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«■ i 1 ‘W Pagi 4 Portland Ohnerver Thursday. November 3. 1977 U.L. holds career conference Herb Cawthorne. Director of the Port land Stale University Education Oppor tunity Program, will be the featured speaker at a career seminar The seminar, which will be held at the University of Portland on November, is sponsored by the Career Awareness Committee. Mr. Cawthorne is s member of the National Urban League Board of Direc tors, and the Urban League of Portland. Some twenty-five representatives from Business. Industries. Education. Health care. Law and Government will be participating in the seminar. It will involve students from every high school in the Portland Public School System; students have signed up at their own school. The seminar will consist of general discussions, individual workshops, role playing and a sum m srv «i>„ activities. Hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. N U & IÒ H IL L E I "Portlondk F i n t i ” In J a x x and Soul Lpat VIA: JOHN REED BOOK STORE la the Dekuai Building 519 8.W. 3rd Avenue Sixth Floor H aw aii 319.00 Vancouver B. C. 75.60 Double Occupancy including Round Trip Air Fare X Round Trip Air Fare Make« a Great Mini Vacation lor the Weekend Reno 135.00 HERB CAWTHORNE Round Trip Air Fare 3 Day* and 2 Nites Hotel Keservatiouk Deluxe Accommodation« Convenient Friday Departure« & Sunday return« Theatre Flamenco visits Jeff &tíMieuAtwti Gufo Tickets for Friday night’s performance are $3.50 for students and $4.50 for adults. They can be purchased at the usual ticket outlets or by sending a check to Jefferson High School. 5210 N. Kerby, Portland 97217. Bahamas 582.00 8 dnys/7 night« double occupancy - Air Fare Travel Robert’s 3415 N.E. Broadway 287-1745 Public Norice Notice is hereby given that Neighborhood Hearings will be held to discuss the Federal Housing and Community Develop ment (HCDI Program for the City of Portland for the fiscal year July 1. 1978 to June 30. 1979. The City of Portland may receive approximately $10,100,000 from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUDI for its HCD program needs for the FY July 1, 1978 to June 30. 1979. These funds may be used for: Housing Rehabilitation Street Construction Street Alterations Street Tree Planting Street Lighting Installation Park Improvements Purchase, sale or lease of blighted property appropriate for rehabilitation or preservation. Construction of public works improvements: sewer and wster lines, open space, neighborhood facilities, senior center. • Code enforcement in deteriorating areas • Special projects removing barriers which restrict the elderly | and handicapped • Public or social services not otherwise available • IxKal matching funds for other federal programs • Completion of urban renewal programs • Relocation assistance • Planning comprehensive C.D. program • Reasonable administrative costs including citizen involve ment costs Citizens will be given an opportunity at these hearings to I state their views on community development and housing, to I articulate needs, express preferences about proposed activities. I and assist in the selection of priorities. The final HCD program will be developed by City staff for review and adoption by City Council, hut such program will be bused upon the views | received and priorities established by citizens. 'Reverse discrimination’ TV topic -----UNION OR COMPANY DENTAL INSURANCE is a valuable a sset. . . Ute it to protect your health and appearance COMPLETE COOPERATION ON ALL DENTAL INSURANCE CLAIMS WE HANDLE ALL THE DETAIL^ OF COMPLETING YOUR CLAIM FORMS Refund due SALEM - Approximately 65,000 senior citizens will receive a $50 refund for fuel and utility rate relief next week, says the Oregon Department of Revenue. The refund, a result of 1977 legislation, is to help low-income seniors who may find it hard to pay today's fuel and utility rates. To qualify for the refund a senior must have filed a 1976 homeowner or renter property tax refund claim, and be 60 or older with 1976 household income of less than $5,000. The revenue department will automatically mail checks to those who qualify. No special application is necessary. The legislature appropriated $7 million for the program for the 1977 79 biennium. The balance of the funds will be prorated among persons who qualify for the refund next fall. Open Saturday Morning NO APPOINTMENT NEEDED Come in at your convenience PARK FRfcE-Any Park n Shop Lot hours : Dr. Jeffrey BRADY, dentist 8.W. 3rd A YAMHILL ST.. PORTLAND, OREGON TAKE ELEVATOR TO 2nd FLOOR 3rd ST. ENTRANCE k PRETEND YOU DON'T CARF ABOUT GIVING — THE U n ite d W a y I ■ I Or call: n( The Performing Arts Center of Jeffer son High School proudly announces its second dance residency of the 1977 fall season Theatre Flamenco of San Fran cisco, under the direction of Adela Clara, will be in residency at Jefferson from November 14th through the 19th. Liberal community, state, regional and national support from the Oregon Ballet Council, the Portalnd Public Schools, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Western loan Armatrading. voted England's #1 female vocalist in 1976. a;>;>eared in Portland States Arts Foundation and the National i tost summer. Don't miss her the next time she appears. Endowment for the Arts has been gen erously combined to present this resi dency at Jefferson. Adela Clara formed Theatre Flamenco in 1966. She had performed extensively as a soloist in both the United Stattes and Spain before that time. The company has by Allen Jones toured throughout the Western United States for the past ten years. Many of its SPECTRUM IN BLUE - JOAN ARM A TRADING individual members have performed in ternationally. When Joan Armatrading's third A&M album "Joan Armatrading" was released in During their residency. Theatre Fla July 1976, it was love at first listen. The album and her subsequent concert menco will concentrate on intensive class performances resulted in excellent reviews and adulation