http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940687967624100 I rather enjoy comparing my workload to my friends’ workloads at other colleges. They’re always telling me about the papers they have to write or the research they’re doing. Then I get rather nasty looks when I mention I don’t have any eight-page papers on character ... http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940634524477500 Community Interest Calendar Thursday, May 1 First Thursday Young Artists Join instructor Addie Boswell in an art class for children, based on the styles and media of your favorite picture book illustrators. Learn the techniques used to create the art in popular children’s stories. Made ... http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940561042329800 HAYHURST — About a month before the delegation arrived, the children in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador, ran around the village collecting dried cow dung and dug a large pit kiln. There, in the second-most deforested country in Latin America, wood is scarce, as are many other resources. But an ... http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940502698503000 HILLSDALE – If you see this young man running around Council Crest or along Terwilliger Boulevard, cheer him on. Marc Wasserman is training for his first marathon at age 18. The quiet and calm Wilson High School senior says it was something he knew he wanted to do some day, so why not ... http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940491040457200 HILLSDALE – When Joanna Levy was in the eighth grade, she went to see her cousin wrestle. She thought it was the most boring thing in the world. But the next year when coach Jeff Zerba came into her freshman class at Cleveland High School and asked if anyone was interested in wrestling, Levy ... http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940464932484300 WEST PORTLAND PARK – Cleon Cox sits down at a table at the Capitol Hill Library and sets out three piles of business cards, just like he does every Friday at noon. The first pile is short and is printed with his mantra: “Have Fun, Meet People, Learn Something.” The second is a ... http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940425456049600 MULTNOMAH – At Baby Boot Camp, the babies are really pretty lazy. They just sit there in their strollers: babbling, sucking on fingers, staring off in the distance. They don’t even seem to mind that mom is running, jumping, sweating, lunging, laughing and chatting. Erin Ruff, a West ... http://www.swcommconnection.com/features/story.php?story_id=120940345057502900 Hillsdale and Multnomah Village have been neighbors for a long time. For six, seven or eight decades – depending on how you measure history – our communities have been intertwined, often more than we realize. This, the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Multnomah Village is a ...