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Schools Schedule
Grandparents and
Special-Friends Week
City Of Portland
Sponsors Energy
Awareness Fair
C om m issioner Mike Lindberg will
kick o ff an Energy Awareness Fair on
O ctober 15lh from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
in the lobby o f the Portland Building.
1120 SW 5th. The theme of the fair is:
Cutting Energy Costs at H om e, at Work
and A round Town.
The Fair is sponsored by the Port
land Energy Office. The press and public
will then be invited to tour and ask
questions at an exciting variety ot en
ergy displays. The Fair will highlight
ways to keep more money in the pock
ets o f the average home or business
ow ner. Featured will be: 1) a new state-
of-the-art solar water heating system,
2) easy home weatherization techniques,
3) a video produced by the Energy
O ffice entitled “ Ten Quick W ays to
C ut Your Energy B ills,’ ’ 4) a display of
energy efficient lights, 5) car pool and
transit information, 6) energy educa
tion m aterials for kids and much, much,
Portland Public Schools welcomes
grandparents, senior citizens, friends
and neighbors during Grandparents and
Special Friends W eek, Oct. 21-25.
Beaumont Middle School, 4043
NE Fremont St., features from noon to
1:30- p.m. performances by the Oregon
Senior T heatre accom panied by
Beaumont students. Contact. Lynn
Smith, principal, 280-5610.
Humboldt Elementary School, 4915
N. Gantenbein, welcomes guests at 1
p.m. for a special student performance
followed by classroom visits. Contact.
Linda W akefield, principal, 281-8797.
Martin Luther King Elementary
School, 4906 N.E. 6th Ave., welcomes
visitors to classrooms at 1 p.m. and
enjoy the schools “ well-travelled” choir
and refreshments at 1:30 p.m. Contact:
Laverne Davis, principal, 280-6456.
NAACP Meeting
National Assocition for the Advance
ment of Colored People (NAACP)
General Meeting will be held:
Sunday, October 20, 1991
4:00 PM
M l Olivet Baptist Church
1734 NE First
(1 block North of Broadway)
Guest Speaker:
Mr. Greg Evans, President of The Oregon
Washington State Conference followed
by discussion of 1991-92 Portland
NAAVP Agenda.
Kafoury Commends
Citizens For
Developing Draft
Housing Plan
Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury
praised the work o f the citizens who
developed a Comprehensive Housing
Affordability Strategy (CHAS) lor
M ultnomah County. “ The public par
ticipation process has been amazing.
Ayala Named Director
The draft CHAS plan reflects the ef
Of Game Operations
forts o f citizens from throughout our
more.
community. It will serve as a local
Jose Ayala has been named the
The Fair is a result o f the October
blueprint for affordable housing for many
Trail Blazers’ director o f game opera
10th City Council Resolution declaring
years,” she said.
tions. Ayala will coordinate special
O ctober as Energy Awareness Month
The Cities of Portland and Gresham
events and fan entertainm ent during
in Portland. The Resolution was intro
and Multnomah County joined together
Blazer home games. His primary re
duced by Com m issioner Mike Lind
to develop the county-wide CHAS, a
sponsibilities include scheduling an
berg, Commissioner-in-Charge ot the
new federal requirement for housing
them singers, halftime and speciality
Portland Energy Office. “ W e should
funding. Since May, nearly 100 citi
entertainment, in-arena promotions and
continue our role as national and inter
zens, under the auspices o f the
direction of entertainment on the
national leaders on energy issues. Port
Multnomah County Housing Advisory
BankAmeriVision scoreboard.
land citizens should be proud to join
Committee, have spent thousand of hours
Ayala is a 1976 graduate of Pacific
hundreds of other U.S. cities in cele
University and comes to the Trail Blaz crafting this docum ent
brating Energy Awareness M onth, and
Four subcommittees identified
ers from KGW-TV where he served as
doing a better job of saving money and
housing needs and strategies related to
a produccr/director for the past 12 years.
our air,” said Lindberg. “ The City is
the issues of homelessness, public and
Ayala replaces J. Issac, who has been
com m itted to doing its part to find local
promoted to director of business devel assisted housing, rental, and homeown-
solutions to energy and environmental
ership opportunities, The CHAS also
o p m ent
problem s.”
recommends goals and priorities for
directing housing development, finance,
Seven Reclaimed Portland Homes Available For
and related social services to help solve
Ownership At PDC’S Homestead Open House
our com m unity’s problems.
