Miracles Club Board Chair Malcolm Slaughter celebrated the ground-breaking of the new location for the longtime social club for people in recovery for alcohol and drug addiction. In addition to the social gathering space, the club will now offer sober housing units in the top floor of the building. Former state Sen. Avel Gordly said it was a good day for Portland.
"We have not lost our ability to dream," she told the crowd of Miracles Club members, community members and city and state officials. "We have not lost our ability to hope and we have not lost our ability to trust."
City Commissioner Dan Saltzman applauded the volunteer-run club for providing a "wonderful, simple" idea to the Portland community – a social club designed to help people recover from the disease of addiction.
The new club will be located next to 4222 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. For information, visit www.miraclesclub.com/
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