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Notice To Bidders
Multnomah County
Street And Sidewalk Improvements
For
1993 City-Wide Pedestrian Ramp
Improvement Program
(HUD Funded Project)
Proposals Due by 4:00 P.M. on: August 4,1993
Proposal No. RFP # 3P2121
Notice is hereby given that the City of Vancouver, W ashing­
ton , will receive sealed bids up to the hour of 11:00 a.m.,
Pacific Local Time, Monday, July 19, 1993, and publicly
open and read aloud at that time on the same day in the
Council Chambers, 1st Floor of City Hall, 210 East 13th
Street, Vancouver, Washington, for:
The construction of Project No. TB-812,1993 City-wide
Pedestrian Ramp Improvement Program, a HUD funded
project.
The work shall consist of furnishing all labor, equipment
and materials necessary to construct approximately 11
pedestrian ramps at city street intersections including
traffic control, removal and replacement of roadway
pavement, curbs, and sidewalks, relocation of traffic
signal equipment, reallocation of storm water inlets and
other work as required.
All work shall be in accordance with these plans, these
special provisions, amendments to the standard speci­
fications and the standard specifications.
Bids shall be in accordance with the specifications and other
contract documents on file in Contract Administration, lower
level, City Hall, phone (206) 696-8125, where copies may
be obtained.
All bids shall be addressed to the attention of the Purchasing
Agent, VancouverCity Hall, 210 East 13th Street, P.O. Box
1995, Vancouver, Washington 98668. All bids delivered
shall be delivered to the Purchasing Agent, Lower Level,
City Hall, 210 East 13th Street. Bids shall be placed in an
envelope which is sealed and which clearly states the name
of the bidder, the date of the bid opening, and appropriate
wording to indicate definitely the nature of the contents.
The following is applicable to federal-aid projects. The City
of Vancouver, in accordance with Title V of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000-4 and
Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of
Transportation, subtitle, A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21,
non-discrimination in federally assisted programs of the
Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act,
hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that
In any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement,
minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportu­
nity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not
be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color or
origin in consideration for an award.
Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s
check, or bid bond in the amount equal to 5 percent of the
bid. The City of Vancouver reserves the right to reject any
or all bids and to waive minor formalities.
No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the
opening thereof, unless the award of contract is delayed for
a period exceeding thirty days.
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Sealed proposals will be received until, but not after, 4:00
P.M., by the Director of Purchasing, 2505 S.E. 11th Av­
enue, Portland, Oregon, 97202, for:
The Multnomah County Health Department, and the Chil­
dren and Youth Services Commission are seeking agen­
cies to provide geographically based, culturally competent
teen parent services.
***There is a MANDATORY pre-proposal meeting Wednes­
day, July 14, 1993, at 8:30 AM, City Hall Room 154, 1220
SW 5th, Portland, OR.
Multnomah County reserves the right to reject any or all
proposals if not in compliance with Request for Proposals
(RFP) procedures and requirements.
Specifications may be obtained at:
Multnomah County Purchasing
2505 S.E. 11th Avenue
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 248-5111
Lillie M. Walker, Director
Purchasing, Contracts, and Stores
C-Tran Is accepting proposals from DBE firms inter­
ested in providing Pre-Award/Post Delivery Audit Ser­
vices on between five (5) and ten (10) 23 foot-26 foot
vehicles. This federally funded project has been deter­
mined a set-aside for firms that qualify as a Disadvan­
taged Business Enterprises. Requests for Proposals may
be obtained from C-Tran, PO Box 2529, Vancouver,
Washington 98668-2529, (206) 696-4494. Please specify
Request for Proposals #93-4.
Sealed proposals will be accepted until 2:00 p.m. local time,
Thursday, July 29,1993.
A ir Columbia began helicopter
service w ithin the Columbia River
Gorge on June 28, 1993, bringing a
unique visual perspective to the mag­
n ific e n t beauty o f the P a c ific
Northwest's grandest canyon.
The helicopter, an Enstrom F28C,
is a two-passenger ship equipped w ith
floats for easy water access that is
ideally suited for VIP serv ice as well
as for those individuals who seek a
th rillin g , unique experience.
