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J anuary 27,1993 • T he P ortland O bserver
P age 8
Victoria
Johnson’s
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M.L.K., J r . B lvd .
B usiness I mprovement A ssociation
Sponsors
Community Service Awareness Classes
Sign-up starts Monday. Februaiy 1,1993 at 6:00PM at 4008 N.E. Martin
Luther King, Jr Blvd in Portland, Oregon.
Classes will cover, and provide answers to the following questions:
Business Fundamentals
1) What is a business?
2) What are the four basic business components?
3) What is a business profit?
4) What is a business credit line?
5) What is a business employee?
6) When should a business hire employees?
7) What is a balanced business budget?
8) What is a business lawsuit?
9) What is a business loss?
10) What do all businesses have in common?
11) What are some main causes of business failure?
12) What are three business operation structures?
Business Management And Leadership
13) What are five basic rules for making the best decisions?
14) W hat are the seven fundam ental guidance p rinciples
that are universal to all relationships?
15) What are the three things you should protect above all
other things'?
16) What are the four transactional zones?
17) What is the univ ersal lesson?
18) What are adult objectives?
19) What does responsibility really mean?
20) Who does opportunity always benefit?
Classes w ill be conducted by Dr. thomas Boothe of American State Bank.
Boothe, who is also President of the M.L.K., Jr. Blvd. Business Improve­
ment Association, believes that when people, and particularly young
people, understand the important benefits that business brings to a
community, they will have information by which they can become a part
of the solution to their community’s problems.
All are inv ited to attend, especially young people and students. Pleased
bnng this announcement with you.
AH BAI And Ecker d Donate
$50,000 To United Negro
College Fund On Lou
Rawls Parade Of Stars
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The American Health and Beauty
Aids Institute (AHBAI) and Eckerd
Drugs recently appeared on the Lou
Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon to
donate $50,000 to the United Negro
College Fund (UNCF).
This contribution was made pos­
sible by the thousands of consumers
who purchase AHBAI-member prod­
ucts in Eckerd Drug Stores, This
money will benefit hundreds of mi­
nority college students throughout the
country. Over the past year, AHBAI
and Eckerd have donated a total of
SIOO.OCO to the UNCF.
Ste-vart Turley, chairman of the
boa d ard president of the Jack Eckerd
Corp., parent company of Eckerd
Drugs said, “It is vital that our young
people have the opportunity to obtain
a higher education so they have the
chance to realize their goals and
dreams and positively impact the de-
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velopment of our nation.”
Geri Duncan Jones, executive di­
rector of AHBAI, isenthusiastic about
th’S cause. “Education is extremely
important to the entire country - not
just to the Black community. These
young people will be our nation’s
leaders,” said Jones. “Eckerd tradi­
tionally becomes very involved ir the
communities where it operates. This
takes that commitment one step fur­
ther,” she added.
Eckerd Drugs is a privately-
owned company that operates more
than 1,600 drugstores throughout the
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and self-esteem, Victona’s techniques
for weight loss and weight mainte­
nance will work for men and women
of all ethnic and economic back­
grounds.
“I’m really just like you. I’m still
working, still struggling, still battling
my insecurities, still resisting urges to
binge, and still doing my best to drown
out those old negative tapes playing in
my head. 1 haven’t “made it” ; I haven t
“arrived anywhere. My journey con­
tinues. Learning and recovering is a
lifelong process-we’realways in train­
ing.”
—Victoria Johnson
Johnson is perhaps the most in­
spirational instructor since Richard
Simmons and Jane Fonda.”
-Fitness Plus
About the author:
Victoria Johnson was raised in
Washington State with 10 brothers
and sisters. She Jias been teaching
aerobics for more than 17 years and is
certified through ACE A m erican
Council on Exercise) as well as AF AA
(Aerobics and Fitness Association of
America). She is also a continuing
education provider for ACE & AFAA
and travels the world teaching other
instructors the latest moves in the
industry. Johnson has produced 14
workout tapes that range from Step
Aerobics to Body
Sculpting to Funk Aerobics. She
has been featured in USA Today,
Shape, and Self magazine and most
recently, has signed a three year con­
tract as a spokesperson for LA Gear.
Victoria Johnson lives is Portland,
Oregon and is president of her own
Metro Fitness consulting firm.
FEBRUARY IS
BLACK
HISTO RY
M ONTH
High Ranking Former Federal Officials Urge
Clinton To Act Quickly To Improve Civil
Rights Enforcement, Address Tensions
The Citizens’ Commission on
Civil Rights today proposed an action
agenda to President-elect Bill Clinton,
urging him to make civil rights a
priority and warning that economic
recovery alone “will not lift the boats
of those who are mired in poverty and
racial discrimination.”On the eve of
Martin Luther King’s birthday and 25
years after the Kcrncr Commission
issued its historical report, the Com­
mission set forth a series of goals
when it released its bi-annual report,
New Opportunities: Civil Rights At A
Crossroads.
Calling the impact of the 1992
disorders in Los Angeles “far more
devastating and destructive in the
minority community than the counter
part events in the 1960s that gave rise
to the Kemer Commission,” the Com­
mission called upon President-elect
Clinton to appoint a task force com­
prised of Cabinet members to address
racial violence and submit a coordi­
nated action plan for dealing with its
causes and consequences within 60
days.
