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News In Brief
Portland Women's
Crisis Line
The Portland W omen's Crisis Line
is pleased to announce openings for its
spring volunteer direct service worker
training. Volunteers would receive a
forty-six hour training, spread out over
four weeks, which would prepare them
to answ er the crisis line. Final date for
application for admission to the pro
gram is April 28. Trainings begin on
May 2.
N o e x p e rie n c e is n e c e s s a ry .
Practicum students are encouraged to
apply. C redit is available.
Interested women should call 232-
9545 M onday - Friday, 11 am to 7 pm.
Oregon Business
Network “Business
After Hours”
Networking Meeting
*Date: Tuesday, March 31 ,1 9 9 2
•T im e :6 :3 1 P M
♦Place: Travelodge Hotel - 1441 NE
2nd Avenue
Business Contacts, Leads, Referrals,
Bring Plenty O f Business Cards and
Brochures
Join The Hundreds O f Local Area B usi
nesses & Professionals That Have Dis
covered O ne O f The Best Business
Trends O f The 9 0 ’s..Networking
(small door prizes welcomed, but not
required)
P.S. Last m onth’s meeting drew stand
ing room only ...therefore we encourage
you to arrive early for good seating
Oregon Business M embers And Non-
M embers Invited
Registration Opens for
Oregon Writers'
Workshop Classes
Trip Permit Limited To
120 Days
The Oregon State regulation re
garding trip permits has been tighten to
limit trip permits for one car to 120 days
within the calendar year. Those apply
ing for trip permits must now sign an
affidavit stating that they have not used
the trip perm it for more than 120 days
in the calendar year.
However, that does not track the
use o f perm its by individuals.
The fee for trip perm its are: $5.00
for 10 days, $10.00 for 30 days and 10
days each for each 30 day interval up to
120 days.
History Series Program
Public is invited to attend the His
tory Series program sponsored by the
Sons & Daughters of Oregon Pioneers
organization, M onday, March 23, at
10:30 a.m. in Beaver Hall at Oregon
Historical Society, 1230 S.W. Park.
Free coffee and admission.
Speaker will be Mary T. Howard,
Editor o f Genealogical Forum new slet
ter, The Insider, and a vice president o f
the Forum. Her topic will be “Oregon
Pioneer Cem eteries in Distress.” She is
active in protection and prevention o f
vandalism o f these older gravesites. An
excellent, upbeat speaker, and it will
not be a dead subject!
Henry Welnhard’s /
KPTV Party Cruise
Sunday, April 6.1992
Z 100 p resen ts the Final Four
NCAA W idow s Cruise, an all male
review, featuring the Men of Paradise.
Celebrate the college Basketball tour
nament in style! Boarding is in Cascade
locks at 6:30 p.m., cruise time is from
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 19,1992
Registration has begun for spriing
term classes at the Oregon W riters'
W orkshop. Taught by well-known
Oregon writers, the W orkshop classes
are open to people o f all skill levels who
wis'n to make a serious com m itm ent to
writing.
Classes begin the week o f March
30 at the Pacific N orthw est College o f
Art, 1219 S.W . Park Avenue, Portland.
F o r m o re in f o r m a tio n , c a ll
Kathleen C ulligan, 239-0504.
KBOO presents a very special E as
ter Gospel Cruise featuring the talented
Mr. Kirk Green along with his very
special guests.
Board at SW Front and Stark at
7 :3 0 p.m., cruise time is from 8:00 p.m.
-1 0 :0 0 p.m. For more information call
221-0244.
Queen’s Coronation
Moves To New Date
Warmer Weather Decreases
Food Stamp Benefits
Food stamp benefits will decrease
by $20 to $30 per month for about
70,000 Oregon households in April as
the result o f warmer weather.
W arm spring and summer weather
reduce the cost o f utilities, a factor in
the food stamp formula, which includes
living expenses, income and household
size. The key to gauging the effect of
utility costs is the Standard Utility A l
lowance, which is low er in the spring
and sum m er, higher in the fall and
winter. The lower spring and sum m er
allow ance begins in April and contin
ues through September.
About 40,000 households supply
information using actual utility costs
and are not affected by the seasonal
adjustm ent in the Standard Utility Al-
lowance. If food stam p recipients’
actual utility costs are higher than the
allowance, it is to the recipients ’ ad van -
tage to use actual figures rather than the
allowance in order to capture the great
est food stamp benefit.
Food stamps are federally founded
through the U.S. D epartment o f A gri
culture and adm inistered by the Oregon
Adult and Family Services Division.
