April 1, 1987, Portland Observer, Page!
The Crucible
Party Time!
The Catlin Gabel Players w ill per
form The Crucible by A rthur Mil
ler at the Gabel Center for the Pet
form ing Arts on Thursday. April 30.
Friday, May 1, and Saturday,
May 2. at 8 00 p m
A matinee on
Sunday. May 3. is scheduled for
1 00 p m.
Admission prices are
$2 00 for adults and $1 00 for stu
dents The Gabel Center is located
at 8825 S W Barnes Road on the
Catlin Gabel School campus
"Parents.1! Do You Know Where
The Party Is?"
It started out as a quiet Friday evening in February then it began
Yelling, screaming, crowds and crow ds o f kids in the street, on the lawns,
honking of horns, loud loud music that sounds like it could penetrate
steel; tunning, open use of drugs, abusive language being used by both
young girls and young boys
Please let me emphasize GIRLS and BOYS because the participants
in the ritual or club meeting las it has been termed) is liken u nto some
thing you w ould only see on a movie screen BUT! Right here in Portland.
Oregon, in (what is otherwise considered) a relatively quiet com m unity
A Los Angeles based gang know n as the "CRIPS are recruiting, training
and mesmerizing our youth
Carter ft Burton Hold
Constituent Coffee
District 17 ft 18 will hold a coffee
w ith opportunity for a Legislative
Report on Saturday. April 11. 1987
Location is Piedmont Church of
Christ, 5338 N B orthw ick
The
hours w ill be 10 00 am until ,2 00
Noon
W e w ant our districts to know
w hat is going on in the Legislature
W e w ant to listen to the concerns
of our constituents
Join us for coffee and conver
sationl
State
Representative
Michael
Burton. District 17 and State Repre
sentative Margaret L. Carter. Dist
rict 18, and members of their staff
w ill be available
The fastest anim al is the cheetah
The large cat has been clocked at
seventy miles per hour
COM E TO OREGON A N D RAISE YOU K ID S
IN A W H O LES O M E E N V IR O N M E N T "
V in c e n t C a ld e ro n is one o f th e re s id e n ts o f th e re c e n tly re n o v a te d Beaver H o te l
P ilo t o b y R ic h a r d J B r o w n
H o te l P ro v id in g S e rvice s For
L o w -In c o m e and H o m e le ss
by Jerry Garner
The Beaver Hotel, the main corn
ponent o f Portland's Mayor Bud
Clark's 12 point plan addressing the
C ity's homeless crisis began provi
ding services to the homeless and
low income last Tuesday The hotel
is expected to provide 70,000 people
w ith emergency shelter during its
first year in operation
In addition, the renovated hotel
offers the homeless a place to clean
themselves by providing separate
showers and public restroom facili
ties for men and women
Clients
can also receive clean cloths Jean
Demaster, executive director of
Burnside Protects stated that the
hotel's com m unity kitchens will
serve about 50.000 meals annually
The homeless and low income in
dividuals in the central city area can
also receive free basic medical treat
m ent, fo llo w up care and referal In
an e ffo rt to help the homeless gain
em ploym ent, reading and English
classes will be made available for
800 N K illin g s w o rth
283 3171
Serving Portland For Over
30 Years
Deli Sale!
super savings on
lunchmeat, cheese,
margerine, etc. .
Open Mon
Sat 9 30 6 00
Groceries Below
W holesale Prices!!
Foodstamps W elcom e'
them
Low incom e residents can also
find shelter at the hotel
Central
City Concern, a non profit agency
will provide 60 low income single
room units in the upstairs section of
the hotel
The opening of the Beaver Hotel
is the C ity's first step to address its
homeless dilemma
Before leaving
Portland in route to W ashington.
