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Portland Observer, October 5, 1983 Page 3 WANT TO CGT YOUR ENERGY COSTS? METROPOLITAN The City of Portland Energy Saving Center invites you to "EASY WAYS TO CUT YOUR ENERGY COSTS" Businesses receive MBE awards a slide show/discussion 7 p m October 12— Overlook Mouse Community Center. 3839 N Melrose 7 p m October 13— University Park Community Center 9009 N Foss ' ‘Successful Business Awards" were presented lo four Oregon minority businesses Monday at the National M inority Enterprise Devel opment Week luncheon. Recipients were: Henry Scott, president o f Coast Janitorial Services, Inc. Coast Jani torial, a family-owned business, was founded in 1957 and currently em ploys 231 employees and has annual sales of more than $2.6 million. Manuel Garcia, owner o f Garcia Transport Company. The Portland transport and air freight company was established in 1974. Cam Nhu Thi Nguyen, owner of Com Industries, a Portland com pany that makes sportswear. Bruce P. Brunoe, one o f the own ers of W arm Springs Logging and Road Construction Company. Receiving special awards for pro motion o f minority business were Representative Ron Wyden, City Commissioner Charles Jordan, and Samuel I and W illiam S. Naito. The luncheon was sponsored by IM P A C T , Inc., Tektronix; T ri-M et; U.S. Small Business Adm inistra tion; U .S. Army Corps o f E n Dr Inquire about our 4-3/4% weatherization loans DROP BY 2755 NE Broadway CALL 248-4636 gineers; M in o rity Business O ppor tunity Committee; N .E . M inority Purchasing Council. Grace Gallegos congratulates Henry Scott, pre sident of Coast Janitorial Service, for hie "Suc- Hock Shop cestful Bueineee Award (Photo. Richard J. Brownl K - Johnson heads Hawthorne branch ended. Conroy explained his decision: "T h e subversion in our name o f the process begun by the Nicaraguan people and the actual physical inva sion o f Nicaraguan territory paid for with our tax money must not be allowed to coniine. I f it takes some North Americai.s stating in une quivocal terms to their own govern ment ' I f you are intent on taking lives of Nicaraguans, you must now be prepared to take North American lives as w ell,’ then I am prepared to state that So are the members o f my newly-forming community. " I have stepped forward for the Witness for two reasons. First, much of my background and exper- mce serves to make me a suitable e 5600 N.E. Union 287 5330 Idaho is the only state in the U.S. over which no for eign flag has ever flo w n . Miss Emma M. Nutt broke the male monopoly on tel ephone company jobs when she was hired as an opera tor for the Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on September 1, 1878. 3616 N.E. Broadway O ver Costume jewelry 300 pairs of earrings in stock We do .tot do business with South Africa B (Between Rite's Rack ft 37th) 00 "Silence i» • friand who nevar betrays." Confucius ¥ o u r choice ♦1 a pair M on. Sat. 10 5 • Sun. 12 5 American State lia ilk AN IN0EPEN0ENT BANK Head Ottica 2 7 1 7 N E Union Portland, Oregon 9 7 2 1 2 Most Items at Reduced Prices DENISE V. JOHNSON Portland man places his body on front line Jim Conroy, a long-time Portland resident, has joined with other U.S. citizens in Nicaragua in "Witness for Peace.” Witness for Peace is a group o f people, mostly Christians, who "believe that this war is incom patible with the standards o f justice o f most o f our people, that it is not in our national interest, and that it must be halted. As individual Amer ¡cans willing to put our lives on the line for peace and justice, we believe that we can contribute a great deal towards diminishing the terrible toll that the war is taking in human lives." (Conroy and the others are living in Jalapa, Nicaragua, a community near the Honduran border (hat is subject almost daily to attacks by the U.S.-trained and equipped “ contras.” They will maintain a peaceful presence as coworkers of the embattled people of the region and as observers, reporting in detail the acts o f violence that occur, until the war against Nicaragua has Buy, Sell or Trade Anything of value Glad s of Hollywood OCTOBER '1 S3 SAT wto ' rwuas : rai 5 6 7 FALL HOME 00 E. Downie. Johnson joined the Benj. Franklin in September of 1976 as a teller at the Hollywood branch. She later worked in the Pcwt land home office for two years before becom ing a loan officer at the firm ’s Rus sellville office. Johnson was promoted to man ager o f Benj. Franklin’s Jantzen Beach office in October of 1980, where she was headquartered before her move to the Hawthorne office. She was elected assistant vice presi dent in July of 1981. I • Benj. Franklin has 82 branches in Oregon, Washington. Idaho and Utah. It is the largest savings and loan in the Northwest and among the 25 largest in the United States. The Hawthorne office is located at 3757 S.E Hawthorne Blvd. Denise V. Johnson has been named branch manager o f the H aw thorne office o f the Benj. Franklin Federal Savings & Loan Associa tion, according to President Robert The common cold, probably the world's most common illness, is caused by at least 30 different virus es. It is the greatest single cause of lost working hours in America. candidate. Second, most of my friends and the community from which I came— which is really all of you— are also terribly frustrated by the fact that our bands are bloody becuase o f what our government is doing in our name; and this commu nity feels such moral outrage that most o f you would, if circumstances permitted, be there yourselves to stand alongside the people of Jalapa. And so I am going because I represent most, if not all. o f yo u ." The U .S. citizens will live and work with the people o f Jalapa "W e have no other agenda than to share the experience o f these valiant people. We go not to teach, not to bring things; we go just to he with them and to he North Americans in a new way. In the process we also put our bodies on the line to con front the militarism o f this govern ment by non-violent tactics.” In addition to the group who will live in Jalapa, Witness for Peace will send others to remain a few days with the permanent Witness team. Their work will be supported by the membership o f Witness for Peace — "a hopeful, prayerful, de termined community o f conscience that celebrates life and encourages a spirit of resistance to violence o f all kinds.” For more inform ation on Witness for Peace, or to contribute finan cially to its work, write: Witness for Peace, Resource Center for Nonvio lence, 515 Broadway, Sarita Cruze, C A 95060 (400) 425-3733. Conroy was raised in Northeast Portland, a product of Immaculate Heart Church. He has long been ac tive in the civil rights and peace movements. 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