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Portland Observer Thursday, December 7, 1978 Page 5 4-H leader plans busy schedule “ All the things 1 love tc do, but never had the time.” In one sentence, Gladys Maribona reflects her feelings about her job as com m unity advisor, serving the Portland Urban 4-H Program. Maribona looks forward to a busy schedule during the months ahead, including classes in holiday baking, featuring cookies, cakes, candies and breads. The Baking Club meets at Penninsula Park every M onday, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Registration is open and further information about the sessions can be obtained by calling the 4-H office, 287-1770, or Ms. Maribona, 287-4200. Also on Maribona’s agenda are arts and crafts classes each Tuesday, from 3:00-5:00 p.m ., at Columbia V illa C o m m u n ity C enter, 8900 Woolsey Street. Volunteers are needed to assist with leadership, and anyone with one or two hours a week to spend with a group o f youngsters is asked to call for leadership infor mation. A t C o lu m b ia Boys C lub each Thursday, Between 3:00-5:00 p.m., Maribona is scheduling classes in photography, woodworking, car pentry and ceramics. Pet clubs are meeting in homes throughout the urban P ortland community, where youngsters are learning about rabbits, fish, gerbils and other small animals, Maribona has lived in Portland for the past twenty years. She attended St. Mary's Academy and earned her degree in animal science at Oregon State University. Her interests run the gamut from the sciences to home economics. " In 4-H , I can do all the things I enjoy, and share my skills and interests with youngsters who are anxious to make use of their spare time by learning something new.” Among other areas o f interest for Maribona are calligraphy, which she will teach each Friday afternoon between 4:00-5:00 p .m . She will teach folk dancing, cooking, paper arts, crocheting and sports as part of her program for the new year. Spanish has been a second language in Maribona’s home from the time she learned to talk. This too she is sharing with 4-H youngsters who have signed up fo r her Spanish workshop, meeting every Wednesday afternoon at the King Neighborhood Facility between 2:30-3:30 p.m The Urban 4-H program is under . . . UNION OR COMPANY DENTAL INSURANCE is a valuable asset . . . your health and appearance COMPLETE COOPERATION ON ALE DENTALINSt RANCECLAIMS ME HANDLE ALL THE DETAILS DE COMPLETING VOIR CLAIM EDRMS N O APPOINTMENT NEEDED Gladys Maribona discusses 4-H programs. Come in at your convenience the direction o f Ira D. M um ford, Oregon State University extension agent, and is centered at the King Neighborhood Facility, 4815 N .E . 7th Avenue, Portland. Anyone in terested in classes for youth between the ages o f eight and eighteen, or leadership in the 4-H program, is asked to call for further information, 287-1770. PARK FREE-Any Park n Shop Lot H O U R S’ W e*kd»ytt «:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday M:30 a.m. to I p.m. Dr. Jeffrey BRADY, Dentist S.W. 3RD 4 YAMHILL ST.. PORTLAND. OREGON TAKE ELEV ATOR TO 2ND FLOOR 3RD ST. ENTRANCE by A lla n Jones • ______Owgse Jeefad, Octskw 17, 197» (>) Quick OK of NW energy bill seen RETROSPECT - BILL SUMMERS "I'm not just an entertainer," says Bill Summers. "I like to share my music with the audience, turn them on at levels they've never experienced and get them to participate in the creative process." Offstage, Bill Summers is a serious young man who regards himself as much an educator as he does a musician. But whenever he appears onstage. Sum mers is one of the world’s most accomplished percussionists, inevitably igniting audiences with his infectious enthusiasm and flawless technique. Summers, thirty, has gathered a wealth of experience that explains much about his mature attitude towards life and art. As a child, he became a proficient multi-instrumentalist (piano, reeds, percussion) while growing up in Detroit. After moving to California, he worked his way through four years of ethnomusicology study at U.C./Berkeley, with emphasis on percussion. Short ly after graduating. Summers became a charter member of Herbie Hancock's pacesetting jazz/funk ensemble, the Headhunters. For the next three and a half years. Summers, the self-professed nonentertainer, customarily brought capacity audiences to their feet with his breathtaking percussion solos. More recently, he was featured percussionist on Quincy Jones’s soundtrack to the celebrated TV series, "Roots." Summers studied the piano formally for.tan years (ages six to sixteen) but his love for music didn't blossom fully until lie picked up the flute, saxophone, and percussion on his own. "I studied out of books," he says, "and listened to a lot of records - Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, Gene Ammona." Back in California, Summers petitioned the conservative U.S. music depart m ent three times before they granted him an independent m ajor in ethnomusicology, with a speciality in African music. "I also studied with several master drummers from Africa, including Zak Diouf and C.K. and Alfred Ladzekpo." Though Summers’ educational intentions are needed lofty, his own music is by no means academic. His playing with Herbie Hancock and with the Headhunters did much to warm America's ears to new percussion sounds. In the context of instrumental jazz/funk that was as musically sophisticated as it was irresistibly danceable. Of course, many sounds new to America's ears in the Seventies belong to centuries-old instruments with exotic names such as shekere, quica. hindewhu, and bata drums. In all. Bill plays well over fifty in struments, and has worked in the studio with Santana, Norman Connors, Stanley Turrentine, the Pointer Sisters, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, and