September 14, 1994
Serving the community through cultural diversity
Volume XXIV Number 37
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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