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This comment is targeted to people with kids in school & in college: encourage your kids to take, do well in, and keep on taking a foreign language, all through school & college. Encourage them to travel abroad. (Cancun for Spring Break does NOT count!) Being bilingual and biliterate will definitely help them in their future job searches. 

I'm a first-year teacher, and being my Spanish was the reason I was able to get a teaching job in the PDX metro area, given the current job market for teachers here. But the importance of a second language is universal: it will be an advantage to your kids no matter what field they end up choosing as a career.

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Eco-roofs! Green roofs! We don't have enough here in Portland yet, but we have some, and the Central Library has one. I'm sure NYC has a few, but Chicago has rocketed past them in the green roof movement. Time for the Big Apple to catch up with the Second City!

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A QUESTION FOR THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY DIRECTOR:

Does the Multnomah County Library (or the Friends of the Multnomah County Library) system have an endowment, which could be used as a rainy day fund? If so, how is it funded? If not, has there been any movement towards creating one?

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Corbett Elementary School, where I'm doing my student teaching, is located in the Gorge, and has adopted the Gorge as their school-wide, cross-curriculum theme for the year. They have already taken 3 field trips in the Gorge this year, and have been considering possibly trying to go to the exhibition you're discussing at the Art Museum.

Traveling there from Portland once a week has already heightened and deepened my attachment to the Gorge, and I've wished I could create the time in my morning to stop every day & make a series of photographs taken from the same place at the same time of day. (After I start going out there every day, it would have to become a once-a-week series!)

You mentioned we could send you our photos of the Gorge. None of mine are digital, but a friend who visited us from Mexico, Viviana, left us copies of all the digital images she took in Oregon on her trip, so here is one of hers.

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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Corbett Elementary School, where I'm doing my student teaching, is located in the Gorge, and has adopted the Gorge as their school-wide, cross-curriculum theme for the year. They have already taken 3 field trips in the Gorge this year, and have been considering possibly trying to go to the exhibition you're discussing at the Art Museum.

Traveling there from Portland once a week has already heightened and deepened my attachment to the Gorge, and I've wished I could create the time in my morning to stop every day & make a series of photographs taken from the same place at the same time of day. (After I start going out there every day, it would have to become a once-a-week series!)

You mentioned we could send you our photos of the Gorge. None of mine are digital, but a friend who visited us from Mexico, Viviana, left us copies of all the digital images she took in Oregon on her trip, so here is one of hers.

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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Millions of new residents are expected to be moving to Oregon over the coming years from states with more "traditional" voting processes, and a challenge to our current vote-by-mail system might emerge. So I'd like to know how firmly the candidates are committed to protecting the "by mail" aspect of our process.

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I'm a 42 year old woman, and I am a proud feminist. But, I am sad to say, I do not plan to vote for Hilary Clinton. And I agree with the very first post -- I believe that reflects my feminism, for the same reason she cites: since I see women and men as equal, I can choose a candidate for reasons other than gender. I see Obama as being inspirational to a much wider range of people than Hilary is, and I believe that what our democracy needs most at this moment in history is inspiration among parts of our population that have been uninvolved and under-represented.

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