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U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici has added her own proposal to actions she says are needed for the nation to deal with opioid abuse.

Bonamici, a Democrat from Beaverton, has released her priorities based on numerous meetings and visits she has made during the past several months in northwest Oregon.

Among them were roundtables in each of the five counties in the 1st District — including Jan. 25 in Beaverton — a meeting Feb. 20 with educators in Beaverton, and visits to Tualatin Together, Lifeworks Northwest in Beaverton, and the pharmacy at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.

The Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association (ORLA) invites all Oregonians to join it in celebrating National Park Week, which runs through Sunday, April 29.

The week was designed to celebrate the important role played by national parks in our state and country.

Beaverton will receive $400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up brownfields on the site of the city's future Public Safety Center.

The cleanup of the Shell gasoline station at the southwest corner of Allen and Hall boulevards — a station still in operation — is one of the remaining tasks before the city can demolish the former Beaverton Activities Center. The money also will pay for cleanup of a diesel spill that occurred on adjoining property in 2006.

Confronting a nationwide epidemic of school violence and decades of inaction from lawmakers, the Vernon Elementary School choir made a prediction — or maybe a promise.

"The times they are a-changin," they sang.

Facing the stage in Pioneer Courthouse Square, the crowd of thousands raised their hands in the v-shaped peace sign, their heads bobbing along to the old Bob Dylan tune.

"The students here are going to take over the world," said retiree Colin Persichetti of Southwest Portland. "I'm looking to them to get this country out of the hole it's in."