January 24,1990 ■ Portland Observer - Page 5
N ew s A round T own
Department of
Revenue Increases
Services to Taypayers
SALEM -Beginning Jan. 3rd, taxpay
ers who call the Department of Revenue
Tax Help Section will reach a telephone
service which will provide recorded tax
information. Taxpayers will be able to order
tax forms, hear messages about current tax
topics, and get answers to commonly asked
tax questions. Beginning March 1, taxpay
ers can receive information about their
refunds.
The system will operate 24 hours a day,
7 days a week. That means that taxpayers
can order forms and get information about
refunds virtually any time of the day.
When the system cannot handle the
taxpayer's questions it will refer them to a
Department of Revenue operator. Opera
tors are available for assistance during normal
working hours. Taxpayers may call the
following numbers toll-free from Jan. 3rd
to April 30th.
Portland - 243-2833; Salem - 371-2244;
from elsewhere in Oregon - 1-800-356-
4222. After April 30, call Salem 1-371-
2244. There will be no toll-free number
after April 30.
According to Cindi Chinnock, admin
istrator of the department's Administrative
Services Division, "B y handling routine
current year refund questions, forms re
quests, and commonly asked questions, the
message system will allow the Tax Help
staff to spend time answering more techni
cal tax questions and requests. Taxpayers
will have an easier time reaching the de
partment, and w e’ll be able to provide
faster service.”
Announces
Vernellia Randall Accepts
Faculty Position
Portland attorney, Vernellia R. Randall
of the Bullivant, Houser, Bailey, Pender
grass and Hoffman law firm, has accepted
a faculty position with the University of
Dayton School of Law, Ohio. Ms. Randall
received a grant to develop a course in
HealthCare Law which she will teach along
with Torts during the Fall quarter.
Peace Corps Seeks Minority
Volunteers In Stepped Up
Recruiting Effort
The Peace Corps has begun a stepped
up effort to recruit minority volunteers as
part of an effort to more accurately reflect
the multi-ethnic diversity that the United
States represents. The recruiting effort will
endeavor to place additional Black, His
panic, Asian, and Native American volun
teers in programs in 68 developing nations
in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific,
and Eastern Europe in 1990.
Robert Staats, recruiting manager for
the Seattle Peace Corps recruiting office,
pointed out that the agency has set as it goal
350 new minority volunteers, which repre
sents ten per cent of the total number of
Peace Crops volunteers to be placed in
fiscal year 1990.
Staats emphasized that only a greater
participation of minority Americans in the
Peace Corps will show the developing world
the rich multicultural composition of
American society and, at the same time,
give minorities a chance to share what the
Peace Corps offers its volunteers.
Currently, less than ten percent of all
volunteers are non-white, yet the Peace
Corps can point to hundreds of former
minority volunteers who, having received
valuable leadership training in the Peace
Corps, now hold key positions in govern
ment, education, business and finance,
communications, and fine arts. Many of
these former volunteers are heads of insti
tutes and major universities, reporters and
editors for daily newspapers, corporate
• managers and artists. Staats said.
URGENT!!!
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St. M a rk Baptist Church
on Rodney. Salary nego
tiable. Please contact: Rev.
Joe S. Hardie at A M A ,
Emanuel Rehabilitation Center Earns
New Accreditation; Work Hardening
Program Only One Of Six In The U.S.
tation for the first time include Outpatient
Medical Rehabilitation and Work Harden
ing.
Emanuel’s Work Hardening Program
is one of only six of its kind in the nation to
receive this prestigious accreditation. Work
Hardening is an individual treatment pro
gram which combines medical and voca
tional services to assist injured workers in
returning to suitable em ploym ent
In making the announcement, CARF
said, ‘ ‘This important achievement on your
part is a further indication of your dedica
tion and commitment to improve the qual
ity of the lives of people with disabilities .
. . Everyone involved in your organization
can rightfully be proud of the unique dis
tinction of being accredited.”
The Emanuel Rehabilitation Center at
Emanuel Hospital & Health Center has
been awarded accreditation for six major
program areas, making Emanuel the most
highly accredited Physical Rehabilitation
Center in the Northwestern United, Sutes.
