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April 30, 1986, Portland Observer, Page 3 Let’s Talk Basketball Hey you' Wake up' The Portland Trail Blazers basketball season is ft nally over So now. all ol vou A C. Green, Maurice Lucas and Peter G. tans san start blagging publicly P .O .I.C . gruduatrv, I.-R I frond Drhra Manning', Keith McRoberts, Elaine Higgins, I k n ist- Walker. Marie Skellenger, I «-ska Xdamx. ireari David W il son, \ rima Sykes, Dennis Wolfe, Jeanein M eGaw. James Murphy. Kathleen Johnston, Photo by Kxhard J. Brown POIC Training Program Grads Honored by Hub l.nthiiin Denise Walker graduated at the top o f her class Friday Walker. 13. mother o f three, became an expert word pro cessor in just 15 weeks through the sccretarial/word processing training program ol the Portland Opportunities Industrialization Council (POIC). Walker learned to type 70 words per minute on computerized equipment do nated by IB M . without mistakes In ad dition, she completed the course and went on to cover advanced material, "a very d ifficu lt accomplishment,'' said POIC word processing center manager Susan O'Hara Our o f 13 students in the program's first graduating class, four have jobs, including Walker. The rest have good prospects o f finding a job soon, said O'Hara I he graduates were honored Friday night during a ceremony at Westmins ter Presbyterian Church They were recognized for their efforts at coming from lo w -in co m e , unem ployed backgrounds to learn a marketable skill in 15 weeks. “ There is one thing they have in common and that is each and every one o f them made a commitment to change their lives," O'Hara said " It 's a new beginning." said Oliver Smith, assistant to Mayor Bud Clark Walker started work April 14 as an administrative assistant at CODA, Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers, at a salary o f over $1200 a month "N o th in g ," is what she had as a mother receiving public assistance in North Portland, she said " 1 his is a new beginning tor me and my family and my c h ild re n ," said the proud graduate James Murphy, 37. had been tin employed tor two years but alter com pleting the training program he went to work in the word processing depart ment ot North Pacific Insurance Co , where he makes $1 KXta month starting salary " I t kind o f reaffirmed my faith in humanity a little b it." Murphy said about the training program Class vice president K eith McRoberts said the program shows what disadvantaged jieoplc can do w hen given a chance "A program o f this magnitude de serves to give more people the oppor tunity that we had," McRoberts said O'Hara said the second cycle has ex panded to include 20 students Over 1 300applicants are waiting in lute, she said As she talked, a woman came up and wanted to know how she could sign up O'Hara said applicants must be IX or over, have a high school diploma or G F. D , and be economically disad vantaged. unemployed or undere mployed The program leaches word proces sing, clerical skills, production typing, and proofreading, "w ith a heavy em phasis on E nglish," she said M odelled after an IB M /U rban league joint program in Tacoma, O Hara said the Portland program is financed by grants from the M J Mur dock Charitable Trust and the Fred Meyer Foundation Senior Citizen Annual Fishing Derby The month ot May is Older Am eri cans Month On May 30th at Saisies Island Oak Island area on Steele Lake the Urban league o f Portland, along with other providers o f services to seniors, w ill hold its Annual Senior Citizen Fishing Derby The event be gins at 9 a m and ends at 3 p m Each year over 300 senior citizens participate in the day’ s exciting ac- ttvitics For them, the derby is a chance to enjoy the outdoors, mingle with old friends, meet new ones and enjoy a lew hours o f fishing These arc activities many seniors have little opportunity to participate in The media has always done an out standing job o f providing coverage of this event We hope to see you there again this year on May KXh! about the Defending World Champion Los Angeles Lakers But before you do that let 's pauw tor a moment o f silence x< that you die hard Ians can reaffirm your commitment and loyalty to the Portland Trail Blazers bv saying, BI \ / l K B \ S k l I B M l H AS BI ENG OO D TOME N O ', you say Well be at ease my friend Many NBA Ians in Oregon feel Blazer basketball has been any thing but goixl Except to Blazer management, especially alter they were done with team cute or is it budget cuts iRe memher the Denver trade and Darnell Valentine *) Say it ain't so Jack How else do you explain the Blazers oh so boring 4t I 42 season ’ Did I mention how non competitive the Blazers were even up to the last game ' Nugget coash Doug Moe was over heard saying betoie tlx- last Ihursday game that he would like his club Io be more competitive He could have added that he would like the Blazers to be less competitive hecaux- that's exactly the way Portland performed in last Ihurs day 's game at Memorial Coliseum I lx- 116 112 Nuggets