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Serving (lie community through cultural diversity
October 12, 1994
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Children’s Store Gifts, Give Twice
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Salmon Festival This
Weekend
G
inny Burdick said she couldn’t
face yet another holiday
season.
“They’d become so materialistic and
over the last few years holiday shopping had
become more of a chore than a job,” said the
Portland resident.
Then she found Our Children’s Store.
“I did all my shopping there for people I
cared about. I felt so good knowing the dollars
I spent were going to help children. This is
Auction Helps Hoyt
what the spirit of the holidays is all about.”
Again this year, 68 Portland area chari
Arboretum
ties
have joined to open “Our Children’s
Uncommon trees and plants, garden
Store,”
a unique shop in downtown Portland
art and special trips to exotic places go on
selling
gifts
for people of all ages.
the auction block during “Take A Bough,”
Thanks to generous corporate support,
a first-ever benefit to support educational
100 percent of the proceeds are returned to
programs at the Hoyt Arboretum and
the charities to help children in crisis.
World Forestry Center. The auction will
The store opened last year at 510 S.W.
be held Friday, Oct. 2 1 from 6 p.m. to 9:30
Broadway, across the street form the Hotel
p.m. in Miller Hall at the World Forestry
Vintage Plaza. The gift store will open again
Center.
this season at the same location beginning
Tuesday,
Oct. 11 through Dec. 31.
African American Men
Among the items going on sale are gifts
Honored
for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and
The fourth annual awards banquet
Christmas. Some of the items sold last year
honoring outstanding African-American
included greeting cards, hand-painted water
men in the Portland community will.be
ing cans, puppets, gift baskets, bibs, quilts,
held Friday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. at Shenani
jams and jellies, pillows, wreaths, teddy bears,
gans on Swan Island. The event benefits
cookbooks, jewelry, posters, hats, decorated
the scholarship fund of the Zeta Sigma
trays, hand-painted ceramic tiles, CDs and
Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha |
cassette tapes, books, painted umbrellas and
sorority.
more.
“To give a gift with an enclosure that
Artist Blends
says “Proceeds from this purchase will help
Photographs and Paint
a child in crisis’ carries incredible value and
meaning. It’s a gift that gives twice,” says
"The Photograph as Canvas," an ex
hibit by artist Annette Gurdjian, will be
shown through Oct. 27 in the College I
Center Fireplace Gallery at Mt Hood
Community College. The exhibit features
a unique blending of the mediums of pho
tography and painting.
These Are
All Our
Children
Salmon Festival is held Saturday and
Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Oxbow
Regional Park. The event features enter
tainment, crafts and activities for young
sters, storytelling, dancing, arts and crafts,
food and a traditional salmon bake.
• In Oregon, 32 children died from
child abuse in 1992.
• In Portland there were 1,911 chil
dren abused and neglected in 1993.
Being abused as a child increases
the likelihood of arrest as a juve
nile by 53 percent. Abused chil
dren who do not get help are 38
percent more likely to be arrested
as adults and to be violent crimi
nals.
• Sixteen percent of children in Or
egon live in poverty. Forty-two
percent of 2-year-olds are ad
equately immunized, only five
states had worse rates.
• Half of the people who become
poor each year in America are
now children.
A volunteer helps paint the exterior of "Our Children's Store" on Broadway Street
in Down'own Portland.
steering committee member Ann Carter.
“More than ever, kids need our help. The
goal ofOur Children’s Store is to raise needed
Bell Elected Advisory
Chair For Arts Center
Learn To Cook Without
Meat
Oregon Sate University Extension
Service will present a special seminar on
healthy cooking Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 2:45
p.m. at the Holly wood Senior Center, 1820
N.E. 40th. The session can help you learn
tocook tasty, low-cost meals without meat.
The meals are based on whole grains,
dried beans, fruits and vegetables. Infor
mation about the new Food Guide Pyra
mid will also be presented.
School Breaks For
Teacher Training
Portland School District students have
the day off Friday, Oct. 14, but teachers
will “hit the books” for a statewide in-
service day. Portland teachers attend work
shops and training sessions on issues in
cluding building successful second lan
guage classrooms and domestic violence
awareness and prevention.
Arts Center Begins
Lunch Series
A free brown-bag lunch series begins
at noon Wednesday, Oct. 19 at the Port
land Center for the Performing Arts at
Broadway and Main, Downtown. Selected
scenes from the Tygres Heart Shakespeare
Co.’s Much Ado About Nothing. The next
brown-bag lunch performances are sched
uled Nov. 9 with the Portland Center
Stage performs and Dec. 14. with The
Portland Opera.
Businesses Work
Together
Holiday gifts and a wide variety of
Afro-Centric products go on sale w hen the
Black Business Co-op presents the Black
Market Co-op. Local vendors and restau
rants are joining together to sell their
wares Friday, 6 p.m. -9 p.m. and Saturday,
10 a m. to 6 a m. in a community social
atmosphere at the OAME Cascade Plaza,
4134 N Vancouver Ave.
Community Calendar Submissions:
Please send all Community Calendar
information two weeks in advance of
events starting date.
