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• Wine Cellar Class: How to Look Like a Wine Snob in Under Two Hours
  
• Pharmaca’s Health & Wellness Fair
  
• Wake up your feet!
  
• Focus Board Workshop with Karin Brown
  
• Kid’s Ceramic Class
  
• Village Gallery News
  
• Tobin Retires, New Owner
  
• Community ‘Shred-It’ Day at Sunset Credit Union
  
• Skyline Gardens seeks career-minded, caring employees

Wine Cellar Class: How to Look Like a Wine Snob in Under Two Hours

January 14, 6-7:30 pm, 525 NW Saltzman

The Wine Cellar is holding a class for just $25 per person! To register, please email wine@portlandwinecellar.com or call 503-643-5655.

Pharmaca’s Health & Wellness Fair

Saturday, January 14, 2-4 pm, Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, 240 NW Lost Springs Terrace

Pharmaca will be hosting its first annual Health & Wellness Fair featuring a variety of services for the community. Customers can get free health screenings, including Body Fat, Bone Density, Cholesterol and Skin Health screenings, as well a complimentary ten minute chair massage. (All services are available on a first-come, first-served basis.)

In addition, Pharmaca’s team of expert pharmacists, naturopaths, herbalists and nutritionists will be on hand to speak with customers and answer questions about how to get the New Year off to a healthy start. Customers can even get free product samples, and save $20 on a $100 purchase!

Wake up your feet!

Ahead of Style Salon & Spa, 21195 NW West Union Road

Re-energize for the New Year, featuring the Espresso Mud Spa Pedicure Special! Come in and get your feet taken care of and be pampered with an Espresso Mud scrub, followed by a hot towel Seaweed leg wrap and a relaxing massage. Naturopathica’s Espresso Mud Scrub is created using Black Silt Mud that is blended with minerals to soothe dry skin, while Coffee Arabica promotes circulation. This is followed by their revitalizing Seaweed Wrap that is a mineral rich treatment of herbal extracts that helps remove toxins and leaves the skin feeling firm. You will walk away with beautiful toes and feeling ready to take on the New Year!

Focus Board Workshop with Karin Brown

Saturday January 21, 1-4 pm, Sunset Yoga, 12923 NW Cornell Rd #203

Visualize and actualize your dreams by creating a Focus Board! Some people are very visual in how they approach their life; thus the creation of a Focus Board can be quite effective in keeping them centered and focused on how they want to live their life.

Creating a focus board is an organic process of looking through books, magazines, and pictures to determine what speaks to your heart. You then choose those phrases, poems, pictures, etc., that represent the life that you would like to live. This method assists you in identifying those values and qualities that you would like to have more of in your life. Once it is completed, it can serve as a daily reminder of the path that you want to take.

Focus Boards also provide inspiration to keep you moving toward your desired goal. You can use a Focus Board for a specific goal, i.e., to become more fit. It can also serve as a more general guide and represent the balance and feel that you would like to have in your day-to-day life.

Just bring a pair of scissors, 5-6 magazines that have pictures and phrases that speak to you, photos, and anything else that you would like to include. Karin will provide the board, the glue and the guidance for this exercise! It’s just $45 per person. Sunset Yoga asks that you preregister online at sunsetyoga.com or at the yoga center.

Kid’s Ceramic Class

January 14, 10:30 am-12 pm, near Commonwealth Lake,

Learn the wonderful way to build things with clay! All materials are included in this class such as, approximately 500 gm of clay, low fire glazes, firing pieces, artist guidance and artist demos. The class is suggested for kids six and older. For more information visit veronicaguzman.com or veroguzmandart.wordpress.com. Send inquires to veroguzmandavalos@gmail.com.

Village Gallery News

Opening Reception, Sunday January 8, 2-4 pm

Village Gallery of Arts will be closed from December 30, 2016- January 7, 2017 to refresh its exhibition space. VGA has been honored with an award of $500 worth of professional art hanging equipment from Gallery System ArtsUp Awards, which will be installed as part of the refresh. The program recognizes and rewards outstanding community-oriented arts programs in the US with awards of professional art hanging system hardware made by Gallery System Art Displays of Wellesley, Mass.

January, by Lisa Griffen

In addition, VGA will use this time to add improved displays for crafts, freshly painted walls, improvements to lighting, and colorful signage both inside and on the gallery exterior. Everyone’s invited to come on Sunday January 8, 2017 for their Opening Reception!

January Featured Artist, Lisa Griffen

Lisa Griffen’s show is about exploring the seasons. “Paying close attention to nature has helped me appreciate the different textures and colors and the particular beauty of each time of year. I’ve also become more attuned to the ways that the seasons influence my moods and my creativity. Art is my language for expressing my inner world, and I usually paint abstract figures and animals. For this show, I challenged myself to try something different and use various techniques to create a new series of paintings inspired by my impressions of each month.”

New Classes Offered This January:

For complete details on all classes please visit www.villagegalleryarts.org.

Kristi Roberts - 2017 Youth Art Classes

Mondays or Wednesdays, 3:45-4:45 pm for ages 7 - 11

Mondays 5-6 pm for ages 11 - 16

Class units include drawing, watercolor, acrylic, pastels, clay and mixed media. Each lesson teaches fine art concepts and techniques. A variety of subjects are explored including landscapes, people, faces, animals, cartooning and perspective.

