Page 4 Portland Observer, August 4, 1982
METROPOLITAN
So your car's been towed?
A t last, Lindberg proposes relief
In an e ffo rt to make the punish
ment more justly fit the crime, Port
land City Commissioner Mike Lind
berg filed an ordinance last Friday
aimed at stopping nighttime towing
trom pay parking lots in downtown
Portland.
"The towing o f vehicles from pri
vate parking lots has resulted in tre
mendous trauma to those whose ve
hicles were tow ed ," said Lindberg.
" In some cases the owners o f towed
vehicles have vowed never again to
return to downtown Portland fo r
evening shopping or e nte rta in
ment.”
"T h is in turn results in a d e tri
mental effect on dow ntow n busi
nesses, particularly restaurants and
stores open in the evenings, and
takes away from the overall vitality
o f our downtown area."
The Commissioner said he has
been trying for years to resolve this
problem and that his office and the
offices o f other city o fficials have
logged numerous complaints from
irate citizens who were victim s o f
the towing.
"W e find that the average fee is
S35 to recover the vehicle, payable
in cash, and that this towing prac
tice has resulted in many people be
ing stranded downtown with no way
to get to their cars and no cash to
pay for them if they could. What I
am proposing is that the City Coun
cil instruct the tra ffic engineer to
prepare the proper ordinances and
code revisions to halt this costly
practice. In its place 1 propose own
ers o f cars who fail to pay for park
ing be cited and made to pay a fine.
Ticketing would be done by the
C ity’ s parking patrol, and costs o f
operation would be recovered from
revenue from the citations.”
It is estimated that 3,600 vehicles
are towed annually from downtown
parking lots: on the average, towing
fees are $35 fo r a to ta l cost o f
$126,000 to downtown customers.
"N o w please d o n ’ t m isunder
stand me,” said Lindberg. " I ’m not
saying that those who park illegally
in these parking lots should not be
made to pay fo r their misdeeds.
What I am saying is that they should
be made to pay a reasonable fine for
Metropolitan Club explores careers
The M etropolitan Club o f P ort
land is presenting a 2nd Annual
"Career Exploration Day,” Satur
day, August 7th, from 8:30 a.m. to
5 p.m., at the PGE Willamette Cen
ter, 121 SW Salmon.
The all-day workshop is fo r
young people 14-19 years o f age
who are participants in the Urban
League "E d u c a tio n fo r Summer
Fun,” Multnomah County Juvenile
Court and CETA Direction Service
Center. The workshop is being pre
sented to provide general and specif-
ic inform ation on professional and
vocational fields. Topics to be cov
ered include medical, legal, busi
ness, sports.
"C aree r E xploration D a y " w ill
provide visible black role models for
high school students, encourage stu
dents to take appropriate, meaning
fu l and challenging classes in
school, and allow the Metropolitan
Club to provide a community ser
vice.
The membership o f the Metropol
itan C lub is composed o f mostly
black professionals from diverse ca
reer areas. Its purpose is two-fold:
(1) to provide a responsible influen
tial forum fo r social acquaintance,
cu ltu ra l exchange, self develop
ment, economic progress, political
expression; and (2) to work toward
making the Portland metropolitan
area more livable for black people,
and thereby the entire Portland
community.
N e x t w e e k 's Observer w ill in
clude a special Careers Supple
ment. D on't miss it.
Allen Temple bids farewell to Strayhands
REV. e MRS. T.L. STRAYHAND
AND FAMILY
6v Linda Thompson
The members o f A lle n Temple
C.M.E. Church are preparing to say
bon voyage and good luck to Rev. &
Mrs. T.L. Strayhand and family, on
August 8, 3:30 pm, at Allen Temple
C.M.E. Church (4236 NE 8th Ave.),
in the form o f a Testim onial and
Reception.
A fter thirteen years o f dedication
and service to the church and to the
com m unity at large in P ortland,
Rev. Strayhand has announced the
call to embark upon new directions
on the same s p iritu a l fie ld in
another state.
His mild manners, his soft voice
and his warm smile w ill be greatly
missed in the church, community,
city and state. He leaves us many,
many examples o f true Christianity.
Rev. Strayhand assures us that al
though he will be the pastor o f Israel
C. M .E . Church in Washington
D. C., he will also consider Portland
as horn, and be as near as the tele
phone. While here, he has served as
chairm an and member o f many
boards and has been involved in the
improvement o f the community.
Because he has been such a vital
part o f the com m unity, the mem
bers o f Allen Temple cordially invite
all to attend and jo in with them in
saying good-bye and good luck to a
legend, a friend, a counselor, a lead
er, a minister an, most o f all, a man
o f God.
their transgressions and not be
towed.
“ Some o f our com plaints have
come from citizens who made an
honest mistake in these self-pay
parking lots where there are no at
tendants. Some complaints are from
citizens whose cars were towed away
while they were attending church,
the theater, having dinner, etc. Once
a school bus was towed!”
