‘Serving the community through cultural diversity.’
Volumn XXIV, Number 16
April 20. 1994
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News Doors Will Open...
New Target Store Will
Offer Value, Quality To
Hillsboro Consumers
Gala Banquet
Honors Black
Achievement
Target store will create 150 new jobs,
add $200,000 to local econom y each year.
Target Stores, the nation’s leading quality
discount retailer, will open its second T ar­
get store in Hillsboro July 24, 1994. Lo­
cated in the T anasboum e area at 18101
N.W. Evergreen Parkw ay, the store is the
fifth T arget in the Portland area.
Second Annual Holy
Redeemer Parish Texas-
Style Barbecue
Mark your calendars and com e out for
some good food and fellow ship at the sec­
ond annual Holy Redeem er parish Texas-
style barbecue Sunday, May 1 from 1-6
p.m. in the large hall at Holy Redeem er
Area School, 127 N. Portland Blvd. D in­
ners include a generous portion o f barbe­
cued chicken, green beans, baked potato,
bread and dessert. A dults, $5,75, kids
$3.25,half a chicken is $3.50. T o-go d in ­
ners are also available at the sam e prices.
Proceeds will go to the parish’s school sub­
sidy. For more information, call 285-4539.
Bernie Foster
Garlington Plaza
Portland Schools ‘Round
Up’ Kindergartners
W hile parents may register children
’a ny time during and after the round-up at
every school, m any schools also set aside
special times for parents and 5-year-olds to
visit schools and meet with kindergarten
teachers. For the date and time o f your local
school’s round-up, contact the school o f­
fice. to learn which neighborhood school
your child will attend, please call 331-
3304.
POVA Celebrates
National Volunteer
Week, Calls For More
Volunteers In
Anticipation Of Peak
Season
In honor o f National V olunteer W eek,
April 17-23, the Portland/O regon Visitors
Association salutes its 26 volunteers who
serve as front-line am bassadors for the city
of Portland and provide inform ation to
thousands o f regional, out-of-state and in­
ternational visitors each year.
“V olunteer staff enhance the Portland
experience for all w ho w alk through our
doors by sharing their passion for Portland
and providing exam ples o f w hat to do and
sec in the area,” Said Visitor Services M an­
ager Juanita Tosuntikool.
Health Check-Ups For
Women Offered
A low -cost health check-up for women
will be given from 9 a.m . to 1 p.m. S atur­
day, May 14, 1994, at W estern Slates
Chiropractic College Clinic.
The $20 exam ination fee will cover the
cost o f a pel vie exam wi th pap sm ear, breast
exam with instructions on self exam ination
and a spinal evaluation. The health screen
also includes a urinary lab test and a blood
pressure check. The check-ups arc adm in­
istered by fourth-year interns under the
supervision o f chiropractic physicians.
W omen arc encouraged to call early
for appointm ents at 255-6771 as openings
arc limited. The clinic is in the Parkrose
area o f Portland at 2900 NE 132nd Ave.
| n APRIL25, GARLINGTON PLAZA
*WILL OPEN ITS DOORS.
A Grand O pening is planned for that day
to celebrate the com pletion o f the Plaza and to
signify a healthy beginning for persons with
mental illness. The Plaza is a w elcom e addi­
tion to the com m unity, creating a home for
some o f N ortheast Portland ’ s m ost vulnerable
who may otherw ise be homeless.
O pening cerem onies begin at 9:00 a.m.
and include distinguished speakers such as
P o rtla n d C ity C o m m issio n e r G re tc h e n
Kafoury and Fred Stewart, King N eighbor­
hood A ssociation Chair.
G arlington Plaza was built by W alsh
Construction w ith the help o f 30% women
and m inority sub-contractors. The Plaza has
Portland Area Young People Won A Gold Apple Award
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VIDEO ABOUT DIVERSITY
CREATED BY PORTLAND-
Haneefah
Dudley
(foreground);
Joseph Lyons
and Giang
Pham in "I'm
Gon' Stand!”
from Turn
Loose the
Voices
AREA YOUNG PEOPLE HAS
WON A GOLD APPLE, THE HIGHEST
AWARD FROM THE NATIONAL EDU­
CATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTI­
VAL IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.
T urn L o o se the V o ic e s w as o n e o f
1,500 e n trie s su b m itte d to th is, th e la r g ­
e st and m o st p re s tig io u s e d u c a tio n a l film
an d v id e o c o m p e titio n in the c o u n try .
T he o n e -h o u r show
fe a tu re s
a
m u ltic u ltu ra l c a st o f 21 lo c a l c h ild re n
and te e n s w h o se so n g s, s to rie s , d ra m a tic
and com ic scen es, and c h o re o g ra p h y c o m ­
m u n ic a te the p a in fu l im p a c t o f b ig o try
and the v alue o f d iv e rs ity . T h e c a s t o r ig i­
n ally d e v e lo p e d th e ir sc rip t a s a sta g e
p ro d u c tio n u n d er the d ire c tio n o f the
a rtis tic sta ff o f Y oung A c to rs ’ F o ru m .
W ith a s s is ta n c e from P o r tla n d ’s K P D X -
Fox 4 9 , Y oung A c to r s ’ Forum A rtistic
D ire c to r W ill W e ig le r p ro d u c e d an d d i ­
re c te d a v id e o a d a p ta tio n o f the show and
d e v e lo p e d an a n c illa ry te a c h e r s ’ study
g u id e . T u rn L o o se the V o ic e s has a lso
b een se le c te d as a fin a list in the c o u n tr y ’s
second largest educational film festival, the
Night Out At Lloyd Center
To Benefit Youth Investment Fund
Valuable prizes, coupons and merchandise certificates will be sold in a single
packet fo r the April 28 "Night Out At Lloyd Center," event to benefit the Youth
Investment Fund.
