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Serving the community through cultural diversi
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Mt. Hood Jazz Fast
Entertainment Set
Jim Boozer Golf
Tourney Success
Portland Kids Study
At College
Students On Path
To Medical Careers
Fourteen fantastic acts have been
booked for the Aug. 6-7 Mt. Hood
Festival o f Jazz.
More people than ever attend
annual Jim Boozer Golf Tournament
to help the Omega Boys and Girls
Club.
See Sports, Page A4
The doors open for 60 Portland
school kids to encourage and inspire
them to educational pursuits.
A private institute trains area
residents for careers in the medical
industry.
See Page B3
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Information Highway
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.S. West Communications has indicators o f market opportunity.”
Bystrzycki said U.S. W est did not ex­
released data to show that
e th n ic
m in o ritie s
and clude anyone.
“W e considered such things as tele­
people with a wide range of incomes
will be the first offered with new home phone usage and growth rates, video enter­
tainm ent consum ption patterns and a variety
video services.
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In Portland, the com pany is investing
$130 million in a m ultim edia netw ork to be
built over a two year period. N ortheast,
SoutheastandSouthw est neighborhoods will
be among the first areas served. The so-
called “ information superhighw ay” will ini­
tially provide hom e shopping, m ovies on
demand, interactive games and enhanced
pay-per-view video programs.
Regional telephone com panies have
com e under attack accused o f wiring the
technology mainly for the affluent. A study
by consum er and civil rights groups con­
cluded that early designs by-passed poorer
neighborhoods and m inority populations.
U.S. W est responded by arguing it will
serve all people, both because o f a com m it­
ment to serving diverse populations and
creating new business for the company.
“W e believe it’s im portant that A m eri­
cans from all segm ents o f society have ac­
cess to the inform ation highw ay, said Tom
Bystrzycki, U.S. W est executive vice presi­
dent. “W e considered such things as tele­
phone usage and grow th rates, video enter­
tainm ent consum ption patterns and a vari­
ety o f demographic patterns we feel are
Violence Against Women
Health and Human Services Secretary
Donna Shalala calls dom estic abuse against
women “an unacknow ledged epidem ic in
America.” Shalala says that violence against
women is an urgent public health problem
that has devastating physical and em o­
tional consequences. In 1991,5,745 women
in the U .S. died as a result o f homic ide, with
six o f every 10 m urdered by som eone they
knew. Dom estic abuse is a leading cause o f
injury to women in A m erica. It is estim ated
that 20 to 30 percent o f women treated in
emergency rooms are there because o f physi­
cal abuse by a partner.
Hispanic Named To EEO
Panel
President C linton has nom inated the
form er president o f the H ispanic National
Bar A ssociation as Chairm an o f the Equal
E m ploym ent O pportunity C om m ission.
G ilbert F. C asellas is a Philadelphia law yer
currently serving as the G eneral Counsel to
the U.S. Air Force. He was raised in Tam pa,
Fla., and has an extensive record o f increas­
ing opportunities for w om en and m inori­
ties.
Construction On Time
Workers are busy at the Cascade Campus of Portland Community College on
North Killingsworth where a new library and classrooms are under construction,
scheduled for completion in September.
o f dem ographic patterns we feel are indica­
tors o f market opportunity.
“O ur objective was and is to serve a
broad range o f customers because we believe
that makes good business sense,” Bystrzycki
said.
U.S. W est filed documentation with the
Federal Com m unications Commission last
w eek to show that minority and diverse
econom ic populations will be served in Port­
land, D enver and Minneapolis-St. Paul. The
m etropolitan areas are among the first areas
the com pany plans to introduce its new
services.
“Equitable access to the information
superhighway by all segments o f society is
an im portant public policy issue,” Bystrzycki
said. “ It’s unfortunate that some custom ers
and comm unity leaders were misled by inac­
curate allegations about our actions.”
Support for U.S. W est has com e from
the O regon A ssociation o f Minority E ntre­
preneurs.
Sam uel Brooks, chairman o f the asso­
ciation, in an editorial page letter to the
O regonian newspaper, said accusations o f
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Killingsworth
St. Vincent De
Paul Changes
Format
Anti-Crime
Programs Get
$1.2 million
Living To Be 1 0 0
Despite a host o f social and econom ic
factors w orking to shorten the lives o f
A frican A m ericans, more and m ore blacks
are living to be 100 years old and older. In
fact, a greater proportion o f blacks than
w hites are reaching the century m ark. A c­
cording the latest Census Bureau figures,
although blacksconstitute 12 percent o f the
U.S. population, they account for about 17
percent o f those 100 years old o r older.
O verall, how ever, blacks on average still
have shorter life spans than whites.
o v . B a rb a ra R o b e rts has
awarded $1.2 million in grants
to programs fighting crime in
M ultnom ah County. The federally-
funded grants go to five different
p rogram s, including a project to
reduce family violence.
