This is the third and final piece in a series of interviews with the three most competitive candidates in the Democratic primary for the First Congressional District seat. Brad Avakian's interview can be found here . The interview with Brad Witt can be found here .
If ancestry provides an indication of one's own traits, Suzanne Bonamici is resilient and excels at perseverance. Born in Detroit and raised in small Michigan towns, Suzanne Bonamici is the grandchild of Italian immigrants who landed in the state via Ellis Island and Pennsylvania. From Tuscany, Bonamici's grandfather was a stone mason who, after losing his leg in a Pennsylvania coal mining accident, went to work for the Ford Motor Company in Michigan. Bonamici says that he used to tell stories about how working standards at that time were not the same as they were in later years.
Bonamici's father worked at a local bank, beginning in an entry level position working there 45-50 years, until his retirement. He stewarded loans to car dealerships for their stock as well as car loans for consumers. Her mother was a piano teacher while her children were small and then became a small business owner when her children were older. "It was a small town. One high school. Life was simple. There wasn't any choice about the high school you went to. You went to Northville High School," Bonamici said.
Her relocation to Oregon came at a whim. "I moved out to Oregon in the 70s with a group of friends. We were all sitting around one day on kind of a gray and cold day and decided that we'd venture west. One of the friends had a connection in Boulder. And we got to Boulder and some of us just kept going. Someone had some friends in Cottage Grove so we visited with them and fell in love with the state."
Bonamici enrolled in the 2 year Legal Assistant program at Lane Community College. She also began volunteering for Lane Co Legal Aid doing intake interviews and qualifying folks or referring them to someone who could help them. Bonamici said she also began doing financial counseling talking to people who were struggling primarily with unpaid bills and possible bankruptcy. "I learned at that time, and this shaped my career choices, that a lot of those people who were struggling were struggling because of something that happened to them: lost a job, lost a spouse, had unpaid medical bills and not enough insurance or no insurance.

"I learned at that time, and this shaped my career choices, that a lot of those people who were struggling were struggling because of something that happened to them: lost a job, lost a spouse, had unpaid medical bills and not enough insurance or no
Rick Yoder, the owner of Seattle's Wild Ginger and Triple Door restaurants, told the Council that the paid-sick days ordinance, combined with other recent city fee increases on things like parking, are squeezing the City business owners.
For more than four decades, Vern Fonk Insurance was a small Seattle-based company that was far from a household name. That all changed with a Betacam, a string of low-budget commercials and buckets of creativity. Now the high-risk insurance company

Good luck with the Steelers. • The joy of the Beanie Wells(notes) owner lasted about two weeks. Wells tweaked a hamstring Thursday, had a limited session Friday, and is now considered a game-time decision for Sunday's game at Seattle.
Makini Howell, owner of Plum Bistro on Capitol Hill and two other Seattle restaurants, said the paid sick-leave ordinance reflects the values of many Seattleites. "A lot of progressive business owners were completely on board once they got more details
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