Commissioner Kafoury encourages
offered
October
20
will
be
open
be
Seven homes in Portland neigh
further citizen input. “ Anyone inter
tween 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. Potential
borhoods will be offered to low er-in
ested in affordable housing issues should
homesteaders must visit each home in
come residents at the upcoming Urban
review the CHAS. It is an important
which they are interested to be consid
Homestead Open House on Sunday,
first step toward making the m ost ef
ered
for
ownership.
PDC
will
hold
a
October 20, 1991 from 1:00 to 4:00
fective and efficient use of limited public
random drawing for each home and
p.m. The Portland Development Com
and private housing resources,” she
will
notify
those
whose
names
are
se
mission adm inisters the Urban Home
lected. PDC advisors will be at each
said.
stead Program , which provides home
The Multnomah County Housing
home to answer questions during the
ownership opportunities to those who
Advisory Com m ittee will hold public
open
house.
The
addresses
of
the
homes
otherwise might not be able to afford
hearings starting at 7 p.m. on the draft
being offered are:
their own home. The program provides
CHAS
on October 23 at the Portland
*6424 SE 71st, 2 bedrooms
a significant tool to help the city re
Building,
2nd floor, 1120 SW 5th, and
*3918 SE 56th, 3 bedrooms
claim vacant and abandoned housing,
on
October
24 at Gresham City Hall.
*7144 NE 22nd, 3 bedrooms
while encouraging neighborhood pres
Review
copies
are available at the
♦1415 NE Holman, 3 bedrooms
ervation, revitalization and stability.
Portland Planning Bureau. Public hear
*5106 NE Garfield, 3 bedrooms
Through the Urban Homestead
ings on the draft CHAS will also be
*338
N
Mason,
3
bedrooms
Program, PDC acquires vacant homes
held in November by each jurisdiction.
*9834
N
Hudson,
3
bedrooms
in need o f repair and transfers them to
Individuals interested in being added
qualified Homesteaders. In turn, Home
Congressman W yden’s
to the mailing list for Homestead Pro
steaders agree to make necessary re
gram offerings should call PDC s Neigh
October Town Meeting
pairs before moving in, accept a low-
borhood
Housing
Preservation
Office
Saturday
interest PDC home repair loan and live
at 823-3422 between 8:00 a.m. and
October
19, 1991
in the house for at least five years.
5:00
p.m.,
Monday
through
Friday.
1:30
p.m.
- 3:00 pm
There is no down paym ent involved in
The Portland Development C om
Presbyterian Church of
becoming a Homesteader. Homestead
mission is the C ity’s agency for urban
Laurelhurst
ers pay a one-tim e charge for taxes and
renewal, and housing and economic
935 N.E. 33rd Ave.
insurance of $500. Monthly payments
developm ent
Portland
on the home repair and acquisition loans
For more information, contact
3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
average $350, including taxes and in
Amelia Johnson, PDC, 823-3440.
Lake Oswego
surance.
Adult Community Center
Each of the seven homes to be
505 ‘G ’ S t
Lake Oswego
p e r s p e c tiv e s
I I by Professor McKinley Burt
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the depth of our readership that we are
even going a step further in increasing
our ever growing interaction with the
public, parents, students, and the edu
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W e want you to w rite and to call us
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spect to the information you have gained
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textbooks and curriculum are writing
to say that they are receiving orders
from many parents for books and cata
logs mentioned in The Portland Ob
server. Others say they have received
orders for sim ilar m aterials from the
Multnomah Public Library and the state
instructional departments, all of whom
have cited The Portland Observer. Just
last week the W hitney Young Learning
Center reported a greatly increased
enrollm ent many citing The Portland
O bserver’s recommendation of their
progressive tutorial program for stu
dents grades 6 to 10 (an after-school
program operated by the Urban League
at its headquarters, N. Russell at W il
liams Avenue). And so it has gone.
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even a topic you'd like to sec addressed,
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For those w ho haven’ t been
paying atention to the Iraqi invasion
hype in the media lately, I w ish to break
down the p o litica l a c tiv ity to what it
incans to us.
F irstly, here is a b rie f break
down o f what’s occurred: Iraq has seized
K u w a it fo r the purpose o f monetary gain
(through the abundance o f petroleum in
the country), and has its greedy eyes on
Saudi A rabia (w h ich is the largest o il
may even go to war w ith Iraq over Saudi
Arabia.
But the reason is clearly not
m ora lity.