Program surveys and evaluations are per
formed by the Commission on Accredita
tion of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF),
an organization which evaluates rehabilita
tion services throughout the U.S.
CARF renewed the accrediution of
Emanuel’s programs for Comprehensive
Inpatient Rehabilitation, Chronic Pain
Management: Inpatient and Outpatient,
Spinal Cord Injury and Brain Injury: Acute.
New programs which received accredi-
PCC Sets Nursing Career
PNCAEP Offers
Drawing Class In
Northeast Portland
Day February 21st
Interested men and women are invited
to take part in Nursing Career Day Wednes
day, Feb. 21st, at the Sylvania Campus of
Portland Community College, 12000 SW
49th ave.
The event will include PCC nursing
students, faculty and nurse employers from
throughout the Northwest to the College
Center building's west mall from 11:30
a.m. to 3 p.m., said Elizabeth Ruff, Nursing
Department chairwoman.
Visitors will have an opportunity to
leant about the PCC associate degree nurs
ing program and a wide variety of job
opportunities available to graduate nurses.
Tours of PCC’s health program laborato
ries will be provided.
Further information is available from
the PCC Nursing Department, 244-6111,
ext. 4466.
For the very first time the Pacific
Northwest College of Art Extension Pro
gram will be offering a drawing class in
Northeast Portland at the Albina Neighbor
hood Mural Project. Isaac Shamsud-Din,
painter, muralist and Director of the Albina
Neighborhood Mural Project will teach a
class for persons wishing to draw the human
form. Students will learn the basic tech
niques of rendering, form, shadow, line,
volume and the methods of quick sketching
and vigorous direct drawing. Special atten
tion will be given to developing the African
style and color.
The Extension Program offers evening
and weekend courses in Fine Art and De-
sign/Illustration for adults and children.
Courses can also be taken for credit.
Call 226-0462 or 226-4391 for more
information regarding Isaac Shamsud-Din’s
course or other Extension Program course.
Register now to insure a place in the course
of your choice.
Classes begins the week of February 7,
285-0493.
United Way
1990.
If you care, share.
Parents Of Future
Students Invited To
PSU Reception
Parents and their college-bound stu
dents are invited to attend a special recep
tion Tuesday. Jan. 30 at Portland State
University, to discover the range of aca
demic programs and student services avail
able at O regon’s major metropolitan cam
pus.
From 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. in the third-floor
ballroom of Smith Memorial Center (on
S.W. Broadway between Montgomery and
Harrison Streets), speakers will outline PSU
admissions requirements, financial aid,
student housing, career options, athletic
progiams and freshman orientation.
In addition, other speakers fiom Port
land Slate’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, together with the professional
schools of Business Administration, Edu
cation, Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Fine and Performing Arts, Health and Physical
Education, and Urban and Public Affairs,
will each discuss specialties and strengths
of their academic programs.
Free parking for this event is available
in non-reserved spaces located n PSU multi
level parking structures.
Registration by Friday, Jan. 26 is sug
gested. For further information, contact
Portland State’s Office of Admissions, (503)
725-3511.
“We The People:
Strength In Diversity.”
The Sixth Annual Conference of the
Oregon Multicultural Education Associa
tion has taken as it’s theme “ We The
People: Strength In Diversity.” The con
ference is open to all and will be held at the
Monarch Motor Hotel on March 30th and
31st, 1990.
Workshops will be conducted on both
Friday and Saturday. Saturday’s luncheon
will feature a moment for appreciation of
classroom teachers. The concluding ses
sion will be a lively presentation by Stephen
Saffron, renounced educator, professor,
humorist, motivator and the Director of
American Indian Programs.
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In honor of Black History Mo th, U.S.
Bank is requesting poetry be subn tied for
publication in area newspapers. Local writ
ers are invited to submit their original works
of poetry preferrably limited to 20 lines to:
U.S. Bank Public Relations
A frican-A m erican Reflectii.ns
P.O . Box 8837
P o rtlan d , Oregon 97208
Deadline for entries is January ? 1,1990.
All written pieces should be tyj-ed and
double spaced. Please indicate whether the
writer is an adult (over 18) or a you lg adult
(13-18) or a child (12 and under), and
whether the writer wishes to remaii anony
mous. All entries must include name, ad
dress and phone number for consideration.
All entries must be original work - by the
submitter.
U p to 24 poems will be sele ted for
inclusion in a special poetry section pro
vided by U.S. Bank in local newspapers.
Pieces selected will be published one time
only during Black History Month Febru
ary 1990. Due to volume, pieces cannot be
returned.
EAO To Offer
Employment Workshop
Individuals with epilepsy can receive
job search assistance through the T raining
and Placement Service (TAPS) of the Epi
lepsy Association of Oregon.
A free workshop will be held February
7th-8th at 718 W. Burnside, Suite 204.
Topics to be addressed will include:
* Options for Disclosing Epilepsy to an
Employer.
* Skill Assessment
* Self-marketing.
* The Hidden Job Market
* Contracting Employers.
Plus More!!!
For more information and to register,
please call 228-7651. Pre-registration is
required for participation.
Project LEAD:
For further information about the con
ference or to obtain registration materials,
High Expectations!
call Dapo Sobomehin, president of OMEA,
The Portland Chapter, I he Li iks. In
at 230-2378, or Robin Butterfield, vice corporated, invites your organize’. in to be
president, at 323-7123 or 323-1378, or represented at an Informational Meeting
write P.O.Box40749, Port land, OR 97240. regarding a demonstration projt r, called:
Mistakes Cause Delays
In HARRP Refunds
Safeway is in your Neighborhood to Stay
Local Writers Invited
To Submit Poetry
In Honor Of Black
History Month
SALEM -Roughly one-third of Ore
gon taxpayers filing a 1989 refund for the
Homeowner and Renter Refund Program
(HARRP) are not completing the required
household assets test. This mistake is caus
ing delays in processing the HARRP re
funds. The Department of Revenue is re
minding taxpayers they must fill out and
return the household assets checklist before
they can receive a HARRP refund.
If you and your spouse are both under
age 65, you must meet the household assets
test. The total value of the household assets
of both you and your spouse must be less
than $25,000 to qualify for a HARRP re
fund. This is true even if your households
income is under the $17,500 lim it
To determine if your household assets
are under $25,000, fill out the household
assets checklist in your income tax instruc
tion booklet. If the total fair market value of
these assets as of December 31,1989, exceeds
$25,000, you don’t qualify for a HARRP
refund. However, if you or your spouse are
age 65 or older, you aren't required to meet
the household assets te st
Project LEAD: High Expectant
which
is designed to help prevent substam ’ abuse,
adolescent pregnancy, and sexual / trans
mitted diseases among high risk Black youth.
Project LEAD: High Expecta'ions! is
an educational and enrichment program
being implemented by members of elected
Link chapters in various cities thr- ughout
the country. Link members are working in
concert with other members o f predomi
nately Black fraternal and prof> ssional
organizations, parents, community lead
ers, representatives from educational and
service institutions, subject matter experts
and local government officials Ou collec
tive efforts will be directed toward . ncreas-
ing the effectiveness of education in areas
of drug and alcohol abuse and sexuality
education.
S aturday, Ja n u a ry 27th
Bethel A.M.E. C hurch
5828 N.E. 8th Avenue
P ortland, Oregon
Time: 8;30 a.m.-12:00 Noon
Hope we can count on you! Your input
is welcome! Funded by a grant from the
Office of Substance Abuse Pre'ention,
Department of Health and Human Serv
ices.
MEN ■
I f you h a v e * male sexual contact, you « a y be at Risk for A ID S . C all
the Oregon A ID S Hotline at (503) 223-AIDS.
For confidential ioformation on bow to avoid getting A ID S .
No one wiB ask for your name, call now and ask Tor information
about the (“ Safety Plan” ). (W e wilt know you are calling), because
o f thia ad.)
Y o u ’ll get information you can use to avoid getting A ID S.
CALL NOW 223-AIDS
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