AGAIN! The Bay
l‘age 6...The Portland Observer...October 30,1991
by Mallie Ann Callier-Spears
was tw o years and three
days ago when a giant
earthquake ripped, cracked
into and violently tore
through the earth and into
the lives o f so m any unsuspecting citi
zens o f the Bay area populous. Build
ings sw ayed and fell, bndges cracked
and fell. Many lives were lost. Homes
and fam ilies w ere ripped apart at the
seam s.
O n a quiet Sunday M orning, O cto
ber 2 0 ,1 9 9 1 , around 10:30 AM, while
on o u r way to church, looking into the
sky to the east o f San Francisco, a dark
plum e arose. Someone exclaimed,
“ L ooks like som ething exploded or is
b u rn in g !” Then, everyone went into
church service. W e had a wonderful
tim e praising the Lord, giving thanks
and being spiritually fed. W hen the
W ord had gone forth and the closing
pray er was uttered, everyone said
“ A m e n ” to signify the end o f a won
derful m orning o f worship. But - un
know n to all who sat safely inside the
church, there was great sorrow across
the bay.
W hen we arose, all smiles and
happy from experiencing such an en
lightening service, we stepped out into
w hat appeared to be a dark evening.
Instead, it was supposed to be a bright
afternoon. The sky was covered by a
dark heavy cloud. I looked up into the
sky to Find the sun and it shone “ red.”
T he only other time that I ever w it
nessed such a sky was when I was on
my w ay to Roseburg, Oregon to take
my son to college. And as we approached
the campus, the Umpqua National Forest
w as ablaze. The sun was attempting to
shine through. 1 had never, ever, in my
life seen anything like that before. I
was truly frightened. However, this time
I prayed. Because - 1 asked “ W hat’s in
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that direction?” The response was
“ houses.” All that I could say was
“ Oh, Lord help the people and save
their lives.”
The parked cars were covered with
debris that had fallen from the air.
People had coverings over their mouthes.
The children were running about catch
ing the large falling objects that were
floating and had drifted across the bay.
As we turned on the radio in the
car, the disc jockey proclaimed the
w o rst
“ A flash fire is out of control and
is taking over. People are running from
their homes, scream s can be heard.”
Then, we got home and turned on the
television to actually see what was
happening. The devastation was much
more, more than we expected.
It was som ething how the people
com plained about the surface of their
cars being damaged — not stopping to
give thought about the lives being af
fected and destroyed by this devasta
tion.
One of the victims, on the news
asked “ W hat did we do to deserve
this?” Another fire victim was a lady
who had relocated to this area follow
ing the earthquake. She felt doubly
victimized.
The fire traveled so fast. No one
had time to do anything but... “ RUN!
RUN! ” Get out fast! ’ ’ The police shouted
on loud speakers. The flames leaped
from trees to houses and from houses to
the trees.
The east hills o f Berkley is a very
exclusive area like the west hills of
Portland.
Death, ashes and tears reigned.
“ W hat am I going to do?” was the
lamenting cry of an elderly woman
sitting in a shelter. “ I know that we can
never get back all the things that we
U.S. Bank Pledges More Than $500,000
To Oregon High School Activities
The Oregon School Activities Asso
ciation (OSAA) and U.S. Bank today
announced a $500,000 sponsorship agree
ment which will help support all high
school state cham pionships and related
activities through the 1993-94 academic
year.
Don R. Peterson, executive director
of the OSAA, and Kevin Kelly, president
of U.S. Bank of Oregon, extended the
exclusive sponsorship which was an
nounced at a downtown reception for the
OSAA executive board and U.S. Bank
representative.
“ O ur ongoing partnership with U.S.
Bank helps us offset increasing tourna
m ent costs at a time when school budgets
are growing tighter,’’said Peterson. “ U.S.
B ank’s more than $1.2 million in direct
and indirect cash contributions since 1984
has enabled the OSAA to reim burse more
funds to high schools around the state.”
“ The bottom line is that OSA A ac
tivities are challenging and productive
outlets for teens in Oregon. W e’re com
m itted to seeing these com petitions con-
tinue year after year,” said Kelly.
The OSAA is a non-profit organiza
tion which regulates high school inter-
scholastic activities, including 70 team
and 224 individual state cham pionship
events for boys and girls annually. Ac-
tiviites range from volleyball to speech.
In addition to being a cash sponsor,
U.S. Bank offers numerious marketing
and production resources to the OSAA.