I f Iraq gains con tro l o f Saudi
A ra b ia ’ s o il, they w o u ld not ship to
U.S., thereby d ra s tic a lly -s in c c Saudi
Arabia accounts for half the o il o f O P E C -
incrcasing the price in A m erica. It could
result in an ecom onic recession; and,
yes, Bush’ s least-favorite statistic, loss
o f jobs. T h is is what Bush and the
bigw igs arc w o rrie d about, N O T the
m o ra lity o f an Iraqi invasion. Examine
the Statesman J o u rn a l's (Salem s da ily)
headline announcing this tragedy: " I n
vasion drives gasoline price up.
How
is that fo r Am erican concern fo r K u
wait? I ’ m not pu tting dow n thcJournal;
the y’ re sim p ly re fle ctin g the Am erican
attitude.
C learly, the U.S. seems more
interested in the econom ic scales being
balanced rather than takin g a gamble for
m ora lity. Take South A fric a as p ro o f o f
that theory: w h ile ou r governm ent could
place economic sanctions on South Africa,
instead we do nothing and government
o ffic ia ls had to sm ile facc-brcakingly at
doing to our people to take no moral
a c tio n ? T f the governm ent is so worried
about crim e , bow about being a role
m odel, illu s tra tin g that m orality is worth
its price?
I f you are shaking your head
and saying, “ it ’ s not that bad .then pay
attention: th in k o f a ll the companies
that y o u ’ ve heard about that transact
business in South A frica. Maybe you
even purchase products that arc pro
duced there. W ere you aware that each
year, the Coca C ola com pany pays the
W hite Pretorian governm ent $30 m il
lio n in taxes and other subsidies? Y our
d o lla r m ig ht be going toward racism.
As com m on citizens instead o f
authorityheads, w e ’ re more lim ite d in
the degree o f action wc can take (Bush
has the veto pow er; a ll wc can do is
curse at the n ig h tly newsman). But
there arc s till actions to be taken: write.
Congress; w rite South African-involved
businesses;
m ost im p o rta n tly, keep aware. Y o u ’ re
involved in this, too.
♦ * * * »
Mandela durin g his U.S. visit, saying
Iraq.
I don’ t mean citizens in general, I mean
those in positions o f p o w e r-h a s pre
tended, once again, to be taking a ‘ ’ firm
moral stand” (ca n 't you ju s t hear Bush
saying that?) against he invasion. W e
things lik e “ W e ’re headed there (to
ward sanctions)” o r W e re thinking
strongly about it ” instead o f W e re
ju s t afraid our econom y m ig ht experi
ence a rough patch.”
W e ll, W H AT
A B O U T O U R PEOPLE? W hat is it
bo ycott products (when
you ’ rc unsure, try to buy a local product,
so the money w o n ’ t leave the country);
Ite m :
The U n ited States, in its latest
(July 25) testing o f a nuclear weapon,
spent 30 m illio n dollars, and die blast
rcgistcrcd 4.8 on the Richter scale. [This
in fo rm a tio n , com pl iments o f a poster in
O regon Peace In stitu te ’ s w indow .)
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And while you are at this organi
zation business be sure to organize
and direct the childrens’ television
habits. Certainly, you will w ant to
program them into watching key seg
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NEL (24). If you can afford it, order
their yearly program guide, $12.00.
Then, there is channel 10, the public
education station, and there are NA
TIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIALS
all over the place. If you have ideas
you wish to share, get back to me. As
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Unbelievably, little old Portland has
America’s LARGEST RETAIL BOOK
STORE, Powells at 10th and W est
Burnside - an amazing selection of
every category on earth. T hat “ Federal
Bookstore” cited above has an order
desk o f catalogs listing educational,
consum er and technical books and
pam phlets available at amazingly low
prices - MANY FREE! Go down and
shop, and get on their mailing list. It is
true that there has been an “ information
explosion’ ’ but you have got to have the
Serious!
W hile we arc at it, let’s think
about organizing the home scenario
so that we might belter integrate this
new learning mode and material into
our life style — and that o f our chil
dren. W hat about picking up a couple
o f economical letter-size carbdoard
filing cases and several dozen manila
folder sets? - for the less-elaborate
sorting and classification of these new
materials. And think about picking up
some 12" x 12" concrete blocks and 1”
x 12" pine boards for equally eco
nomical shelving for the new and old
books. Establish a family study and
library area wherever you can. Y ou’ve
got the room — you’ll find it if you are
really serious about escalating your
fam ily’s interaction with the educa
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receive copies of minority newspapers
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can assure you that this type of activity
is not only going on in many com m uni
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become aware o f their ability for effec
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pers as well as our own are receiving
increased correspondence from white
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