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December. 21, 1994
Serving the community through cultural diversity
Volume .W IV Number 51
Cintas Corp.
Builds P lant
M useum
P reserves H istory
Vikings Win
Classic
A state-of-the-art industrial
laundry opens in north
Portland providing needed
jobs.
Leon the owl is a favorite
exhibits o f the many sights
at the High Desert Museum
near Bend.
The Portland State
University Lady Vikings wi
three straight to win the
Raindrop Classic in high
fashion.
See page A4.
See Metro, inside.
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Fourth Bullet Found
Secret Service agents confirm that a
fourth bullet was found inside the State
Dining Room, one floor below Clinton’s
residence at the White House. Other bul
lets found from the drive-by shooting early
Saturday were on a balcony landing, in a
driveway outside the back door and be
neath a nearby Christmas tree.
OCA To Try Again
The Oregon Citizens Alliance has
launched its third campaign to elijninate
gay rights from the Oregon legal system.
The new initiative comes on the tails of a
narrow defeat of the OC A-sponsored Mea
sure 13 in the November General Election.
“It’s writing into the Constitution that it’s
all right to discriminate against homosex
ual people,” said Cliff Carlson, chairman
of the No on 13 campaign.
Complex Replaces
Hanoi Hilton
The infamous Vietnamese prison
dubbed the “Hanoi Hilton” by U.S. pilots
imprisoned and tortured there during the
Vietnam War is being razed and replaced
by a real hotel and convention center. The
$55 million project known as the Hanoi
Tower Center is a sign that the Southwest
Asia nation of 70 million continues to
move away from the devastation o f the war
years and the communist economic sys
tem.
Area school children line-up with their teacher outside Emanuel Hospital where a Christmas Party was held last week for kids.
Neighborhood
Nuisances Targeted
Clerics Set Up Courts
Muslim clerics in Bangladesh, acting
on their own, increasingly are setting up
“courts" that mete out punishment under
the Sharia, or Islamic law. Women’s rights
groups say that at least 48 women have
died in recent years after being convicted
of violating the Sharia. Most killed them
selves because they could not bear the
humiliation.
Debt Weighs Down ANC
Growing debts and organizational dis
array have damaged the African National
Congress' ability to govern South Africa,
the secretary-general said this week at the
organization’s first national conference
since taking power.
Britain’s Lord P itt Dies
Lord Pitt, a Grenadan immigrant who
became one of the first blacks to be admit
ted to the House of Lords, died Sunday of
cancer, relatives said. He was 81. “He was
one of the first prominent blacks in British
political life and a man of great ability and
exceptional dignity,” said Lord Healey,
former treasury chief.
Rashad Entertains For
Diabetes
The American Diabetes Association
has named actress and entertainer Phylicia
Rashad honorary spokesperson for its Af
rican American Program. Rashad is well
known for her role as Clair Huxtable on
“The Cosby Show” series. The associa
tion’s program is an outreach initiative
aimed at providing awareness of diabetes
and is risk factors.
SPREADING THE KWANZAA MESSAGE
Kamau Sadiki of the Black Education Center explains the meaning of the African-
American cultural holiday called Kwanzaa during a free workshop at the center.
For more information about Kwanzaa activities you can call the BEC at 284-9552.
See Related Stories on Holiday Entertainment, page B4.
K illingsw orth Spruced Up For Holidays
Volunteers workers met Friday at the
Northeast Community Policing Facility to
kickoff the 2nd annual Killingsworth Street
Holiday Clean Up.
The volunteers picked up litter and
d e b r is by fo o d a lo n g N o rth e a s t
K illingsw orth S treet to the Interstate 5
overpass. Em ployees from the Bureau
o f M a in te n a n c e p la c e d d e c o ra tiv e
w reaths and candy canes on utility poles.
Employ ees from Bureau o fT raffic M an
agement rem oved all rem aining refuse.
This was the second consecutive year for
the clean up, which was coordinated through
the Northeast Precinct's Neighborhood Re
sponse Team
Participants included the Northeast Co
alition ofNeighbors, and Northeast Precinct
A committee of the Kenton Action
Plan has met with David Sweet ofthe City’s
Bureau of Buildings to eliminate properties
that have been eyesores for years
A residence in the 2900 block of Ar
lington Place between Burrage and Penin
sular was presented as an example of a
nuisance property.
Sweet suggested a focused task force.
He agreed to assemble a team of inspectors
from different departments, including zon
ing, housing, and parking patrol. The north
Portland crime prevention coordinator, a
police officer from the North Precinct and
the Kenton Action Plan Code Enforcement
Committee Chair will also join the group.
Team members will be asked to bring
the full force o f their respective depart-
nlejits to bear on problem properties. The
intent is to make it too expensive to allow a
nuisance to affect the quality o f life of
surrounding residents.
According to Kenton Action Plan Co
ordinator Dave Myers-Eatwell, this prob
lem of nuisance property has been high
lighted by recently rising property values in
North Portland.
Housing that sold two years ago for
$35,000 are now selling for $70,000
“Higher prices bring higher expecta
tions. Many buyers who pay $70,000 for a
house also want to live on a street with
properties that are neat, in good repair, and
free of derelict autos,” Myers-Eatwell said.
The level o f frustration for many resi
dents is rising. What may have been com
mon in some sections of north Portland 10
years ago is no longer acceptable to a major
ity of neighbors, a task force member said.
Sweet said city codes governing park
ing and maintenance of vehicles on residen
tial property has just gotten tougher.
“For instance, residents will not be i
allowed to work on a car on their property j
unless the vehicle is registered to them a that
address.”
He went on to sav that no major repairs
max be carried out in the driveway or in the
parking lane of the street. Major repairs
must be performed in the garage. And the
use of air tools outside is now taboo.
Sweet pointed out that the code has also
grown teeth, providing for code enforce
ment fees o f $55 per month, which become
a lien against the property if they are not
paid.
While the task force takes on long-time
problem properties, the committee will im
plement a program to deal with less flagrant
code violations.
Street parking is legal only for passen
ger vehicles. Travel trailers, trucks, vans,
RV’s and boats cannot be parked on the
street, as they present safety hazards and
restrict visibility o f vehicular traffic and
pedestrians.
To report illegally parked or derelict
vehicles on private property, call 823-7306
Call 823-7309 to report derelict vehicles
parked on the street. Anyone interested in
volunteering with the Code Enforcement
Committee should call the Kenton Action
Plan at 289-6693 The Kenton Action Plan
is a non-profit community revitalization
group funded by the Portland Bureau of
Housing and Community Development
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