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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1986)
Hugo 6 Portland Observer, June 25. 1986 The Wedding of Christopher Warner and Anita Williams of the assistant pastor of Emmanuel Ih e Holiddy Inn (airport) was the beautiful June wedding setting for Christopher Warner and Anita Williams June 7th at 1:00p.m. The ceremony was held on the terrace beautifully decorated with lavender flowers and candles with the huge fountain in the background The couple was married by the groom's father. Bishop Felton War tier, and a close friend. Bishop A A Wells The bride's gown was designed by Mrs Evelyn Richardson, wife Temple Church. The dress was ivory satin and lace with a pearl accented veil which was trimmed in ivory satin The eleven bridesmaids wore lavendar chiffon handkerchief dresses and lavendar shoes A beautiful lavendar halo was the final touch of beauty The four flower girls wore ivory lace floor length dresses and laven dar gloves. The groom wore an ivory tux with tails lavendar cumberbun and tie The groom was accompanied by eleven escorts with black tuxes and lavendar cumberbuns. During the ceremony, the couple sang Dedicated," with the wed ding party as background. This was the highlight of the wedding Reception followed at the hotel Mrs Williams' grandfather, who was 103, attended the wedding as well as many close friends and relatives. The couple spent their honey moon in Canada The wedding was coordinated by Rosemary Damele, principal of Abernethy School. Walnut Park Lock & Key 533 N.E. Kllllngsworth 503-288-6338 Joblessness B ecom ing N ational Crisis by Jerry Garner Recently released labor depart merit figures revealed that more than 8 million Americans were offi cially unemployed in April, 1986 Ovei 39 percent of them were under tho age of 25. In tact, the joblessness rate for 16 ,9 year olds rose dramatically from 18 percent to 19 6 percent in April, an increase of 127,000 teens. As predictable, unemployment rate foi Blai k youths was the high est Nationwide, Black youth job lossi mss is 42 6 percent. John Rakowitz, Public Relations Director for the Portland Private Industry Council, Inc., said jobless ness among youth nationwide has leached epidemic proportions. The problem of youth joblessness is a national problem and is getting woise all the time. Unless the schools, the business community, and state and local officials all come together in an effort to solve this problem, we will see the conse guences in the future. Rakowitz said youth joblessness will transcend into economic pro blems in the future He T»otnts to a /ecent report released by the N.rtional Alliance of Busibeksmen entitled, "Employment Policies into the year 2000 " The report states that unless young people get the entry level |ob training, they will become useless in the labor market " "Years ago when a kid dropped out of school, he she could get a |ob working at tho same place of a family member Back then, that was the case, because of produc tion jobs. Today we are in a service economy Unless a kid has social and public relation skills, they won't make it in a service economy," said Rakowitz Rakowitz's assessment can be seen in labor bureau statistics Al though 9 4 million jobs have been created since the trough of the 1982 recession in November, teen agers who represent nearly ,9 per cent of the unemployed have received only 1 percent of all new jobs during this period. In fact, teenage population declined by 12 9 percent between ,979 and 1985. however, the number of employed teens fell by 20 4 percent Rakowitz said teen joblessness in Portland is higher because of the depressed economy He said 42 percent of all minority youth are unemployed in Portland, and 53 percent of Black youth are out of jobs. Portland Private Industry Council provides funding for organizations to offer youth job training and em ployment opportunities The Coun cil operates a Youth Employment Institution , YEII which provides ad ditional training and job placement for youth year round. Saluting Our Boy Scouts Socially acceptable checking that comes in a box! Its ActionFhck. A priceless package of financial services prized by people from all social classes. FVrhaps that’s why they’re say ing “BULLY for Actionlhck!" They’ve discovered that Actionlhck’s not only profitable, its socially acceptable to boot. So change to Actionlhck. 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