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HOST Awarded $75,000 Grant
Housing And Development
Community Meeting
The Housing and Community
Development Commission and the
Bureau Advisory Committee for the
Bureau o f Housing & Community
Development are sponsoring a com ­
munity meeting on housing and com ­
munity development needs and strat­
egies. The meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, December 15,1994, from
7 to 9 p.m., at Cascade Plaza, 4134
N. Vancouver, The Cascade Plaza is
wheelchair accessible. Staff mem­
bers from the City o f Portland’s Bu­
reau o f Housing & Community De­
velopment will be available from 6 to
7 p.m. to meet with individuals or
groups on an informal basis to an­
swer questions. The public meeting
and needs assessment is the first step
in the preparation o f a Consolidated
Plan, which is required by the U.S.
Department o f Housing & Urban
Development (H U D ) in order to re­
ceive funds available to the city un­
der four HUD programs. The funds
are targeted for activities that assist
low and moderate income people or
neighborhoods. The Consolidated
Plan will provide the framework for
allocating these funds for the City o f
Portland.
the Bureau o f Housing & Com ­
munity Development is preparing a
draft needs assessment and 5-year
strategy which will be available on
D ecem ber8,1994.Toreceiveacopy,
call the Bureau o f Housing & Com ­
munity Development at 823-2375.
HOST WINS AT GOLF PROMOTION
F a n n ie M ae, th e n a tio n ’s
la rg e st so u rc e o f hom e m o rtg ag e
funds has e sta b lish e d a p e rm a ­
nent re sid e n c e in P o rtlan d .
And Portland’s new arrival made
a welcome contribution in the form
o f a $75,000 grant payable to HOST
Development, Inc.
According to HOST Executive
Director Howard Nolte, the grant
will be utilized to build two new
homes on NE Monroe Street.
As part o f a commitment to af­
fordable housing nationwide, Fannie
Mae opened a “Partnership O ffice”
in Portland to increase home owner­
ship opportunities for low and mod­
erate income families, new immi­
KGW-TV Sports Anchor Joe Becker (right) interviews HOST
Chairman Ted K. Gilbert (center) and HOST Executive Director
Howard Nolte (left) during the Beat The Pro Golf Tournament
September 20 at the Oregon Golf Club. As the benefiting
organization, HOST’S proceeds were over $12,000. Story on
page 3. (photo by Mark Shapior)
grants and minorities.
In its first move, Fannie Mae
signed a partnership with the Port­
land Trail Blazers. The organiza­
tions cosponsored a free Home Buy­
ing Fair at the Memorial Coliseum
on October 22.
“Together with the city o f Port­
land, Fannie Mae will develop a com ­
prehensive investment plan so we
can do more to help address the city’s
major housing needs,” said James
A Johnson. Fannie Mae Chairman
and CEO.
Volunteers from HOST, Fannie
Mae and the Trail Blazers officially
broke ground on the Monroe Street
site October 21.
Donations Sought For Heat
Envelopes urging residents to help neighbors in need stay warm this
winter are arriving in monthly electric bills.
The donations are important to Oregon Heat, a statewide, non-profit
organization helping low-income Oregonians with their heating bills.
H EALTH
E ld ercare
O ffe re d On Phone Line
C h o le ste ro l
Funded
U.S. A ssistant Secretary for
and Fat
Aging Fernando M. Torres-Gil has
Several classes open to the pub­
lic are being offered this w inter
through Kaiser Permanente. For reg­
istration information, call K aiser’s
health education department at 286-
6816.
“How to Lower Your Cholester­
ol” teaches people with borderline to
high blood cholesterol levels how to
plan meals and modify recipes to cut
fat and cholesterol intake. Classes
will be from 10 a m. to noon Dec. 21
and Dec. 28 at K aiser’s North Inter­
state Services Building, 7201 N. In­
terstate Ave. Cost is $25 for Kaiser
members and $40 for the general
public.
“ D iabetes: Basic E ducation”
offers self-care skills to control dia­
betes. Three sessions will be held
from 9 a m to noon Dec. 27-29 at the
Kaiser Central Interstate Medical
Office, 3600 N. Interstate.
STOP
announced three years additional
funding for the Eldercare Locator, a
nationwide, toll-free directory assis­
tance service providing access to in­
formation about home and commu­
nity services that help older persons.
Torres-Gil said that since its in­
ception as a demonstration project
three years ago, the Eldercare Loca­
tor reached a landmark o f 100,000
calls.
