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Page 4 Portland Observer NOVEMBER 9, 1989
News Around Town
IBM Donates
Computers To PCC
Programs
Site Nomination For
The Albina Human
Resources Center
Oregon Human Resources Director
Kevin W. Concannon has announced
consultations with the North East Port
land community has produced a site
nomination for the Albina Human Re
sources Center. "We have picked the site
at the intersection of N.e. Vancouver
and Alberta and will now proceed with
lease negotiations," Concannon said.
Community leader Ronnie Herndon
applauded the selection noting that the
Resource Center had formerly been lo
cated at Vancouver and Alberta. "It was
an integral part of the community, and
we welcome its return" said Hemdon.
Concannon disclosed meetings with
community leaders had played a key
role in his decision. "There was a strong
recommendation for the selected site,"
said Concannon. "The community sense
is that N.E. Vancouver and Alberta is the
more appropriate location for a human
resource service center."
The Albina Human Resources Center
has been located at the comer of Martin
Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and N.E.
Killingsworth for the past four years.
"That location," said community busi
nessman Sam Brooks, "is more appro
priate for commercial use."
North East Neighborhood leader
Charles Ford agreed, saying "from my
perspective the Albina and N.E. Van
couver site is central to the community
served by the human Resources Center.
It will be real plus for the neighbor
hood."
Concannon added the Department
of Human Resources hopes negotiations
and subsequent remodeling at the se
lected site can be completed within six
months.
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25th
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The Upward Bound Program at the
university of Oregon will celebrate it's
Twenty-fifth Anniversary in August of
1990. Alumni or staff interested in plan
ning or attending this event, please write
Upward Bound, Univesity of Oregon,
1859 E. 15th, Eugene, Oregon 97403.
Medicaid Recipients In
Counties Receive Christmas
Clearing Bureau Letters
International Business Machines
Corporation has donated two of its Sys
tem 36 computers and related hardware,
valued at $32,400 for each system, to
programs at Portland Community Col
lege.
The computers will be used in
Computer Information Systems, Elec
tronic Data Processing and Business
Administration programs at PCC. The
equipment has been placed at the PCC
Sylvania and Cascade campuses.
IBM's donation was part of a grant
program the corporation developed to
assist selected programs at community
colleges across the nation, said Susan G.
Norris, higher education representative
of IBM's marketing division in Portland.
Instead of honoring individual requests
for equipment, IBM solicited proposals
from interested colleges, she said.
IBM also has offered to provide
support services, including operator train-
ing, for the new systems.
Medicaid recipients in Multnomah
and Clackamas Counties received Christ-
masClearing Bureau referral letters with
their November I check mailings. The
three part form, used to nominate house
holds for donations of food and, or spe
cial needs, was produced and mailed by
the Slate Adult and Family Services
Divsion as a courtesy to it's clients who
observe the December holiday.
The Suite of Oregon Department of
Human Resources Volunteer Program
will review completed letters for accu
racy and distribute them to Clearing
Bureaus in the two counties. The Clear
ing Bureaus will check letters for dupli-
cations and assign households for food
and special need donations.
Blank relerral letters will be avail-
able at branch offices of Adult and Fam
ily Services Division in Multnomah and-
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ClackamasCountiesbeginningtheweek - A .T tjU l L jW lT lfl
of November 6, 1989.
T o r The
New Group Forms To
Fight Legal Drugging
The Citizens Commission on Human
Rights of Oregon recently established a
new Chapter North Portland. The North
Portland Chapter will fight Ritalin and
other psychiatric drug abuses in that
area "There has been a tremendous outcry
over the street drug problems in our area,
but what so many people don’t realize is
that many of today's psychiatric drugs
are very addictive and in many cases do
not help the individual." Dana Popick
the North Portland Director claimed.
Jessica Allen, Assistant Director stated,
"The Black Community as well as eld
erly and low income families are very
often hit hard by this particular psychiat
ric abuse because government funding
has made psychiatric programs readily
available, the most common treatment
of mental ailments today is drugs first,
discussion later or never. On a Statewide
level, the largest number of psychiatric
abuses comes from these areas.”
"Our research shows that many
children are not in fact hyperactive, but
have some other physical problem that
can be corrected without drugs, Ritalin
doesnotsolvetheseproblem s.Toom any
children have suffered serious and long
term side effects from this drug to con-
tinue using it without being informed,
we want people to know the alternatives
H io lid a y s S it
The O re g o n T rt In s titu te
to ritalin and other drugs, and we want to
end legal drug addiction." Popick con
tinued.
