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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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