‘ The Eyes and Ears of the Community“
Volumn XXII, Number 6
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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.
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EDITORIAL
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Assists On And Off The
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S p o rts
No Jobs And No Shame,
Part III
Additional Emergency
Unemployment Benefits
Available In Oregon
Readership For
Survival And
Self-Image
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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.
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