Tanya Whitman, the Regional Di
rector for the State of Oregon stated;
"We have been researching the number
of people taking psychiatric drugs called
anti-anxiety agents (such as Valium,
Halcion, and Xanax) and have found
that there is indeed a correlation be
tween the drugs they were on and the
resultant crime, in some cases mass
murder. Tax dollars arc paying for un
leashing criminal violence in our com
munities."
The N. Portland Chapter is avail
able to help anyone who has been a
victim of psychiatric abuses and can be
contacted by calling the hotline number
(503) 285-5398 or writing to 7704 N.
Dwight, Portland, Oregon 97203.
Citizens Commission on Human
Rights has been investigating and ex
posing psychiatric violations of Human
Rights since 1969 when it was estab-
fished by the Church of Scientology.
The Commission is an international
organization that has attained many rights
for psychiatric victims and put an end to
numerous psychiatric abuses in it's 20
year history.
Older Women's League
(OWL) Sets Meeting
Saturday, November 11, 1989
' 10:00 A.M.
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The Pacific Northwest College of
Art Extension Program offers two work
shops taught by Romanian iconographer
Paul Mihailescu this winter.
Workshops By
The first class on November 25 and
Romanian Artist
26 is Repousse, the ancient art of relief
Paul Mihailescu
decoration in metal. Students will pro
duce beautiful copper plaques and plates
At The Pacific
with rasied decorative designs.
Northwest College
Reverse Glass Painting on Decem
ber
2
and 3 introduces students of all
Of Art
levels to this beautiful Roman art of
working with gold leaf and paint on
glass. Students will learn traditional
techniques of this 1000 year old art form.
Both Repousse and Reverse Glass
Painting are ideal courses for making
that unique and special holiday gift-
Mihailescu is currently showing his
icon paintings at the M. Coe Gallery
through October 31. He began painting as a teenager in Romania where he was
trained in the traditional Russian/Byzantine school. After defecting in 1982, he
came to America and became a U.S. citizen last May.
The Portland Chapter of the Older
Women's League (OWL) will meet at
the Willamette Athletic C lub,4949 S.W.
Landing Drive (1/4 block east of SW
Macadam). SUBJECT: "Me? A Car
egiver? It Could Happen To You!" (This
is National Caregivers Month). Speak
ers will be Shirley Bass, attorney, State
Senator Shirley Gold, and Case Milne,
RN with Resource Connectors. Also on
program will be discussion and recom
mendations to the Governor's Confer
ence on Aging in March, 1990. The
meeting isOpcn to the Public, no admis
sion charge. No-host coffee available.
Ample parking; Tri-Met access and
handicap entrance on Macadam. Call
telephone information for OWL tele
phone for directions if needed.
Stop by the Museum Shop for such
remarkable items as Chinese porcelain,
Japanese woodblock t-shirts, Museum
quality jewelry and Fine Museum repro
ductions. You can pick up your Christ
mas cards and gift wrap, too. Or give a
gift certificate so your friends and fam
ily can choose their own art treasure.
The Rental/Sales Gallery has the
perfect answer for the person who has
everything. The gift of art lasts a life-
timc> Choose from sculpture, watercol
ors and paintings. Or, if you're not sure
of a person's particular tastes, gift cer
tificates are available. Call 274-4121 for
more information. (Oregon Art Institute
membership is required to buy art or
give a gift certificate.
For the film buffs, we suggest the
Silver Screen Club. Membership includes
free admission to all Film Center pro
grams (including the Portland Interna
tional Film Festival), plus tickets to the
annual PortlandCroquet Tournament and
Party, Opening Night of the Portland
International Film Festival, and special
invitations to private preview screen
ings. For more information call 221-
1156.
ANMP Invites
Community Residents
to An Open House
The Albina Neighborhood Murals
Project (ANMP), under the direction of
artist, Isaac Shamsud-Din, invites com
munity residents to an open house and
reception at the project's business ad
dress located at 2909 N.E. Alberta Street.
The event is scheduled for Friday, Nov.
10, 1989 from 5 to 7 p.m. Refreshments
will be served, while guests will be in
vited to view and listen to music, poetry
and written works produced by some of
Portland's professionals in the world of
art.
Donations on a sliding scale of $5 to
$25 dollars will be accepted upon arri
val. The donations will insure the con
tinued success of the project.