A number o f downtown business
people have expressed an interest in
supporting the Lindberg proposal
and many plan to be on hand to tes
tify when the proposal is considered
by the C ity C ouncil at a hearing
scheduled for Wednesday, July 28,
1982.
Women's raft
trip offered
A Deschutes River, one-day ra ft
ing trip for women is being offered
Saturday, Aug. 14, by Keep Listen
ing, Portland-based sponsor o f
women’s wilderness trips. Early reg
istration is encouraged.
No experience is necessary fo r
p a rticip a tio n , according to Keep
Listening Director Julie Porter. Ex
perts w ill guide the participants in
river safety and rafting technique.
To register, contact Keep Listen
ing, P.O. Box 14743. Portland, OR
97214, phone 239-6896.
Keep Listening, a n o n p ro fit o r
ganization it its sixth year, offers a
year-round program aimed at teach
ing outdoor skills to women in a
safe, noncompetitive atmosphere.
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students to experience. In doing so,
they learn about customs and pon
der questiona about their own cul
tural heritage. Learning songs and
writing scripts for puppet shows al
so help students in the ir studies.
Word games like Bingo, Password,
and Scrabble are also used. Accord
ing to Ms. Stemler, one o f the most
im p o rta n t things a student takes
away forever as a result o f taking a
foreign language is the acceptance
o f other cultues and the reluctance
to make fun o f foreigners because
students have had first-h a nd ex
periences in the d iffic u lty o f learn
ing a second language.
Jefferson students enrolled in fo r
eign language also gain a better un
derstanding o f themselves. By
studying others’ customs they often
question their own. For instance,
such questions as "w h y do we eat
our main meal in the evening?” or
"w hy do we have nursing homes for
the elderly when they d o n ’ t have
them in France?” often come up.
The sensit vity »o language that
students get from foreign language
study is another plus. One, ju n io r
Wilma Redeau, finds that she has
become more aware o f how to use
words in English. M any in the
crowded classroom echoed her sen
timents.
Enthusiastic students list the mer
its o f studying foreign languages,
and their reasons go beyond the ob
vious. Many commented that the
cultural inform ation they have ac
quired will help them to be more tol
erant o f people from different back
grounds. Jenny Levy-Lunt, a ninth
grader, says "W ith this understand
ing we don’t think they’ re weird.”
In addition to classroom study,
Jefferson students come in contact
with the foreign language they are
learning in several additional activi
ties. The Am erican Field Service
(AFS) program is very active at Jef
ferson. This past year Celia Amaral,
an exchange student from Brazil,
spent the year at JHS. She lived with
the Robert Long fa m ily while a t
tending Jefferson. Next year the
G lyn M cC a ffre y fa m ily w ill host
another AFS student.
Katrina Allen, a Jefferson senior,
has just completed her senior year in
Mexico and w ill return to Portland
in July. The Partners in the Amer
icas provides a fu ll cultural exper
ience fo r students who spend their
summers in foreign countries. Carey
Myles, a ju n io r, spent her summer
in Costa Rica last year.
A foreign language club is yet
another way fo r student* to con
tinue their experiences outside the
classroom. Besides money raising
events, the group supports exchange
visitors with welcome and farewell
activities. They also rented a foreign
film , sponsored an in terna tio na l
Holiday dinner, and went to dinner
at a local German restaurant.
"Students at Jefferson are show
ing a growing awareness o f the ben
efits o f studying foreign languages.
We share their enthusiasm,” says
S hirley G lic k , Jefferson’ s C u rri
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Foreign study, exchange
programs flourish at Jefferson
The smell o f exotic foreign foods
drifts from the room mixed with the
sounds o f singing. I f prompted to
look further, the curious w ill find
over twenty first-year Spanish stu
dents busy in a variety o f activities
designed to help them learn a fo r
eign language.
Students at Jefferson may select
from two years o f German, three
years o f French, and three years o f
Spanish. Ten sections are offered by
three teachers, and over 200 stu
dents are enrolled. The foreign lan
guage program at Jefferson p ro
vides a variety o f learning situa
tions. Any day a v isito r can pass
these rooms and find students com
peting with each other over vocabu
lary words, sampling foreign foods,
reading, writing, and translating. In
all cases students are asked to use
the language they are studying to
communicate whether it ’s in a con
versation, in response to a teacher
posed question, or in an interaction
with a foreign exchange student.
The often emphasized value o f
studying foreign language men
tioned by most students and
strongly supported by Jefferson’ s
senior counselor Carmen Walker is
that foreign language is good in pre
paring students fo r college. More
and more schools are requiring fo r
eign language credits fo r accept
ance.
M ichele Stemler, department
head, emphasizes that cultural un-
derstnding is important in the study
o f all foreign languages. She often
brings Spanish food to class for her
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Born on St. Simons Island, o ff
the Georgia coast, he attended
Hampton Institute in Virginia
and earned his law degree from
Kent Law School in Chicago in
1899. He was the founder and
editor o f The Chicano
Defender, an articulate voice o f
Chicago’s black population
with a circulation of 250,000
copies by 1929. For 15 years his
strong editorials contended for
social, political, and economic
justice and encouraged blacks
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