Now residents and visitors w ill be
able to view the Gorge from river s
edge to verdant sub-alpine mountain
peaks, hovering for that m illion-dol­
lar photo shot, gl l mpsi ng vvi ldl i fc graz­
ing amid mountain-top forests, or ex­
ploring new terrain from a bird's eye
view—one o f the most exhilarating
vantage points in the Pacific North­
west.
Reservations are required and
flights originate from local airports or
the company’s heliport on Highway
14 West o f Stevenson, Washington (at
the Skamania Lodge exit). Excursions
can be combined w ith other tours pro­
vided by A ir Columbia’s sister com­
pany, Columbia Gorge Tours
Nelson Mandela To Deliver Historic
Address At NAACP’s National
Convention, July 10th
Nelson Mandela, President o f the
African National Congress and one o f
the most influcntail pubic figures o f
this century, w ill deliver an historic
address to the 1993 N AACP Conven­
tion on Saturday, July 10th, at 4pm in
Indianapolis, IN. The site w ill be an­
nounced later.
The special plenary session at
which M r. Mandela w ill speak comes
before the formal opening o f the Con­
vention on Sunday, July 11 th, and w ill
mark his first appearance before the
nation's oldest and largest civil rights
organization which has been one o f
the strongest supporters o f his efforts
to end apartheid in his native South
Africa.
To further underscore the im por­
tance o f his appearance. Dr Benjamin
F. Chavis, the N A A C P ’s Executive
Director, has issued invitations to the
Ambassadors o f all the African and
Caribbean nations accredited to the
United States.
Mr. Mandela 'sappcarance comes
as his country is on the threshold o f
holding its first freedom racial elec­
tions, clim axing an often bloody and
d ifficu lt struggle to end white-only
rule.
In this struggle, M r Mandela has
been the pivotal figure, despite his
long imprisonment by the South A fr i­
can government More than any other
person, he has symbolized the free­
dom movement o f black South A fri­
cans.
Mr. Mandela’s appearance serves
as the prelude to the opening o f the
N AACP's 1993 Annual Convention
which this year has the theme “ Pass­
ing The Torch Preparing For A Bet­
ter Tomorrow” .
On the opening day, Sunday July
11 th, the newly elected Executive
Director o f the NAACP, D r Chavis,
w ill deliver his first address to the
national group that evening at the
Indianapolis Convention Center.
The Center w ill be the site for
most o f the convention activities which
includes a number o f plenary sessions
and legislative sessions, workshops,
special forums, the finals o f the Afro-
Academic, Cultural, Technological
and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO),
and the concluding event, the Free­
dom Fund/Spingarn Awards Dinner
on Thursday. July 15th, at which the
Spingam Medal— the N AACP'shigh-
cst award, w ill be presented to Dr
Dorothy I. Height, President o f the
National Council o f Negro Women
On Monday morning. July 12th.
the speaker for the convention’s first
plenary session w ill be Congressman
Kwcisi Mfumc (D M D,, Chairman o f
the Congressional Black Caucus
Dr W illiam F Gibson. Chair-
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man, N AACP National Board o f D i­
rectors, w ill deliver the keynote ad­
dress that evening at a public mass
m eeting Three members o f the
President’s Cabinet w ill also make
major addresses at the Convention.
Ronald H. Brown, Secretary o f the
Department o f Commerce w ill be the
speaker on Tuesday morning. Hazel
O ’Leary, Secretary o f the U S. De­
partment o f Energy, w ill speak on
Wednesday morning, July 14th, and
Henry Cisneros, Secretary of the De­
partment o f Housing and Urban De­
velopment w ill be the Thursday morn­
ing speaker
Among the more than 20 con­
vention workshops arc ’.hose dealing
w ith such critical areas as “ The Fair
Housing Agenda” , "Prevention o f
In ju ry and V iolence” , “ A fric a n -
Americans: Impacting The C rim inal
Justice System” , and “ Blacks in
Sports” .
The Commerce and Industry
Show— always one o f the highlights
ofthe Convention-will open on M on­
day morning, July 12th, with over 200
exhibits, as well as more than 100
m inority vendors.
Information on the convention
may be secured by contacting the
N A A C P Conference Department,
4805 M t Hope Drive, Baltimore. M D
21215
these principals,” said Superintendent
Jack Bierwirth. "T h eir valuable and
positive contributions helped us to
select the best possible candidates.”
