M arch 17, 1993 • T he P ortland O bserver P age A? ¿X DeMitrion Cellular One G. Named Senior V.P Rich Begert has been promoted to Senior Vice president of McCaw Cellualr Communications Inc. and Regional President forthe company’s Pacific Northwest/Rocky Mountain Region (Pac/Roc), which includes Alaska, W ashington, O regon, Idaho, Colorado, U tah and M innesota McCaw provides sen ice throughout the region under the name Cellular One. Begert will report directly to James L. Barksdale, President and Chief Operating Officer of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. He replaces Steve Hooper, who was pro moted to Chief Financial Officer. Begert has served as Cellular O ne’s general manager for the Or- egon/SW Washington region for the past five years, h e joined McCaws in Rhone-Spears We Love You Best 1986 as the director of marketing programs for the Pac/Roc region. Prior to joining McCaw, Begert was with the Xerox Corporation for nine years. He served on the Executive Com mittee of the Oregon Symphony As sociation Board of Directors, and on the Board of Directors of the Busi ness Youth Exchange--a public/pri- vatc sector partnership seeking to reduce the drop-out rate of high school students in the Portland area. Begert also served on the Board of Directors of Tournament Golf foundation, Inc.(TGFI). TGFI pro duces the annual PING/Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship, the sec ond largest charitable fund-raiser in the state, which contributed more than o ne-half m illon dollars to children’s charities in 1992. Fren"°L"en Career s Workshop Imagine... Loving Your Work! Do the words love and work seem to contradict each other in your mind? Do you hav e considerable trouble even liking your work? Are you looking for a career change or returning to the job market? Do you know what direction to take and where your career is go ing? On Saturday, April 3,1993, Marti Chaney, speaker, author and consult ant in the career and human resource fields, will present a free Women's Career Workshop which will address these issues. Over 130 womenattended Marti's January Free W omen’s Career Day Seminar at the Portland Building. Because of the public’s overwhelming response to the first workshop, Marti has decided to offer another free work shop It will be held at the Downtown Branch of the Multnomah County Library, 801 SW 10th Street in Room “B” from 1:00pm to 5:00pm Free Contact Lenses Available Through Study For more information, contact: Steven fletcher. Director of Com munity relations (503) 224-2323 Ebony Fashion Fair Returns To Benefit Links’ Educational And Schoiarshin (Hljc 'JjJnrilimh (©bseriier (USPS 959-680) OREGON’S OLDEST AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLICATION Established In 1970 by Alfred L. 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The Portland Observer--Oregon’s Oldest African-American Publicatlon-- is a member of the National Newspaper Association-Founded in 1885, and The National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc., New York, NY. and The West Coast Black Publishers Association • Serving Portland and Vancouver zip-code ________________ T hank Y ou F or R eading T he P ortland O bserver , j Clean Air Bus Hits Streets Tri-M et and Northwest Natural Gas Company today unveiled the nation’s first bus manufactured to run exclusively on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Tri-M et’s two new LNG buses began serving custom ers Friday, March 12th, on routes throughout the metropolitan area. State Senators Bill McCoy and Grattan Kerans, who co-sponsored Senate Bill 766 in 1991 encouraging purchase new LNG buses, greeted at tendees on the brilliantly painted bus at the Capitol steps in Salem. The bill encourages transit agencies to explore alternative fuels to help keep the air clean. O n board were Sellwood Middle School students who have prepared environmentally oriented artwork for the bus interiors. Specially painted REVEL IN SUCCESS I’ve found that dwel ling on m y " fail - ures" allows me to continue to fail. But when I actually sit down and record all the good choices I’ve made, 1 realize that one slip-up doesn’t mean all that much. This helps me to stop feeling sorry for myself, and keeps me feeling posi tive. M. J. Murdock Awards $100,000 Grant To Neighborhood Health Clinics Neighborhood Health Clinics, Inc (NHC) has recently been awarded a $100,000 grant by the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust. They will receive $50,000 now and will match the re maining $50,000 in the next year. The funds will be used to create a new headquarters. The facilities ex pansion project entails renov ating two abandoned houses on the comer on Seventh and Alberta Street in North east Portland and should be completed in August on 1993. The new facility will house the administrative office, the Prenatal Outreach Program, and the Counseling