design, recycled and locally sourced building materials, and green roof with a rainwater filtration system, it’s one of the most more...

Event date: Sep 7, 2010

Event location: Central Library, U.S. Bank Room

Talk and interact with independent publishers sharing their work with you. Budget living without feeling the pinch: Chelsea Baker (Olympia) presents Cheap Cookin’: A Beginners Guide to Affordable Cooking, and Raleigh Briggs (Seattle) shows how to Make Your Place: Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills. Space at library programs is limited. Seating is provided on a first-come, first-served basis. more...