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‘ The Eyes and Ears of the Community“ Volumn XXII, Number 6 Februar* 5,'1992 i ’>■: 250 - J* n» ’ **-»• • Mt. Hood Community College Celebrates Black History Month In celebration of February as Black History Month, Mt. Hood Community College is featuring a wide variety of educational and entertaining events throughout the month. The following is a schedule of Black History Month events: Feb. 6: Leon McKenzie, financial planner at McKenzie Insurance Agency, will speak in the Visual Arts Center Theatre from noon-1 p.m. Feb. 7: I-ZAYA, gospel singers, will perform in the College Center Fireplace Lounge from noon-1 p.m. Feb. 10: Fashions For Today, a style show, will be held in the College Center Fireplace Lounge from noon-1 p.m. Feb. 11 Black History Month Speaker Dick Bogle, Portland City Com missioner. In the Town and Gown Room, noon-1 p.m. Feb. 12 Lounge Concert “ Calvin Walker Band” will perform in the College Center Fireplace Lounge, noon- 1 p.m. Free. Walker’s superb vocal stylings are the key to his band’s suc cess in soul, rock, funk, pop and jazz. For more information call 232-4726. Feb. 13 Love Connection Game Show Sponsored by the African Ameri can Student Union. In the College Center Lounge, noon-1 p.m. Feb. 14 Sojourner Truth Theatre Company In the Visual Arts Center Theatre, noon-1 p.m. Governor Announces Projects Sunny Skies Give Perfect View Winter has been unusually warm and clear, allowing a spectacular view of ML Hood. Eight ‘One-Stop’ Social Service Projects Focus On Family Investment Governor Barbara Roberts an nounced today an eight-site, state wide demonstration project that will put the services of many public and private agencies into “ one-stop shopping cen ters’ ’ to serve Oregon families better. She made the announcement at the Brentwood-Darlington Parent-Child Center, located in the Erroll Heights Baptist Church in Portland. The projects, a result of last year’s Senate Bill 1099 that requires the Ore gon Department of Human Resources to establish “ family-centered human investment demonstration projects,’ ’ are in Condon, Eugene, Grants Pass, Her miston, Lincoln County, Medford, Salem, and Portland. ‘ ‘This innovative project will give state government a better, more stream lined approach to helping people,” Roberts said. “ Oregonians want us to do a better job of delivering services, and this will do that.” The Brentwood-Darlington proj ect will invite residents of the neigh borhood’s 4,400-plus households to use the facility as a single location to receive services of such agencies as Children’s Services Division, Employ ment Division, and the Adult and Family Services Division. Participating families will help decide what services will be empha sized. For example, the Brentwood- Darlington project focuses on families with children 30 months and younger. A family advocate will assist families in identifying the other services they need and locating where to get them. Marilyn Miller, executive director of the lead agency Portland Impact, said the center will concentrate on family strengths to solve family problems and hopes »o have added more services by July 1. Core services would include health assessment and maintenance, mental health, parent training and sup port, clothing and toy lending library, and information referral. Agencies that have already agreed to participate are Portland Impact, Port land Public Schools, Southeast Uplift, Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood of Smurfit Recycling. Both groups, to gether with Portland General Electric, are major sponsors of the campaign. There arc 17 corporate and media spon sors in all. Beginning next week, public serv ice announcements promoting use of the new yellow bins and explaining other changes in Portland’s garbage services will appear in newspapers, air on television and radio stations, and go up on Tri-Met busses and MAX light rail cars. “ Our primary message is simple,” said Blumenauer. “ The recycling bins arc here-use them, please!” The educational campaign will run form February 3 to April 15. It is supported by grants and contributions from the following: • KATU TV-2, KGW TV-8, and KOIN TV-6 will supply bonus com mercial air time for the television PSA; • KINK, KISN, KKCW (K103), KKRZ (Z 100), KUPL and KXL AM/ FM, and will provide bonus commer cial air time for the radio PSA; • The Oregonian, This Week, and Willamette Week will donate bonus space for the newspaper PSA; • Fred Meyer will provide in store promotions in 14 area stores; • Transit Ads, Inc., will post bus cards on Tri-Met buses and MAX light rail. ‘ ‘Thanks to the help of these