The committee provides citizen input
and advice for center activities, a component
of Metro regional government and the Met
ropolitan Exposition and Recreation Com
mission.
Bell has been a committee member for
several years and helped established the
“Friends of the Performing Arts Center,” a
non-profit organization dedicated to support
ing the center and its community outreach
efforts.
He is an active com m unity member
serving on the boards o f the Lakewood
C enter for the Arts in Lake Oswego,
P ortland C enter Stage and the Police
A ctivities League.
Bell is a registered professional engi
George E. Bell.
neer, employed as vice president for trans
eorge E. Bell of Lake Oswego
mission services at the Bonneville Power
has been named chair of the
Administration.
advisory committee for the
He is a member of the Downtown Rotary
Portland Center for the Performing
Club and the Portland Chapter of the Ameri
Arts.
can Leadership Forum. He also serves as a
mentor to school children.
G
funds and to raise awareness about children’s
issues,” says Lee Weinstein, founder and
steering committee member.
• There were 3,086 teen pregnan
cies in Oregon in 1991.
• Oregon ranks 12th among all states
in teen suicides. Teen suicides have
tripled in the past 30 years.
Northwest
Talent
Presented
The insight, entertaining and purpose
ful writing and presentation talent of Dr.
Mona Lake Jones will be showcased at the
11 th annual West Coast Black Publishers
Association (WCBPA) Convention, Oc
tober 26-29, 1994 at the Hyatt Regency
Phoenix Hotel. The featured guest is speak
ing at the Welcome Luncheon hosted by
Anheuser-Busch Companies on Thurs
day, October 27th.
Mona Lake Jones' creative work
has taken her to a variety of settings
throughout the country speaking to civic,
professional, public and private groups,
and educational institutions. She is an
exciting new talent who receive standing
ovations when she shares her writing with
both adults and children. She delivers her
works in a concert-style presentation of
themes and moods and recently appeared
at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The
Mona Lake Jones
Poet, a longtime Seattle educator and civic
figure, is know to many as Seattle's multi
cultural poet laureate. During recent years,
she has gained a national audience for her
poetry, published in Essence magazine
and her recent book, “The Color of Cul
ture." her indelible word portraits paint a
rich world of African American life expe
riences with insight, humor, and love.
Multicultural Senior Center Enhances Lives
Seniors have help in maintaining a good
quality of life in North and Northeast Port-
' land.
That message was sent out into the com
munity on Tuesday during acommunity lead
ers forum at the Multicultural Senior Center,
5325 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The Urban League of Portland and its
adult and senior services department oper
ates one of eight district senior centers in
Multnomah County at the Multicultural Cen
ter.
There's a wide variety of programs and
services offered, everything from housekeep
ing and personal care services to exercise
classes and social events.
Just because people get old, they
shouldn't be forgotten
That's adri ving force behind the center s
activities, according to Esther Hinson, pro
gram director for the Urban League depart
ment.
"Seniors are not just to be put on the
sidelines,” Hinson said. "They’re still vi
brant, still able to do things and be involved.”
The Urban League sponsors many of the
center’s programs with the cooperation and
assistance of the county, city and organiza
tions such as Loaves and Fishes and North-
east Portland Aging Services.
The goal is to help seniors maintain safe
and independent living.
“We have services here to help seniors
stay in their homes for as long as possible,"
Hinson said.
Most of the programs are geared to help
seniors stay active.
The senior center serves elderly and
disabled seniors age 60 and older, and under
60 with Alzheimer’s disease. Plans are un
derway to expand the services for those in
their 50s, Hinson said.
The A lz h e im e r’s su p p o rt group
started this summer, giving caregivers a
four hour break once a week, while the
c e n te r ’s su p p o rt s ta ff p ro v id e s the
A lzheim er patient with special activi
ties, like m usic, arts and crafts and
memory exercises
Other services include legal assistance,
transportation, information and referral and a
foot clinic.
A case management program gives se
niors and their families help to identify and
arrange for services to meet their needs.
These services can include home bathing,
housekeeping, cooking and shopping
Activities in and ou, of the center can
Congressional candidate Mark Brunelle and his wife Pamela, join Victory
Storey, Sherry Archer, Cora Benjamin and other community leaders fora
forum at the Multicultural Senior Center.
add variety, fun and learning experiences for
seniors
These services would include sightseeing
and shopping trips, potlucks, hot lunches and
gatherings to promote good health, personal
growth and a strong self image.
A Healthy Grandparent program is of
fered to provide support, education and other
assistance to grandparents who are raising
children
For more information, call Hinson at the
center at 248-5470, extension 4 5 5 1