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Page 8 Section II Portland Observer, May 13, 1982 ASTRO-DESTINY Stoudamire' A rising star on the political horizon by Kathryn H a ll Bogle Making a strong bid to win a seat in the legislature to represent the new ly form ed 18th D is tric t is a young O re g o n ia n , 31-year-old Charles Stoudamire. S toudem ire’ s p o s itio n supports the Oregon Democratic Party's pro gressive p la tfo rm w ith legislative p rio ritie s directed tow ard helping working people. New in the political arenas S toudam ire already has zeroed in on (1) Jobs and Bconotnic developement, (2) Quality basic ser vices such as “ Q u a lity health care fo r a ll O regonians; high q u a lity public education programs} (3) a f fo rd a b le c h ild care fo r w o rk in g parents; (4) C itizen involvement in establishing public u tility rates and (3) humanistic approach to p ro v id ing p u b lic assistance to those in need. There are many more o f the good life objectives Stoudamire wants fo r the 18th District people and he spells them o u t under headings lik e : N eighborhood liv a b ility , progres sive ta x a tio n system and equal rights. T houghtful s tu ff like every body wants fo r his fam ily. S toudam ire says th a t trend o f thinking comes natural fo r him. “ I was born in Klamath Falls when my parents came fro m Arkansas to w ork in the shipyards. Yes, I knew Jimmy Bang-Bang Walker from my earliest days in Klam ath Falls and I looked up to him then for he wanted the best for his fam ily, ana 1 still re spect him fo r what he has accom plished for his fam ily. “ In term s o f m y life , people I have come in contact w ith are the neediest in terms o f finance and re sources that supply the basic needs such as housing, or even fam ily, and friends. In the general public there are many people that are apathetic to the hum an needs and some o f them have turned away from such needs, leaving these others w ith no place to turn. I see this situation as a big factor in crime, in desponden cy, in homicide and in suicide. “ I th in k government has a d e fi nite responsibility to spread the cost o f responding to social and econom ic catastrophes across the general public so that the principal impact w ill not fa ll on the particular per sons or groups who are the victims o f that particular catastrophe. “ How did I get this way & 1 went to grade school at E lio t (we lived rig h t across the street) and 1 was graduated fro m W ashington High School. I played a little football and a little basketball [actually, Stouda mire made All-State-Star teams] and wound up w ith a bachelor’s degree in Social Science at P.S.U. Eventu ally 1 returned to school and earned a m aster’ s degree in H o sp ita l and H ealth Care at the U n iv e rs ity o f Minnesota. “ I was a product o f the sixties. I have marched. 1 marched against the war, against the killin g o f seals, o f whales, fo r equal rights, fo r gay rights. I ’ ve taken part in boycotts, in sit-in s. 1 sat in at T ro ja n . I'm against police b ru ta lity, against the opossum incident and the like. “ M y jobs have always been w ork ing w ith people fo r people. I firs t worked w ith the A lbina Action Cen ter as a Deputy Director. 1 was there fo r three years helping in the food and nutrition program, the commu nity garden projects, the food bank, the dental and o p to m é trie p ro grams, and in jo b tra in in g and youth development programs. For two years I found good exper ience at Kaiser H e a lth Research Center in C linic Management and I formed a taste fo r hospital adminis tration. Friends at Providence hos pital encouraged me to study further and th a t’ s when I enrolled at U. o f Minnesota. “ I ’ m now w ith the Dept. o f H u man Services as a H ealth Services C o ordinato r under Com m issioner Don C lark. Just now we are trying to develop systems to help the 3,000 or 6,000 Indo-Chinese in the area. We are hoping that the big hospitals can help us in some way to care fo r the m edical and surgical needs o f these people. P ublic health is con cerned about providing services. “ The place you make changes in services is in government and w ith this, in Oregon, is in the legislature, A R IF S Tfy Io "'•'«t ao important bufti'Wtt ivlutionihip thotS M ar. 21 • Apr. 19 »lipping TAURUS Apr. 20 - M»y 20 Romance and fiiendtbip uie lovoied It payt to know one from the other - le»t you become entangled G F M IN I M .y 21 - J u n r 20 Your practical injight imptuvet your financial titua- Hon. Leave speculation to /He during Remember th, tortai te and the hare. CA NCER June 21 - July 22 Your utually confident nature hat dipped o b it . A great deal hat to do with changing value» LEO July 23 - Aue. 22 Finances need careful contideration. Take the time to review your tituation. AArybe p budget could be the answer. VIR G O Aug. 23 • Sept. 22 That "tute thing" hat turned illusive. M ire work mutt be done betöre you occomplnh your tatk l.llllt A Sept. 23 - (let. 22 Trying to da too much it ¡utt at bad at leaving a lot of your work undone Take things at they come. SCO RPIO Oct. 23 - Nov. 21 You can be in the Iron! all Ihit month Thit week it just the beginning