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AIDS Project's AIDS Walk.
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He also donated $5,000 this year to the state’s
amendments, which must he voted on separately;
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and that it was a policy pronouncement and not
Oregon. He made the donation to PABA through
the proper subject for a ballot initiative.
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the case are very good. It’s a matter of whether
education they can get.”
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AIDS Project’s 21st annual AIDS Walk Portland,
a five-kilometer walk downtown. The fund-raiser
brought
in
more than $350,000 for CAP’s
H1V/AIDS services, public education, prevention,
support and outreach efforts to youth and adults
most at risk for contracting HIV.
“We were delighted with the outcome," said
Juan Martinez is challenging the state on
Measure 36 along with his partner, Byron Beck.
executive director Jean Ann Van Krevelen. “Not
only did we break a record with our fund raising,
more than 50 people registered to vote in the first
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and college students attending."
Edlen Development, reached out to the Portland
In addition, a record number of teams walked
Area Business Association (PABA) this month
with a $3,000 gift to the sexual minority business
this year: 275 teams as opposed to 215 in 2006. The
networking organization’s 2008 scholarship fund.
10,000. The number of volunteers working the
“We can kx)k at it as a way of building an endow
event also broke records at 275; last year it was 210.
Speakers cheering walkers on included U.S.
Michael Traylor. “Before this contribution, our goal
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.;.Kerry Tymchuk, state
was to hit $5,000 for next year. I would say (the schol
director for U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore.; and
arship] committee will probably re-evaluate and see
Portland Mayor Tom Potter.
if we can aim a little big higher.” Traylor added that
John Frohnmayer, an Independent candidate
this might be the largest gift PABA has received from
running for U.S. Senate, participated in rhe walk.
a straight donor.
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, he served as chair
man of the National Endowment for the Arts. .
ed a Sept. 12 PABA luncheon to address changes
“I saw the way AIDS decimated the arts
in the Burnside Triangle, where Gerding Edlen
community in the late 1980s,” Frohnmayer said.
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“We lost hundreds of brilliant innovators, and we
were given out at the same meeting.
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