Mary Burgess - Painting Portraits in Watercolor

Wednesdays, January 11, 18, 25 and February 8, 15, 22, mornings 9:30 am-12:30 pm or evenings 6-9 pm

Learn how to capture likeness and personality of human subjects in watercolor, including facial proportions, skin tones, and rendering beautiful subtleties of facial features and hair.

Annie Salness- Building Fundamentals of Oil & Acrylic

Thursdays, January 19, 26, February 2, 9,  10 am-1 pm

This class focuses on building the fundamentals of painting which includes drawing, value, composition, and color. Class time includes demonstrations, exercises and individual attention. And there will be homework.

Tobin Retires, New Owner

Some of you may have missed the recent changes at Cedar Mill Vision Center. On December 1, 2016, Dr. Terry Tobin, O.D. sold his practice and is now learning how to be retired. Dr. Tobin graduated from the Pacific University College of Optometry in 1981. Shortly after graduating he opened the Vision Center and has been practicing there for the past 35 years. Apparently, some of us are faster learners than others.

Retirement will be a difficult challenge for Dr. Tobin. Clearly there will be plenty of drifting about the seas on his boat ODIN seeking the elusive salmon and tuna to fill his freezer. His greatest challenge however will likely be limiting himself to the standard retired task list of one to do per day. His lovely bride Kathy has suggested it won’t be long before she begins renting out his yard and gardening services to get him out of the house.

If you happen to cross paths with either Terry or Kathy, wish them luck as they plan visits to the beach, tend to their garden, and adventure out on cruises and road trips.

Dr. Bruce Goldman, O.D. is the new owner of Cedar Mill Vision Center. Dr. Goldman will continue the practice in the same location 660 NW Murray Blvd, and can be reached at 503-646-6166. Best wishes Terry. FISH ON!

Community ‘Shred-It’ Day at Sunset Credit Union

Friday, January 13 (from 9 am-4:30 pm) or Monday, January 16th (from 9 am-1 pm), 1100 NW Murray Blvd (across from McDonalds in the Safeway Shopping Center)

If you have old financial statements, bills, etc., that you want to shred, bring them to Sunset Credit Union’s ‘Shred-It’ Day. You can get up to two shopping bags or banker's boxes shredded for free. Simply bring the documents you want shredded to Sunset Credit Union and your important documents will be securely shredded and sent out for recycling. This is a fabulous opportunity to get rid of tax documents (2007 and older), old financial statements and outdated personal records at no cost.

To learn more, send an email to cuteam@sspfcu.com. Please note: Items will be securely stored in the Sunset Credit Union facility until they are shredded on site via a mobile-shredding truck on Monday, January 16th, 2017.

Skyline Gardens seeks career-minded, caring employees

[Skyline Memorial Gardens – Career Open House is cancelled Jan. 7th due to inclement weather. Interested parties should contact Rachel Fox directly at 503-292-6611 to set up an informational interview]

Just above Cedar Mill one will find respite and reflection at Skyline Memorial Garden, where visitors enjoy sunsets and stargazing or have a simple stroll through 65 acres to enjoy beautiful statues and vistas. Originally known as Northwest Memorial Gardens, Skyline Memorial Gardens was established in 1952 by Fred Collins after he purchased the site from Corrine Barber. By 1962, Mr. Collins’ dream to build a funeral home, crematory and flower shop in combination with a cemetery became a reality, making Skyline Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home the first combination facility in Oregon. Mr. Collins owned and operated Skyline until his death in 1975, at which time the location was sold to a private individual and then sold again in 1985, becoming the Skyline Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home of today.

They are hosting an Open House where you are invited to come and learn more about careers with SCI. Funeral or sales experience is helpful but not mandatory. Someone with the right attitude and a good work ethic can be successful if you have comfort in using computer systems, have a high level of integrity, a desire to help others, and are comfortable meeting with small to large groups of people.

In a 1950’s brochure, Mr. Collins expresses his perspective on the establishment of Skyline Memorial Gardens: “Memory itself is fleeting, and for those who stay, there is a way to memorialize… Skyline Memorial Gardens, dedicated to the Memory of Man.”

Today they have expanded upon Mr. Collins vision; Skyline Memorial Gardens now has 14 traditional gardens, three distinctive cremation areas, exclusive private estates, mausoleums and lawn crypts. They offer personalized life celebrations, funeral services, cremation options, memorialization, catering, event space and more at one of the most beautiful vistas in the Portland area. Interestingly enough, during the time Skyline Memorial was developed the Baby Boomers were being born, and now for next twenty years, an average of 10,000 people each day will reach age 65. This has an enormous impact on their business.

They are a tight operation of 15 employees that include administrative professionals, grounds maintenance, funeral directors, and sales professionals. Customer service ethic is so high that Skyline Memorial Gardens is consistently recognized as one of the best in the Portland area by JD Powers. They are always looking for talented, service oriented people to join their team. Skyline Memorial is a part of Service Corporation International (SCI), the nation's largest provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services. That brings quite a bit of support through on-going training and exceptional benefits with an economy-proof business line.

For over 60 years Skyline Memorial has been a part of the Cedar Mill community and they know it’s best to add to their team from the community they serve. They look forward to your visit on January 7. If you are looking for a compassionate and dignified career please RSVP at 503-292-6611.

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