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al W omen in Trades
Career Fair from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. May 15 at the
Local 290 Plumbers &.
Steam fitters Training
Center, 20220 S.W.
Teton Ave. in Tualatin.
Entry-level appren
tice workers’ wages
begin at $9 to $14 an
hour, and journey-level
women
construction
workers and mechanics
can expect to earn $22
to $20 an hour— sub
stantially more than
their peers who work in
traditionally
female- Come meet G us Van
dominated occupations Sant (right) and
such as retail sales, child Peter Paige at a
care and cosmetology.
May 8 cocktail
T he public is invited reception for openly
to meet tradeswomen, gay Portland City
apprenticeship coordi- Council candidate
nators, community col- Sam Adams
lege instructors and
trades employers from more than 60 different
organizations. Attendees also will he able to
participate in 10 different hands-on work
shops and get practical advice on building
their skills for careers in trades that are non-
traditional for women: plumbing, electrical
wiring, sheet metal work, carpentry, welding
and more.
“Even in a poor economy, things still need
to he repaired, especially buildings, bridges,
roads and homes, so tradeswomen have mar
ketable skills,” said Connie Ashbrook, O re
gon Tradeswomen executive director and a
former elevator constructor. “T he opportuni
ties are only going to get better from here. As
the baby boomers start to retire, we’ll see a
allowed same-sex partners in states where co
growing demand for skilled workers, opening
adoption is legal to seek children in Oklahoma.
the door for women to enter the trades.”
The legislation stemmed out of a March contro
versy in which the Oklahoma Health Depart
For more information call 503-335-8200,
ment refused to issue a birth certificate for a child
ext. 21, or visit www.tradeswomen.net.
adopted by a gay couple who live in Seattle.
State Sen. James Williamson, R-Tulsa,
offered House Bill 1821 as an amendment to
another bill April 12. The Senate passed the
V a n S a n t , P a ig e
measure by a 44-0 vote April 12 and the House
S t u m p fo r A d am s
by a 93-4 vote April 26.
wo prominent openly gay celebrities, film
The measure requires the state, its agencies
maker Gus Van Sant and actor Peter Paige,
and the courts of Oklahoma to not recognize
will play host to a cocktail reception for Port adoptions from other jurisdictions by same-sex
land City Council candidate Sam Adams from -couples. The ef-
5 to 6:30 p.m. May 8 at the home of Terry Bean,
fects of this bill are "This law threatens
potentially harm
1882 S.W. Flawthorne Terrace.
ful to same-sex
Portlander Van Sant is the Oscar-nominated
abandoned and
director o f Good Will blunting, My Own couples who are
Private Idaho and Drugstore Cowboy. Paige, who both legal parents orphaned children
stars as Emmett on Showtime’s Queer as Folk, of their children
by refusing to
and move to or
spent two years in the Rose City during the mid-
travel
through afford them stable,
1990s perfonning in several theatrical prcxluc-
Oklahoma. The
tions.
loving homes
Adams served as Mayor Vera Katz’s chief of nonbiological par
staff for 10 years. If elected, he would be Port ent may be denied
— Dave Noble
access to his or her
land’s only openly gay city commissioner.
The suggested donation is $250 a person or children in the hospital or barred from making
medical decisions for them.
$500 a couple. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will
“Henry’s support for this legislation is dis
be provided.
gusting and goes against Democratic principles
which value American families,” said Dave
To RSVP call 503-236-2082 or e-mail
Noble,
National Stonewall Democrats execu
austin@sa.mforpdx. com.
tive director. “This law threatens abandoned
and orphaned children by refusing to afford
them stable, loving homes.”
O klah o m a E nacts
Oklahoma already maintains some of the
B a n o n A d o p t io n
most anti-gay adoption statutes in the nation.
emocratic Gov. Brad Henry signed a dis State law bars same-sex couples in Oklahoma
criminatory anti-family measure May 4 from adopting children, although gay individu
that forbids same-sex couples residing out of als may become adoptive parents. JH
state from adopting children in Oklahoma.
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