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Help Wanted HOOD RIVER COUNTY IS HIRING: PREVENTION & EDUCATION SPECIALIST

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Services; Employment MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN NORCOR Corrections is seeking to fill the position of Mental Health Clinician.

This position is full time with great benefits. Criminal record may disqualify. Must have drivers license, pass

Mid Columbia Producers has two FT positions open at our main office in Moro. We are seeking a Grain Trader as well as Grain Accountant. Competitive Salary, Great Benefits. Insurance premiums paid at 100%! Please contact HR at 541-565-2277 or visit www.mcpcoop.com.

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HOOD RIVER COUNTY IS HIRING:

SEASONAL - PARKS/ BLDG LABORER

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Services; Employment MAINTENANCE WORKER

The City of Bingen seeks a Maintenance Worker to work on a project at the Wastewater Treatment Plant. PT, 24 hr/week (T, W, F) for 4 months. Visit www. bingenwashington.org/iwant/apply/pages/city-job for information.

HOOD RIVER COUNTY IS HIRING:

VICTIM ADVOCATE COORDINATOR Visit: www.hoodrivercounty.gov

Employment 911 DIRECTOR Condon ($20,000 Sign on Bonus, up to $20,000 for moving/ relocation expenses)

- $85,000$115,000/year – Frontier

911 Agency has an opening for a Director in Condon, Oregon. We are a 911 call center providing emergency dispatching services for Police, Fire and EMS in Jefferson, Gilliam, Wheeler and Sherman Counties.

For list of minimum qualifications, job description, and application, please contact Gilliam County Sheriff’s Office at (541) 351-9530. You can also get this information by visiting the Gilliam County website at www. co.gilliam.or.us, under Employment Opportunities. Position open until filled.

SKAMANIA COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH

SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER PROFESSIONAL TRAINEE

Salary Range $3,842$4,582 per month depending on qualifications

Benefit package (Pension, Health Insurance, PTO)

Full job description and County application can be found at: https://www. skamaniacounty.org/departments-offices/humanresources

Signed applications may be submitted as follows:

Via Email: Humanresources@co.skamania.wa.us or

In Person or Via Postal:

Skamania County Courthouse 240 NW Vancouver Avenue PO Box 790 Stevenson, WA 98648

Candidates who wish to deliver their applications may do so Monday through Thursday from 7:30am5:30pm.

Applications will be accepted until March 29th at 4:00 PM

Skamania County is an equal opportunity employer.

NOW HIRING FOSTER PARENTS!

The Next Door, Inc. (TNDI) is hiring full-time foster parents to work with youth, ages 6-18. Applicants must live in Hood River or Wasco Counties. TNDI provides 24-hour support, free training, paid days-off and up to $1800 tax-free/month, for each youth. Bonus also offered for completion of certification! Contact 541308-2207 or visit www.nextdoorinc.org/fosterparent to apply.

Development Engineer

$82,092-100,963 DOE PLUS EXCELLENT BENEFITS

The City of Hood River is offering an excellent career opportunity for an engineer to make a difference in the community by administering, coordinating, and facilitating the construction of privately financed public improvements. Under the direction of the Public Works Director, the Development Engineer is responsible for overseeing the program that reviews plans and issues permits for all privately financed public improvement projects in in Hood River.

The City of Hood River is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. A more detailed explanation of this position, including minimum qualifications can be seen at the city website www. cityofhoodriver.gov Applications will be accepted until position is filled, reviewed as submitted. Please submit application and resume to Jennifer Gray, City Recorder at j.gray@cityofhoodriver.gov

SUPERINTENDENT 1.0 FTE Wallowa County ESD – Region 18 is accepting applications for Superintendent. Must hold or be able to obtain valid licensure. Competitive salary & benefit package. Application and position description are available at the ESD Office, 107 SW First #105, Enterprise, OR 97828 or contact Gretchen Piper at 541-4267600, gpiper@r18esd.org. Position open until filled.

Public Works Worker

The City of Hood River Public Works is seeking a member to join the operations team. As a team member you will be contributing to the City’s essential operations primarily on the water and wastewater lines.

