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September 14, 1994 Serving the community through cultural diversity Volume XXIV Number 37 (Dje ^cîortlanh (©bseruer SECTION ■■ ■■■■■■■ o in in u n i t y a I e n ù a r ett Blazers Audition For National Anthem The Portland Trail Blazers will hold auditions Friday and Saturday for indi viduals and groups interested in perform ing the National Anthem at the upcoming Blazer home games. The auditions will be held each day from 8 a m. to 5 p.m. at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. Students Try To Break Record Portland high school students will be placing quarters end-to-end this weekend trying to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the Longest Line of Coins. It’s all part of the Sept. 15-18 AutumnFest celebration, a festival of events, food and music organized by Central Catholic High School at Waterfront Park. Street Academy Classes Open Evening classes are being offered to middle and high school students who want to work toward their GED or need flexible I hours to attend school. Registration pack ets for Street Academy, a learning center program of the Urban League of Portland, are available at the Urban League office, ION. Russell. For more information, call 280-2658. Fall Classes Start at Senior Center Tee-shirt painting, calligraphy, exer cise, bridge, watercolor and oil painting are classes scheduled this fall at the Multicultural Senior Center, 5325 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. PCC Offers 12 Steps Without Religion Alberta Clinic To Build New Wing t. Andrew Legal Clinic, Oregon’s only public interest law firm, is expanding it’s Northeast Portland office. S The clinic at 807 N.E. Alberta will build a new $160,000 wing with a grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust. A ground breaking ceremony Tuesday was scheduled with former U S. Attorney Sid Lezak, Multnomah County Presiding Judge Donald H. Londer. Judge Roosevelt Robinson and Oregon State Bar President Elect Judy Shipler Henry. The clinic offers legal representation to individuals with family law cases arising in the Portland tri-county area. These are usu ally issues relating to child custody, visita tions and separations. Clients are charged fees on a sliding scale based on client income and resources. A consultation visit costs $20. Donations and grants provide for costs not covered by client fees. Keith Raines is the senior member of the office. He said the demand for law firm’s ser vices has soared since federal cuts to public legal aid lawyers during the Reagan adminis tration. The grant from The Meyer Memorial Trust will pay for nearly the entire cost of the new expansion, plus equipment necessary to increase legal staff to six lawyers. The new offices space will bring better access to the legal system for a great number of worthy individuals. The Meyer Memorial Trust was started by the late Fred G. Meyer and is not related to Fred Meyer, Inc. Lawyer Keith Raines is a senior member of a Northeast Portland law office which charges for services based on client income. Power Company Workers Return To School Traffic Donate Supplies Safety Program Non-Religious Twelve Steps is the title of a Portland Community College class this fall at Grant High School. The course work is intended to make the 12 steps program for alcohol and drug abuse available to anyone from whom religious issues get in the way to recovery. For more information, call PCC Community Educa tion. 244-6111, ext. 5205. target school lo catio n s." he Portland Police Bureau Ten Portland schools will be ta r will focus traffic enforce geted by T raffic D ivision officers for ment around area schools visibility. that started on September 6th, maximum and These are A pplegate. Laurelhurst. continuing throughout the opening W hitm an, R ichm ond. V entura Park. week of school. T Surviving Sexual Victimization Portland Community College will of fer a four-week class, Surviving Sexual Victimization, starting Sept. 22 at Grant High School. The class will meet from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays. Cost is $20. Instructor Jeannie Gard will provide infor mation to parents and others about the dynamics of child sexual abuse, its impact upon children, things parents should and should not do when a child discloses abuse, how to interact with the criminal justice system, preventative measures and other topics. For more information, call PCC Community Education, 244-6111, ext. 5205. Senior Center Offers Care Program The Multicultural Senior Center at 5325 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. is offering a new service for people caring for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease. The Group Activities and Respite Care pro gram can provide you with four hours of leisure time while your loved one is in the care of senior center officials. Contact Dora McCrac for more information, 248- 5470. North American Open Poetry Contest Toentcr, send One original poem, any subject and any style, to The National Library of Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Dr., P.O Box 704-1981, Owings Mills, MD 21117. The poem should be no more than I 20 lines, and the poet's name