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&THENEW5 Gitano starts new fashion club for kids By Kathleen Wallick JPou have probably heard o f y a zillion and one Ian clubs and super deal record-of-the- month clubs, but what about a fashion club? I.ast August, Gitano clothes launched the first fash ion club for girls ages five to 15, the Eva Joia Club. It is named after the new Eva Joia line o f casualwear G itano will introduce next spring. Every member o f Eva Joia Club receives a membership card and a brightly colored button adorned with a picture o f the kitty mascot. Miss Ket/elc. l our or five times a year Over-sized sw eaters and slim pants are the fashions featured in the E l A JO /A (JIT A N O tine. members w ill receive a newsletter called kidsline. updating them on the latest fashion trends. I he club started out as an advertising experiment and in just three months has attracted over 100.000 members across the U.S. Due to the enthusiastic response, the toll- free number handling the membership requests had to be expanded. Now there are six lines handling several hundred calls a day. “ It’s been a great success!" says Karen Bromley, spokesperson for Eva Joia. She adds, “ The club w ill serve as a source o f fashion, appealing to the growing sophisticated tastes of young girls." I he only thing you have to do to join this new fashion club is call 1-800- E VA -JO IA . Dancers team up for street people hen the 34 members o f the T A M S dance team from David Douglas High School get together, they are usually getting ready fo r a perform ance. D uring practices, they all try to perfect routines while their instructor shouts c h o re o g ra p h ic in s tru c tio n : “ Chasse, pirouette, tendu, Chinese splits, frappe . . . " But the T A M S weren’t thinking about dance steps recently when they delivered blankets for the street people at Baloney Joe’s. Most girls were nerv ous as they headed for the Burnside district o f Portland on a school bus loaded with 200 blankets they had collected. Junior LaDawna Davidson said, “ It was the first time I ’ve been involved with this kind o f com m unity service. The people weren’t what I By Sharon Wood expected. Baloney Joe’s wasn’t what I expected." Another 200 blankets w ill be deliver ed when the girls serve Thanksgiving dinner at Baloney Joe’s. I t ’s a long way from the spotlights where the girls are usually seen to Balo ney Joe’s in P ortland’s skid row district. When the idea to earn money by gather ing pledges fo r serving Thanksgiving dinner to street people first came up, it was met with mixed reactions. Some o f the girls had worked in the Burnside area before and thought it was a great way to do something fo r others. Other girls were afraid. The blanket delivery put the girls more at ease. Sookie Lee, 14, said, “ Once you’ve seen the street people and you’re right there with them, it's different than what you’ve seen on TV or heard from other people." Invited to perform during halftime activities at the Hula Bowl in Hawaii, the J A M S have been involved in more than 10 fund-raising projects. For their com m unity work on Burnside, the team is accepting pledges to help spon sor their January trip .T he y need $700 for each girl. The girls agree that the project has changed their ideas about street people. Senior team captain Debbie Mowery said, “ I couldn't believe it. Jhere were families, little kids, old people, sick people just people who seemed, well, p oo r." She adds, “ Even if it wasn't a com m unity project to help the team, we’ve learned a lo t." ' ^ j l E W S DIGEST Invasion of the Rum Rums By G.E. Hoppe, Multnomah County Juvenile Court Referee Mo-peds, scooters, mini-bikes! Jhey’re inexpensive. They’re fun. They’re appealing. . . and they’re illegal to operate until you are 16. Oregon law disallows riding them on any street, sidewalk, alley, park or parking lot until you are 16. And you can’t ride any motorized machine o ff the road unless you have written permission from the property PAGE 6 NOVEMBER 1985 owner. O f course, property owners w on’t give you permission because they are liable fo r your injuries. So . . . catch 22! You can’t ride ’em on the road, and you can’t ride ’em off, unless you own lots o f property. Your traffic record is adult no matter how old you are. So if you get caught riding a motorized vehicle before you’re 16, it will affect your ability to buy insurance. I f you get caught driving any vehicle without insurance, you’re in fo r more trouble. For the next three years you w ill have to prove you have insurance in order to get a license. YOUNG AMERICAN The everyday story “ everybody rides them all over” just doesn’t cut it when you get to court. No cameras allowed South A frica ’s President Pieter Botha has banned radio, i television and photo coverage o f black unrest in 38 districts. i He feels that coverage by the ! press causes violence to increase. Even newspaper and magazine journalists must get permission from the police to report about riots. For breaking the new rules, journalists can be [ imprisoned for up to 10 years or | be fined $8,000. in January and Morgan is a back-up. Explicit lyrics Soon some of the records you buy will dispaly a warning label, “ Explicit Lyrics Parental Advisory," or a copy ol the lyrics where they can be read without opening the package Small cassettes may tell the buyer to “ See I P for Lyrics." Teacher-astronauts, Sharon I he plan accepted by the Christa M cAuliffe o f Concord, i Parents Music Resource Center New Hampshire, and Barbara is voluntary and has been Morgan of M cAII, Idaho, take approved by 22 major record a close look at the space shuttle companies The P M R C is Challenger on launch pad 39A. already getting ready for its M cA uliffe is scheduled to take next campaign against sex and o il into space on the Challenger violence on M l V.
