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With the addition of Suhailah-Smith, Brother to Brother plans to grow its Ujima Eshe communi ty outreach and advocacy component for black people living with AIDS. Darcelle Breaks Ground Friendly neighbor and nationally lauded female impersonator Darcelle XV will wield hardware in the name of charity Feb. 20. SEEKING IN SALEM, ENTHUSIASTIC IN EUGENE, PROMISING IN PORTLAND? Darcelle will break ground on Old Town Tuesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at 137 N.W. Portland nonprofit organization Sisters of the Sixth Ave. Sisters’ staff will dish up gumbo, music Road’s remodeling project. Darcelle, who will and Mardi Gras paraphernalia at this free event. For balance the ambitions of breaking through a wall more information visit www.sistersoftheroad.org. and not breaking a nail, was the master of ceremonies at one of the organization’s first fund raisers more than 10 years ago. 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This remodel, involving the addition of a “extraordinary work for the church and congrega personalist center, represents the first expansion of tion.” The dual awards were presented Jan. 28, on the cafe since 1986, when Sisters converted an the occasion of MCC Portland’s 31st anniversary adjacent storefront into seating for 29. commemoration. The new center will create an indoor waiting For Bartlett, operations manager for Jacee area, a revamped mail and hygiene product distri Enterprises, the honor recognized his leadership bution location and an improved barter program. during the recent remodeling process. The old oil fur The rermxlel will necessitate two more volunteers naces were replaced, and upgrades of the kitchen and who barter work for a meal. bathrooms were accomplished. He’s also part of the Approximately 400 homeless people get their mail at Sisters of the Road. “We’ve been involved with them for a long, long time,” said Darcelle. “We’re in the neighborhood choir and the church worship team and serves as a lay delegate to the denomination’s regional and general conferences. The seven-year member of MCC lives with his partner of 22 years, Matthew Matuskey. and we have friends down the street and they have Highhouse, leader of the five-member queer to eat. [At Sisters of the Road] they don’t have to go Christian rock band Elevation, facilitated the to a religious service. They don’t have to stand in spiritual development committee, working with line at the soup kitchen. They can go in there and former pastor Glenna Shepherd when the concept have a little dignity, cook, clean, if they can’t afford for a youth-focused, get-down-and-groove style led the food. They can work for it. It’s wonderful.” her to form the band and a weekly Sunday evening The expansion project will coincide with Fat service at the church. With one CD out and anoth er stxm to be released, Elevation is raising money to send the band to next summer’s general conference, having captivated attendees at last year’s regional conference. Former pastor Roy Cole initiated the award to highlight lay members making outstand ing efforts for the Portland church. The first recipient, Gordon Branstator, also headed up a major remodel. Other past recipients include Rick Nye, Chuck Harvey, Betty Nelson and Kimberly Brown. Bartlett and Highhouse expressed appreciation of the honor bestowed on them by Leslie A. Stone (left), board president of the Abdill-Ellis Lambda Community Center, and her partner, Karen von Bergen, look glamorous at a Lambda Awards event in Southern Oregon. fellow parishioners. Bartlett says the award “was a very big surprise to me” and finds it