of a good pe.iod for you ond your impossible dreamt S A G IT T A R IU S Nov. 22 - Ite r. 21 Being conservative teems to be your outlook for thit w eek, Caution can be a good thing, but it a l so can be overdone. It may not ba eaiy, but it it n eta tto ry . D er. 22 - Jen. 19 Don't become overly aggressive with your friends or co-workert. It could be misinterpreted and feelings could be hurt. A Q U A R IU S Jen. 20 - Feb. Iti If wishes were possible,you might with for an entire- ly different set of circumstances this entire week. A stiff upper lip is needed C A P R IC O R N P IS C E S Feb. 19 • M a r. 20 • Things ore going great guns thit week. Progress it to mo<^*> ° ° °H fronts. G ive it all you’ ve got and rh* ’ •*u,h wil1 5* t m it s CHARLES STOUDAMIRE AND FAMILY in the p o litic a l processes, and that means the ballot box. “ In this n a tio n o f d im in is h in g rights, the one rig h t that we m ain tain is the right to vote. As you exer cise yo u r rig h t to vote, please re member that the person you select must have insight to the needs o f the people, vision as to the possibilities fo r satisfying those needs and the ability to effectively implement and ca rry o u t program and p o lic y to meet those needs. “ The b a llo t box is open on the 18th o f May. I o ffe r my experience and vision o f a better future. I w ill appreciate your support.” Charles Stoudamire is married to Theresa Stoudamire, also a Hospital and H ealth Care A d m in is tra to r in M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty ’ s P ro je ct Health. Stoudamire is the father o f three children. In c id e n ta lly his m iddle name is Kilunda, given to him in Zaire, A f rica. Kilunda means, “ Leader o f the V illage." & CAR TELEPHONES Schools, community call truce (C ontinuedfrom Sect. 1 page I) evident that there was not commu n ity acceptance fo r placing the school at Boise. She was w illin g to change her decision and approve placement at E lio t when the com promise placing the E lio t ECEC at Boise was offered. This met her con cerns o f providing a better educa tion fo r Boise upper graders, fin d ing a satisfactory site fo r the ECEC and cutting costs by elim inating the M onroe b u ild in g . The m e diation process she thought was frank and valuable in increasing understand ing on both sides. Superintendent Matthew Prophet sees positive by-products o f the pro cess. “ W hile I do n o t profess to know a ll that has happened in the past, I did see the situation as being unhealthy. It had the makings o f a serious conflict.” H aving members o f the School Board and leadership fro m the Black community sit down and dis cuss their values, goals, aspirations, fa c ilita te d understanding. “ A l though attitu d e s m ight not have changed, there was a m eaningful sensitization. The level o f awareness was heightened; each group sees the other in a new way— sees their val ues. “ I hope th a t this exchange o f ideas w ill be the basis for future pro gress in the e ffo rt to bring about a better re la tio n s h ip between the Board and the black c o m m u n ity. A lth o u g h it is to o e arly to assess whether the differences that exist between the Board and the commu nity are resolved, it is not too early to say that out o f this one episode has come a m ethod o f reaching Board and com m unity cooperation that I would like to see used in the future in dealing with other difficu lt problems the district w ill face.” The black com m unity’ s represen tatives came into the mediation pro- cesss very open m inded, w illin g to make compromises and try to reach a mutually acceptable solution. “ The leadership provided to the group by Ronnie Herndon I feel was especially com m endable and I re spect him very much. “ W ith respect to the board mem- bers, B ill Scott provided outstand ing leadership to the board’ s media tio n team. He, C h a rlo tte Beeman and Joe Rieke devoted great energy to the resolution o f the issue. I ad m ire people who can listen to the facts, who can hear the concerns o f others and then take action based on what they have learned. I adm ire Charlotte and Joe because they did just that.” Prophet is to present his p ro posals for the establishment o f Tub- man at E lio t and E lio t at Boise in June. The process, both in the early planning stages, and later as com m unity and parent desires and the expertise o f the educators come to gether to create the new schools, w ill include the adm inistrators, master teachers and s ta ff members who w ill be involved in the school in the 1984-1985 school year. “ I m ig h t have ideas— there are model ECECs and m iddle schools around the country— but I w ill resist simply imposing solutions. My phil osophy is that projects are more suc cessful when the people involved in the product are involved in the pro cess.” Prophet does not forsee the Tub- man and E lio t program s being moved “ as-is” to new buildings. “ I d o n ’ t prom ise a sim ple movement o f Eliot and Tubm an’ s current pro grams, but I w ill guarantee that we w ill capture all the aspects that are perceived by the com m unity to be excellent. These schools are quite e xe m p la ry— but they can be bet