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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
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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.
Tukufu. “John Mack had some excel­
lent ideas for how business and com­
FASHIONABLE FITNESS
munity groups can work together. He
Our desire to shape up and stay fit
also had some important insights into
has not waned, according to a sruvey
the Rodney King affair.”
of 3,900 households by N PD Group,
The program will air on Paragon
a market research firm in Port
Cable (Channels 30 and 38) and TCI
Washington, NY. They found that
Cablevision (Channel 30) on the fol­
70% of Americans are involved in
lowing dates:
a sport or activity for health or
March 22 8:00 am Channel 38
fitness reasons. The most popular
March 23 3:00 pm Channel 38
ways to stay fit? walking or hiking
March 30 10:30 am Channel 30
ranked 74%; bicycling, 29%; swim­
The program was produced by
ming, 23%; and aerobics or step
Paragon Cable
training, 18%.
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