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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1992)
THE PET SET PHOTO BY UNDA CARTER 8:30-6 Mon-Fri 8:30-5:30 Sat. • Dog and Cat Grooming • Pet Supplies Rosebowl Classic brings 260 bowlers to Portland • Cat Boarding 1411 SW 14th Ave. Located next to Animal Medical Clinic he 9th annual Rosebowl Classic capped off another successful season for the Portland Commu nity Bowling Association. Two hundred sixty participants from as far away as Florida, rolled into town and down the gutters May 30. Portland dominated the Rosebowl capturing most of the top awards and cash, as well as the Pacific Rim award, presented to the city with the highest team average. The team of Bowled-or-Dash, representing Portland’s Friday night FITS league took first place ($1,000) after exhibiting an explosion of talent by its members Steve Rabitoy (Friday League President), Cheryl Wright, Beth Borde, Craig Miller and Diane Singleton. T 2 4 1 -4 0 5 1 NO MORE FLEAS FULL ONE YEAR GUARANTEE Fleas are a stubborn lot. You can dust 'em, spray 'em, collar 'em, even bomb 'em; but still they persist. And all the while, 4 the/re driving your dog and cat crazy, not to mention you and your family. wr pa fj But there is an absolute w ay to kill Reas. Call Fieabusrers immediately. W e specialize in killing fleas; your vet will tetl you. It works for the entire flea season, and for one full year, guaranteed or your money back. So there's absolutely no risk, except maybe having your pet love you to death. Call Fleabusters today for a free telephone estimate. 252-FLEA Can you answer a phone? If so, Phoenix Rising needs you to help staff its phones and office variety of issues. “We also have a speakers’ bureau. We need volunteers for that,” Work added. Phoenix Rising speakers talk with more than 1,200 people a year in churches, schools, public agencies, community groups, and private companies, advising them on issues that lesbians and gay men face. Speakers also have assisted in training staff members of arge Work, longtime member of Parents private and public agencies and companies for and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and an working with gay and lesbian clients. Phoenix Rising also provides a wide variety of advocate for the gay community, has been information and referrals to the local community appointed Director of Volunteer Services for Phoe nix Rising. “My responsibility is to make sure as well as to people from outside the area who are when someone calls that there’s someone to an considering visiting or moving here. “We do need swer the phone, and someone to help,” Work staff to operate phones, among other things,” explained. Filling a previously salaried position. Work said. “We need people with computer Work agreed to perform the duties for free as a skills, to answer correspondence, and to update cost saving measure. the information and referral guide. People call Although Phoenix Rising has long relied on locally and from out of town wanting information volunteers and donations to provide a wide array about the local gay community, as well as Port of services and information to the lesbian and gay land in general. We want a real live person community and their families, both locally and answering the phone. Years ago there was a gay from outside of the metropolitan area, recent hot line, but now Phoenix Rising is the only events have combined to create budget constraints. telephone information resource for the gay com Gay men and lesbians have a strong tradition of munity [in the Portland metropolitan area].” volunteerism and philanthropy, especially for For the present, Phoenix Rising has been able causes directly affecting the gay and lesbian com to provide services at or near the same level that munity. Currently, however, these efforts and they have in the past and hope to continue doing generosity are being stretched by the fight to stop so with the help of the community. However, the Oregon Citizens Alliances effort to legalize there is cause for concern. As a certified mental discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. health agency, Phoenix Rising receives funding The current economic recession and the political for services provided to clients referred to them season have also tightened the funding pinch for by state and local government agencies. If the organizations like Phoenix Rising. OCA’s homophobic ballot measure passes this “The services are so many and so important to November, it would be illegal for these agencies the community. Phoenix Rising is a safe place for to even mention Phoenix Rising to prospective gays and lesbians to go for counseling, informa clients, much less provide any funding assistance tion, and many other services,” Work said. Phoe for services rendered. Phoenix Rising is also a nix Rising has been providing support to the local United Way agency, and controversies within community for over a decade, and is currently the that organization may in turn limit the amount of only organization specifically dedicated to pro assistance it will be able to provide. viding these services for the gay and lesbian “Volunteers may work any time convenient to community. Counseling-individual, couple, fam them from nine to five on weekdays, and. in the ily, and group-is offered on a sliding scale so that evening,” Word said. For further information or anyone needing it can afford it Clients are to volunteer support, contact Marge Work at the assured of nonjudgmental treatment concerning Phoenix Rising office, 223-8299. their sexual orientation when dealing with a wide Jim Hunger M