“What better way for the presi­
dent to lead the nation in its obser­
vance of Martin Luther King’s birth­
day than for him to get back to the
nation’s civil'rights goals,” said Citi­
zens’ Commission Chairman Arthur
S. Flemming, former Chair of the
College Preview Announces 3rd
Annual $10,000 Freedom Of
Speech Essay Contest
C ollege P re v ie w M agazine,
America’s #1 national guide to col­
lege opportunities, is sponsoring its
Third Annual Freedom of Speech
Essay Contest. This scholarship, which
is geared toward minority students, is
worth $10,000 and is probably one of
the easiest steps any high school stu­
dent could make toward a college
education.
The topic for this year’s essay is
“ Malcolm X: W hq was he and how
has the new recognition of his life
affected you?”
Southeast.
AHBAI is a national trade orga­
nization representing the leading
Black manufacturers of ethnic health
and beauty aids product featuring the
“Proud Lady” symbol. It is recognized
worldwide as the leading authority
and resource in this category.
Students are asked to submit a
500 word essay that is double spaced,
typed, or legibly written on plain pa­
per.
The minimal criteria for the schol­
arship is that students must be a m i­
nority high school junior or senior for
the 1992-93 school year and planning
to attend a college or university. The
deadline to receive entries for the
essay scholarship contest is February
26,1993. Parents, teachers, and coun­
selors, are encouraged to help their
students get an early start in applying
for this tremendous scholarship op­
portunity, that also includes other
great prizes.
Complete information about the
essay contest is in the Jan/Feb ’93
issue of College PreView magazine.
To get your official entry form, send
$3 in check or money order to C ol­
lege PreV iew , 250 M ark Twain
T o w e r, 106 W est 11th S t.,
KansasnCity, MO. 641-5-1806.
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“Community Stride” Mall Walking
Program In Lloyd District
“Com m unity S tride,” a mall
walking program open to the public
and to Lloyd District tenants and resi­
dents, will commence with a grand
kick off at Lloyd Center Mall on
Saturday, January 23 at 1:00 p.m. Pre­
registration took place at the mall and
at Lloyd Athletic Club January 16 &
17.
The goal of this on-going pro­
gram is to promote the benefits of
physical fitness to the public and to
the Lloyd District community. Spon­
sored by Lloyd Center, Lloyd Ath­
letic Club, and Legacy Health Sys­
tem, the program will include an in­
centive program for participants,
action is not just increased funding,
but major structural changes to meet
current needs for creating opportuni­
ties.
Ensuring equal educational op­
portunity should be a top priority for
the Clinton administration,” Commis­
sion member and former House Edu­
cation & Labor Committee Chau-
Augustus F. Hawkins said. If our
nation is to be strong and competitive,
we need a real commitment to both
equity and excellence in education.
The new Administration should move
q u ick ly to rem edy the g ro ss
underfunding of Head Start and Chap­
ter One.”
“The regression in civil rights
enforcement during the 1980s took a
severe toll. America needs a federal
government that recognizes that the
legacy of discrimination and segrega­
tion is still present in virtually every
facet of our society. President Clinton
must make a serious and sustained
commitment to addressing these in­
equities,” said Commission member
William H. Brown III.
The450-page report includes data
on the status of women and minori­
ties, and in-depth analyses o f racial
isolation, fair housing, equal employ­
ment opportunity, voting rights, the
rights of the disabled, hate crimes and
several other topics.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
“The nation faces a civil rights
crisis that is as severe as the economic
crisis that impelled the President to
convene an econom ic su m m it,”
warned Citizens Commission Mem­
ber William L. Taylor, former Staff
Director, U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights. “Large numbers of minorities
and the poor are locked in racial iso­
lation and systematically deprived of
the housing opportunities and educa­
tion, training, health and social ser­
vices that would enable them to es­
cape their plight,” Taylor continued.
“Unless these conditions are addressed
directly and unless the racial fears
that have plagued us for so long are
confronted and surmounted, we will
continue to be a divided and troubled
nation.”
Among the recommendations, the
Commission urged President-elect
Clinton to target civil rights policies
to protect the rights of economically
disadvantaged citizens, especially
those affected by discrimination in
employment, housing and education.
The Commission also recom­
mended action to close the health gap
between whites and minorities and to
provide public services that will re­
move the barriers faced by persons
with Limited English Proficiency. The
report noted that often the needed
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scheduled walks with volunteer lead­
ers, open and extended mall walking
hours, and regularly scheduled edu­
cational seminars and blood choles-
terol/blood pressure screenings for
participants. A one time minimal reg­
istration fee is required to partici­
pate.
Originated by the Lloyd Ath­
letic Club, “Community Stride” is
one of many outreach programs de­
signed to provide unprecedented fit­
ness opportunities for the public. The
Lloyd Athletic Club is a well estab­
lished, 27,000 square feet, full ser­
vice facility located in the Lloyd
District serving over 1000 members.
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W ritten by James Weldon Johnson and set
to music by his brother, Rosamond, 'L ift Every
Voice and Sing” was known for decades as the
Negro National Anthem. It was firs t perform ed
on January 12,1900 by 5 0 0 school children at
a celebration for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
In the years that followed the school children
continued to sing the Anthem And when some
of them became teachers, they taught it to their
pupils. In less than tw enty years, the moving
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w ords and stirring music o f this Anthem were
being sung throughout the South, as well as
other p a rts o f the country.
Today, it still speaks so eloquently of hope,
prom ise and perseverance. R J. Reynolds
salutes and supp orts African-Am ericans in
th e ir quest fo r a brigh t future.
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