Minimum starting wage is $23.04/hour with increases at six months and annually thereafter. Additional pay incentives upon completion of certifications. This is a union position and follows the bargained contract. Excellent leave and health insurance benefits.

Satisfactory drug test, driving record and reference checks are required. Obtaining an employer paid Class B CDL is required within 6 months on the job. Position open until filled, with first review on March 30, 2023. Application and job description are on the City website https://cityofhoodriver. gov/employment-opportunities/. Please submit completed application to j.gray@ cityofhoodriver.gov or at City Hall, 211 2nd Street, Hood River, OR 97031. For questions, please call 541-3869437. Closes 03/30/2023. The City of Hood River is an equal opportunity employer.

Dependable Caregivers

Needed to assist adults w/ developmental disabilities. No experience needed. Full Time with benefits. Paid training. $19.00 per hour plus $1,000 sign-on bonus. andyb@forcci.org

FINANCE

OFFICER

Cascade Locks

The City of Cascade Locks is recruiting for its next Finance Officer. This position manages all aspects of the City’s Finance Department including but not limited to debt issuance; cash flow and reconciliation; investment of City funds; expenditure and revenue monitoring; preparation of detailed, accurate and timely monthly financial reports; development of fiscal policies; accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, utility billing and supervises Finance Department personnel. This is a department head position under general supervision from the City Administrator. Applicant must have strong communication, planning and supervisory skills. An associate degree in accounting, finance, public/ business administration or related fields, and four years of progressively responsible experience in municipal accounting, including two years of supervisory experience; or a satisfactory combination of experience, education, and training demonstrating provision of required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

The position offers a salary range of $70-80K per year plus excellent benefits. For more information and application materials please visit the city recruitment webpage at www.cascadelocks.or.us/jobs or call City hall at 541-374-8484.

HOOD RIVER COUNTY IS HIRING:

OHV TRAIL LABORER

Visit: www.hoodrivercounty.gov Services; Employment Skamania County Noxious Weed Board is seeking full time

NATURAL RESOURCE/ TEMPORARY

Positions

•Natural Resource Aides

$17.11-$20.40 per hour

•Natural Resource Work- ers $17.88-$21.32 per hour

•Noxious Weed Lead Worker $18.66-$22.25 per hour

Must be available to work 40 hours per week. Applicant must be 18 years of age (or turning 18 within a month) and have valid State Driver’s License. Work as part of a team to control noxious weeds on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and in Skamania County.

Full job description and County application can be found at: https://www.skamaniacounty.org/departmentsoffices/human-resources

Signed applications may be submitted as follows:

Via Email: Humanresources@ co.skamania.wa.us or In Person or Via Postal: Skamania County Courthouse 240 NW Vancouver Avenue PO Box 790 Stevenson, WA 98648

Candidates who wish to deliver their applications may do so Monday through Thursday from 7:30am5:30pm. Applications will be accepted until positions are filled.

Skamania County is an equal opportunity employer.

FINANCE DIRECTOR

Gilliam County is currently accepting applications for the full-time position of FINANCE DIRECTOR. Salary Range of $5,495$6,556 per Month DOE

General Statement of Responsibilities, Benefits, Minimum Qualifications, and Application can be found on our website at: https:// www.co.gilliam.or.us/employment_opportunities_/ index.php Applications received by March 31, 2023 @ 5pm. p.m. PDT will receive preference for initial review, but position shall be open until filled.

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Howto observe World Poetry

1. Write a poem

Day

What better way to celebrate and promote poetry than by writing one of your own poems? If you don’t know where to start, try something small first. A haiku is a simple, three-line poem of five, then seven, then five syllables. Haikus can be funny or serious and typically focus on nature. Once you’ve got the hang of that, try your hand at free verse. A poem to your secret love, perhaps?