Five committees compose o f be-
tween 7-20 volunteers from the school
staff and community worked w ith clus­
ter directors o f instruction to develop
questions and the format for the can­
didate interviews, according to Per­
sonnel SErvices director Ed Schmitt
Feedback from the committees fo l­
lowing the interviews helped school
district administrators make final de­
cisions on the principal selections.
Interviews currently are sched­
uled for other positions that remain
vacant, including principal positions
at R oosevelt H ig h School and
Binnsmead M iddle School. Efforts to
f ill those positions are later than usual
this year due to the school district’ s
budget -cutting process and early re­
tirement incentive.
Hopewell House To Hold “Jazz
Under The Stars” Benefit
Request For Proposal
Flightseeing
Arrives in The
Columbia River
Gorge
new Portland School D istrict princi-
pals in a new process assigned to
increase community involvement in
school decision -making.
New appointees are:
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Cheryl Johnson, former assistant
p rin c ip a l at Tubm an M id d le
School, is now principal at Sky­
line Elementary.
Ann Mountain, former Gregory
Heights M iddle School assistant
principal, is new princip al at
W ilcox Elementary.
John Danielson, former assistant
p rin c ip a l at K e llo g g M id d le
School, is the Youngson Elemen­
tary principal.
Janet Kakishita, who served as
West Sylvan M iddle School assis­
tant principal, is now principal at
Sunnyside Elementary.
Joe Malone, former Beaumont
M iddle School assistant p rinci­
pal, is the principal at K ing El-
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Hopewell House w ill hold a “ Jazz
Under The Stars” benefit concert
Thursday Evening July 15, 1993 fea­
turing the Dan Balmer trio. Guitarist
Dan Balmer and his group w ill pro­
vide music on the grounds o f the facil­
ity, from 7 to 10pm. The $20 admis­
sion includes coffee drinks and des­
serts.
Hopewell House, a fa cility for the
treatment o f those who are gravely or
term inally ill recently admitted its
212th patient since its November, 1991
reopening. The form er “ Hospice
House” treats patients who suffer from
a v ariety o f illnesses w ith loving care
and compassion.
Presently, about 70% o f the Pa­
tients at Hopewell House suffer from
cancer, 25% have aids-related i l l ­
nesses, and about 5%are ill from other
causes.
As part ofthe mission ofHopewcll
House, no one is denied care for his or
her inability to pay for services.
W ithout the generous support o f
the community, which takes the form
o f dedicated staff, volunteers and do­
nations, this work could not continue.
In addition to residential care.
Hopewell House has other services
available which include respite care,
expanded bereavement counseling
,and support groups for members o f
the community.
The “ Jazz Under The Stars" ben­
efit concert w ill begin at 7pm on Thurs­
day, July 15th, and parking w ill be
available at Wilson High School’s
back parking lot, which is directly
across SW Capitol Highway from
Hopewell House-located at 6171 SW
Capitol Highway, in Portland
Hopewell House is a program o f
Ecumenical M inistries o f Oregon, an
organization o f 17denominationsand
2000 congregations across the state o f
Oregon.
Tears And Cheers - Thrills and Ills
BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT
I did indeed shed a tear and was
not ashamed at all that I could be
moved to such r dcpth -T h at is when
I viewed the C-Span news report ofthe
young black child (about 10 years o f
age) who committed suicide by step­
ping in front o f a mov ing train.
The camera panned from a hous­
ing project w ndovv against which was
pressed the bewildered, brown faces
o f several cv en younger siblings—to a
stretch o f railroad track several hun­
dred yards away. It was here that the
young g irl had ended her anguished
life by stepping into the path o f a
speeding locomotive. From a known
travail into her pathetic idea, unbe­
lievably, o f a secure promised land.
And it is not all about gangs and
shootouts.
Her tenderly scrawled note o f
goodbye to a world w ith which she
could no longer deal simply stated that
she would not be able to cope on this
earth without her terminally ill mother
whom she lov ed so much. Therefore
she was going to become an angel so
they would be together in heaven.
Sometimes 1 think we forget that there
can be childhood pain as deep and
penetrating as any that may occur in
our own vale o f tears What was your
solution -remember?
