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Division Midway Alliance (DMA) began its sponsorship drive for the 2016 Festival of Nations at the beginning of April.   Several media sponsors — KBOO, I Heart Radio and Slavic Community Center of NW — are on board to help DMA reach the public with news about the Festival. Without media sponsors, DMA would have to […]

Bob Dylan sang the “Times they be a changing” fifty years ago, and it is as apropos as ever. This author never thought that in his lifetime he would be writing about a legal cannabis business, but that is the case. The Oregon Voters have spoken and cannabis is legal. It has come out of […]

The East Portland Neighborhood Prosperity Initiatives (NPI) are hosting a Jobs Fair on May 11th from  2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The three NPIs – Historic Parkrose, Division Midway Alliance, and Rosewood – are joining forces with Mt. Hood Community College and SE Works to help East  Portlanders find work. The NPI  is a program […]

Improve.  Improve!  IMPROVE!!! Yes, that is the message the Capital Improvement Committee would like to share with Midway business and property owners. Again this year, DMA is offering storefront improvement grants for Midway business and commercial property owners located in the NPI boundaries along SE Division Street between 117th & 148th Avenues.  (more…)

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. […]

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 […]