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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1998)
june 5. 1998 - ¡uat oaat.g ITìTTTlnews F ledgling P rogram A ims to B oost L esbian H ealth W omen ’ s S helter S chedules J une T raining isterhands is a new Portland-area program providing educational, emotional and eco nomic support to help and encourage lesbians aged 50 and older to have regular screenings for breast and cervical cancer. Sisterhands is a partnership between the YWCA Encoreplus Program, All Women’s Health Services and Phoenix Rising Foundation. Small group sessions at Phoenix Rising will educate participants and provide them with the emotional support they need to seek out screen ings for breast and cervical cancer. All Women’s Health Services will provide health screenings at its lesbian-friendly clinic. Sisterhands will provide vouchers for free women’s health checks and mammograms to women aged 40 and older who meet financial eligibility requirements and have no insurance or are underinsured. For more information, call Marcie at 294'7413. radley-Angle House is looking for volun teers to do direct service work, including answering its 24-hour crisis line, staffing its emergency shelter and transitional houses, working with children’s groups, and serving on its board of directors. P hoenix R ising A ward to H onor K eeney hoenix Rising Foundation’s fourth annual Jack Abele Award Dinner will be held June 19 at the Portland Hilton, 921 S.W. Sixth Ave. The dinner and award are named after Jack Abele, who died in 1995. He and his life part ner, Warren James, were active in gay and les bian issues for more than 20 years. Abele sup ported Phoenix Rising, Cascade AIDS Project and the American Civil Liberties Union, among other groups. The Jack Abele Award acknowledges a per son who has given outstanding service to the sexual minority community of Oregon and Southwest Washington. This year’s honoree is Portland activist and attorney Karen Keeney. Keeney joined the Right to Privacy (now Right to Pride) PAC board in 1989 and was one of the founders of Right to Privacy Inc. She is also a founder of Equity Foundation, serving as its board chair from 1989 through 1992 and as co-chair in 1993 and again this year. In 1992, she was the first out lesbian to be elected as a delegate from Oregon to the Democratic National Convention. The event begins with no-host cocktails and a silent auction at 6 p.m., followed by dinner. Music will be provided by Four in Hand, a women’s quartet from Corvallis. Phoenix Rising Foundation is a Portland based nonprofit organization that promotes the interests of sexual minorities through mental health, education and other support services. Tickets are $75. To reserve a ticket, call Phoenix Rising at 223-8299. Proceeds from this year’s event will support the organization’s new Sexual Minority Youth Recreation Center. P For the first time in 16 years, a great number of taxpayers can ben efit directly from the major Taxpayer Reform Act of 1997. It’s important to start planning now to take full advantage of these new opportunities. I’m committed to help ing individuals, domestic partners, couples and families understand their financial options. B FLOREID WALKER (503) 23&6036 Voicemail (503) 291 7713 WàtlHêH & RppH http://www.waddcU.coin BRADLEY-ANGLE HOUSE ’ JLJVVU Get the Facts. It’s your Money. It’s your Future. Since 1975, Portland-based Bradley-Angle House staff and volunteers have provided emer gency shelter and food, information and refer rals, legal advocacy, peer support, and communi ty support groups for women and children escap ing domestic violence. Bradley-Angle House’s next training will take place on Monday and Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings for a month starting June 11. For more information, call 282-9940. The “Facts on Saving and Investing Campaign,” is a national effort to encourage Investor education. It represents many of the values that Waddell & Reed has strongly supported for over 60 years. • Americans need financial education. A mazon D ragons G earing U p A gain • It’s never to early to begin estimating your retirement needs. his is the eighth year the Amazon Dragons—an out women’s paddling team—is competing in Portland’s annual Rose Festival Dragon Boat Races. The competition will be held at Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park June 6 and 7 from 9 a.m. to dusk. The Amazon Dragons team was founded in 1991 as a visibility project of the Portland-based Lesbian Community Project. The team is looking for folks to cheer it on during race days and is seeking financial support to help cover the cost of entry, uniforms and food. For more information, call 353-9972. T • It’s important to set realistic expectations. • We should teach our children to save. • Start small, think big and know your rights and responsibilities as an Investor. Get the facts to make the most of your financial future. For more information call your local Waddell & Reed financial advisor. Waddell & Reed HNANCUl. amCB ACLU T akes on Floreid Walker - Senior Financial Advisor 5(X) N.E. Multnomah. Suite 278 Portland. OR 97232 (503) 291-7713 P ortland P ublic S chools O ver B oy S couts P olicy he American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon filed a lawsuit May 14 to stop Portland Public Schools from allowing the Boy Scouts of America to recruit in the district’s schools. The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of Nancy L. Powell, who has two children at Scott Elementary School in Portland. Powell and the ACLU say the district should be prohibited from using school resources for Boy Scouts recruiting purposes because the group discriminates against—among others— atheists, by requiring people to profess a belief in regon NARAL uction God in order to become a member. et for une 13 The ACLU and Powell contend Portland Public Schools violated the state constitution regon NARAL, the state affiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive and its own district policy when school employ ees distributed wristbands printed with Boy Rights Action League, will hold its 18th annual Scouts information. Liberty Auction June 13 at Montgomery Park, In March, the Oregon superintendent of 2701 N.W. Vaughn Street in Portland. public instruction ruled against Powell’s com The silent auction begins at 5:30 p.m., and oral bidding begins at 7:30 p.m. Auction items plaint that the district was unlawfolly involved in religious activities. include a white-water rafting trip, literary works, The ACLU and Powell want the court to custom-made jewelry and vintage wines. reverse the superintendent’s order, stop the dis Oregon NARAL is a grass-roots political organization that promotes women’s reproduc trict’s involvement in Scouts recruitment, and award attorney fees and other reasonable costs. tive rights. Liberty Auction tickets cost $15 and can be ■ Compiled by I nga S orensen purchased by calling Laurel Keppy at 223-4510. O S W hat ’ s M ore I mportant : W here Y ou I nvest O r W here Y ou G et Y our I nvestment A dvice . The government agencies and their partners that organized this campaign have not endorsed any particular firms, brokers, products, or services. 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