"Serving the community through cultural diversity.”
Volume XXIV. Number 34
August 24. 1994
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Work Begins On Boys And Girls Club
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Blazers Donate $500,000 For Construction On MLK
Sandy Nelson Defense
Committee
F ro m : Sandy Nelson Defense com m it­
tee
1819 N W Everett, Room 201 Portland,
OR 97209
P h o n e :(503)228-3090
F a x : (503)223-2390
C o n ta c t: Jennifer Laverdure
Home: (503) 735-9208
Portland, Sunday, September 1 8 ,1994
Columnist lends support to free speech
fight. Nationally syndicated"M edia Beat’'
colum nist Norman Solomon joins W ash­
ington journalist Sandy Nelson at a panel
discussion o f “ Why Reporters Need Po­
litical Right: The M om entous Sandy
Nelson Case.” Expert commentary will be
offered by O sker Spicer, Vice President o f
the Portland Chapter o f the Association o f
Black Journalists and an Oregonian writer,
and Gene Klare, columnist and retired
editor o f the N orthw est Labor Press.
Black United Fund Of
Oregon Presents Public
Relations Workshop
This 3-hour workshop, facilitated By f
Paulette Peynet, Oregon Trail Founda­
tion, and Mara Woloshin, Woloshin Com ­
m unications, will give participants the Í
tools to “ renovate" their PR efforts. The
workshop will be held on W ednesday, j
August 31, 1994 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon,
at a new location: the N ortheast Police
Precinct Com m unity Meeting room, 449
NE Emerson.
Leads Club-Central
Metro (Co-Ed
Division)...
...Meets on T hursday’sa t 12:00 at the
I Rheindlander for information Cal I Kristen j
Simmonds at 667-4381.
The Board Of Education
Scheduled To Meet
The Board O f Education is scheduled
to meet on M onday, August 22, 1994, at
5:30 P.M.. in the L-l Conference Room at
the Robert Blanchard Education Service
Center, 501 N. Dixon Street. The purpose
o f the meeting is a continuation o f the
B oard’s planning sessions. If you have a
disability or are hearing impaired and
need assistance for this meeting, please
make arrangem ents in advance by calling
the Board Office at 2 4 9 -0 7 4 1. This notice
is provided in accordance with provisions
o f the Oregon open m eeting law.
Portland Public Schools
Agenda
Regular Meeting August 25,
We want this to be a very active and special place’ - M arshall Glickman
he Boys and Girls Clubs of
a N a tio n a l B ask etb all A sso c ia tio n team ,
Portland has started tearing
a c c o rd in g to D ick H anlin, e x e c u tiv e d i­
down a former Goodwill store
re c to r o f th e B oys and G irls C lub o f
and other buildings on Martin Luther
P o rtlan d .
King Junior Boulevard for a new 27,000
It’s estimated that 2,000 children in the
square foot sports and education
North and Northeast Portland will use the
center.
center.
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The $2.2 million facility will be built
between Emerson and Roselawn streets, ad­
jacent to the new N ortheast Portland Police
office.
Construction was made possible largely
through a $500,000 gift from the Portland
Trail Blazers and its sales o f executive suites
in the new Rose Garden blazer arena.
The club is designed by JK S Architects
and will include a 9,000 square foot gym na­
sium, teen center, and 5,000 square foot
education wing.
It w ill be the first B oys a n d G irls
C lu b in the co u n try to be a ffilia te d w ith
1994
1. B oard S ch o larsh ip - The Board
will recognize the recipient o f the Port­
land School Board Scholarship (inform a­
tion) 7:30 p.m.
2. In tro d u c tio n - The new President
o f the Portland Federation o f Teachers
and Classified Employees will be intro­
duced. (inform ation)
3. C itizen C o m m en t - Citizens may
address items the do not appear on the
regular Board agenda, (inform ation)
4. Business A genda - Chair Griffith
w ill announced that the next regular m eet­
ing o f the Board will be on Thursday, j
September 8, 1994 at 7:30 p.m., in the
Board Auditorium, (action)
Multnomah County
Department Of
Community Corrections
Cordially invites you to an Open
House at the Northeast District Office on
W ednesday, Septem ber 7 , 1994 from I 00
p.m. t o 4:00 p.m. at 2205 N E. Columbia
Boulevard Portland, Oregon. Help us cel­
ebrate our newly completed expansion
Ceremony scheduled for 1:00 p.m., with
Beverly Stein, Multnomah County Chair
Gary Hansen, M ultnomah County Com ­
missioner Tamara Holden. DCC Director
Refreshments will be served
In addition to the Trail Blazers gift,
donations from the Oregon Lottery, founda­
tions, corporations and individuals contrib­
uted to the project, the majority Oregon-
based.
