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Send your food Saturday!This Saturday presents one of the easiest and most effective ways to help combat hunger: Simply put your non-perishable food items in a bag out with the mail and let your letter carrier take care of the rest.

Participate in the 15th annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive, the largest one-day food donation in the country. Carriers and volunteers will collect food in more than 10,000 communities in all 50 states and deliver to food banks, pantries and shelters in the communities where the donations are collected. All food donated in Oregon benefits the Oregon Food Bank Network.

Here's what Roger Geller, Bicycle Coordinator for the Portland Department of Transportation, took away from the 2007 National Bike Summit over the Ides of March in Washington D.C. Highlights include creative funding strategies for bicycle initiatives and information on bike programs from a legislative POV.

Until recently if you were a visitor to Portland looking for Powell's Books you may have had a tough go at it. That is, until Portland's new Pedestrian Wayfinding system popped up to help keep visitors and non-visitors alike on the right path.

Join Sam and staff from the Portland Department of Transportation to talk about transportation funding priorities -- specifically through the Transportation System Development Charge (TSDC) program.

The event is from 4:00 to 7:30. At 5:15, Sam will give an overview of the TSDC program. PDOT staff will be on hand to talk about how TSDC works and what projects qualify for TSDC funds, as well as to hear what projects you think should be City priorities.

Jean Richardson was the first woman in Oregon to earn a Civil Engineering degreeIt was a ceremonious scene on the second floor of City Hall: Two pioneers of their respective fields stood proud and smiled as Sam announced the new tram cars would be named in their honor.

So, Portland, we give you Jean and Walt.