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Friendship House Apartments Independent Senior Housing Tenancy is month to month - for ages 62 and older or age 55 with disability. Second person fee applies . Apartments available for rent: Studio apartments. Included in rent: Three meals served daily ; utilities (except cable and telephone); washer/ dryer, common kitchenette. For further information or to schedule a tour, please contact Megan Feirtag at 608-634-3747.

View Comments Local volunteers whip up healthy meals for Portland's 'houseless' -- along with a dollop of human connection If it weren't for Gales Creek farmer Lise Monahan and a bitterly cold night last winter, teens Katy Schlesser , Sarah Ornelas, and Heather Monahan wouldn 't have been beating eggs, grating cheese, and chopping parsley in the Forest Grove Senior and Community Center kitchen on a hot summer afternoon . Monahan was driving her organic goat dairy wares home from the Portland Farmer 's Market last January when she stopped at a traffic light and saw a few people sleeping outside. Huddled beneath sleeping bags under a doorway on the sidewalk, they had just cardboard between their bodies and the frozen ground. Remembering someone had frozen to death in Portland just days earlier, Monahan stopped to ask if she could give the sleepers a ride to a shelter. But when she called to find which shelters were available, she learned they were all ful...

NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...