By ESPN.com news services Documents released by the University of Oregon show the school and the NCAA agree “major” violations were committed by the football program, The Oregonian and Portland, Ore., television station KATU reported Monday.
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Homeless In Portland, Oregon Redeem Tokens From ‘Sanctity Of Hope’ Nonprofit For Goods (VIDEO)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
To give money to the homeless or to not give money to the homeless? It�s an age-old quandary that an Oregon nonprofit may have solved.
Sanctity of Hope, a Portland organization, has invented a new currency for homeless people. Donors buy tokens from the nonprofit, dole them out to people living on the streets and they can then be exchanged at stores for food and other goods they might need, according to KATU.
This innovative system allows do-gooders the opportunity to give to the homeless, without worrying how they will spend the cash, and it also pushes panhandlers to spend their �money� wisely.
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Scout's honor: Oregon residents rush to buy Girl Scout cookies after half-baked hoax
An order for 6,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies turned out to be a half-baked hoax, leaving the troops holding the boxes, KATU News reported.
Two Oregon Girl Scout troops were given an order for 6,000 boxes of the trademark cookies, an order totaling $24,000, by a company in Hillsboro.
According to KATU, a parent of one of the scouts said a co-worker approached her to set up a large corporate account. Then, the parent exchanged emails with someone claiming to be from the company.
But when it came time to pay up, that’s when the whole scheme crumbled.
The parent learned the order was a fake, leaving the troops with 6,000 boxes of unsold cookies and ruining their chances to earn enough to attend summer camp and to aid the homeless.
But as word got around about how the scouts had been burned, people decided to chip in, showing up at the Girl Scout offices in Portland to buy cookies to help the girls. As of Saturday night, 3,000 boxes from the fake sale had been sold.
“I’ve been a Girl Scout for 23 years,” Girl Scout spokeswoman Sarah Miller told KATU. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Girl Scout cookies are not for sale after March 10, but the troops got together for Saturday’s sale to try to make up some of the loss. The troops will have another sale next Saturday.