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« ... • , • •■ • • •. . . x ■ t • ■ . * * . • • • • "W V R A R W W t W H W i r t A v S V r t ' t v v T ♦ è-* *«♦<••«*> .V •'♦*-» *-¿V • < < > < t «Vt-« » » ♦ « '♦ • • v * ''» »•■»*'• » • • ' V % VV Y «b w * June 17,1992...The Portland Observer...P«ge 3 High School Students In Home Repair Training Program Complete Project Under PDC’s Homestead Program In Record Time Eighteen Portland high school stu dents have spent the past eight months completely transforming a vacant home in Northeast Portland purchased through the Portland Development Com m is sion’s (PDC) Homestead Program. The excited homeowners, Paul and Valerie Thomas and their tw o children, moved in to their new home on June 8. The Thomases firs t saw the home at a PDC Homestead Open House and were subsequently chosen as home owners by random drawing. The home was purchased under P D C ’s Homestead Program which provides low-cost home ownership opportunities to qualifying city residents. The homesteader is re quired to have a ll m ajor housing code violations repaired and live in the house fo r at least three years. This is the seventh home com pleted by the Portland Public School’ s Home RepairTraining program (HRTP) since it began in 1985 under a coopera tive agreement w ith PD C ’ s Homestead Program. Students enrolled in the pro gram come from a variety o f Portland high schools. Students who have participated in HRTP not only have helped reclaim some o f the c ity ’ s stock o f low-income housing but, in some cases, have found rewarding careers through the program, some students have gone on to open their own building and remodeling busi nesses. / Tukufu Raps At Ockley Green... Dr. D arryl T ukufu, president o f the Urban League o f Portland recently per formed his “ Tukufu Rap” at Ockley Green M iddle School. Dr. Tukufu wrote the rap which encourages kids to stay in school Fox 49s production crew taped the performance which included students o f Ms. K e lly Barrett’s eighth grade English class. The piece was made into a sixty-second music video, public ser vice announcement. The “ Tukufu Rap” PSA can be seen on Fox 49 throughout the year as a part o f Fox 49s Great Expectation Edu cation Campaign. HRTP students, who fill the role o f general contractor, performed a variety o f remodeling work on the Thomas home. Their w ork included completely fishing the basement w ith two new bedrooms and a second bathroom, com pletely remodeling the kitchen and re finishing die hardwood floors. E lectri cal and plum bing w ork is typically sub contracted. N orm ally the students com plete the total rehabilitation over a pe riod o f eleven months but this years’ students completed all the work three months ahead o f schedule. The students w ork in two shifts, one group in the m orning, another in the afternoon, leaving h a lf the day fo r their regular classes. Program coordinators note that the Program gives the partici pants a leg-up on others entering the building and remodeling trade. The stu dents learn valuable skills to o ffe r an employer. In addition to the Homestead Pro gram, HRTP students also perform a variety o f home repairs under PD ’ s Home Repair Loan Program. Under both programs the homeowner only pays fo r the materials used by the stu dents and the cost o f the subcontractors. Fall w ill find the HRTP students w orking on their next Homestead reha b ilita tion project. PDC is the c ity ’ s agency fo r urban renewal, housing and economic devel opment. 'J , Q i . i y f i p o State Fair Premium Books Ready Now is your chance to enter your best pie, q uilt, or polled hereford-pre- mium books for exhibiting at the 1992 Oregon State Fair are now available. Those interested in receiving a book may call the State Fair at 378-3247, or w rite 2330 - 17th St. NE, Salem, OR 97310. You may also come into the State Fair offices to pick up a book. The open class departments are: A rt, Photography (Oregon and Interna tional), Home Economics, Hobbies and Crafts, Livestock, Poetry, Calligraphy, Poultry, Amateur W ine, Agriculture, Floral, and Horse Show. When calling or w ritin g, please specify which book or books you would like. I f you exhib ited last year, you w ill automatically receive a book. Each department has separate dead lines for entries. I f you have any ques tions, please call the State Fair at 378- 3247, or (800) 833-0011 after July 3. d University Seeking Visual Artists to Exhibit Their Work Attorney at Law The A fric a n -A m e ric a n h istory M onth Committee at the university o f Illin o is at Chicago is seeking visual artists o f A frican, African-Am erican and Caribbean descent to exhibit their work during the February 1993 celebra tion. Artists wishing to have their work considered should submit at least seven slides o f their work, a resume and a stamped, self-addressed return enve lope to: Booker T. Suggs, Chair, A f r i can-American History M onth C om m it tee, university o f Illin o is at Chicago, Box4348, M /C 118, Chicago, IL 60680- 4348. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 29, 1992. B a nkru ptcy C hapter 7 & 13 C iv il & F a m ily L a w Licensed To: Assist you with your legal concerns Protect your legal rights Convenient Lloyd Center Location 2161 N.E. Broadway Portland, Oregon 97232 282-7285 Bumper Sticker Politics; “Balanced Budget Amendment” BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT We may keep a new Great Society on hold because that inept little group o f wimps we refer to as congressmen are pressing their ultimate gim m ick for evading fiscal responsibility. W ith the aid o f the master w im p, President Bush, they are trying to pass a constitutional Amendment to guarantee a “ Balanced Budget” . W hile we consider this ultimate expression o f contempt for the taxpay ers, let us explore some sim ilar escape mechanisms we m ight employ in our personal finance. W hy can’ t we go to court and get a Restraining Order pre venting a husband or w ife from spend ing more than the household budget each month ? L et’ s print up some bumper stickers and let the banks know our credit cards are under control? N ot a bit sillier. And I see no reason why the con gress should stop there. W hy not a constitutional amendment to guarantee protection o f the environment - or to save the spotted ow l — or to control urban blight - to prevent clear cutting or abortions — and to banish drugs, crime or i ll health? W hy there is no end to the good that maybe accomplished by the employment o f this newly dis covered substitute fo r rational and in telligent performance by our lawm ak ers. Before some impish reader sug gests a constitutional amendment to “ guarantee happiness” , let us consider what it is exactly that is being contem- plated by these folks in Washington. These check artists presume us to be too stupid to perceive that i f such a consti tutional amendment were to be passed N othing A t a ll W ould Have Been Changed! This is because there would s till be a need fo r a series o f legislative b ills to Implement the reduction o f the budget overruns. Either taxes would have to be raised or decisions would have to be made to lim it expenditures in the areas o f defense, social security, medicare, medicaid and other entitlements, edu cation, space, agriculture support pro grams and so forth. Can you imagine the bitter fights and wrangling that would ensue; the tu rf battles over favorite boondoggles, bailouts? But that is exactly where they are now, isn’ t it - w ithout a constitutional Amendment? How w ill this impasse be solved before the republic collapses around our heads and it becomes neces sary to lease or sell o ff the remainder o f our real estate and industry to Asia or Europe? None o f the presidential can didates has advanced anything remotely resembling a solution, only morerheto- ric. It seems that Shakespeare’s charac ter was quite right, “ L ife is a tale told by idiots” . In the meantime, the circus goes m errily along in the other tw o rings. To the tune o f a budget shortfal 1 o f #13,000 Legacy, Sisters Of Providence Offer “ Services For Seniors” “ Services fo r Seniors,” a free, in formation-packed guide to community resources forolder adults and caregivers, is being offered cooperatively by Legacy Health System and the Sisters o f Provi dence in Oregon. The booklet features more than 50 categories o f services in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties, such as housing, health care, consumer protection, transportation, senior cen ters, and home repair and weatheriza tion. More than 450 nonprofit agencies are listed. For the firs t tim e in its 12 printings, “ Services for Seniors” was produced cooperatively this year by Legacy and the Sisters o f Providence. The first edi tion was published in 1980 by St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center. Free copies are available from any Legacy or S'sters o f Providence hospi tal. Legacy hospitals are Emanuel Hos pital and Health Center, Good Samari tan h ospital and M e d ic a l Center, Holladay Park Medical Center, M erid ian park Hospital and M ount Hood Medical Center. Sisters o f Providence hospitals in the Portland area are St. Vincent Hospital, Providence medical Center and Providence M ilw aukie Hos pital. a second, the president cranks up “ A ir Force One” at a cost o f $5000 an hour and heads south to Panama and Brazil on a disaster itinerary. The Panamani ans turn out to s till be incensed about the outlaw invasion o f their Country and the deaths o f a still-unrevealed number o f theircitizens and the destruction o f their homes and economy ( M r. Noriega K id napped and held in lim bo, w hile the drug traffic goes m e rrily on). The second leg o f the journey brings the president to a confrontation in Rio that resembles nothing so much as a G ilbert and Sullivan comic Operetta. Here, at the