Erik Sten

Portland City Commissioner Erik Sten and Portland Business Alliance President Sandra McDonough will discuss "Voter-Owned Elections: What Worked, What Didn't and What Do We Really Want?" at the Portland City Club Friday Forum on June 23.

The event runs from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. at the Governor Hotel, 614 S.W. 11th Ave., under the moderation of Susan Hammer.

Portland's new voter-owned election system made its debut during the May primary. With this "dress rehearsal" now behind us, how did Portland's taxpayer-funded "clean money" election process perform?

Homeless people in Multnomah County will be able to breathe a little easier — literally. A mobile clinic operated by the county may soon be coming to a neighborhood near them.

The 40-foot medical van will offer medical care, lab and screening services at designated social service agencies. More than 2,200 homeless and medically underserved people may be seen at the mobile clinic, which could receive more than 10,000 visits in its first year.

Free lunches and afternoon snacks will be provided for children attending the Blazers and Wattles Boys & Girls Clubs this summer.

Meals will be served at the clubs from June 15 to Aug. 18. At the Blazers Club, 5250 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., lunch will be from noon to 1:30 p.m., and a snack will be served from 3 to 4 p.m. Call the club, 503-282-8480, for more information.

Oregon Gymnastics Academy in Beaverton will host a summer's worth of fun beginning Monday, June 19.

The academy's preschool-aged and school-aged camps are designed to entertain children with gym time, arts and crafts, weekly themes, swimming and field trips.

A full day camp at the academy, 16305 N.W. Bethany Ct., will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; a half day is from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. or noon to 3 p.m. Drop-ins are allowed if space permits.

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Potter said during a news conference Friday that most of the allegations against Foxworth were not substantiated by the investigation, but that Foxworth had used poor judgment in sharing department information with the woman.

Jackie Gaines

Jackie Gaines has thousands of stories to tell. As the first woman to lead the annual fund-raising campaign for United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, Gaines is eager to tell all of her stories to those who want to help their neighbors.

Her stories go back 20 years, when she lived in Baltimore, Md., and worked as the president and CEO of a United Way-funded agency. They continued when she became a United Way volunteer, then a board member.

Dr. John

Blues lovers from throughout the world will head for Portland from Friday, June 30, through Tuesday, July 4, to relax on the grassy banks of the Willamette River and celebrate the blues at the 2006 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, presented by First Tech Credit Union.

The festival is the major annual fund-raiser for Oregon Food Bank, a charitable nonprofit agency. All festival proceeds benefit Oregon Food Bank's work to eliminate hunger through its network of 20 regional food banks and 894 hunger-relief agencies in Oregon and Clark County, Wash.