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
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