Earth Summit, we find our “ Environmental President” undercutting his EPA point man by refusing to sup port a number o f key measures dealing w ith global warm ing and pollution (“ I w ill not sacrifice Am erica’s jobs” ). Now, he tells us after twelve years o f republi can destruction o f the economy through deregulation o f industry and banking that permitted the diversion o f invest ment capital, that could have b u ilt in dustry, into financial m anipulation and ju n k bonds. And the third w orld countries stand accused o f bringing the w orld to the brink o f disaster by destroying rain fo r ests to survive the consequences o f 500 years o f colonialism , Slavery and ex ploitation-accused by the greatest en vironmental polluters in the w orld who have destroyed the ozone level and have clear-cut whole continents. OEDD Training Grant Assists State Financial Institutions The Oregon C om m unity College System and the Oregon Banking Asso ciation w ill benefit from a grant that trains banking personnel on the use o f modern com puter based fin a n c ia l analysis tools. The $20,868 grant is from the Key Industry T raining fund administered by the W orkforce D evel opment Section o f the Oregon Eco nomic Development Department. The partnership, consisting o f the Oregon Banking Association and the Oregon Small Business Development N etwork through Lane C om m unity College, benefits Oregon financial in stitutions and small businesses through the utilization o f a standardized method for analyzing loans. The method w ill include the use business software pro grams fo r analysis o f loans on the banking side and fo r providing techni cal assistance to small businesses on loan preparation on the clien t side. The key industry training grant w ill pay fo r instructional costs, travel, and materials fo r training banking per sonnel on the system. The grant is being matched on a three to one basis by the Oregon Banking Association member companies. The training w ill take place in the host institutions o f the 19 Small Busi ness Development Centers in die fo l low ing communities: Albany, Bend, Coos B ay, Eugene, G rants Pass, Gresham, Klamath Falls, La Grande, L in c o ln c ity , M ed ford , M ilw a u kie , Ontario, Pendleton, Portland, Roseburg, Salem , Seaside, The D a lle s, and Tillam ook. A total o f 50 training sessions w ill be offered quarterly to facilitate banker attendance. A total o f 50 training ses sions w ill be offered during a 12-month period from June 1992 through June 1993. “ This training program promotes the use o f a standardized method o f loan analysis statewide to insure consistent information dissemination and better access to loans fo r small businesses,” said Steve Petersen, O ED D Director. OEDD's Key Industry Training Pro gram awards grants to community col leges for developing and delivering train ing to two or more businesses in an indus try, profession, or association. The pro gram is funded by the Oregon Lottery. M M M SOUND SAVERS TERRY’S PHARMACY S e rv in g Y ou S in c e 1 9 8 0 8 » AM&UX < New or Transfer Prescriptions nMUZfcS ROBERTCRAY • bong persuader s2“’off ! ^TURING “SMOKING GUN" AND IT NEXT DOOR (BECAUSE OF ME) S a y you saw it in the Portland Observer BOB MARLEY ROBERT CRAY TBFF^BBMB. O pen M on. - F ri. 9 :0 0 a m - 6 :0 0 p m • S at. 9 :0 0 a m - 5 :0 0 p m 1 7 1 9 N E 1 6 th President Bush Policy On Haitians Continued From Page 2 The President’ s callous in d iffe r ence to the plight o f the Haitians stands in stark contrast to his feelings for other refugees who have gained sanctuary here. In the past few years, thousands o f refugees from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam, China and many other lands have been admitted to the U.S. and granted almost instant pol itical asy lum. And most recently, in the Persian G ulf, the President formed an interna tional coalition o f over half a m illio n troops. He ordered U.S. intelligence to A v e n u e AL GREEN help smuggle out refugees, and shed American blood to liberate Kuw ait. A ll this was done, despite the fact the Sheik Jabar al-Ahmed al-Sabah o f Kuw ait, runs a repressive autocratic regime that regularly violates the democratic p rin GREATEST HITS, VO ALSO AVAILABEL, SELECTED SOUND SAVER TITLES FROM THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS: JOAN ARMATRADING JAMES BROWN BUCKWHEAT ZDECO CAMEO ROBERT CRAY JANET JACKSON ciples that M r. Bush supposedly sup ports. M r. Bush’ s policy is indefensible. The refugees who are now fleeing are the core o f the democratic movement. They look to the United States for demo cratic principles, moral leadership and safe haven. How can the President tell the w orld that he hopes to build a new world order based on democracy and self-determination, when he is w illin g to sacrifice thousands o f innocent black people who are fighting fo r democracy in our own hemisphere? 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