What's happening for you in Portland this week? Read here a day-by-day diary of free community events to fill your spare time. For a full calendar please click on "Read the complete article" below….

What's happening for you in Seattle this week? Read here a day-by-day diary of free community events to fill your spare time. For a full calendar please click on "Read the complete article" below….

• Civil Rights Training
• King Day Celebration Planning
• NAACP Membership
• Citizenship Workshops
• Foster a Pet
• Polar Bear Plunge

• Restorative Listening
• Creating Loving Communities
• OAME Meetings
• Self Defense Training
• Thrift Sale, Benefit

Singer, writer and teacher Amber Flame leads a workshop about identity based on her performance piece Skin Stories & Other Half-Truths: A Reclamation Project, Dec. 6 at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center.  She performed her one-woman show through the weekend. Photo by Susan Fried

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Cookie Party 2

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Star Shine 2

Senior Services' Transportation Program provides an essential service to seniors in Seattle communities by arranging transportation to medical appointments.  Currently the program urgently needs more volunteer drivers ... every week the program turns away 10, 15, or 20 seniors who call us for help due to the shortage of drivers ...

Los Angeles businessman Kim L. Hunter, an alumnus of the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business, has donated $25,000 to the university ... The new scholarship will be distributed to a student from an underrepresented background pursuing a degree in marketing ...

MUSICA Entertainment & Early Education presents The Columbia City Holiday Kids Fair, at the Historic Columbia City Theatre, Saturday, Dec. 13, Noon - 3 p.m. The Columbia City Theatre is Seattle's oldest vaudeville theatre. Formerly a playground for Jimi Hendrix music wizardry, the current theatre offers a classic show stage, a state of the art audio recoding studio, and a video production facility ...

Pastor Jerry Gutierrez knows people are experiencing trouble these days, and he hopes he can help. The pastor of My Father's House Ministries is holding a toy and shoe giveaway from noon to 2 p.m. on Dec. 13 at Irvington Covenant Church, 4046 NE MLK Blvd. "We just want to be a blessing for people ...