Many OSAA materials used for promo-
tions and events during the academic year
are designed and produced by U.S. Bank,
“ Tim e, resources and realtionships,
not just money, have helped establish a
very productive, years-long partnership
between the OSAA and the bank,” said
Kelly.
U.S. Bank o f Oregon, O regon’s larg-
est bank, is a subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp,
the largest financial services company
headquartered in the Pacific Northwest,
with assets of $18.6 billion as of June 30,
1991. O ther U.S. Bancorp subsidiaries
include U.S. Bank o f W ashington and
U.S. Bank o f California.
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Way to 40 Percent of Goal
Area Mourns
had; but, I thank God that we are still
alive. It happened so fast.”
1 spoke to my cousin in the Berkley
area. He said that their house is about
three miles up the hill from where the
fire was. He said that, at approximately
10:15 - 10:30, he was about to get into
his car, after picking up a few things
from the gorcery, when a strange, strong
gust o f wind just came up out o f no
where. The force o f the wind, blew him
against the car. He saw all the leaves of
the surrounding trees just blow off into
the street. Then - he got into the car and
started for home. As he approached the
hill, he saw the smoke. He thought it
was his house. The angle and the direc
tion o f the fire changed as he got closer.
He was relieved to know it w asn’t his
house but saddened to see others loose
their homes.. “ These houses range in
price from four hundred thousand to
two to three m illion dollars’ ’ said Dave.
Clarem ont Terrace, in the east hills
of Berkely, California, will never be
the same.
The fire raged on and on and on for
over ten hours. It was ten arduous hours
for the police departm ent and the fire
department. There were helicopters with
huge sw inging buckets dropping water
on the blaze. And planes were diving
and swooping dropping retardant on
the fire.
“ Fire! Fire!” everyone shouted.
The governor had been contacted by
the m ayor o f Oakland, Elihu H am s.
The governor, after receiving word of
the disaster, signed a proclam ation,
declaring Berkley as a disaster area, on
the hood o f a car just outside o f the
capitol in Sacramento. He boarded a
helicopter and quickly flew over the
area and witnessed a sight o f saddness.
Once, it was an area to beautiful to
behold; but, now it was all blackened
by a raging fire still out of control.
Homes that people had scrimped, scraped
and saved-up to get - and now, it was all
gone in an eye wink.
The M ayor o f Oakland, Elihu Har
ris and Assembly W oman, Anna Lee
along with other dignitaries, took the
helm immediately and declared it a “ state
o f em ergency.”
In ten and one half hours, which
seemed like a lifetime, over one thou
sand homes were destroyed, over five
thousand people were left homeless,
fourteen people were know dead, five
people in one family was consumed in
the fire, acres and acres of w hat was
once beautiful, landscaped homes was
now charred, black, smoldering and ugly,
policemen are dead, firemen arc dead
and schools are closed.
The east bound traffic on 580 to St.
Stephens was blocked by the fire. The
news caster announced “ Stay A w ay!”
All ateries from San Francisco to East
Bay roadways are all closed. Traffic is
being re-routed.
Monday morning found many
homeless and weeping. The fire is still
smoldering and the area is still not out of
immediate danger.
Some had accused the fire depart
ment for the fire because there had been
a bursh fire on Saturday which had been
ignited by som eone burning trash. There
are many fingers being pointed but to no
avail. The tragedy is so wide spread.
Insurance companies certainly have
their work cut out for them . Some people
had just m oved into the area. O ne ques
tion which was asked was “ Does a
person still have to make paym ents on
property that has been destroyed? The
sad answer is “ Y es!”
To the people of California, “ May
God grant you peace in your time of
sorrow .”
PCC Cascade Campus
Announces Links Up
With Saturday
Academy
In order to expand learning oppor-
tunities for children in north and north-
east Portland, Portland Community
College recently met with Saturday
Academy officials and have established
a pilot science Saturday Academy course
at the Cascade Campus.
The Cascade Saturday Academy
Program will offer classes for students
in grades six through 12. Tuition assis-
tance will be available for families with
financial need. Current plans are to
offer the pilot course spring term, ac-
cording to John Korololf, PCC biology
instructor and liaison with the acad-
em y-
Saturday Academy is a non-profit
education program hosted by the Orc-
g ° n Graduate Institute o f Science and
Technology. Classes are olfered after
school an d o n Saturdays in computing,
engineering physical and biological
sciences, com m unications, business,
humanities and the arts
“ H opefully, the pilot course will
get this up and rolling for kids in the
north and northeast neighborhoods. The
science course is the seed... there is the
potential o f much broader curriculum
and PCC will be a resource in the
community,’ Koroloff added that PCC’s
collaboration with Saturday Academy
will provide an opportunity for com
munity professionals and faculty
members to become involved in creat
ing learning environments for children
in north and northeast Portland.