The Albina neighborhood murals
project is nearing a completion date of
murals constructed at the American
Business Center located at 4008 N.E.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
M orning Star M issionary Baptist Church
Dr. T. L. Lewis, Pastor
106 N.E. Ivy Street • Portland, O regon 97212
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Portland Oregon 97212
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Service
November 13-17
Greater St. Stephens Missionary
Baptist Church, 3922 N. Williams Ave
nue, Portland, Oregon, Rev. Robert
Houston, Sr., pastor. Services Begins 7
p.m. nightly, mon.-Fri. THEME: Bibli
cal Solutions for Modern Day Problems.
Guest Speaker: Rev. Bernard M. De
vers, pastor of Progressive Baptist Church
in Seattle, Washington. Any and every
one is welcome to come and have a
SHOUTING good time in the Lord!
November 8-10
St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church,
8101 N. Fiske, Portland, Oregon, Rev.
James Faulkner, pastor. Services begins
at 7 p.m. nightly. Guest Speaker: Rev.
Robert Jeffrey, pastor of New Hope Baptist
Church in Seattle, Washington.
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Beginning the first week of No
vember, Bess Kaiser Medical Center
and Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center
will become the first hospitals in the
Portland area - and the first Kaiser Per
m an en t hospitals nationwide - to use
only cloth diapers on their newborns and
pediatric patients.
"The decision to switch from single
use 'disposable' diapers to cloth diapers
was made after lengthy discussions with
nurses on the affected units," says Kathy
Bishop, RN, coordinator o f maternal/
child services at Bess Kaiser. "They
demonstrated strong support for taking
this pro-environmental stand, and we're
very proud of being the first to make this
change."
Virginia Feldman, MD, chief of
pediatrics for Bess Kaiser Medical Cen
ter, was instrumental in stimulating inter
est in the move to cloth diapers. "Cloth
diapers are healthier for babies than the
plastic ones," she says, citing studies
showing that babies who wear cotton
diapers get fewer rashes than those who
wear single-use diapers.
"Each baby discharged will go home
in a cotton diaper and nylon diaper wrap,"
says Bishop. "We hope this will encour
age families to discover for themselves
how convenient and ecologically sound
cloth diapers are."
John Pearson, M.D., chief of pedi
atrics for Kaiser Sunnyside Medical
Center, supports the responsible nature
of the switch to cloth diapersj. With
more than 18 billion so-called 'dispos
ables’ a year being thrown into landfills,
cloth diapers are a real plus for the
environment.
In 1988, Bess Kaiser Medical Cen
ter and Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Cen
ter delivered a total of 3,586 babies. The
two non-profit community medical cen
ters provide hospital care to more than
355,000 Kaiser Permanente members in
NorthwestOrcgon and Southwest Wash
ington. Kaiser Permanente's member
ship nationwide stands at more than six
million.
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Portland State University's Continuing Education Press has just published The
Oregon Book o f Juvenile Issues. Authors, Gerald G. Johnson and John C Wolfe of
the Children's Services Division have designed the book as a convenient guide to the
legal rights and restrictions affecting children in the state of Oregon.
Whatever the issue - be it education rights, judicial procedures, child custody,
reporting ol abuse, or adoption rules - the details are often widely scattered, difficult
to locate, and obscure. This book consolidates a myriad of topics into one volume.
In narrative form it discusses over eighty subjects relevant to minors. Also included
are selected portions of actual text from the relevant state statutes on federal
regulations. Clear layout and a detailed index help the user through the maze of rules
and regulations that relate to children.
Among the more than eighty topics are: Adoption, Discipline in Public Schools,
Termination o f Parental Rights. Marriage, Abortion, Emancipation, Drugs Law
Enforcement, Sex Education and Child Abuse.
Available from Continuing Education Press, Portland State University P O
Box 1394, Portland, OR 97207. $15.00 plus $3.00 shipping.
Keynote Speaker:
Pastor W endall Wallace - M arantha Church
U plifting special music w ill also be provided!
Tickets: $10.00 - May be pruchased by calling
(503) 287-9814 or 281-4925
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New Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1625
N.E. Killingsworth Ave., Portland, OR.,
Rev. Learthur Madison, pastor. Service
begins at 7 p.m. nightly. Guest Speaker:
Rev. Robert Manaway, pastor of the
Tabernacle Baptist Church in Seattle,
Washington.
Friday, December 9,1989 • 6:30 P.M.
O. B. Williams Convention Center
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Union Baptist Church, 5300 block
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nightly. Guest speakers: local ministers.
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