For just $7.50, a packet o f tickets and coupons will allow the holders to enjoy
samplings at a number o f food court merchants, and ice skating pass, beverage ticket,
movie ticket, entry blank fo r door prizes and merchandise coupons. The packet is worth
many times its actual cost.
The Portland Mass Choir, a 95-voice auditioned choir with singers from 40
churches in the metro area, will give a free performance that night.
Children First Town
Meeting
The passports to fu n went on sale April 11 at the Lloyd Center shipping mall service
center located on Level I by the ice rink.
Tuesday May 3rd; 7-9 PM; King Neigh­
borhood Facility; 4815 N.E. Seventh; Port­
land.
Associate Marketing Director Rosemary White said all net proceeds will go to the
Youth Investment Fund, with more details to be announced at a later date.
CALENDER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Specific details about the "fun packets" fo r "Night Out At Lloyd Center" are
available by contacting Ms. White at 282-2511.
Dated Two weeks After Current Issue
22 room s and features a deli restaurant that
will serve residents and the public.
E v e ry o n e is in v ite d to a tte n d the
G arlington Plaza e v e n t Tours o f the facility,
located at N ortheast 5th and Alberta, are from
9:30 a.m. to 12 noon. R efreshm ents will be
served courtesy o f the Plaza deli.
Garlington Plaza is a project of Garlington
C enter M ental H ealthcare.
Birm ingham International Educational Film
Festival in Alabama. For more inform ation
about the video, contact M edia M atchmakes,
PO Box 1007, Clackam as, OR 97015.
CIC Honors Persons
Who Volunteer
ach year the Multnomah
County Citizen Involvement
1 J Committee honors persons who
volunteer for the County or County-
funded programs.
Volunteer service varies from m em ber­
ship on policy-m aking or advisory com m it­
tees to assisting in the libraries, jails or health
clinics. Som e volunteers spend many hours
over a period o f years and others com plete a
short-term project. Some work directly with
the C ounty’s clientele and others do behind
the scenes supportive work.
A pproximately 65 persons will be hon­
ored at the V olunteer A w ard Cerem ony on
April 21st at 10:30 a.m. at the County C ourt­
house, Room 602. The certificates o f award
will be presented by Chair Beverly Stein and
C o m m issio n e rs S h arro n K elley , T anya
C ollier, D an Saltzm an and Gary Hansen.
The Annual Black A chievers Awards
drew more than 900 people to a gala ban­
quet February 12 in Los A ngeles at the
Century Plaza Hotel.
T he banquet honored 26 A frican
Americans who have gained significant
success in their chosen fields. A w ard re­
cipients were selected from categories such
as education, legend, lifetime achievement,
sports, film, television, m edia, publishing,
journalism and choreography.
Among the honorees were actors A n­
gela Bassett, Brock Peters and W illiam
M arshall. Sports figures included M arcus
Allen and Jamal W ilkes. Dorian Harewood,
Chad Everett and Jeff G oldblum were
am ong the presenters.
Also honored was nine-year old Hydeia
Broadbent, who has A ID S. H ydeia w ap the
hearts o f the audience as she accepted the
Young Prodigy Award.
Hosts for the aw ards w ere Victoria
Rowell who stars in “The Y oung and the
Restless” and Larry Carroll, a correspon-
d enton“N ightlyN ew sW ithTom Brokaw.”
Debbie Allen presented the Alvin Ailey
Choreography Aw ard to M ichael Peters.
“ Y ou b e a t m e o u t on th is o n e ,
M ichael,” she said, w hile expressing her
adm iration for P eters’ genius in chorcog
raphy, Among his m ost famous music
videos are “ D angerous,” for M ichael Jack
son.
Bernie Foster, president o f the W est
C oast Black Publishers Association and
publisher o f T he Portland and Seattle
Skanncr new spapers, was the only person
form the N orthw est to be honored at the
banquet. Foster won the Frederick Douglass
“ N orthstar” Print M edia Award.
“I consider it a real honor to be chosen
for this aw ard,” Foster said. “Especially
when you consider the num ber o f fine
Black new spapers in C alifornia, to be
singled out is som ething special.”
Frank H olom an, a form er C alifornia
State representative and event producer,
started Black A chievers new spaper sev­
eral years ago to highlight the achieve­
m ents o f Black A m ericans, both past and
present. The banquet grew out o f that
m ission.
O ther Black A chievers Aw ard w in­
ners included W esley Buford, The M a­
dame C.J. W alker Entrepreneur Award;
Toni Strom an, The Exceptional Award;
Larry Carroll, The Max Robinson Journal­
ism Award; Beverly W hite, The E xcel­
lence in M edia R eporting Award; W illiam
M arshall,T he Paul Robeson Award; Jamal
W ilkes, The Jackie Robinson Sports Award;
Angela Bassett, The Hattie M cD aniel Film
A w ard; Bill D uke, The G ordan Parks
Film m aker’s Award; Brock Peters, The
Lifetim e Achievem ent Award; M ichael
Peters, The Alvin Ailey Choreography
Award; and V ictoria Row ell, The Dorothy
D andridge Award.
E x e c u tiv e p r o d u c e r w as F ra n k
Holoman; Conrad H. Bullard was pro­
ducer. Bullard had produced and directed
a num ber o f television show s, including
“The Bill Cosby Show .” C o-producer was
O scar H ernandez. The show was directed
by Arlando Sm ith.