July's Front Page
Salem Braces for Summer in the City
The First Annual Summer in the City Music
and Wine Festival is coming to downtown
Salem, Oregon August 9 – 10 , 2008;
Saturday – 12 pm – 10 pm, Sunday 10 am
– 8 pm. Go Downtown Salem is organizing
the event and working in partnership with
Women Ending Hunger to support our local
Marion-Polk Food Share (non-profit) in
raising funds to feed the hungry.
Marion-Polk Food Share serves the
emergency food needs of Marion and
Polk counties – an area that covers 1,945
square miles, with a population of 362,000
– and touches the lives of almost 70,000
individuals each year, nearly half of them
children. That’s about 18 percent of the twocounty
population. The need for emergency
food support is growing.
Marion-Polk Food Share – supported
by thousands of volunteers and donors
– collects, sorts, stores and distributes over
4.8 million pounds of food annually to a
network of 73 local service providers who
distribute food to hungry people in their
neighborhoods.
Throughout their 20-year history, the
mission of Marion-Polk Food Share has
been constant … no one should be hungry.
This family friendly festival will have
something for everyone. The festival is
located in the heart of Downtown Salem
Historic District, which offers excellent
restaurants and unique shops, boutiques
and galleries. All the festival activities will
be conveniently located within walking
distance to all the festival grounds. The
festival has something for everyone; bands,
dancing in the streets, viewing fabulous art
created by local artists and taste the best of
the Willamette Valley and regional wines or
relax in the beer garden. Also, there will be
a family village area and kids will have an
opportunity to play in the sand or get wet
with WaterWorks activities and much more.
Don’t miss out on the Downtown Merchant’s
Sidewalk Sale as dozens of stores participate.
Saturday 12 to 4 pm there will be a car show
at River front Park with expectations of 300
assorted classic, muscle, street and hotrods.
Vote for your favorite car with cans of food
or dollar contributions!
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Bank of Cascades Space Up for Grabs at Year End
One of Downtown Salem’s most
prestigious retail locations will become
available at year end when the Bank of
Cascades vacates the Capitol Center for
an East Side branch it is building on
Hawthorne Street.
The bank has been the anchor tenant
at Salem’s tallest office building since
1998, occupying 7480 square feet on the
first two floors, and a 400 square foot
drive through teller facility.
Because of its classic Mosler safe with
foot-thick steel walls, safety deposit
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Hospital Foundation Receives Collins Grant
The Collins Foundation’s connections
to Salem go back almost a century, when
Truman Wesley Collins and his sister,
Grace, attended Willamette University.
Salem non-profit organizations have
benefited from the Foundation’s support
since it began, in 1947.
The Collins Foundation Executive Vice
President Cynthia Addams just announced
a $75,000 grant awarded to the Salem
Hospital Foundation for its Community
Health Education Center project. “The
Foundation, like its founders, appreciates
values of sustainability, good education,
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