many others. For the past two and a half years. Summers has led his own group, Summers Heat, an evolving ten-piece unit. The band colorfully juxtaposes African and Western instruments without compromising any of the individual elements. "Just like on my records." he says, "there are segments in our live show which are strictly African, while others are pure Brazilian, America salsa, Latin jazz, or straight-ahead funk. My music is really a combination of folk musics from around the world. And rhythm and blues is an American form of Black folk music." William F. Buckley, Jt engages outspoken guests in one-on-one verbal combat. THE PREPONÍAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1», 197» R E T U R N IN G to Oregon after the end of th e 95th Congres», Dem ocratic Rep. A l U11- m aa told an A lbany audience that enactment o f regional energy legislation should be the “ No. 1 p rio rity " for N orthw est representa tives and senators in the n e x t session of Congress. He said that unnnecessary delay w ill ac cele ra te th e rap id rise in regional energy costa. “W e cannot stop thia trend w ith a new p ro g ra m ," he said. “ B ut w e can c erta in ly stretch our resources in a w ay that slows the trend.” He said regional differences over the Pa cific N orthw est Electric Pow er Planning and Conservation A ct can be w o rked out over th e next several months. H e said there was unanim ity over basic objectives o f the meas ure. including rate relief to residential and sm all-farm customers. By KEN H AM BURG Jownal Staff W rite r VA NC O U VER . Wash. - W ork la al ready under way for the passage of the Northwest regional energy bill by early 1979, according to the man who success fully pushed the national energy package through in the closing moments o f the 95th Congress. Sen. Henry “Scoop" Jackson. D-Wash., predicted Monday that the Senate w ill pass a regional power plan "within tw o to three months at the most" after Congress reconvenes in January. Jackson made his rem arks at a noon luncheon w ith the Vancouver Chamber of Commerce at the ThunderMrd Inn at the Quay and during a presa conference after wards. Jackson said the Senate could liav e passed a Northwest energy bill this year, "but it wouldn't have solved anything.” because of disagreements among the three House comminees that also were looking at the legislation. “ There is going to be some give and take; there's a fear the preference clause (fo r public power agencies) w ill be invad ed,” be said. “W e're not going to do that. W hat w e are going to try to do ia bring equity to the rate payers. There's going to be problems, but I think they can he re solved and w ill bs resolved." he said. On another matter of regional interest. Jackson said a decision by the U.S. Su preme Court Monday to review the Judge Boldt decision on Indian fishing rights "is the beat news we've had in a long, long tim e.” "The Boldt decision would establish a precedent that would have a colossal Im pact on claims by Indians a il over the United States," he asserted "It's long overdue.” On the national scene, Jackaon said the *18 .7 billion tax cut passed by Congress Sunday was “ overall the best N il we could get. It provides a pretty good bal ance" ia savings for middle- and lower- income taxpeyers, as w ell i t for corporate investments. The tax package, he said, should stimu late the economy without contributing to Inflation In response to a question, Jackson awarded President Carter a B-plus for his handling of the 95th Congress. "He made a complete turn-around," Jackson said. He said Carter managed to pass nts top prior ity energy package by w o rkin g closely w ith the congressional leadership. »»".» i Just because Congress has adjourned until January doesn’t mean the Northwest’s re gional energy bill is on the back burner. A Square Deal for Investor-Owned Utility Customers. Leading m embers o f Congress recognize the im portance o f a Northwest regional energy bill. Am ong other im portant objectives this bill is designed to bring about equitable distribu tion o f less expensive federal hydropower. As it stands now, two-thirds of the North west’s homes are served by investor-owned utilities...and all are denied access to this cheaper power. Legislative action is the answer. Pacific Power has been fighting to gain access to that power for our custom ers... all the way to the courts. And now, our Northwest K O A P -T V 10 €0© I w n«'ii. mu»..... . representatives in Congress are working diligently to solve the problem through legis lative action. It means lower hom e electric bills. When the proposed legislation passes, cus tomers o f investor-owned utilities will see a 20% cut in hom e electric rates. Immediately. With more cuts to come. And customers of all utility companies, investor owned and public alike, will equally share the hydropower tax dollars generate. So let your Congressmen know where you stand. \b u r support o f reallocation of federal hydropower will help keep this very im portant bill rolling. The People a t Pacific Power. Working to cut your energy costs down to size. Senator Representative Mark O. Hatfield Robert Duncan 463 Russell Senate 440 Cannon House Office Building Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 Washington D.C. 20515 Representative Representative Al Clllman Les AuCoin 1136 Longworth House 231 Cannon House Office Building Office Building Washington D.C. 20515 Washington D.C. 20515 FRIDAY - 10 P.M. i Leaders from US. House and Senate say Northwest energy legislation "No. 1 priority." Senator Bob Packwood 1317 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 Oregon Educational and Public Broadcasting Service ....... Representative James Weaver 1238 Longworth House Office Building Washington D.C. 20515
