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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.
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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.
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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.
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(503) 23&6036
Voicemail (503) 291 7713
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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
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• 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.
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• 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
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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.
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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
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purchased by calling Laurel Keppy at 223-4510.
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