The 110,000 households receiving food
stamp benefits in Oregon encompass
254,000 individuals. A pproximately
$17 million in food stam ps are issued
each month in Oregon. Over a year’s
time, that adds up to about $204 m il
lion, channeled through Oregon gro
cery stores.
Whats Inside...
Page 5...........Birthdays
& News Around Town
Page7.... 9...Classif ieds
Bids &Sub-Bides
Page 11..... Religion
PCC Vice President
Receives Distinguished
Achievement Award
Portland Community College Vice
PresidentofEducational Services James
Van Dyke was honored as “Scholar of
the Y ear” February 11 by the Hillsboro,
Oregon, Cham ber of Commerce at its
1992 D istin g u ish e d A ch ie v e m e n t
Awards ceremony.
The PCC educator, who is a Rock
Creek area resident, was cited for his
achievem ents as an educator and ad
ministrator and also for his longtime
community service. Van Dyke is a di
rector o f the Lintner Center for A d
vanced Education, housed at PC C ’s
Rock Creek Cam pus in W ashington
County. He is also on the board of the
Saturday Academy, a Portland-Van
couver area program o f after-school
and Saturday activities for sixth to 12th
graders, intended to provide access to
community resources outside the regu
lar school curriculum. He serves on the
board of Ed-Net, and is affiliated with
several state and national education
associations.
Starting his career at PCC in 1965
as an instructor of mathematics, he has
subsequently been department chair,
division dean, and executive dean of all
three PCC campuses. He was interim
president o f the college during the 1985-
86 academic year. He has held his
present position since 1989.
Katz Asks Governor For
More State help In
Fighting Portland Gangs
250
It’s In His Blood!
Tony Polk has taken on "perhaps the most ambitious project the Red
Cross has ever undertaken."
BY BRIAN RUBERRY
Tony Polk has dedicated his life to
something most of us take for granted,
but none o f us can live without. He is
one o f the w orld’s authorities on blood
banking, the process o f testing, storing
and making this fragile fluid available
to some four million patients every
year.
A fter 26 years in the m ilitary’s
blood program, supplying blood for
soldiers during the Vietnam and Per
sian G ulf wars, Polk has joined the
American Red Cross to lead a massive,
$120 m illion modernization program
o f its blood centers.
Because the "role of the state is key
to any success" in battling the region's
growing gang violence. State Repre
sentative and P ortland mayoral candi-~
date Vera Katz today appealed to G ov
ernor Barbara Roberts for more help
from the state.
"I am writing to ask that you offer
your leadership, as you have dem on
strated in the past, on a problem whose
impact is growing throughout Oregon
— increased activity by violent street
gangs," Katz wrote in a letter to Rob
erts.
"You've been there for us in the
past and today we need your help again.
I urge you to take additional action by
expanding the state's effort to com bat
rising gang violence," said Katz.
In her letter, Katz cited statistics
that indicate that gang activity has in
creased rapidly in Portland and other
communities around the state.
Law enforcem ent agencies have
identified over 2700 gang members
statewide, far above the 370 known
gang members in 1989. G ang-related
violent crim e has doubled, and the total
number of gang crimes has increased
from 1,970 in 1988 to more than 3,240
in 1991.
Katz said she is especially con
cerned about the spread o f gangs and
drug activity in Portland.
by E.T. Elliott
"Any lasting solution to our gang
Local opponents o f a $5 million
problem will require involvement o f
construction
contract for improvements
community leaders, parents, schools,
to
Holladay
Street in Northwest Port
police, private and public agencies, the
land
began
picketing activities last
courts, and city, county and state gov
week. A coalition of A frican-A m eri
ernments.
"Those groups m ust all be part of can contractors, truckers and construc
the effort to suppress street activities tion workers led by the National A sso
and provide coordinated efforts for in ciation o f Minority Contractors o f O r
tervention programs and prevention," egon (NAM CO), charged the City o f
Portland with practicing a form of insti
the letter said.
"The role of the state, though, is the tutionalized racism against African-
Americans.
key to any hope o f success."
According to a flyer being distrib-
In addition to supporting tougher
For anyone else, the thought of
taking on what Red Cross president,
Elizabeth Dole, calls “perhaps the most
ambitious project the Red Cross has
ever undertaken” may seem like an
overwhelming task. But for Polk, the
new job is simply the latest challenge in
a career that has taken him on a m ete
oric rise to the top o f his profession.
“ I always wanted to get into m edi
cine, always wanted to help people,”
says the affable Polk, who at 49 is a
retired Army colonel. “I believe I was
put on earth to be in blood banking.”