ter.” “ Dialogue with the black commu n ity is o f critica l im portance to the school d is tr ic t,” D r. P rophet added. I would never have imagined that the d iv is io n s , the m isu n d e r sta n d in g , the s tifle d channels o f com m u n ica tio n were as great as I fo u n d them to be. W hat we have found out is that sincere people can reason together. The sa tisfactory resolution o f the Tubman issue w ill be the symbol o f the possibility o f good com m unication, cooperation, u n ity o f goals, and m utual respect between the various elements o f the black com m unity and the Board o f Education. US-Latin relations suffer Salvation Army honored P ortland M ayor Francis Ivancie proclaim ed the week o f May 10-16 to be “ Salvation A rm y W eek” in honor o f the people-helping organ iz a tio n ’ s co n tin u in g service to M etro-area residents during these tough economic times. The m ayor’ s action adds the greater P ortland area to scores o f com m unities nationw ide that are ca llin g a ttention to The Salvation A rm y’s work during that week. Ivancie announced the proclama tio n d uring a b rie f C ity H a ll cere mony in Portland on May 3. “ The Salvation A rm y continues to contribute valuable moral, spiri tual and social service help to resi dents o f our area, and we’re deeply grateful to all who are involved with it , ” Ivancie told Lt. Col. H .J. Wise man, divisional commander for The Salvation A rm y in Oregon and southern Idaho. L o ca lly, The S alvation A r m y ’ s programs include The Harbor Light Center, The M oore Street C om m u nity Center, The A d u lt Rehabilita tion Center, W hite Shield Home, two Fam ily Service Centers, Camp Trestle Glen, The Rose Center, and a ctivities in corrections m in is try , home and hospital visitation, disaster re lie f, missing persons search and more. Register and Vote (C ontinuedfrom Sect. J, page !) in inter-A m erican relations w ill be the cultural one—the most d iffic u lt to mend. Em ilio Nicolas, vice presi dent o f the national Hispano Televi sion N etw ork (S IN ), captured the feeling o f m any L a tin s when on M ay 4 he said that one could very well see in the Am erican policy “ a h o s tility tow ard L a tin Am erican culture.” Nicolas noted that two different ways o f life, two views o f the world, confronted one another in the M a l vinas. W hether this b ifu rc a tio n is a c tu a lly d e te rm in in g p o lic y in Washington is beside the point. The clash between A n glo-S axo n and Hispanic culture has a long history. The re-emergence o f this historical c h a ra cte ristic o f the New W o rld may give Latin America a new sense o f its own regional u n ity and des tiny. €> Pacific New» Service. 1982 Aaron Mitchell and Son Plumbing * Experienced Plum ber * Licensed and Bonded Established in business for 25 years Have lived in the Portland Area for 40 years WE STAND BEHIND ALL JOBS 1703 N.E. Alberta 288-4040 < THE BEEPER PEOPLE. 713 S. W. 12th Street Call 224-BEEP tor a free demonstration. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- • A "A Time To Sing" with John H. Parker and Prison Ministries | JOHN fr VIVIAN PARKER | B Y Renee M itchell | * " | | ’ | Numerous talented singing groups w ill be featured when Chaplain John H. Parker and Prison Ministries, Inc. present a 1982 Spring Concert on May 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 909 SW I Ith Ave. Mrs. Lessie W illiams is just one o f the soloists adding energy and animation to the concert’s theme, " A Time To Sing.’ ’ One o f two black Portland Symphonic Choir members, she has been singing with the choir | fo r three years. Another featured talent, singing a variety o f his own works, is David I Staigle. He has recently returned from a four-m onth concert tour in I C alifornia and Mexico. * A rth u r Spires w ill be directing the Maranath» Inspirational C hoir in a ’ few concert selections, accompanied by pianist Claude Bowles. | Mrs. W illia W illiams, a minister o f music, w ill be bringing the mass | ’ choir from Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church, the largest black church in the N. Portland community. The Reverend M r. O.B. W illiams I is the pastor. I Other groups include the Bailey fam ily: Fellowship Youth C hoir; , Neighborhood Church o f God C hoir, Com m unity A M E Zion Church, / Vancouver; Prince o f Peace Band; Vivian Parker and Shari M arion. | “ Through this concert, we hope to bring about unity among the * various churches and the body of C hrist,” says Parker, director o f P M I. ' “ This concert is also a fund-raiser for the m inistry.” | As an associate member o f the American Correctional Association, i Parker has been directing PM I since its founding in 1973. The non-profit organization bridges the gap between prisoners and society by acting as a I mediator fo r the prisoner. It also provides chapel services, housing, jobs, | food, clothing, literature and counseling. Parker began counseling in city jails in 1964, but eventually expanded V his work to Correctional and State Institutions. Now much o f his | counseling involved transitional and inside work with prisoners o f all ^d e n o m in a tio n s and all races.
