Serving the community through cultural diversity."
Volumn XXIV. Number 25
June 22. 1994
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The pool at Peninsula
Park on North
Portland Boulevard
and Albina opened
Monday to the
enjoyment of many.
Portland Parks and
Recreation has all its
outdoor pools open
for the summer
season. Activities
offered include
swimming lessons,
fun days, open swims
and family swims.
The Children’s
Museum Sizzles
With Summer Fun
Drop In to the Green Door
Gallery for hands-on activi
ties all summer long. We’ve
doubled the Gallery hours for
double the fun!
Me and My Shadow
• Every M onday an d W ednesday
10am - 1:30pm
• Every Tuesday and T hursday 1pm
- 3:30pm
Play with your shadow in our Green
Door Gallery! Create a shadow puppet,
guess whose famous shadows are on the
wall, and try out some of the puppets
from the Museum’s collection.
Artistic African
Adventures in
Omokunle Village
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• Every Saturday, Sunday and M on
day 1:15pm - 3pm (Except July 23)
Create a music maker that shakes, rattles
and rolls. Decorate yourself like a tribal
ruler, warrior or villager. Find out what
kind of art you can make with yams! Call
823-2231 to see which activity is being
offered that day. (Om okunle Village is
open for drop-in visits on M ondays
and Saturdays, 9am - 12pm and 1 -
4pm ; Sunday hours are 1 - 4pm).
School’s Out!
Family Activity Day
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Paint and Glaze Days
• Sat: July 2 9:45am - 11:15am
• Wed: July 6 and 20 3:30pm - 5pm
Come and paint your clay creations that
have already been fired or glaze your
piece and we’ll fire it again. The cost is
$.50 per item.
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Clay Tales
• Sat: July 9, 16, 23, 30 9:45am -
10:45am (two 30 m inute sessions)
Listen to a story and then let it inspire
you to make a clay character or scene!
Free with Museum admission, but it
costs $1 to take your masterpiece home
(or we can fire it for $2).
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Couple Exchange Wedding Vows
Powell’s In the Park
• Sat, July 9 1pm
C hildren’s author and artist Nancy
Coffclt shares her drawings and stories.
Enjoy the adventures of Sigmund the
Cat, travel along with Dogs in Space,
and get a look at Nancy’s newest cre
ation, Tom ’s Fish. It’s free in Lair Hill
Park, next to the Museum. (In case of
rain, event will be moved to the Museum
Annex). Sponsored by Powell’s Books.
Play with Powell’s Fire
Breathers
• Mon, July 18 2pm and 3pm (2 ses
sions)
Hear stories and poems about dragons
and then make your own Chinese style
dragon on sticks. Sponsored by Powell’s
Books.
Kids on the Block
Puppeteers
• Sat, July 23 1pm and 1:45pm
A special performance called “Names”
teaches children to be more understand
ing and accepting of people with physi
cal, social and cultural differences. Rec
ommended for children ages 6-10. Held
in Omokunle Village.
The Children's Museum Is
located Just off Barbur Boule
vard at 30 3 7 S. W. 2nd
Avenue. They're open 9am -
5pm every day. Admission Is
$3 .50 for everyone age 1
and over. For more Informa
tion, call (5 0 3 ) 823-2230.
Inner City Student Co. perform at Unthank Park in the Boise neighborhood.
n Saturday June 18 the families w ith inform ation about various sum m er
of North/Northeast Portland program s and activities offered by over
gathered in Unthank Park to 25 youth service agencies and com m u
offer local youth an alternative to nity
gang centers. M ost of the booths included
in v o lv e m e n t and drug d e a lin g . registration form s and inform ation p ack
The S chool’s Out! Fam ily A ctivity ets so that parents could actu ally enroll
Day was organized by neighborhood resi th eir children in the pro g ram s at the
dents and H ousing O ur F am ilies in an event.
In addition to getting inform ation
effo rt to direct local youth tow ards p o si
ab
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u
t sum m er o p p o rtu n itie s, fam ilies
tive sum m er activities.
From noon until 4 pm p aren ts and were able to participate in fun-fulled
their children w ere able to visit booths activ ities including face-p ain tin g , a bas-
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ketball tournam ent, a b ik e-rep air clin ic,
and arts and crafts. Local youth choirs,
drill team s, and acting groups w ill p e r
form throughout the afternoon.
The event was co-sponsored by Housing
Our Families and Portland Parks and Recre
ation and was free and open to the public.
It was organized as part of the Maya
Angelou Community Action Initiative, a
grassroots effort involving residents of North
Portland’s Boise Neighborhood in develop
ing projects to take back their community.
Garlington Award Recipient
by
E dna M ae P ittman
he G arlin g to n Aw ard was
established at Whitaker Middle
S ch o o l
in
m em ory
of
the late Reverend Garlington.
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Reverend Garlington was a leader in the
community as well as throughout the city. His
abilities to address the concerns of, and B ridge
The Gap between all Ethnic Groups was
evident in the membership of Maranatha
Church when he was Pastor, the work he did
throughout the city and his membership in
various group.
Each year two eight grade students arc
selected to receive this prestigious award as
they too have tried to Bridge The Gap among
their fellow students. It was very difficult to
select the two winners this year but we know
that you will be so pleased with our selection.
The two students have exhibited the same
Joy
Lisa
qualities as the late Reverend Garlington at
Whitaker Middle School and in thcircommu-
nity.
The first student is 14 years old and has
younger sister. She has a very positive outlook
towards others, she strives for excellence in
her academic studies and participates fully in
extra curricular activities. Joy Lisa main
tained a 3.5 average or better during the last
two years at Whitaker.
Her church is a very important part o f her
life. She is proud of her performances with the
choir at hospitals and nursing homes. Addi
tionally, she serves as a Sunday Usher.
Her teachers have always been impressed
with her ability to work in cooperative groups
with students from differing backgrounds and
achievement levels. When asked why she’s so
effective with all different ethnic groups she
answered, “I believe everyone should belong.
We’re all the same really, even though we’re
all torn different”
This student has been a member of S.E.I.
for the past four year and is on her way to
achieving S.E.I’s highest achievement, the
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Japhena Kay Hall o f Portland and
Brent David Musson o f Pasadena, Calif.
exchanged wedding vows on Sunday,
March 20, in the Seventh Day Adventist
Church at Sunnyside, Calif. The wedding
theme was “A Whole New World.”
The bride walked down the church isle
wearing a form fitting gown covered with
sequinsand pearls. Shecarried a bouquet of
lilies with purple orchids. The wedding
colors were emerald green and gold with an
accent color of purple. The bridesmaids
wore green velvet gowns trimmed with
gold. Gold was the color of the flower girl’s
dress, trimmed in emerald green.
The reception was held at the Pan
theon Banquet Hall.
The bride is a graduate o f Cal State
Long Beach, with a communications ma
jor. The groom attended Pasadena City
College and is owner of BDM Graphics
Advertising. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hall
Jr. are the bride’s parents. The groom’s
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Musson.
The new lyw eds honeym ooned in
Acalpoco and will be making their home in
Pasadena.
Whitney Young Center
Open ForFree Summer
Tutoring
A free summer tutorial program for
students in grades six through twelve is
being offered by the Urban League of
Portland’s Whitney M . Young, Jr. Edu-
cation and Cultural Center. The summer
session runs from June 27 to July 28,
Mondays to Thursdays from 9:00 am to
2:00 pm. Focus areas are math, reading
and language arts.
The program is limited to 25 stu
dents. Enrollment is on a first-come,
first-served basis. For more information,
contact Herman Lessard at the Urban
League. 280-2614.