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Photo by Bonnie Tinker
Sanford Director receives the Lucille Hart
Award from John Baker, chair of the Right to
Privacy PAC, at the Sixth Annual Lucille Hart
Dinner. The award is given tor service to the
community; previous recipients include
Gretchen Kafoury and Ann and Bill Shepherd.
Presenting the award to Sanford Director,
John Baker cited Director’s success as a fund­
raiser for the Red Cross, the Chester Brinker
Fund — which he founded — and other organi­
zations.
Photo by Kamila Al-Najjar
Cathy Siemens, shown here speaking at the
Lucille Hart Dinner, has announced that the
Lesbian Community Project will receive grants
totaling $22.000 in January 1988. A grant for
$15,000 from the Needmore Foundation will be
used for full-time staff salary. The other two
grants. $5.(XX) from the Ms. Foundation an!
$2.(XX) from the Funding Exchange/National
Community Funds will help with general sup-
port o f the Lesbian Community Project. LCP
also will receive a small gift from a local group
called The Funding Conspiracy.
" It is LCP’s vision of self-sufficiency which
encourages funders to support us in our initial
stages." Cathy Siemens says as she thanks the
national foundations for the grants to LCP.
More than 150 women pledge $ 1,200 a month to
the organization.
Photo b y Kamila A l-N ajjar
Photo by Bonnie Tinker
The Honorable Neil Goldschmidt, governor
o f Oregon, addresses the largest gathering of
gays and lesbians in the state s history at me
Sixth Annual Lucille Hart Dinner on November
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December. 1987
7. More than 700 people attended the $65 per
plate dinner sponsored by the Right to Privacy
Political Action Committee RTPPAC is one of
the wealthiest PACs in Oregon.
Mayor Bud Clark congratulates architect
Steve Fosler (right) and general manager Mark
Lenetsky (left) on the occasion of their grand
opening o f the new quarters of Food Front
Cooperative Grocery at NW 24th and Thurman.
The new store is the fourth in fifteen years for
the cooperative It is twice the size of the store's
previous building and has a larger produce sec-
tion. a fresh meat counter and a service
delicatessen.
Lifetime memberships to Food Front Coopera­
tive are $ 150 per household. Members receive a
five percent discount on all items, but members
who volunteer two hours a week receive a
fifteen-percent discount.