program. Neighborhood Health Clinics, Inc. is a not-for profit corporation which provides health care services to underemployed and uninsured resi dents in the metro-Portland area All programs are staffed by volunteer pro fessionals and the patients arc asked to give a sliding scaled donations for services. No patient is ever turned away because of an inability to pay. The Murdock Trust is a chari table trust established in 1975 Leas ing fund interests include scientific research and education with a pri mary concentration on supporting capital projects of charitable organi zations The creation of the new facilities will allow NHC Io expand both the prenatal outreach and counseling pro- grams bus exteriors, sporting a clean air theme, were composed by Portland artists. “As more people move to O r egon, they bring more cars, threaten ing our clean air,” said Bob Post, Tri- Met deputy general manager. “Tri- Met is looking for new ways to mov e people and keep our air clean-electric MAX trains, accommodations for bikes on Tri-Met, more carpooling and compressed natural gas mini buses. Liquefied natural gas buses are an important part of the solution.” “Natural gas is the cleanest avail able alternative fuel and its use com plies with the increasingly strict par ticulate emissions standards mandated by the Federal Clean Air Act," said Paul Hathaway, Northwest Natural Gas Company senior vice president. “Natural gas is also a domestic fuel and its use helps reduce our nation’s dependence on imported oil.” Aside from the fuel and the paint job, the buses look like regular Tri- Met buses. Differences occur in the fuel tanks, fuel delivery system and safety components designed for LNG. The engine block, drive train and body are essentially the same as a standard 40-foot bus. The buses seat 43 custom ers and have accommodations for two passengers w ho use wheelchairs. Although buses that run on both diesel and LNG are used Houston, Tri- M et’s buses are the first of their kind manufactured to run exclusively on LNG. As the buses are tested, Tri-Met expects that fuel costs and mileage will be similar to regular buses. Because natural gas is a cleaner-burning fuel, less engine wear and maintenance is expected. Renewing The Earth: The Environment And The Economy Imani Woman’s Support Project Imani will hold a Fundraising The challenge of balancing the D inner w ith guest speaker, play local economic needs of people and w right, Thomas Meloncon, who is the the short-term and long-term care of author of “W hat Ever Happened To the env ironment is the topic of the BlackLove”, April 8 1993 7:00 pm to conference “Renewing the Earth: 10:30 at the Melody Grand Ball Room Catholic Social Teaching as an Invi 613 S.E. Alder. Tickets are $25.00 tation to Public Reflection and Ac and are available at label’s on MLK tion.” The conference w ill be held on Blvd, One Stop Music, or call Imani Saturday March 2 7 ,1993,9:00 a.m. It 284-3965 for more information. will be held at Mount Angel Seminary The menu will consist of Okra Damian Center in Mount Angel, OR. Gumbo with Chicken & Sausage, The conference will use the Pas Jambalaya, M ustard Greens, Butter toral Statement of the United States Milk Biscuits, Corn Bread, and G in C atholic B ishops' Renew ing the gerbread Muffins topped with whipped Earth: an Inv itation to Reflection and cream and more... Action on Environment in Light of There will be a book signing with Catholic Social Teaching as the tool Thomas Meloncon held from 9:30 - for considering these issues The bish 10:30pm. ops' statement noted that the "task set before us is unprecedented, intricate, complex. No single solution will be Urban League Dinner adequate to the task. To live in balance with the finite resources of the planet, To Be Rebroadcast On Local Cable wc need an unfamiliar blend of re Local cable networks will rebroad straint and innovation. Wc shall be required to be genuine stewards of cast a tape of the Urban League of nature and thereby co-creators of a Portland's recent Equal Opportunity new human world This will require Dinner several times in coming weeks. both new attitudes and new actions.” The dinner featured a keynote speech W ith a recent announcement by by Los Angeles Urban League Presi the White House of an upcoming sum dent John Mack and award presenta mit on Northwest forests, with the tions to M arsha Congdon and /Carl recent closures of various salmon fish Talton of Portland for their leadership ing seasons, and with the current de in the area of equal opportunity. bates on land use at both the State and “We are pleased to be able to air local levels, the “Renew ing the Earth” this program for those in the commu conference presents an opportunity to nity who could not attend," said Ur reflect on the broader picture of the ban League President Dr. Darryl earth and the economy. 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