By Ann Ereline Festival of Nations’ sponsor Slavic Community Center of NW and Slavic Family Radio, which reaches tens of thousands of Slavic-languages speakers in our area, put DMA on the air recently to promote not only the festival but also the May 11 job fair. By all accounts the part-English, part-Russian chat went well. […]
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Barb Klinger: Long-time Community Activist Keeps On Giving
What makes a community, and an organization, great are the individuals who are a part of that community.. So often these individuals make contributions that are never seen by the larger community. One of these individuals is Barb Klinger. Barb has lived in Southeast Portland almost all of her life. She is part of the […]
Candidate Forums in April
It’s election season and the primaries are coming up in May. Portland’s races include Mayoral and City Commissioner positions. And like the birds that come back every spring, the candidate forum comes back with every election season. Below is information on forums you can check out to better educate yourself about your City’s candidates. (more…)
Key Bank Serving the Community
Key Bank, our Business Spotlight this month, has been at 14701 SE Division, near the corner of Division and SE 148th Ave, since 2013. You can get your banking done Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The staff, led by […]
From The Oops Files
Last month’s Business Spotlight was Keepsake Family Tree Video. Well, we the editorial staff of the newsletter (OK, me the author) forgot to put a coupon in the story so that you, our intrepid reader, could save money when you went in to have your pictures stored in a format that will last forever. So, […]
March Mixer Was “Quite the Time”
East Garden’s sumptuous food, business connections for free and information you can and should use from police and area activists combined to make DMA’s second mixer of the year perfection. Mark Wells, crime prevention coordinator with the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, and Portland Police Lt. Morgan of the East Precinct both tackled topics from vagrancy […]
The Man Behind the Website
No website builds itself. It needs someone with the technical know-how and an eye for what looks good, as well as how to present information so it flows. Division Midway Alliance (DMA) is fortunate to have Mark T. Saintonge as our volunteer website developer. Because of his talent and hard work, DMA’s website has gone […]