and address should appear on the top of the page. Entries must be postmarked by September 30, 1994. A new contest opens October I, 1994. Entry is Free. B Sabin Elementary students Bakari Taylor, 11, Cristine Hilbron, 10, and Tawanna Green, 8, and some of the school supplies provided by employees of Pacific Power. $170 and 15 boxes of supplies, including he first day of school saw notebooks, binders, crayons, backpacks, pens boxes of school supplies and other items. School officials will distrib being delivered for students ute the supplies based on need. in need at Sabin and Woodlawn This is the fifth year the power company elementary schools in Northeast employees gave money and supplies to Sabin Portland. T Employees from Pacific Power donated and the first year’s they’ve expanded their generosity to Woodlawn. O fficers from the Traffic D ivi sion, and all five Precincts will be very visible around schools, especially during opening and closing hours, when students are on foot com ing and going to school. Operations Branch A ssistant C hief R oberta W ebber said that there are two main goals to this program . "We w ant to increase public aw areness of traffic safety issues in regards to c h il dren and pedestrians during the first week o f school. A dditionally, we want to educate children and parents as to the new bicycle helm et law in O r eg o n .” “To accom plish this we are co o r d in ating o u re ffo rts with the Bureau of T ra ffic M an ag em en t, sch o o ls, the T raffic D ivision and the Precincts. “We will have increased visibility at e lem e n ta ry and m iddle sch o o ls throughout P ortland, especially at our M enlo Park. C laredon. All Saints, Portland C h ristian, and M arkham . Precinct O fficers will be working tra ffic e n fo rc e m e n t at a d d itio n a l schools in their assigned n eig h b o r hoods. During the week of Septem ber 6th to the 12th, o fficers will be w arning and educating children who fail to wear approved bicycle helm ets. State law req u ires ch ild ren 15 years old and younger to w ear an ap proved helm et when riding a bicycle on a highway or a prem ise open to the public. C itations may be issued to violators after Septem ber 1 2th. C ita tions will be issued to children b e tween the ages o f 12 and 15, and their parent or legal guardians will be co n tacted. An approved helm et is one that cannot be cracked and m eets ÂNZI Z90.4 or Snell B90 standards and is perm anently labeled. PDC Helps Search For New Life For Kennedy School A school here that we would like to turn into a s kids all around Portland head neighborhood asset.” back to the classroom, one Kennedy School last enjoyed the hustle Portland neighborhood is and bustle of the First Day of School back in putting their school up for sale. The Concordia neighborhood in North east Portland is trying to bring new life to Kennedy School, a former Portland elemen tary school located on 5736 NE 33rd Av enue With the helpof the Portland Develop ment Commission, ads reading “School For Sale, Or Lease, Or Rent" are going to be appearing in newspapers and on hundreds of fliers mailed out to potential buyers and developers all around the state “I, may not be on every parents' back-to- school shopping list." said Jim Roberts, Chair of the Concordia neighborhood Association ' s Kennedy School Committee," but we have a 1976. The facility, constructed in 1915. was one of 12 Portland school building designed by famed architect F.A. Narmore, and is on the Historic Resources Inventory of Port land. Since 1977. how ever, the 54,000 square-foot building has sat em pty on one and a half acres o f undeveloped property, a waste of potential for the C oncordia neighborhood. In the late 1980s. neighbors put a halt to plans todemolish the property . The Concordia Neighborhood Association then turned to the City of Portland for help At the urging of citizens, the City ob tained the property in June 1993, and last Spring the Portland Development Commis sion and the City Bureau of Housing and Community Development brought on a con sultant to help develop a Master Plan for potential uses of the Kennedy School. The neighbor's Kennedy School Com mittee, working with the consultant, devel oped three objectives that they would like any development of the Kennedy School to meet. First, they want the building "saved" from the w recking ball Second, they would like some portion of the facility available for com m unity uses. Finally, they want the developm ent to becom e an asset to the neighborhood in both its design and activities. The possibilities are endless. The school could be used for community or social ser vices Housing could be built on vacant land A developer could convert the building into housing for senior citizens or into profes sional office space. A private school could use the facility, bringing the excitement of the First Day of School back to Kennedy. So with the same high hopes that chil dren carry with them as they start another school year, the search is on for a prospective owner, developer, manager or tenant for Kennedy School Anyone interested in submitting a pro posal should contact David Nemo of the Portland Development Commission a, (503) 823-3214. sf ; e. $$'4