The pilot science course will ex
pand a program developed last year for
children from Beach and Humboldt
elem entary schools which received the
1991 Award o f M erit for schooi-busi-
ness partnerships from state Superin
tendent Norma Paulus.
Biology instructor John Koroloff,
will be developing a course based on
m aterials from PCC course in environ
mental science titled, “ Race to Save
the Planet.” In addition, other faculty
members and community profession
als will have an opportunity to become
involved in creating learning environ
ments for children in Portland’s north-
northeast community.
For more information, please con
tact either Gary Story, Cascade C am
pus dean, at 244-6111, ext. 5280 or
John K oroloff at 244-6111, ext. 5401.
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Taxpayers Discuss Tax Revolt To Protest
Unconstitutional Attack Against Nation of Yahweh
Taxpayers are calling the People For
Truth (PFT) to state “they got the mes
sage” from the interview with the Na
tional Tax Payers for Justice (NTPJ).
The nation’s tax base has learned —
that elected official and their appoin
tees are our servants — that as our
servants, their jobs are dependent on
our votes and our taxes — that we have
a right to withhold our taxes from an
unconstitutional government — and
that we have the votes to replace ser
vants who do not serve us or our con
cerns; they can no longer ignore our
voices and remain in office.
One m illion o f these voters, tax
payers and concerned citizens of all
ethnic backgrounds have signed peti
tions demanding that the unconstitu
tio n a l in d ic tm e n t th a t la b e ls the
“Nation o f Yahweh” as racketeers be
dismissed now. If permitted to stand,
this case could set a precedent against
all religions under R.I.C.O.
Our servants have spent and bor
rowed us into a $345 billion national
deficit, while they bounce personal
c h e c k s th at c o st us h u n d red s of
thousands of dollars in returned check
fees. These arc the same servants that
are responsible for passing R.I.C.O.
and Pre-Trial Detention into law. They
m ust now know th a t the R.I.C.O .
m onster has gotten out of control
and has become a national concern
in its use against religions, as well as
be made aware that P re-T rial D eten
tion has become a tool o f the courts
that can be applied as a punishm ent
before any conviction in violation of
basic hum an rights and the world’s
greatest constitution.
Our servants need to answer this
question, “Why has Yahweh Ben Yah
weh been held as a political prisoner
for 12 months?” Could it be that he
taught his followers “To do for them
selves,” and dared to build a $250 mil
lion em pire for African-Americans
without government assistance? C on
servatives, as well as liberals, can be
proud of how Yahweh Ben Yahweh
helped to avoid an o th er dem and on
governm ent spending. Yahweh Ben
Yahweh is “The Point of Light” in a
troubled economy. He and his fol
lowers of Yahweh have been held long
enough for setting a perfect role model
for all people to follow.
Remember, we are calling our ser
vants to demand the release of Yahweh
Ben Yahweh and His followers until
victory!!!
Why is the U.S. Government attacking Yahweh Ben Yahweh ? Why does the government want to put an end to his good works.
What it Yahweh Ben Yahweh is the Christ promised to return? t o find the answers to these questions, watch “ From Poverty
To Riches” featuring the Honorable Yahweh Ben Yahweh every Sunday at 9:30 pm on channel 28 (Continental Cable). Also
order your copy of "From Poverty To Riches - The Works of Yahweh Ben Yahweh" by sending a $50 cashier's check or money
order only per book to: PEESS Productions, P.O. Box 1768, Sequin, TX 78155.
Show your support for human and constitutional rights by calling the numbers
below. Invite your family, friends, and co-workers to call as well.
Don Edwards, California (D ).............................. (202) 225-3072
President
John Conyers Jr., Michigan (D )......................... (202) 225-5125
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Vice President
William J. Hughes, New Jersey (D )................... (202) 22r 6572
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Be, the people, want the false indictment o f the Nation o f Yahweh and their religion dropped and dismissed
immediately because it is unconstitutional !
F or more information call I (800) 292-4934.
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