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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 2002)
EßHlout College? ROLLOVER? Roth 401 k? IRA? The Questions: L ong‘term Care? CCD? Rlffc? 401 (UP LIFE INSURANCE? • Roth IRA? T h e A n s w e r s : FLOREID WALKER W ADDELL « S r REED Financial Services Investing. W ith a planT For a personal financial plan, call WADDELL & REED Memb" SIPC 500 N.E. Multnomah, Suite 278, Portland, OR 97232 FLOREID WALKER Senior Financial Advisor www.waddeU.com em ail ßoreidwalker@ wradvisors, com 503.238.6036 ext 109 o, I will not participate it) Cascade AIDS Project’s walk because CAP is 95 percent bureaucracy and 5 percent service. Because I live off Supplemental Security Income, the only service they are able to pro vide is a $5 monthly gas certificate. Now in order to qualify for this, I’ve had to go to sev eral interviews and fill out many forms, and I receive a letter about once a month saying that the transportation program is facing yet more cuts and that I will have to reapply and have yet another interview with the program director— in their newly remodeled office downtown. I’ve finally just not responded any more because I assume that every time I walk in the door I am just another number for their very well-kept statistics of how many people they “serve.” So for me, I am not interested in AIDS Inc. CAP Project. As far as I am concerned— and obviously many others in the communi ty—CAP is no longer the organization bom in that living room so many years ago. It has crossed the line into becoming more focused on keeping itself alive and being its own enti ty than being a service to the community it is intended to serve. N C urt K nudson Portland • • • will participate in the walk this year. 1 am satisfied that Cascade AIDS Project has made significant positive changes for the bet ter since the ’90s. I don’t see any other organization of this size holding fund-raisers or offering all the services they do to all people—gay or straight, male or I often and never can get a straight answer. Maybe a not-so-straight answer will explain it better. A pril M. L a S age Portland Way to go« Ohio TO THE EniTOR: s a gay alumnus of Wittenberg University female. I hope people can see what the impor tant thing is here: It’s not just raising money for one organization but also keeping public aware ness alive by holding a walk in the middle of downtown Portland. RTTTTTCn O T O Ï Ï J T P »tîntes revolutionary therap\ to help look younger anti reduce wrinkles We offer a non-evasive 30-45 minute treatment for W RINKLE R E D IIC T IO N . Partnering BOTOX with LYRA Laser is the perfect blend to help soften wrinkles away. 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Injured? ...Call me M ichael L amont Portland IlC X t Portland Mayor Vera Katz defends her decision to proclaim Leather Pride Week: Are you glad she stuck to her guns, or do you feel she handed Christian conservatives more ammunition to use against us? (Please see related item on Page 7.) Respond at www.justout.com. (Don’t forget to include your name, city and daytime telephone number.) nationwide to invite Wittenberg’s gay, lesbian, bi and trans alumni and their friends, family, spous es and partners to this year’s homecoming. Ironi cally, homecoming will be held on and around the weekend of Oct. 11, which is National Com ing Out Day! I, along with the help of Witten berg’s administrators, faculty and GSA, will play host to a reception for our gay alumni and their guests in the student union the morning of Oct. 12 before the parade and game festivities. This is the first time in the history of the uni versity that Wittenberg has openly acknowl edged its gay alumni. Please give strong consid eration to proudly attending this year’s home coming and our reception, either by yourself or with family and friends. For more information feel free to contact me directly at 800-265-8402 or mriggle@CMRinc.com or visit the Internet site www.FriendsofWittGSA.com. and anti-gay letters to the alumni magazine gave me a renewed interest in my participation in the university. To my delight 1 found that there was a small but thriving Gay Straight Alliance on campus and that the majority of the faculty and admin istration were moderately to enthusiastically in support of this group and its mission. Conse quently, 1 have been asked to serve as the alum ni adviser to the GSA, a role 1 happily accepted. M alcolm R iggle I am writing today to all GLBT newspapers i Columbus, Ohio D IG N IT Y M EA N S Proudly serving our community since 1989 in personol injury claims including: PLA N N IN G . 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