W ith a quick change o f pace 1 w ill
remark how good it is to be able to
cheer on the foreign publishers who
arc stepping up the export to our shores
o f those revealing and quite well docu­
mented books on African and African
American history . The many rascals
and charlatans here who deny there is
any need for a “ black history” need
more terror struck into their pony
souls and intellectual facades (like the
opponent o f those “ Baseline Essays
developed by the Portland School D is­
trict.)
Today, I have before me a book
from England, distributed in America
by Barnes & Noble, Catalog Book
Store (126 Fifth Ave, New York, N. Y.
10011) The book is “ Into Africa: The
story o f the East African Safari” , Ken­
neth M . Cameron, No,. 1784925,
$5.95. The dust jacket only hints at the
revelations to be found inside. “ The
traditional Safari (o f Hollywood and
romantic novels) was a comedy o f
manners and a tragedy o f race and
gender.”
“ People went on safaris for may
reasons They came to East Africa to
seek to touch, and o f course to k ill.” To
‘ slaughter’ would be a more fittin g
term. “ East Africa became Safariland,
a pleasure ground for rich white men
lik e Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest
Hemingway, George Eastman, Baron
Rothschild, even the Prince o f Wales..
the ‘ romance’, brutality, and sheer
self-indulgence, that glorious mad­
ness. the myth o f ‘The Great White
Hunter’” .
The romantic farces o f novels
and movies like “ K ing Solomon's
Mines” dissolve before the reality o f
stark naked European greed, avarice
and cruelty. Coming after the Muslim
merchants and slave traders to this
part o f the continent, the “ great”
Livingston, explorer and missionary
“ opened up" this territory and popu­
larized it for the Western world And
we all remember “ Stancly” . the B rit­
ish reporter who ‘ found’ Livingston
after” ...passing through the jungle
like a scourge, leaving a trail o f burnt
villages and perforated corpses” ; In
‘your’ school histories?
Long before the escapades o f
A m e ric a n P re sid en t, Theodore
Roosevelt the ‘ Safari’ had been fash­
ioned into a sophisticated k illin g ma­
chine for slaughtering w ildlife. On
the Zambezi in 1860 “ The English­
man Baldwin was thought highly o f
for having killed 61 elephants, 2 hippo,
11 white rhino, 12 black rhino, 11
giraffe. 21 eland, 30 buffalo, and 4 ’
lion (among others).” But it is a chap­
ter, “ Quite Simply The W hip” which
pulls back the curtain o f a scenario
reminiscent o f our own D ixie; p. 173
etc,
Twentyfive lashes w ith a thick
whip o f buffalo skin was considered a
‘ m ild ’ punishment for either the por­
ters on the Safari, or black servants in
to w n —in c lu d in g women, “ So in ­
grained was this idea that the Swahili
word for hippopotamus, ‘k ib ik o ’ , be­
came, in European dictionaries, the
word for whip. “ The mechanics o f
dehumanization were fairly straight­
forward... non humans who had no
right o f ownership ” The black women
who carried 100 lbs o f wood or w ater
on their backs might be required to
dump the load at anytime and turn a
sexual favor before cooking meals for
the great white hunters. Seen a safari
movie lately?
City Of Portland Police Bureau
Reported Part 1 Crimes In Portland
For The Week Of 06-06-93 Thru 06-12-93
Prev ious Week
05-3*1- To 06
PT 1
Crime
Murder
Rape
Robbery
A ffr Aslt
Burglary
Larceny
Auto Thft
Arson
Total
1
5
33
121
163
447
160
7
937
Current Week
06-60 To 06-12
0
17
53
98
170
545
204
12
1099
Curr. YTD
Total
CurrYTD
Daily AVG
Last YTD
Total
0.12
20
220
1071
2520
3570
11418
3926
241
22986
23
232
1189
2261
3727
11717
2840
232
22221
1.35
6.57
15.46
21.90
70.05
24.09
1.48
141.02
Last YTD
Daily AVG
0.14
1.42
7.29
13.87
22.87
71.88
17.42
1.42
136.33
Information Source:
US crime data file Report USFS Reported Date' for time placcmnct o f crime
Year to Date statistics arc updated to include those crimes which were reported since 1/1/93 from 1/1/92 but were
not processed until after the weekly statistics were obtained Year to date daily average is the Y T D total div ided
the number o f days o f the year.
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