or ganizations, we’ve been able to boost our limited budget to reach more people with our message,” said Blumenauer. “ The sponsors have donated $207,000 in grants, air time, and advertising space. That’s more than three dollars for every one we spent.” “ W e’re especially pleased to have the generous support of Smurfit Recycling and the Dairy Farmers of Oregon,” said Blumenauer. “ It also gives them an opportunity to let people know that we now accept magazines and milk jugs for recycling.” The Bureau of Environmental Services has set up a hot line to answer questions about curbside recycling in Portland. The number is 796-7202. Page 6 P a g es NEWS SPORTS RELIGION ENTERTAINMENT 2 2 7 8 9 ■ »4- . . . . . . , ■ . • lit •- ? • • • îi, •>$4-S > s îSfeAJi. i/.-.:--i*" te ? • Portland: Brentwood-Darling ton Family C enter is designed to strength families through neighborhood initiatives to promote a healthy, livable Continues on page 2 -, fceSZ í ¿-ï' >..-Z ‘‘‘ Tony Hopson and Ray Leary 1992, 3:15 to 5 p.m. WTiere: Oregon Ballroom, Marri ott Hotel, 1401 S. W. Front Ave., Portland. continued on page 10 V»? Page 7 EDITORIAL , ....... » ' • • ’ L i S r W ’'’ ‘ VJ-’i j ,, . , .>»41 •’? . . Terry Porter Sports Assists On And Off The Court by McKinley Burt Page 2 - ' »-S ■ • ? S p o rts No Jobs And No Shame, Part III Additional Emergency Unemployment Benefits Available In Oregon Readership For Survival And Self-Image hz \ < Life is full of options...for those who know how and where to look. Helping Portland’s inner-city youth discover productive options to gangs, drugs and violence is critically impor tant today. Who: Tony Hopson and Ray Leary, co-directors of nationally acclaimed Self Enhancement Inc. (SEI), Portland, and four SEI students, grades five through 11. W hat: A local and very personal perspective on programs that success fully promote alternatives to use of drugs, gangs and violence. The presen tation is part of “ Sharing the Vision III,” a regional conference sponsored by the Western Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communitites and the U.S. Department of Education. When: Wednesday, February 5, News N ew s Oregon Family-Centered Human-Investment Demonstration Projects Local Inner-City Non-Profit To Share Program Successes At Regional Conference In Portland City Launches Public Service Campaign to Promote New Weekly Recycling Program City Commissioner Earl Blume nauer kicked off a 10-week multime dia public service campaign on Thurs day, January 30, 1992, for a new weekly curbside recycling service available to 150,000 Portland homes beginning Monday, February 2. “ We want everyone in portland to know how to use the 300,000 recy cling bins we distributed this month,” said Blumenauer. “ Because we don’t want to miss anyone, we’ve asked the corporate community and the media to help us get the word out about this exciting new program.” Blumenauer spoke Jan. 30 at a City Hall news conference. Joining him were Lorinda Moholt of the Dairy Farmers of Oregon, and John Lucini Association, Portland Bureau of Com munity Development, Multnomah County Department of Human Serv ices, Adult & Family Services Divi sion, Children’s Services Division, Portland Police Bureau, Housing Au thority of Portland, and the Private Industry Council. Beyond individual services, the project hopes to fulfill community needs such as reducing crime, identifying capital improvements, building low- income housing and developing parks. Housing values in the ethnically mixed neighborhood are a third below city wide averages, and it has the state’s highest percentage of parolees. Although no additional funding was authorized to fund the demonstration sites, the Brentwood-Darlington proj ect has already received a $200,000 Great Start grant State Rep. Beverly Stein (D-Port- land) was a chief sponsor of SB 1099, which requires the Oregon Department of Human Resources to develop mod els for “ family-centered human invest ment demonstration sites.” The sites are supposed to include citizens in planning how government services are delivered. “ An essential part of the human investment strategy is customer-fist service,” said Stein. “ We will help transform government. We will cut bureaucratic red tape and use state re sources to maximize efficiency. Each citizen is a customer of state services- these models will put the customer first’ Cooperation among agencies at single sites will also provide valuable information to the Department of Human Resources, which is mapping a state wide plan to make services less expen sive and more understandable to citi zens. »•. -V V CLASSIFIED 10 • ’» ' ' *. Ai», ' / , ».K . ___ ________