“ Economic and community reinvest­
ment has been a part of the mission o f the
Oregon Arena Corporation from the begin­
ning," said Marshall Glickman, trail blazers
and arena corp, president.
“ We strived to create jobs, to meet nu­
merous public objectives and perhaps most
important, to create opportunity for the youth
who reside in northeast Portland," Glickman
said.
“ We want this to be a very active and
special place," Glickman added.
The club will offer youth, age 6 to 18,
positive social and recreational activities like
arts and crafts, computer education, intramu­
ral sports and homework assistance. Full­
time and part-time staff will supervise pro­
grams in six core areas: personal and educa­
tional development, citizenship and leader­
ship development, cu 1 tura I enrichment, health
and physical education, social development
and outdoor education.
“The blazers club will add even more
stability to this area and serve as a very
positive recreational outlet for young people,"
said Portland C hief o f Police Charles A.
Moose. “ Where a Boys and Girls Club goes
up, we can document a reduction in juvenile
crime in that neighborhood. I also appreciate
the way the Boys and Girls Club provides
staff support to assist the grow th and devel­
opment o f young people.”
Club Director Linda White said young
people walking through the club’s doors will
find something to excite them.
“ As simple as it sounds, that’s what it
takes to get kids o ff the streets and to start
doing something productive.”
The Oregon Museum o f Science and
Industry (O M S I) and the W arren Lee
Strickland Airway Science Program plan to
have programs on the site to enhance the
club's educational goals.
Actual cash cost o f construction is at
$1.7 million because o f donated materials
and services. The project has about 90 per­
cent o f the needed funds, or about $1.5
million.
Fundraising will continue until 100 per­
cent o f the costs are raised, officials said.
Construction should begin in February
with the grand opening scheduled for the
spring o f 1995. Andersen Construction is the
project contractor.
Roy Washington Makes A Difference For Kids
by
D an B ell
For years he has been quietly working
with and nurturing at-risk youth in
inner North and Northeast Portland.
Roy W ashington, recent recipient o f the
For Kids Sake award presented by KPTV,
channel 12, has left an indelible mark on
m any children with whom he has worked.
A native o f Portland, he attended Boise
Elementary, and Jefferson and Benson high
schools. He concedes that he comes from a
religious family that is still close knit today.
It was this upbringing that helped form his
philosophy and commitment to youth.
After graduating from Benson in 1969,
he attended University o f Oregon for one
year. Later at Portland State University, he
participated in New Careers, a program for
students to work four hours and go to school
four hours a day.
He chose to work w ith youth at Edgefield
Lodge in Troutdale which served disturbed
youth. Eventually Edgefield lost its funding
and his jo b was terminated.
Roy worked as a printer for the City o f
Portland and later w as employed at the Yaun
Youth Care Center for a period o f six years.
He returned to the printing trade, working for
Brown Printing, until leaving in 1988.
He said gangs made him a little scared
going back into youth services with stories o f
the assaultive behavior and drug abuse. Con­
sequently he felt he should get involved
again with at risk youth.
He went back to Yaun Center, worked
on the residential staff, moved on to being
responsible for house staffing and finally to
gang transition personnel. In this position, he
would visit young people who were about to
be released from McLaren School, a state
facility for juvenile incarceration. He also
worked to reconcile the family o f the chil­
dren with their parents and siblings
During his tenure w ith gang transition, a
new program was introduced into the com­
munity called Minority Youth Concerns
Action Program or MYCAP.
M Y C A P at th at tim e w as headed by
Sam P ierce. Roy becam e a v o lu n te e r for
M Y C A P. P ierce w as so im p re sse d w ith
his w ork th a t he a rra n g e d fo r him to
re c e iv e a stip e n d since the p rogram had
no fu n d s for an o th er e m p lo y e e . A fter
som e tim e M Y C A P re c e iv e d a d d itio n a l
fu n d in g and Roy w ent to w ork full tim e
for the agency.
The idea was hit upon that prevention at
the middle school level would go along way
Roy Washington,
recent recipient
of the For Kids
Sake award
to alleviate the problem o f gang involve­
ment. As a result, a program was instituted at
Portsmouth Middle School.
It w as R o y ’s c o n te n tio n th a t m any
o f the fa m ilie s had lost th e ir c o n ta c t
w ith the sc h o o ls. Roy sp e c ia liz e d in
w o rk in g w ith c h ild re n w ho had been put
o u t o f sch o o l and in do in g so w o rk ed to
b u ild b e tte r c o m m u n ic a tio n s betw een
the fam ily and the school.
He is presently the program director at
MYCAP
Roy espouses a simple philosophy that
for a family to have good a chance for
healthy and happy children they should eat
together, pray together, and spend time with
each other.
Roy is a refreshing exam ple o f com m it­
ment to our youth and the importance o f
family.
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