http://www.spotlightnews.net/features/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.spotlightnews.net/features/story.php?story_id=124527893911388300 Associate Pastor Rick Worlitz at Yankton Community Fellowship church named the dozen or so men who have had to move out of the area in search of new economic opportunity, using his fingers to track the total. Behind each are the unspoken names of wives and children who followed, all part of the ... http://www.spotlightnews.net/features/story.php?story_id=124468329757216000 Thursday, June 11 • Non-parent Children’s Caregivers Support Group, 10am at the OSU Extension office, 500 N. Columbia River Hwy., St. Helens. For more information call Jeannie Reid, 503-397-1784, Ext. 229 • Columbian Toastmasters, noon at the Warren Country Inn. For more information contact ... http://www.spotlightnews.net/features/story.php?story_id=124468244165229400 It was the last delivery of the day on May 27 for two Meals On Wheels drivers from Scappoose. Instead of being greeted with a smiling face as they knocked on an elderly Scappoose woman’s door, the volunteers only heard a deafening silence. After a few more knocks on the locked door Molly ... http://www.spotlightnews.net/features/story.php?story_id=124404946550859800 On so many levels, Jeffrey Edwards is just a regular 10-year-old boy. He likes to spend his free time playing with the family dog, TJ, in the spacious back yard of his family’s Columbia City home. When TJ’s not in the mood, he has almost as good a time playing with his favorite dwarf ... http://www.spotlightnews.net/features/story.php?story_id=124354550778268000 The 2009 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival is selling early bird passes for the Fourth of July weekend musical event. The, presented by First Tech Credit Union, runs July 2 to 5 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park is a benefit for the Oregon Food Bank. Now in its 22nd year, the Safeway Waterfront Blues ... http://www.spotlightnews.net/features/story.php?story_id=124293889788062100 Not many young children in small towns like St. Helens have the opportunity to participate in real theater, unless you count Sunday school plays and school music programs. River City Children’s Theater has given hundreds of youngsters in St. Helens a glimpse of greasepaint and ...