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August 31, 1994
Trail Blazers Mark 25th
Year
Neighbors Share
Common Bonds
The Portland Trail Blazer unveil a
new logo and special plans fo r a
silver anniversary season.
PAL Club Opens Doors
For Kids
A weekend o f events cement
friendships old and new fo r present
and former North and Northeast
neighbors.
School Offers
Education Grants
Kids in Gresham have an
alternative to the streets with the
opening o f a Police Activities
League Club.
See Metro, inside
Portland Christian Schools offer
scholarships and financial aid for
minority and low income students.
See Sports, Page B7
See Metro, inside
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See Back-to-school, Page A 5
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Crime Bill Slips
Through Congress
Years o f congressional wrangling
and debates over a crime bill, came to an
unexpected end last week. For days, the
senate dragged the bill doggedly, making
it seems impossible to pass but Thursday
night, the weary senate, with a bi-partisan
effort, passed the bill for president Bill
Clinton’s signature.
The centerpiece of the legislation is
$13.5 billion to be spent on local, state
and federal law enforcement. About $8.8
billion o f that amount would be directed
at hiring 100,000 officers nationwide to
carry out community policing and $9.85
billion for prison construction.
Portland Charity Turns
125
The Portland chapter o f the Society
ofSt. Vincent de Paul is 125 years old this ,
year. The organization, which provides
assistance to those in need, hosted a na
tional convention of St. Vincent de Paul
last week at the Hilton Hotel. More than
1,000 people from around the nation at
tended.
(Salvation Army Helps
Children G et Ready for School
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The kids got ready for back-to-school in
a one day event in Northeast Portland hosted
by Salvation Army Family Services and vol-
Robin Givens Poses For
Playboy
Actress Robin Givens has become
the latest in a series of Hollywood stars to
do a nude pictorial for Playboy Maga
zine. Givens, ex-wife of imprisoned boxer
Mike Tyson, appears in the magazine's
September issues. Other black stars in
cluding Jane Kennedy and Diana Ross
have done similar pictorials.
Frank hair salon at Lloyd C enter and
C ity L iquidators.
The children were members o f families
who have received assistance such as food,
counseling and utilities from the family ser
vices program.
The S alvation Arm y hopes to boost
the program to help up to 200 children
next year. P resently, th e re ’s not a lot
help av a ila b le to fam ilies who have
trouble g etting th eir children ready for
school, officials said.
The goods and services help bring self
esteem to children who have to combat peer
group and fashion demand pressures in
school.
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‘We Shall Overcome/ First To Tribute King Legacy
he legacy of Martin Luther
the performance for a national television
King Jr. will be celebrated in
audience broadcast during King's birthday
Portland with two powerful
in February.
works which echo the civil rights Oregon Symphony officials have con
leader’s words and dreams.
tacted the King family to join the event.
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Strikers Distribute
Shopping List
Union grocery workers have a list of
stores to shop at during the current gro
cery strike. It asks the public to shop at
Kienow’s Food stores, in all o f it’s loca- ,
tions, Gartner’s Country Meats, Flavel
Food Valu, Laurelhurst Food Valu, and
Galluzzo’s Choice Meats. It also lists the
Parkrose Sentry, Sandy Thriftw ay,
Estacada IGA and Safeway Sandy. If
none o f these location are convenient, it
asks shoppers to continue patronizing
their usual store, but not to shop at all
locations o f Fred Meyer, Cub Foods and
Food 4 Less.
unteers. The goods and services were distrib
uted free to about 50 kids from low-income
families or those facing emergency situa
tions.
The program was m ade possible by
the donations o f clothing and supplies
from churches and com panies in the
P ortland area, including the M eier and
Oregon Symphony
Honors King
Clothes, vaccinations
distributed
Back to school means book bags
filled with long, yellow pencils (with
erasers intact) and nifty new clothes. But
for many low-income families, new
school clothes and supplies are out of
reach. For those children. Life Income
Families Emergency Center held its ninth
annual Back-to-Schoolclothinggiveaway
Saturday at Peninsula Park Community
Center in North Portland. Free vaccina
tions from Multnomah County Health
Department were also available
air cuts, school supplies and
a complete clothing outfit,
brought smiles to a group of
area children Thursday,
James DePreist is the music director
and conductor for the upcoming
Oregon Symphony performance of
We Shall Overcome: A Tribute to
Martin Luther King Jr.
The 1994-95 Symphony Sunday se
ries will begin with a concert titled “We
Shall Overcome, a Tribute to Martin Luther
King Jr." in which Music Director James
DePreist and the orchestra will be joined by
baritone Raymond Bazemore and the Port
land Symphonic Choiron Sept. 11 at 3 p.m.
The concert is the first symphony per
formance to honor King in the nation.
KOCH International Classics plans to record
Officials are also working with church lead
ers in North and Northeast Portland to en
courage participation by young people in
the African American community. Discount
tickets will also be available.
The Portland performance will feature
Joseph Schwantner’s “New Morning for
the World: Daybreak of Freedom" which
includes sections of narration, by Bazemore,
excerpted from several w ritings and
speeches o f Dr. King, answ ered by
Schwantner’s musical interpretations. Also
on the program will be Nicolas Flagello's
“The Passion o f Martin Luther King" in
which Bazemore will sing the words of Dr.
King and the Portland Symphonic Choir
will respond with various sacred Latin texts.
DePreist conducted the Schwantner work
tor a 1993 Arts and Entertainment Network
special with the Philadelphia Orchestra; he
conducted the world prem iere ofthe Flagel Io
work in 1972 with the National Symphony
General admission tickets are $12 for
adults and $8 for children, students and
senior citizens and may be purchased at the
Oregon Symphony Ticket Office at 719
S.W. Alder, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday, or charged by phone at 228-
1353 or (800) 228-7343 outside the Port-
land-metro area.
Tickets may also be purchased at all
G.I. Joe’s Ticketmaster outlets 224-4400,
and at the Pioneer Information Booth. Ser
vice fees may apply.
Watch Out For Children's Safety Motorists are urged to drive with caution as
students return to school next week and school buses return to their neighborhood
routes. For related stories, See Back-To-School special. Page 5.
Oregon Continues To Lead In High ‘SAT’s
For the fourth straight year, Oregon
high school seniors scored the highest on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test o f the 23 states in
w hich at least 40 percent o f their graduates
participated. However, O regon scores
dropped on both the math and verbal tests
Oregon's 1994 graduates scored 491 on
the math test, 1 point below the record high
recorded in 1993. The national math score
was 479, up 1 point.
Oregon students scored 436 on the ver
bal test, 5 points below last year. It is the
lowest since the score of 435 in 1984 The
national verbal score was 423, down I point.
Fifty-three percent o f the state’s gradu
ates took the SAT compared to 52 percent in
1993 According to the Col lege Board, w hich
administers the SAT, scores generally go
down when the percentage of test takers
increases. Nationally, 42 percent were tested
The SAT is designed to measure verbal
and mathematical reasoning skills, devel
oped over many years o f education. The test
is intended to predict the freshman year
college performance of individual students.
The College Board reports that out-of-
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