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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
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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.