Portland Observer April 2 . 1981 Page B
Lockridge
forms band
INTERESTING
FACTS
By Nathaniel Scott
Linda Johnson, Gloria Knox. Halim Rashaan. Joica Taylor. Nathaniel Scott. Ben Clark. William Jen
nings. and Ron Taylor discuss economic development strategies.
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Development coalition forms
By Nathaniel Scott
O rganizational members met
Saturday, March 27th, at the King
Neighborhood Facility to discuss
form ation o f the Black C oalition
for Economic Development.
The coalition’ s purpose and goal
was stated in the letter o f in
troduction that was sent to various
community agencies. “ The primary
objective o f coming together is to
build a wide base o f com m unity
alliances that represents economic
development for our community.”
Representatives from the Black
United Front, C .R .I.B ., Northwest
Ex-offender Association and HUD,
discussed and made recommen
dations that were to be presented to
the City Council, A pril 1.
Among the key areas discussed
and supported by all in attendance
Saturday, were:
A 24-hour child care center that
would afford working parents the
opportunity to secure employment
throughout the three work shifts; to
seek out and encourage the business
sector, com m unity based, locally
and n a tio n a lly, to establish and
maintain business enterprises within
the community that w ill train and
employ com m unity workers, and
that among those the ex-offender be
included; to seek housing fo r the
low income and disadvantaged, the
elderly and handicapped, the ex
offender, students, and those who
fo r various reasons falls in to the
category below poverty, poverty or
poverty boarder line.
Some o f those in attendance for
the call of community alliance were
H alim Rahassan and Benjamin
C lark, BUF; Geraldine Aberam ,
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Joice A. Taylor and l.aVonne Mc
Farland, C .R .I.B .; G lo ria Knox,
citizen; and W illiam Jennings, Ex
offenders.
M ary Lockridge (the m illio n -
dollar grandmother) recently retired
from the C ity, is striving to give
yoling people a chance in the
musical field.
Lockridge is cu rre n tly p utting
together a group that w ill cruise the
Caribbean and South Sea Islands.
She said, “ I am try in g to inspire
young musicians to get out and gain
experience and also, to see some o f
the world and how other people are
living.”
Lockridge is try in g to form a
musical aggregation o f piano,
drums, upright bass and an alto
saxophonist, who also doubles on
clarinet, not only for professional
reasons, but also to help those less
fortunate.
“ I want to do something inside
the in s titu tio n s , because those
people are deprived o f many things,
to let them know that people care
and are with them. 1 have had sons
of my own in institutions and I feel
very strongly about it.”
This is M ary Lockridge, the
million-dollar grandmother, a Black
woman working for the betterment
of the whole.
Lockridge can be cqntacted at
6555 SE Division. Apt. 5, 97206, for
benefits or inquiry about musicians.
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Cook joins committee
The First State Bank’ s Paul G.
Cook has been elected to a four-year
term on the board o f the Oregon
Committee fo r the Hum anities, a
Committee spokesperson announ
ced. As a board member, M r. Cook
w ill have a hand in prom oting
cultural and educational programs
throughout Oregon.
The Oregon Com m ittee fo r the
Hum anities, an a ffilia te o f the
N ational Endowment fo r the
Humanities, awards grants to non
p ro fit groups fo r many types o f
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programs, and publications. Last
year the Committee provided grants
totaling over $260,000. Among its
recent awards were $4,150 to the
Nature Conservancy and the
Western Forestry Center fo r the
Colum bia River Gorge Lecture
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Association of University Women in
La Grange for a one-day workshop
on Native American Culture of Nor
theastern Oregon and production of
a slide program on that subject, and
$8,570 fo r a new oral history
program by Herb Cawthorne en
titled “ Langston Hughes: Dig and
Be Dug in Return.”
A 23-year banking employee, Mr.
Cook has been Vice President and
manager o f the P ortland Main
Branch of the First State Bank since
March 1979. P rior to that he was
Vice President and Com m ercial
Loan Officer with the First National
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manities and the Portland Rose
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education at P ortland State
iversity, where he earned a B.S.
Business Adm inistration, and at
Pacific Coast Banking School at
; University o f Washington where
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sponded consider solar
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whelming 82% said they
wo ..id approve of solar
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county.
While much of solar
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sive, there are manv allordab
solutions which will work right no'
to reduce the costs ol electric heat.
But a few points about solar
power need illuminating.
Shedding some light
on solar power.
Much of the interest in solar
power springs Iron) the idea that we
can turn the sun’s energy directly
into electric energy.
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Lisa Manning is a finalist in the
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ntland in May.
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eral m illio n d o lla rs and w ill generate
100 KW o f e le c tric ity
But converting sunlight into
large am ounts of commercial electric
ity is difficult and expensive.
Photovoltaic cells, the same
tiny bits of light-sensitive silicon used
to make energy on spacecraft, can
roduce large amounts of electricity,
ut at an expensive $10,000 to $15,000
per kilowatt, compared to $1,500 to
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large am ounts o f power from the sun
uses solar-thermal conversion.
A heat exchanger on top of a
tower collects intense neat from fo
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If the Department of Energy
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Electric Power Research Institute can
meet experimental goals, as much as
1,000 megawatts could be created
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turn of the century.
Free heat from the sun.
Though these future
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Utilities are still a long way
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