His title at the Red Cross, director
o f transformation operations, seems
innocuous enough until you read the
job description. Polk is overseeing the
overhaul of the organization’s 50 blood
centers which supply more than half o f
the blood in the United States. Building
new blood testing laboratories, retrain
ing thousands of technicians and de
signing a national computer system are
only a handful o f his duties.
Polk points our that the overriding
responsibility o f his new post is ensur
ing a safe blood supply.
‘T h e Red Cross has the safest blood
supply in the world, but the world has
changed and we must change with it if
we want to keep people’s trust,” he
says, noting that the AIDS epidemic has
caused blood banks worldwide to re
evaluate their systems.
For the last eight years, Polk di
rected the Armed Forces’ blood pro
gram, the crow ning jew el of a stellar
military career. His mission at the
D epartment o f Defense was to develop
and im plem ent a system to get blood
quickly from the United States to any
battlefield in the world.
Like any good Army man, he drilled
his troops until they knew his system
inside and out. He had 7,200 pints o f
fake blood made up to add realism to
the drills. His troops practiced packing
the bogus blood, icing it, shipping it and
unloading it during annual battlefield
exercises overseas.
On A ugust 7,1990, practice made
perfect. Polk put his system into action
during Operation Desert Storm, send
ing more than 100,000 pints o f blood to
Saudi Arabia. The system worked bet
ter than even he expected.
Anthony Joseph Polk was bom in
New Orleans and raised in Lake Charles,
La. His parents divorced early in his
life. His mother washed clothes and
worked other domestic jobs to keep him
Continued on page 7
NAMCO Plans Rally
enforcem ent and penalties for criminal
activities, Katz is a strong supporter of
m ulti-level approaches to reducing
crim e - education programs, alterna
tive activities, and employment train
ing — aimed at children and teens, katz
recently called for a more coordinated
effort by local governments to fight
crim e by increasing the number of po
lice in Portland, adding more prosecu
tors to handle the caseload, creating
more jail space, and giving tougher
sentences to drug traffickers.
Katz also 1 isted a number of projects
the state established in recent legisla
tive sessions to com bat drug and gang
continued on page 7
uted by the protesters, Mayor Bud Clark,
together w ith com m issioners D ick
Bogle, Mike Lindberg and Earl Blu
menauer voted unanimously to award
the contract to Slayden Construction,
Inc., of Stayton, Oregon, in spite of
considerable opposition.
O.B. Hill, spokesman for the pick
ets, said, “The award by the City C oun
cil had violated the integrity of the
competitive bidding process and dam
aged the credibility o f the purchasing
Bureau’s Minority Business Enterprise
Program .”
Slayden was given an additional
week to increase M BE participation on
the project from 2.5 to 10.6 percent. In
doing so he denied an African-Ameri
can firm, Holefield Construction, the
opportunity to negotiate a contract and
gave additional work, including work
items in H olefield’s bid, to out of town
firms who did not initially bid on the
job.
“W hat Slayden has been allowed
to do is break all the rules of good faith
effort by refusing to consider Holefield
as a Sub contractor”, Hill said.
The demonstrators plan to con
tinue picking activities and have given
the city and Slayden a thirty day notice,
demanding that ten African-Americans
are provided jobs on the project Slayden
has offered to hire two laborers thus far.
A march and rally is planned on
M onday, March 23, at Holladay Park.
Located at N.E. 13 th Avenue and M ult
nomah Street, the event is scheduled to
begin at 10:00 am. Plans are to have a
petition signing, speakers, and a brief
march. The organizers are requesting
support from all concerned citizens who
are against Institutionalized Racism and
public officials who aid and support
General Contractors and workers from
p articip atin g in local construction
projects,
.
gMMMNN
iogle Endorsement
The Portland black Firefighters
Association and the International A sso
ciation o f Black Professional Fire Fight
ers (I ABPFF) have endorsed City Com
missioner dick Bogle for re-election to
the Portland City council.
In announcing the endorsement,
W illiam E. Kendrix, President o f the
Portland Black Firefighters Associa
tion, said, “ I have found the Commis-
sioncrof Public Safety, Dick Bogle, has
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had an open door policy to the organi
zation and has been supportive to the
needs o f Black firefighters in the Bu
reau.”
The local chapter of IABPFF rep
resents African American firefighters
who work for the City of Portland Bu
reau o f Fire, Rescue and Emergency
Services.
IABPFF Endorsed City Com m is
sioner Dick Bogle
Don’t Forget
The Albina Plan
Rezoning Committee
Schedule
March 24th PCC Cascade Campus,
Terreel Hall, 705 Killingsworth.
March 31st Peace Luthern Church,
2201 Portland Blvd. 7:00 PM.
April 7th King Facility, 4815 N.E. 7th
Ave. 7 XX) PM.