January 1 5 ,1992...The Portland Observer...Page 3
Dancers Of The Third Age
Emanuel Offers Home
Subsidies To Staff
The program gives hospital employees an incentive to buy a
house, which must be in inner North or Northeast Portland
BY MICHAEL ROLLINS
O f The Oregonian Staff
Courtesy of The Oregonian
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Experience a unique cross genera
tional perform ance by the Dancers of
the Third Age, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, January 24-26 at Lincoln Per
formance Hall, Portland State Univer
sity, as part o f the contemporary Dance
Season.
Dancers o f the Third Age, a con
temporary dance troupe o f senior adults
whose ages range from 60 to 90, will
perform with the Dance Exchange, a
group o f professional dancers in their
twenties. Twelve of the senior dancers
are local amateurs, members of Secure
Horizons, the show ’s sponsor. To
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everyday issues as relationships, ag
ing, memories, war and ritual.
Performances are choreographed
by 1989 American Choreographer
Award recipient Liz Lerman and are
sponsored by Secure Horizons, the
senoir health care plan of PacifiCare
of Oregon. Tickets sell for S 12 gen
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dents, PSU faculty and staff; and $6
PSU students. For ticket information
call 725-3307.
The Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club Hosts
Second Annual Awards
The Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle
Club will honor two of the most out
standing citizens in the North and North
east Portland metro area, Mrs. Faye
Lyday and Mr. Tom Conklin.
The ceremonies will take place on
Monday, January 20th, 6pm at the
Humboldt School located at 4915 North
Gantenbein.
Mrs. Faye Lyday was honored ear
lier in 1991 by the City o f Portland and
Mayor Bud Clark for outstanding com
munity projects that achieved national
acclaim in the area o f children’s aid
programs, day care, model cities, con
sumer protection, youth opportunity
school, urban renewal planner, and pre-
senter o f the Portland Job Fair, along
with many other prestigious awards
pertaining to community welfare.
Mr. Tom Conklin, a progressive
businessman with a keen sense of under
standing what the North and Northeast
communities needs consist of, is al
ways helping other local neighborhood
associations and organizations in fun
draisers with food donations. One of
Portland’s top businessmen since 1989,
he co-foundcd TJC Inc. with other fam
ily members and employs over 192
local neighborhood citizens. Tom also
meets with other local businessmen on
a regular basis to discuss the needs of
the area.
Emanuel Hospital & Health Cen
ter and its parent, Legacy Health Sys
tem, announced Friday that they will
offer em ployees up to $5,000 toward
the purchase o f a home in inner North
and Northeast Portland.
“ It's important to Emanuel Hospi
tal - this is our neighborhood,” said
Larry G. Raff, president of the Eman
uel Medical Center Foundation.
W ilm a Caplan, president of the
Portland Board of Realtors, said the
private sector subsidy program is the
first o f its kind in the nation and may
become a model used by the National
Association o f Realtors.
Legacy Health System employs
7,000 in the Portland area. The pro
gram has set aside $100,000 a year for
three years and as many as 90 em ploy
ees eventually may be able to partici
pate on a first-come, first-served basis.
Raff said.
In addition to Emanuel, Legacy
operates Good Samaritan Hospital and
Medical Center, Holladay Park and
Meridian Park hospitals, the Visiting
Nurses Association and several m edi
cal support compainies.
R aff hopes the Emanuel move will
prompt other major employers, several
of them on nearby Swan Island, to offer
similar incentives to their employees to
move closer to their jobs.
James E. M ay, president of Em an
uel and Holladay Park, said he thought
of the grant idea after living in the south
Side of Chicago several years ago. He
purchased, refurbished, and then lived
in several homes in a neighborhood
that then became stable.
May said the same would happen
in North and Northeast Portland, where
the housing stock is actually better than
what he saw in Chicago.
* ‘These are strong, solid neighbor
hoods with rising property values,” he
said. The boundaries of the subsidy
program are Greeley A venue, Lom
bard Street, 15th Avenue and Broad
way.
Employees initially will be given
the $5,000 as a loan. Legacy will
forgive $1,000 a year if an employee
remains in good standing. The pur
chase price o f a home may not exceed
$65,000. The Legacy loan can be used
in concert with any other private or
public mortgage program.
Legacy employees Debra M cM a
hon and Larisa Myers both said they
plan to apply for the loan program.
Myers said she and her husband
are now paying exorbitant rent in North
west Portland. McM ahon said the loan
will allow a single mother like herself
to buy a home.
Both downplayed skittish comments
from friends about moving into inner
North and Northeast Ponían. ‘‘My
grandparents live in a nice neighbor
hood and they’ve had their car broken
into three tim es,” McM ahon said. ‘‘I
live in Gresham and there is terrible
crime there.”
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