“ We are very pleased with this
record number o f phone calls prima­
rily b ecau se it m eans th a t the
Eldercare Locator service has helped
thousands o f callers locate resources
that help people lead healthy, inde­
pendent lives in their later years,”
Torres-Gil added.
Anyone can call the Eldercare
Locator at 1-800-677-1116, Mon­
day through Friday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
(eastern time). The service helps link
callers to information about commu­
nity organizations that provide meals,
transportation, housing, home care,
legal and other community services,
enabling older persons to remain in­
dependent in their homes.
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A national campaign to edu­
cate the need for early treatment
for shingles, a painful viral dis­
ease, is being launched in Port­
land at Providence Portland Medi­
cal Center, Providence St. Vincent
Medical Center and Providence
Milwaukie Hospital.
The STOP (Screening and
Treatm ent to O vercom e Pain)
campaign is sponsored by the
National Foundation for Infec­
tious Diseases. It provides older
Americans in 20 cities with edu­
cation and free shingles screen­
ings. The effort encourages early
shingles therapy which is critical
in reducing the duration of long­
term pain known as postherpetic
neuralgia that can last for weeks,
months or years after shingles
occurs.
“This is an important pro-
gram for all our seniors because if
they understand the early signs of
shingles they can seek immediate
treatment which can reduce the
amount of time they might suffer
from severe pain,” said Portland
Mayor Vera Katz.
Shingles is a painful infec­
tious disease caused by reactiva­
tion of the varicella zoster virus,
the same virus that causes chicken
pox. Anyone who has had chicken
pox - at least 90 percent o f all
adults, can develop shingles.
Shingles primarily affects persons
over age 50, or those with com ­
promised immune systems such
as patients with HIV, lymphoma,
H odgkin’s disease or other can­
cers.
Early symptoms o f shingles
can include a localized tingling
sensation, numbness and sharp or
burning pain that within days or
weeks progresses to a blister-like
rash that occurs in the same area
as the pain. In most cases blisters
appear in a band across the torso,
but they may occur on the face,
head or on other parts of the body.
People who experience any of
these symptoms should see a doc­
tor promptly for treatment.
“Too many people have suf­
fered from the debilitating pain of
shingles. But now there is hope.
Many patients can reduce the du­
ration of chronic and pai nful com­
plications if they seek early anti­
viral treatment,” said doctor Ri­
chard J. Duma, executive direc­
tor of the National Foundation of
Infectious Diseases. “T hat’s why
NFID is sponsoring a national
effort to educate older Americans
about shingles, its early signs and
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symptoms and the need to see a
physician promptly.”
Seniors interested in shingles
information and especially those
who are experiencing any unusual
sensations such as localized skin
rashes, numbness, tingling or pain
should attend the free screenings
which are available through Dec.
16 at various locations throughout
Portland. For more information
call 230-6002.
“Wewanttoreachas many people
as possible with the information they
need to recognize the early warning
signs of shingles," said doctor James
Leggett, ofProvidence Portland Medi­
cal Center. “With medication now
available that can reduce the duration
of postherpetic neuralgia, it's more
important that ever for patients to seek
immediate treatment of this painful
infection.
Glaucoma Studied At Eye Institute
Patients recruited by Devers Eye
Institute at Legacy Good Samaritan
Hospital and Medical Center for a
nationwide study may be at the van­
guard of important breakthroughs in
the early treatment or prevention of
glaucoma.
The Ocular Hypertension Treat­
ment Study, the largest glaucoma-
related investigation conducted to
date in the U.S., aims to determine if
using eyedrops to lower elevated eye
pressure will prevent or delay the
onset of glaucoma.
Glaucoma is among the leading
causes of blindness in the United
States and other industrialized coun­
tries, and a major cause o f blindness
among African Americans.
The disease involves damage to
optic nerve fibers in the retina o f the
eye. It is caused in part by the exces­
sive pressure that develops when the
clear fluid that normally bathes the
inside o f the eyeball is black from
drainage.
Elevated eye pressure, or ocular
hypertension, occurs in three toeight
percent o f Americans over 40. Those
at grater risk include nearsighted
people, diabetics, those with high
blood pressure, a family history of
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wide, studied for five to eight years.
This represents the largest num ber of
patients ever recruited for a clinical
study, and the most massive research
initiative undertaken in the area of
glaucoma study.
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