DC
to protest the plight of the
homeless Michael Stoops Director
of the Burnside Com m unity Coon
Cil, estimated that Portland s home
less population was 7 (XX)
Experts on the nation's homeless
problem said there is an increase m
poverty and lack of affordable hou
sing
Today in the United States
more men. wom en and i hildren a r e '
homeless than at any time since the
Great Depression
They blame
federal benefits programs that leave
mothers unable to both pay the rent
and put food on the table
They
said only recently has the federal
governm ent begun to address the
nation's homeless crisis
Earlier this m onth the U S Con
gross appropriated $50 m illion in
emergency food and shelter pro
grams for the nation s homeless
Oregon's homeless w ill receive
$634.500 of that am ount The Port
land area Clackamas. M ultnom ah
and W ashington i ounties will re
i eive $233 469
Homelessness has been increa
sing nationally at an average rate of
25 percent
Homelessness among
young people in their teens and
early 20 s and among w om en and
families is increasing dram atically
Stoops said in an interview w ith
the Observer before his departure in
November that Mayor Clark has
made more progress in addressing
Portland's homeless problem in 12
months than had been made in the
past 10 years
A I RIPS clubhouse has been established in one or more of our neigh
bor s homes Every other weekend, the residents and hom eow ners o f our
com m unity know what to expect W e have called and called the police
repeatedly The noise gets so loud that you can t sleep It is very discon
ce d in g to a person w hen his her peace and privacy is in fringed upon by
such overt and obtrude behavior
Since the first weekend in February there has been a rash of outlandish
behavior and an increase in the crow d
One neighbor saw a girl being raped tiy three (3) young boys right on
their lawn under then w indow ! Right out in the openl Other kids run
rung past or just walking by as it was happening
The understanding is that the girls w ho become members or are the girl
friends of the boys w ho become members are then considered "FREE
WOMEN
The time, place and space can be anywhere, at anytim e and
w ith anyone (if the "FREE W O M AN angers her mate)
The police are in a quandary WHY? Because w hen they show up in
their police cars w ith flashing lights and searchlights they w ill never w it
nesa any of the behaviors that have been reported by the frantic neighbors
There are LOOK OUTS stationed at the ends of each block They can spot
Die police before they arrive at the scene Singal the crow d and w hen the
police show up they see 0 ", ZIP
N AD A . "F IN '
You got it ’ A big
fat nothing
We the residents, aie bom barding '911 to no avail
It appears as though everyone goes into Die cracks of the sidewalks
las it was stated by one neighbor)
On several occasions there have been repeated gunshots You then see
(>eople scattering, screaming and ducking in an attem pt to escape im
pending danger
The participants are middle and high schoolers They all have curfew s
YET' the revelry continues on into the early m orning hours (such as 3 30
AM 4 00 AM 4 30 AM I
OUFSTION
W hy aren t the curfew laws being enforced w ith these
children? There was a big front page headline and TV special about the
• hildren d o w n to w n ' WELL? What about th e se children? They certainly
belong to somebody
Some home
Some m other
Some guardian.
Som ething needs to be done
Maybe I'm being too presum ptuous and
biting o ff mote than I can chew but this kind of behavior and pillage
cannot tie allowed to continue
S T A T E M E N T S OF THE U N C O N C E R N E D
They are only having a little fun W h a t's the harm?
They are not doing anything to us so w h a t's the harm ?"
Just c lo s“ your door arid maybe they will shoot up each other and
solve it for us
A dult members came here to our city and ate convincing our kids to go
then (CRIPS) w.iy We the adults of Portland. Oregon, should stand firm
and rid our city of these vermin Their obnoxious and unm entionable prac
tu e s M U S T b e er.nlii ated permanently)
PARENTS!
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C o rn e r o f 8 th e n d S k id m o r e
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Sunday W o rsh ip 11 0 0 « m
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DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE PARTY YOUR CHILD W ll I
BE ATTENDING? NO?
1 Find O ut Inquire
2 Get the address and telephone number
3 Contact the parents or persons hosting the party
4 A lw .iys escort your children to unknow n houses and or areas
5 Pick your children up b e fo re curfew (NOT 5 minutes after)
So m uch has been said about broken homes and the disappearing fam ily
Structure D on't become so complacent and coweyed you can no longer
hear or see w hat is happening in your o w n home and to your ow n children
We. w ho are adults now survived only because our parents were strict
and kept the m idnight oil burning We were bonded by our word
M attie Ann Callier Spears
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