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Portland Observer Batiste named to Board of Higher Education Alvin Batiste, a long-time N.E. Port land community activist, was named recently by Governor Hob Straub to a position on the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. Straub's office made the announcement January 30th. The appointment is to be effective March 15th and is subject to Senate committee approval, although Straub has recently challenged the va lidity of an appointment rejection by the Senate. Board positions are non salaried. E x penses are paid. Batiste anticipates spending at least two days per month at Board meetings. His other Board duties will be balanced among his family time, his position at the Bonneville Power Administration, and the numerous com munity activities in which he partici pates. Batiste said he was "very pleased" with the appointment and identified some of his higher education concerns as: cost, women's athletics, and building mainte nance. A L V IN B A T IS T E "I'm anxious that the cost of higher education doesn't get out of reach of the average family." Batiste said. 1-arge families are especially heavily burdened by college costs, he said, using his own family as an example. Alvin and Rosalie Batiste have seven children who have completed college or are presently en rolled. Batiste said he supports the tax relief proposals, including the one by President Carter, which Congress may consider during its current session. Batiste compares education to an in vestment and points out the benefit an education returns to the community. If this were a business investment or expense," Batiste explains, "methods for tax relief would be available because the government equates a growing business investment with a healthy community, and. of course, government revenue. An investment in higher education has the same effect, but the government does not allow a sufficient relief. Batiste voiced a criticism of the main tenance condition of some higher educa tion structures. Batiste would not iden tify the buildings or the campus. Batiste is disappointed in the progress made at upbringing the quality of wo men s athletic programs, describing the progress as going at a snail's pace.' “It is just not getting off the ground soon enough." Batiste said. “It might take some seed money from the state to get it started Batiste does not, however, support the use of state funds for the regular athletic programs at the univer sity level. Batiste also called for more relevancy in higher education curriculum. "The community colleges have shown the meeting of a relevant education. I hope higher education can do the same." Batiste said. Batiste recently received the Interior D e p a rtm e n t's M e rito rio u s Service Award. In 1971 he received the Equal Opportunity Honor Award. Batiste is president of the Concordia Community Association, an associate member of the Association for Urban Technology and is active in other community projects. Thursday, February 18, 1978 Page 5 COMMUNITY CALENDAR The Oregon Association of Colored Women's Clubs will hold their Annual Black History Program, Sunday, February 26. 1978 at M att Dishman Community Center. 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. The Theme: "Black Concepts. Designs and Contributions’ will feature Black art. history, literature and music. The public is invited to attend. N A ACP Meeting on Sunday, February 19, 1978 at 4:00 p.m. at the St. Paul Church of God in Christ, 2859 N .E. Rodney. Discussion will be on the Union Avenue Project. N A A C P 78 Kick-Off D rive will be held on Sunday, February 28, 1978 at 4:00 p.m. at the M t. Olive Baptist Church. There will be an Area 11 Citizen Advisory Committee, regular meeting -- 7:30 p.m., on February 21, 1978, Marysville School, 7733 S.E. Raymond Street. The Portland Black Firefighters Association are having a Bazaar. February 18th 19th (Saturday and Sunday), from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., at the Salvation Arm y Community Center (5430 N. Moore Street). The North Portland Branch Library, 512 N. Killingsworth Street, will present world renowned ges.tel singer W ill* Dorsey in a program of Afro-American music on Saturday, February 25th, al 2:00 p.m. in celebration of Black History Week. Everyone is invited to attend this free program celebrating Black History Week. For further information call the North Portland Branch at 284 5822. The Firehouse Theater presents “Life W ith Father," by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Performed on Friday and Saturday, February 17th and 18th at 8:30 p.m. at the Firehouse Theater located at 1436 S.W. Montgomery. Admission is $3, call 248-4737, Box Office hours 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. February 22nd City Council hearing on amendments to comprehensive planning process. Tentative, call 248 4280. The Banfield Transitway Project Office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, located at the State Office Building, 5821 N .E . Glisan Street in Room 14, Portland. Persons may secure free project maps, lists of alternatives, costs, and other background information there. I l unable to come to the office, call 238-8235 or 238-8226 for information. Legal service aids elderly through agency maze Three pnrgrams to provide legal assis lance for elderly persons have been announced in recent weeks by the Legal Services Development Program for the Elderly. The programs include: an advocate personal assistance service to assist persons through the hearings process of governmental bureaucracies, a volunteer attorneys service to provide aid where a practicing attorney is required in a legal dispute, and a speakers service which provides speakers from the Oregon Older Lawyers Association to groups of elderly persons. The personal advocates, called parale gals, are hot attorneys but are trained in the sometimes confusing processes of Medicare. Medicaid. Veterans Benefits, Food Stamps, etc. Ron Wyden, Development Programs Coordinator, emphasized that not only will these paralegals inform elderly peo ple about their rights and how to secure them, but will, if necessary, accompany and act as spokesperson at bureaucratic hearings. Thus the 'legaleze' which sometimes confound the non-legal logic of benefits applicants will be neutralized, according to Wyden. The paralegals are volunteers and can be contacted through senior centers such as Project Able and the Northeast Urban league Adult Center. Their availability depends on their personal schedule. W y den explained. Many are seniors but few are themselves retired. Wyden named Lucretia Hopcroft os the paralegal at Project Able and M artha W arren at the Urban League Center. Peggy Lindquist, Development Pro gram I^egal Resources Coordinator, out lined the project’s* efforts to provide attorney's services directly to low-income elderly persons. Attorneys are being requested statewide, Ms. Lindquist said, to contribute legal services through the county bar organizations. Ms. Lindquist described the speakers programs of the Oregon Older Lawyers Association. The Association, she said, provides speakers who will give the answers elderly persons need but are reluctant to seek from a private attorney because of cost. These are matters such as wills, property or consumer problems, taxes, for example. Ms. Lindquist said the response to the speakers program has been excellent. She stressed community education as a primary goal of the Development Pro gram's Projects, explaining that if the low-income elderly know of the availabi lity of low or no cost legal assistance they can hopefully avoid the crisis situations which can be financially devastating. 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On the assumption there might be. the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Research Center has designed, built and tested a site built, solar heated house that might just fit into your budget, says Hugh Hansen, Oregon State University Extension agricultural engi neer Detailed construction plans are available from OSU. The house design incorporates a built- in solar collector system in the attic. The" solar attic collector system can be readily adapted to nearly any house size or floor plan. Hansen says. “In many areas of the U.S., the system can supply up to 75 percent of the heat needed." The prototype home is a 1,100 square foot, three bedroom, one bath ranch style frame structure. It is conventional in all respects, except for the heat-collecting attic, a crushed rock heat sink in the Program tutors HS students St. Andrew Community School is spon soring a free tutoring program, “Success Enhanced.” for high school students. 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