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sex with men through her experience working at the
Native American Health Clinic in Milwaukie and
the Multnomah County Health Department on var
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intravenous drug users. She has also worked with Our
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“I’ve had to do advocacy most of my life,” she
said.
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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Bartlett, Highhouse Receive
Silver Awards
Sisters of the Road is an agency benefiting the
Paul Bartlett and Nicole Highhouse have
homeless through its cafe, where patrons can work
received Metropolitan Church of Portland’s Silver
off their meal and beverage by volunteering in the
Anniversary Award, honoring members who put in
kitchen. 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