Rage 4, Portland Observer, August 7, 1906
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METROPOLITAN
Portland needs
City Plan
volunteers
Fund-raising benefit for Leel* Light scheduled
The City o f Portland is seeking
approximately 150 volunteers to serve
on citizens' committees which will
help develop the Central C ity Plan
(CCP) over the next two years.
Donald J. Stastny, chairman o f the
15-member Citizen Steering C o m m it
tee (CSC) which is overseeing devel
opment o f the plan, said that about
eight research advisory committees
and six district committees w ill be
formed by October. About 150 peo
ple w ill be selected to serve on the
various committees, he said.
“ The research committees w ill be
devoted to working with C ity Bu
reaus on functional issues — such as
housing, economic development or
transportation — while the district
committees w ill focus on the six plan
ning areas w ithin the central city,”
Stastny said. “ Most likely,” he said,
“ the committees w ill function for
about two years.”
Plan Manager Dean S. Smith said
that 3,000 application forms were
mailed Tuesday to individuals and o r
ganizations on (he CCP mailing list,
additional application forms are
available from the CCP office,
796-7270.
Smith said that a subcommittee o f
the Steering Committee w ill review
all applications. Citizens may indicate
an interest in one or more issue areas
or districts in one application form .
The CCP recently completed the
largest public input campaign in the
city's history, receiving comments
from about 10,000 citizens in Design
Event One. Smith said that about
2,500 o f those individuals had ex
pressed a continuing interest in the
Central City Plan.
One o f the first tasks o f the c iti
zens’ committees, he said, w ill be to
review the findings from the massive
public input effort and help in the
initial study o f issues raised by the
public. The committees w ill then help
in the form ation o f goals and options
to be reviewed by the public next
spring in Design Event Two, Smith
said.
LOIS LEWIS
(Photo: Kris Ahuchar)
by Nalbaniel Scoli
A fundraiser benefit has been
scheduled to help I.e e l'L igh t cele
brate its fourth anniversary at the
King Neighborhood Facility, 4M 15
N.E. 7th Avenue. Friday, August
23, at 7 p.m.
Floyd Cruse and his dark Star
Kaggae Band will headline a host o f
performers including pianist Janice
Scroggins and rhythm and blues styl
ish Mary Reynolds.
In addition to the musical aspects
o f the benefit, finger foods, and re
freshments w ill be served and poetry
will be read by Barbara I aMorticella,
Lois Lewis, Linda Hunter and Na
thaniel Scott.
The artists are performing free
and all donations are tax deductible
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Leel*Light, a non-profit orgamza
tion, was founded four years ago by
Lois Lewis, who also has authored
four volumes o f poetry and two chap
books o f children stories. The non
profit organization teaches creative
expression through writing and read
ing poetry and fictional literature.
In
addition,
Leel* Light
also
teaches Tac Kwon Do, a form of the
martial arts.
Lewis has been writing poetry since
she was 12 years old and began train
ing in the martial arts 14 years ago.
She has been a black belt holder for
the past nine years.
Lewis said the purpose o f the bene
fit is to let people know Lcel*Light
exists and also to encourage people to
get involved in whatever creativity
they may have.
Lewis believes any discipline can be
carried over into all areas o f life.
“ People who don’t write (often) dis
cover they have other creative expres
sions," she said.
Lewis became interested in the
martial arts because o f her joy o f
learning. " I t ’s a gixxl physical con
ditioning and a side benefit is disci
pline,” she said. “ These combina
tions create total confidence."
Lewis holds a Bachelor’ s degree in
business administration with a certif
icate in teaching from Portland State
University. She has taught in the
Portland public school Isystem and
has performed her poetry on radio,
television, at colleges and universi
ties and various other places. And
le e l* Light productions has per
formed at the Interstate Firehouse
Cultural Center, Cable Access T V ,
Old Wives Tales Restaurant and P ort
land Community College's Cascade
campus.
In addition to the benefit on Au
gust 23, Lecl*I.ight's Tae Kwon Do
pupils w ill be tested for belts on M on
day, August 19 a 5:30 p.m. at the
King facility. The public is invited.
The N orth Portland brunch o f the
Adult and Family Services Division
w ill move to a new location on Fri
day, August 9. The office w ill move
from the current location at 7201
N. Interstate to a new building at
814 N. Hayden Meadows D r , near
East Delta Park
The office w ill provide regular
service for food stamp and welfare
clients through August 8 but only
emergency help on August 9. Branch
manager Die Rova expects the office
to be fully functioning at the new
location on Monday, Aug. 12.
The office, one o f six in Portland,
provides food stamps, welfare and
job-finding assistance to about 8, (XX)
people in the north Portland area.
Phone numbers and mailing ad
dress for the office w ill remain the
same after the move. The office can
be reached on the Tn-M et number
eight bus.
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