Albina Community Bank celebrated its 10th anniversary in style this week when Gov. Ted Kulongoski presented the bank with a $250,000 grant to be used to support small, emerging, minority- and women-owned businesses.

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If disaster strikes in the Portland area, government disaster teams need to be acutely aware of the ethnically diverse nature of the population so they can communicate with the people they are trying to save.It's not enough to prepare an emergency plan, said Jonathan Jui, M.D., the keynote speaker at The Skanner Foundation's Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast, but officials need to know how to contact residents of diverse cultures.

Roy Jay, standing, shows off his Drum Major for Justice Award at The Skanner's annual Martin…