from even the most skeptical es including flamenco tap. ballet, guitar of critics. and vocal for Jefferson dance students. Rolling Stone named "Joan Armatrading" “Runner-up Album of the Year." which The company will also provide opportune found the lady side by side with Jackson Browne. Boz Scaggs. Rod Stewart and Bob ties for the community to take flamenco Seger, “...an unforgettable voice." said the Washington Poet. "The music is master classes and attend lecture demon scorchinglv honest, technically brilliant." opined the Philadelphia Enquirer. Mean strations on the history and technique of while “Joan Armatrading" gradually nudged its way into the top half of the national flamenco dance and music. charts. The evening performance at 8:00 p.m. With an uncanny knack for arresting phrasing. Joan's sensitive lyrics reach new heights of expression on this fourth album. Her multi-dimensional voice, capable of on Friday. November 18th. in the Jeffer son auditorium will be open to the public. simultaneously sounding smoothly textured, cutting and lilting, combined with It promises to be an exciting culmination dynamic guitar licks, and an unaffected stage presence have garnered her acclaim as of the week's residency. Theatre Fla one of the more innovative, versatile and important artists on the music scene. menco presents a program that is not A new awareness to the demands of her craft is vibrantly heard on her fourth and only entertaining but enthralling for newest A&M album. “Show Some Emotion," produced bv Glvn Johns. "Glvn brought youngsters and adults alike. Through the out the guitarist in me." says Joan. “Writing is still most important to me. But I still want people to know that I play guitar instead of just strumming." Joan's penetrating colorful and fiery dances of the various guitar licks, which one reviewer has said "knocks you off your feet." is accented on regions of Spain Theatre Flamenco pro vides an introduction to Spain itself. "Opportunity," a jazz flavored showcase for Joan on acoustic guitar. Joan Armatrading was born in St.K itts in the Caribbean on December 9, 1960, one of six children. She was seven when her family left the West Indies for the more stable climate of Birmingham. England where Joan spent her adolescence listening to the radio, writing songs and playing guitar. By fifteen she had mastered the second hand piano her mother bought for use as furniture. Only after her brother's constant nagging did Joan hesitantly agree to perform. “I’ve always thought of myself as a songwriter first," she says. “I write all the time. The last thing I think about is how to sing it." Her first album. “ Whatever s For Us." a collaboration with poet/lyricist Pam Nestor, was released in 1973. A two-year hiatus from recording ensued which found Many battles, legal and otherwise, Joan refining her craft. 1975’s "Back To The Night" was voted one of the top ten have been fought as a result of discrimi albums in English critic’s poll. That same year also marked her first concert tours nation in job hiring, job promotion and with Supertramp and Nils Lofgren. admission to professional schools. In a She told Rolling Stone she was "168% positive" she wouldn't look good in glitter and step toward equality, the government prefers her basic Levi’s. She admits “stupid things arouse inspiration" and insists her implemented affirmative action policies songs aren't autobiographical because if she doesn’t find her life interesting "why which give preferential treatment to should someone else? It's not really a question of having secrets I'm trying not to let otherwise disadvantaged groups. Is this out the secret that 1 have no secrets." fair or is this reverse discrimination? And while comparisons come easy these days, the diverse scope of Joan’s styles Gerry Pratt and his guests, including have been so baffling that she's been likened to such varied luminaries as Joni lawyers, affirmative action officers and Mitchell. Nina Simone. Van Morrison. Elton John, and Jimi Hendrix. High praise for a affected individuals, explore the timely lady who has remained indifferent to the clamor. “I don't mind being compared," says topic of "Equality and Quotas" on this Joan unaffectedly, "as long as it’s to someone I like." week's LIVE Town Hall, November 6th at 6:00 p.m. on KATU, Television Two in Portland. The public may participate in the LIVE discussion by arriving at the KATU studios no later than 5:15 p.m. Interested la curreol books about Atricaa Liberation? HOUSING ANO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AREAS CITY OF PORTLAND ORE tSTS-TT DATE NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE 11/3 Buckman Community Association St. Francis School 1131 S.E. Oak 11/4 Sellwood/Moreland Sellwood Comm. Center 1436 S.E. Spokane 11/9 Brooklyn Action Corps Sacred Heart Parish 3910 SE. 11th 7:30 p.m. 11/9 Eliot N. Program Association Dishman Center 77 N.E. Knott 7:30 p.m. 11/14 Richmond Coord. Committee PACT Sr. Center 3588 SE. Division (Enter on 36th) 7:30 p.m. 11/14 Kern Neighborhood Association Monroe High School 2508 N.E. Everett 7:30 p.m. 11/14 Hosford/ Abernethy Carvlin Hall 2412 S.E. Tammarack 7:80 p.m. 11/15 Southeast Coalition PACT Office 3534 S.E. Main 7:30 p.m. 11/17 No. Portland Citizen Comm. (HDC Sub. Comm.) St. Johns Comm. Ctr. 8427 N. Central 7:30 p.m. 11/17 Sunnyside Neighborhood Assoc. Sunnyside United Methodist Church 3620 S.E. Yamhill 7:80 p.m. 11/25 Boise Citizen Improvement Assoc. Boise School 620 N. Fremont 7:30 p.m. 11/28 Sabin Community Association Sabin School 4013 N.E. 18th 7:30 p.m. 11/29 NWDA Board Office 6:30 p.m. 11/29 Woodlawn Improvement Association 100F Hall 700 N.E. Dekum 7:30 p.m. 11/29 King Improvement Association King Neighborhood 4816 N.E. 7th 7:30 p.m. 12/7 Corbett/Terwilliger Planning Committee Wilson High School 1151 S.W. Vermont 7:30 p.m. Published November 3. 1977 Mike Lindberg. Administrator Office of Planning & Development 1220 8.W. 5th Avenue Portland. Oregon 97204 TIME 7:30 p.m. 10:00 a.m.