2. Visit the American Po-

World Poetry Day is celebrated every year on March 21, celebrating a linguistic expression that people from all cultures can identify with. Poetry can be found in the history of every nation and brings us together under shared values and common humanity. The most basic of poems have the power to stir dialogue. Poetry is a beautiful form of expression. No other type of literature creates such a plethora of feelings and emotions as the abstraction of poetry. The earliest poetry is believed to have surfaced with the “Epic of Gilgamesh” around 2000 B.C., but it is likely that poetry existed even before the spread of literacy. Different types of poetry have trended during different etry Museum

Check out the American Poetry Museum in Washington, D.C, a building dedicated to celebrating poetry all year long! It was founded in 2004 and is known as one of the first of its kind to collect and feature poetry. The museum offers special exhibits to learn about the art form and famous poets, and hosts events and workshops for patrons to learn even more.

3. Host a poetry slam Gather up your most literary friends for a night of fun and rhymes. Turn your living room into a makeshift coffee shop and eras and undergone transformations. From sonnets to rap lyrics, the core purpose of poetry remains the same—to explore the human condition and invoke emotion through words. Poetry resonates with the existential dilemmas of mankind, exhuming ideas from deep within.

World Poetry Day was proposed and adopted by UNESCO in 1999 on the occasion of its 30th General Conference held in Paris to “give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional, and international poetry movements.” The organization hoped to inspire the celebration of poetry all over the world, preserve endangered languages, and stimulate poetic expression through this day. Poets, both past and present, are honored, and oral traditions of prepare to give snaps to the performers. Friends can read one of their own works or one of their favorites from another author. No need for prizes (unless you want to get competitive!) — just get together to share in the celebration of poetry. Quotes from writers about poetry:

1. Salman Rushdie “A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.”

2. Khalil Gibran “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with

Think a poem has to follow meter? Check out this free verse poem satirizing St. Patrick’s Day celebrations by Travis Laurence Naught:

Holy Day in Wonderland

You’d think no one ate for a thousand years the way Siri answers my questions about Saint Patrick’s Day and Saint Patrick. Like the potatoes, cabbage, and corned beef fermented for a millennium before someone finally decreed, “Eat.” Other holidays focus more on this form of celebration today. I don’t think Lewis Carroll was Irish, but I bet if you ask anyone on March 17, they’d raise a glass to the modern generation’s “Drink Me” Pied Piper in a slurry of switched speech invocation. “Me drink!” sloshing green beer and Jameson, cheersing gluttonously. They dance jigs perfectly. Well, not perfectly, but they’ll hear no such thing lest the disputer feels up to a brawl. “Har! You don’t tell me I misstep, boyo!” reciting poetry are revived. Reading, writing, and teaching poetry are encouraged and converged with other mediums of expression a dash of the dictionary.”

All the while leprechauns snicker and incite trouble, tickling precious coins from the pockets of purveyors growing blinder by the taste of booze, even before noon. Today is a day of remembrance, and how better to remember than to become so sloshed you can’t even remember how to stand!

I’m willing to wager, in some grave across the ocean remains of a man whose influence many revere as holy must be rolling over and over and over.

3. Charles Baudelaire “Always be a poet, even in prose.”

4. Friedrich Nietzsche “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

5. William Wordsworth “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” Why World Poetry Day is important

1. Poems are for everyone! Sometimes people are hesitant to try out poetry, thinking it can be hard to understand. But have no such as music, dance, painting, and more. nationaltoday.com/ world-poetry-day fear—there’s a poem out there for you! Thinking about simplifying your life and taking some time to relax? Read the works of Henry David Thoreau. Need to read something about triumph and overcoming adversity? Try Maya Angelou. Need something a little silly to remind you of your childhood? Check out Shel Silverstein: “If you’re a bird, be an early early bird. But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”

2. Poetry is all around us!

Are you a big fan of music? Then you’re a secret poetry fan! The cadence and rhythms of poetry are just like those of your favorite pop song. With extra beats and melodies behind them, songs convey emotional messages and meanings, just like poetry. They even employ a lot of the same writing devices like metaphors and alliteration.

3. It starts a new generation of poetry lovers

On World Poetry Day, teachers and classrooms around the world take time to celebrate poems and poets and excite their students about the writing style. Poetry competitions, poetry slams, and readings are held to let new and emerging poets try out their work.

Think a poem has to be long? One of the most famous short poems is this couplet by Robert Frost, entitled “The Secret Sits”: