January 31,1990
Portland Observer • Page 3
N ew s A round T own
Housing Gets First Child
Care Center
The first child care center for public
housing residents will be opened in May,
following the award of a one year demon
stration project grant of $45,140 to the
Housing Authority of Portland (HAP) and
Neighborhood House. The child care center
will be developed at Hillsdale Terrace, a
HAP development in southwest Portland
that houses 60 low income families. Par
ents who want to use the child care center
must be employed, involved in job search
or training programs leading to employ
m ent
The child care center will use two
community rooms at Hillsdale Terrace to
serve 20 pre-school children and 15 grade
City Energy
Office Helps To
Weatherize 5,000
Apartments
Over 5,000 rental units have been
weatherized as a result of Portland's Multi-
Family Weatherization Assistance Program.
The program, funded by the Oregon De
partment of Energy, has just received a
$230,000 grant to continue the program
until June of 1991. Commissioner Mike
Lindberg said that with the new grant, an
additional 2,000 rental units will be weath
erized.
Under the program. Energy Office staff
work closely with property owners and
managers to explain weatherization incen
tives and to prepare the application forms.
“ Our program targets low-income
families in multi-family housing units, which
in may cases need the energy upgrading the
most and can take advantage of the finan
cial incentives offered by utilities and the
State of Oregon,” said Program Manager
Debbie Palermini.
school children from the development. The
center will operate from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m. Neighborhood House will operate the
center, which will emphasize and encour
age the development of self-esteem and
social, mental, and physical growth. Neigh
borhood House is a community service
agency that provides early childhood, family,
and aging services to low income families
in southwest Portland.
"w e have a good partnership with
Neighborhood House that will allow our
low income parents to look for work and
become employed,” HAP Executive Di
rector Donald E. Clark says. “ Parents will
feel better having their children cared for so
close to hom e."
HAP and Neighborhood House plan to
involve residents with the child care center
Child Care Center Forward Motion Offers Wide Variety of
Services and Computer Expertise
Announces
Closure
through a parents advisory board. Parents
will have input on the development of ac
tivities and curriculum at the center. One of
the goals is to build bridges between school
and home by encouraging the parents to
participate in the center's classroom and
help sponsor holiday events such as pot
lucks. The child care center will be vital to
the parents at Hillsdale Terrace in provid
ing affordable child care.
The grant from the Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
will cover the start-up costs of the center.
HAP is contributing $40,000 for the opera
tion of the center. Additional funding will
come from eligible State of Oregon Adult
and Family Services subsidies. Parents will
also be expected to pay based on a sliding
fee scale.
The PIC Elects 1990 Board Officers
E. Andrew Jordan Named to Third Term as Chairman
The Private Industry Council, a pri
vate, non-profit employment and training
organization, has elected officers to its
board of directors. The new officers, who
will serve until January 1,1991, will lead a
26-member board representing private
business, education, labor, community-based
organizations and the public sector. The
board will oversee The Private Industry
Council’s comprehensive employment and
training programs for youth and adults in
Washington and Multnomah Counties.
E. Andrew Jordan will serve as chair
man of the board. Mr. Jordan, an attorney,
is managing shareholder of th law firm
Bolliger, Hampton & Tarlow. He is an
expert in land use and development, local
government and employment law. He has
been a board member since 1987 and will
serve a third term as chairman. Mr. Jordan
represents The Private Industry Council at
the Portland Leaders' Roundtable. He is a
former president of th Beaverton Chamber
of Commerce.
Bill Scott, president of Pacific Devel
opment, Inc., is the new vice-chair. Mr.
Scott participates in a number of local
boards including the Association for Port
land Progress, Emanuel Medical Center
Foundation and the Portland Metropolitan
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Scott, who is
also a member of the Leaders’ Roundtable,
has served on the board of The Private
Industry Council since 1988.
Mary Zoe Petersen has been re-elected
as secretary-treasurer, a position she has
held since the inception of The Private
Industry Council in 1987. Mrs. Petersen is
co-owner of Gresham Optical and Custom
Eyes. She is also an active member of the
Soroptimist Club of Gresham, American
Association o f University Women, the Mt.
Hood Festival of Jazz Foundation and the
Gresham Chamber of Commerce.
The trouble with opportunity is it
comes disguised as hard work.
The St. Vincent de Paul Child Develop
ment Center board of directors announced
Monday morning that the center will close
on February 28. Board president, Juba Baker,
cited the center’s desperate financial situ
ation faced over recent months, saying,
‘ ‘The board deeply regrets the decision, but
after unsuccessfully pursuing new funding
sources we felt there was no other choice.
Reducing our high standards of care in
order to cut our budget was not considered
an acceptable option.” Since m id-1989 the
center has seen declining tuition revenue,
the result of falling enrollment.
The center currently cares for 69 chil
dren, between two-and-a-half to five years
old. Seventeen staff are employed.
The center opened 50 years ago as
Blessed Martin DePorres Day Nursery at
North Victoria and Broadway. Later it moved
to Northeast Williams and Graham, re
named St. Martin’s Day Nursery. In 1973
the center moved to its present location, the
old Immaculate Academy at 44 Northeast
Morris. Third generation students are not
uncommon.
NACME Recognizes
Outstanding High
School Students
Portland resident Bosco Kante, receives
a 1989 National Action Council for Minori
ties in Engineering (NACME) High School
Student Merit Award from Eastman Kodak
President Kay R. Whitmore. The award
recognizes African-American, Hispanic and
American Indian high school students who
have demonstrated academic excellence,
leadership skills, and commitment to engi
neering as a career field.
Kante, who received an 411,000 schol
arship, was among ten finalists honored at
NACME’s Forum '89 in Washington, D.C.
A graduate of Grant High School, Kante is
now a mechanical engineering major at the
University of Southern California.
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Theautries Ben Yehudah (West) of
Forward Motion, Inc. and Sam Qasam of
Rent A Soft work as a team to offer a wide
variety of services and computer expertise
to corporations and individuals in the
downtown Portland corridor at 1430 SW
Park Avenue near the Portland State Cam
pus. Both have extensive experience with
computer software and hardware.
T. Ben has 10 years experience in the
computer industry and has worked for such
companies as IBM and Xerox. He has also
taught various computer subjects for
community and private
colleges. He has served as an advocate
for juvenile African
American males under the Juvenile
Justice system. During the summer of 1989
he was the computer instructor for the Earn
& Learn Program at Portland Community
College. This was a highly successful
program aimed at training youth who were
or had high potentials for drug or gang
involvement. The student retention rate for
this summer program was an astonishing
90%! T. Bei. said “ I would like to see the
Governor’s office, Portland Public Schools,
and CSD utilize my expertise in organizing
a year-round computer training program
taylored for the specific needs of high risk
African American youth.”
Forward Motion trains corporate per
sonnel as well as small business people in
the use o f computer software use for IBM
and compatible systems, and offers com
puter consulting and
programming. Consulting includes
software and hardware sales.
Sam Qasam is experienced with com
puter hardware and offers a
wide range of services to customers.
Some of those services are as follows:
Computer time rental, software rental, resu
mes, word processing, desktop publishing,
laser printing, spreadsheet projects, and
transferring files from MAC to IBM or
IBM to MAC. Sam said, “ customers should
try the software before they invest $500 in
purchasing such software as Lotus 123
Version 3 or other software, only to dis
cover it was not what they expected” . “ T ”
and Sam want to help individuals, small
business owners, and corporate personnel
be the best they can be, and they are avail
able to assist companies in their computer
decisions.
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