victory over Portland was done with cool, concise, precision Denver knew all they had to do was stay i lox- to the Blazers aixl then wear them down at tlx- end of the game Back in the firs t quarter, Thom pson and Drexler led the Port land attack witli 9 and X points respcc liv e ly . w Inle I at I ever and Calvin Natt contributed 9 and 5 punts respectively and kept Denver in reach o f the treewheeling, taslbreaking Portland I i.ul Blazeis Portland started tlx- ganx- strong, by utilizing a blistering running attack ( >t the first sixteen points, ten ot them came via the layup route I might add many ol thox’ layups were a result ol some fine passing by lour Blazers i Carr I'hompson Colter and Clyde Drexler) and K iki Vandeweghe was usually on the receiving end ol those pasx’ s Alter one quarter Portland led f t 24 and appeared to have tlx- ganx- under control Meanwhile back at the Nuggets ranch, there didn't seem to he much concern about the mix’ point de ficit Alter all Portland oulxoted them not outplayed them Both teams opened the second quar ter with their running units Portland line-up ol Carr, Paxson, Porter and Jones played hard defense and pushed Portland's le.xl to as mus h as 16 points m the second quarter Jones, who until now had been a non I actor, hit all tour ot his field goal attempts lor X points and had 5 re bounds in tlx- second quarter, alter which he went back to being a non factor Paxxm. playing like a seaxined vele ran. xored II) prints and had 2 assists in 14 minutes ot placing time in the first half Denver played poorly in the first half They shot 43 5 percent 20 o f 46 attempts — while Portland made 2b ol 44 attempts on 59 | percent shooting I he result was a 63 52 halftime lead in favor o f Portland The third quarter was all Eat Lever, w ho seemed to w akc up after being held xoreless in the 2nd quarter The Nuggets point guard xored 19 o f his tl) game high points in Denver's explosive tn l quarter Most ol his ir reparable damage was done in the last t minutes o f the 3rd quarter when he bombed in not one but two 3 point field goals You might say his lucky number was t Denver won the x ’ries t I NN hile l ever's deft outside shooting continued. IX-nvcr started to xore down low U ith 7 minutes left in the third quar ter. Rasmussen came in for Natl and promptly xored and picked up a loul on Drexler who had a un-Clyde like game ( 16 punts 2 assists t rebounds and 6 louts) A lew plays later. Lever re bounds in a basket, and shortly after that. Rasmusx-n rebounds his ow n miss for a layup IX-spite all ol Denver's efforts, Port land stubbornly held on to a I I punt lead at tlx end ol the 3rd quarter < )nc thing was obvious Denver's game plan was working belter than the Blazers At the end o f the Ird quarter, the momentum was beginning to swing in Denver's favor one key indicator was tlx- rebound totals that showed De liver taking the advantage 16 32 A confident IX-nver team started the fourth pernxl down by 4 and they were ready to overhaul and overrun the lac kadaisical Blazers Ihe Nuggets managed to stay close throughout the 4th period before taking their first le.xl with l IX) minutes to go on an all pro lean-in 15 foot jumper hy le ve r that propelled them into a BIX 107 advantage D ixe Portl.uxl tell behind, their of- le n x collapsed I hey xored 5 punts in the last 4 minutes of the game Alter Drexler tailed Io si orc. Denver went Io the well one more time and got two punts Irom Shaves, making the x o re I It) 107 A ll star guard Jim Paxson tied the score at I It) I II)on a l punt shot with I 24 to play I hen Alex I nglish put Denver ahead lor good wlx’ ii no one bhxked him out and he rebounded his own m isxd shot with I It) to go What hapjx’ ned in the next I 02 was typical of many Blazer endings Drexler tried to drive on I R Dunn and puked up an offensive toul 6lh toul bye, Clyde Dunn gave his teammates a xare w hen he went dow u w uh w hat appeared to be a x-vere knee injury he humped knees with Drexler, that's alt. ouch! Kenny Carr. Ihe Blazer with Ihe most heart, did all tx* could Io keep Portland in the playott hunt when he brought Portland to within two punts o f a tie Then the bottom tell out for the last time Ihe Nuggets ran the game clock down to 14 seconds fx-caux- IN inland's defense forced them out o f their o f fense Terry Porter felt he could steal the ball Irom the Nuggets Mike I vans but w as i harged w uh a loul w ith onlv 2 seconds lell on the shot clock 25 leet I nun the basket Evans made both tree throws and closed out another Portland Trail Blaz erv season Need I say more ' I didn't think so Next xason let's hop’ toi mote competitiveness, instead ot hop-less ness and forgetfulness SUNDAY SALE One Day Only Sunday, May 4th M rs. C ’s W igs S* *5 707 N E Fremont • 2MI-652S 11 30 A M till 6 P M 10-50% o ff on All Wiqs. Hairpieces, B rads. Jewelry a nd C o sm e tics All I shuts, Caps and Misc Items at Discount Prices MRS. C ’s WIGS 7 0 7 N.E. Fremont 2 8 1 -6 3 2 9 CtosW tun. A Men. 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