Month: March 2016

By Laura Rillos PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) Homeless people in the Parkrose neighborhood are getting a service many of people take for granted: weekly garbage pickup. Danny Ferrin said he and other homeless people don’t want to live with the “garbage that you see all the time on the news,” but they can get in legal … Read more

Story and photos by David F. Ashton See how this ‘Job Fair’ connected hundreds of eager outer East Portland job-seekers with dozens of employers … Greeters welcome job-seekers at the 2016 Parkrose Community Job Fair. Last year, officials from Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) thought they did well when two dozen area employers came for … Read more