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R o b e rts a n n o u n c e d th e a w a rd s at the
M e n ’s R e s o u rc e C e n te r in P o rtla n d , a
p a r tic ip a n t in a p ro g ra m n a m e d C o m ­
b a tin g V io le n t C rim e s: A n In te g ra te d
R e sp o n se to R e d u c e D o m e stic V io len ce
in M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty .” T h e p ro g ra m ,
w h ic h is re c e iv in g $ 1 9 9 ,9 2 8 p ro v id e s
sh e lte r fo r v ic tim s o f d o m e stic v io le n c e ,
a id s v ic tim s w ith p ro b le m s su ch as d ru g /
a lc o h o l a b u se a d d ic tio n o r gan g a f f ilia ­
tio n an d h e lp s v ic tim s o b ta in re s tra in in g
NAACP Cuts Work Force
The nation’s oldest and largest civil
rights organization has trim m ed its staff by
10 persons. N A A CP Executive D irector
Benjam in Chavis said further cuts will be
m ade w ithin the next 30 days. The group
faces a $2.7 million deficit. U nder Chavis,
group m em bership has been grow ing, but
the organization is trying to recover from a
$680,000 court judgm ent and $1.5 m illion
in losses over four years from its televised
Image Awards.
o rd e rs.
T he aw ards were based on recom m enda­
tions from the G overnor's Drug and V iolent
C rim e and Policy Board.
O ther M ultnom ah C ounty program s in­
clude the southeast gang resource interven­
tion team, gang influenced female team , youth
em ploym ent and em pow erm ent program and
drug diversion project.
School Mixed-race Case
S ettles
A 17-ycar-old A labam a student w ho is
the daughter o f a w hite father and a black
m other has reached a financial settlem ent
with the school board and principal o f
Randolph County High School. Principal
Hulond Hum phries had threatened to can
cel the school prom if interracial couples
showed up and told Revonda Bowen that
her paren ts’ m arriage and her birth was “a
m istake.” The am ount o f the settlem ent
was not disclosed.
he Portland Society of S t
V in c e n t d e P au l has
announced
p la n s
to
transform its Killingsworth thrift
store into an “as is” store. The store,
located at 740 N. Killingsworth, wiH
close July 1 and reopen July 11 as a
bargain “as is” store.
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According to S t Vincent de
Paul stores general manager Arlen
Keup, the new store w ill offer a
variety o f quality “ as is” merchan­
dise including clothing, books and
records, miscellaneous house-
wares, m ajor appliances and mat­
tresses.
“Customers will find some re­
ally great bargains at the new
store,” says Keup. “ A n d there w ill
be a lot of merchandise to choose
from .”
Store hours w ill be 10am to
2:30pm, Monday through Friday.
The store w ill be closed weekends.
Customers enjoy lunch at the new Alberta Street Cafe.
Alberta Street Cafe Opens
T
he new Alberta Street Cafe is
open for business and is fast
becoming a popular restaurant
for the neighborhood.
The cafe is getting a reputation for friendly
service and good food. One o f its specialty
items is the Reuben sandwich, a low er-in­
calorie R euben. The restaurant provides a deli
atm osphere featuring hom e-m ade items, like
sandwiches, desserts and fancy coffees, in­
cluding espresso.
Sandy Evans is the cafe m anager, baker
and cook. She is joined by Kris Rogers who
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1994 Urban League Annual Dinner To Spotlight Public Education
“E
ducation: The Key to Equal
Opportunity" Is the theme
of the Urban League of
Portland's 1994 Annual Dinner on
Thursday, 7:15 p.m. at the Oregon
Convention Center.
“ It is im portant that this League let it be
know n that we appreciate and applaud the
m any teachers, students and adm inistrators
who are working to make our public educa­
tion system work in the w ake o f measure 5,”
said Urban League o f Portland President and
C hief Executive O fficer Law rence J. Dark.
Dr. Rudolph Crew, Superintendent o f Tacoma
Public Schools, will be the guest speaker. Dr.
Crew is leading one o f the natio n 's first public
school efforts to introduce the “Efficacy ’ model
o f developm ent, which holds that “all chil­
dren can learn.” The dinner will recognize the
achievem ents o f five local educators who
receivedaw ards for teaching excellence in the
past year.
Tw o O regon students will receive the
Shelly Hill and Vernon Chatm an Scholarship
Awards at the dinner. The tw o $1500 schol­
arships are presented by the Urban League
EDITORIAL
HOUSING
SPORTS
HEALTH
ENTERTAINMENT
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and N IK E annually to two high school stu­
dents o f color who will attend a college or
university in Oregon in the fall.
D inner tickets are $40 per person, $400
for a table o f ten. A no-host reception begins
at 6:15 pm in the Convention C enter lobby,
followed by the dinner program at 7:15 pm.
For reservations and inform ation, call the
Urban League at 280-2600.
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