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Serving the community through cultural diversity Volume XXV Number 7 Join In Celebrating Our Urban League Anniversary To Remember The Past Dr. Marshall Opens Williams Avenue Office. West Pontiac s Clarence Larkins offers incentive program in honor oj Urban League s 50th year. •s J See Black History, page B6. A M N IV E R S A R Y 1 sr (T * 250 t* City Digs Out From Record Snow nr n U.S. Surgeon General nominee Henry W. Foster Jr. Kids, Families Campaign Opens “ Building Strong Kids, Families, and Communities” is the theme for a campaign for donations now underway with the YMCA, Colum bia-W illam ette chapter. Over 400 volunteers have kicked-off the drive to raise $445,000. A victory and thank you celebration is set for March 14 at Montgomery Park. Donations go toward new and existing YMCA programs that support youth, family and adults in the Portland area. Surgeon General Nominee Henry W Foster Jr is fighting to be come the next U.S. Surgeon General. Foster, 61, was nominated for the posi tion last week by President Bill Clinton. But opponents, mainly Republicans and anti-abor- tion activists, are trying to block the nomina tion because Foster performed abortions over his four decades as a gynecologist and obste Yellow Bikes Need Storage TheCommunity CyclingCenter, 2407 N.E. Alberta, urgently needs temporary space in north and northeast Portland for its yellow share-a-bike program which pro vides free bicycle transportation to the public. Individuals and small businesses who have secure, dry space are urged to call Brian Lacy at 288-8864. Parks Recruit Summer S ta ff Kids having fun in the snow at Martin Luther King Element? / in northeast Portland after a record 10 inches of snow falls Sunday, canceling school. It was the worst snowstorm to hit the city since 1968-69. (Photo By Charles Washington) trician. Foster is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on reducing in fant mortality and preventing teen pregnancy and drug abuse. He is currently on sabbatical from Meharry Medical College where he served as dean of the school of medicine and Garden Construction On Schedule r. WBfS»: "2 Portland Parks and Recreation is hir ing qualified staff to fill 350 positions as swimming pool managers, lifeguards and swim instructors. The dates o f employ ment are mid-June through Sept. 1 Wages are from $5.60 to $9.50, depending upon the position and experience. Training to become a lifeguard or swim instructor is available now and through April. Call the parks department at 823-5130 for more information Farrakhan Tops Among Readers To the dismay o f many, a Black Press o f America survey reveals that Minister Louis Farrakhan is the most effective Afri can American leader. Farrakhan captured 13 percent o f the poll beating out Jesse Jackson, who placed second among the responses from over 2,000 readers. White Executed In Killing It has been extremely rare that a white person has been sentenced to death for killing a black person. But one o f those events has now happened in North Caroli na. A 55-year-old white man - Kermit Smith Jr. - was executed last month for the 1981 kidnapping, rape and murder o f a black cheerleader - Whelette Collins. Support For Shabazz Grows The daughters o f some o f the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders have announced a campaign to aide the legal defense of the daughter o f assassinated black nationalist leader M alcolm X. Qubilah Shabazz, 34, was charged last month with plotting to kill Nation o f Islam leader Louis Farrakhan Members o f Mai colm X 's family have long maintained that Farrakhan played a role in the assassina tion he Rose Garden, the $262 million future home for the Portland Trail Blazers, is 65 percent com plete, according to officials of the Oregon Arena Project and Drake/Turner, joint contractors. T Completion is scheduled for October. A bout h a lf o f the aren a’s ro o f is now complete. Heavy roof steel has been installed and crews are finishing up the catwalks, rigging and metal decking. Installation o f architectural battens and roof membrane continues. Metal panels that make up the roof edge are complete at the north end o f the building. The aisle steps in the arena bowl have been substantially completed. Officials say mounting holes for instal lation o f seats is done. The seats will be delivered in April. Final concrete work for the team locker rooms is underway. Installation o f drywall, paint, millwork, lights and other finishes is also being com pleted on levels 1 through 4. Concrete work continues for the arena's television studio and truck dock. Crews are closing in on the roof of the new Pose Garden in north and northeast Portland, the future home of the Portland Trail Blazers. Police Encouraged To Move To Inner City tatives from Bank o f America, First Interstate new program designed to Bank, Washington Mutual, Key Bank and encourage police officers to U.S. Bank. buy hom es in som e of Portland’s inner city neighborhoods Moose, a resident o f the Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. area, also found support for the was launched last week by Mayor Vera proposal as he talked to community groups, Katz, Police Chief Charles Moose and including the Albina Rotary Club, about his executives from five major banks. A The plan, called “police at home" will offer incentives to officers who buy and occupy homes in eight designated Portland neighborhoods. The communities include Belmont, Cully-Killingsworth. Harney Park, Humboldt-Jefferson. Kenton, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Opportunity Area, Unthank Park/Boise and Lents The program was initiated by Katz and Moose, who then met with Oregon represen EDITORIAL AUTOMOTIVE HEALTH A2 A5 A6 own experiences after moving to the neigh borhood in 1993. The program provides incentives to lower initial home purchase costs such as down payment, closing costs, inspections and other related fees. Most costs may be financed, allowing police officers to purchase eligible homes with no out o f pocket expense Partic ipating officers w ill commit to residing in the home for a minimum of five years. 1 4 ♦ * •* ■* *• SPORTS A7 ft : acting president. Foster earned a Bachelor o f Science degree from Morehouse College in 1954 and was awarded his Doctor of Medicine by the University of Arkansas in 1958. He conducted an internship at the De troit Receiving Hospital, served two years as a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force and conducted one year of residency training in general surgery at Malden Hospital, Malden, Mass. He completed a three-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. Among his awards and honors, Foster has been a scholar-in-residence at the Asso- ciationof Academic Health Centers in W ash ington, D C.; induction into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy o f Sci ences; awarded the Appreciation Award for Research and Teaching in Sickle Cell A ne mia from Tuskegee University; and the Fac ulty Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Food Bank Worker Earns Praise Percy Winters Jr 1 ' ' sr JkW ercy Winters Jr. of northeast Portland has been honored as the first Employee of the Year for the Oregon Food Bank, a statewide provider of emergency to build relationships among staff, volun food supplies. P W4 Winters has worked as a truck driver for the agency for four years. He recently was promoted to warehouse manager at the food bank’s38O8N. Williams Ave. location, where he coordinates warehouse operations and food distribution to over 170 member programs in the greater Portland area. He was selected for the honor by a vote o f his peers. Winters was cited for an ability teers and corporate food donors. He also won praise for his power o f persuasion, ability to rally the troops and inspire the public at special events and food drives. “Percy is extremely articulate and in spires his listeners when communicating Oregon Food Bank's story and the story o f hungry people," said Rachel Bristol Little, food bank executive director. ENTERTAINMENT RELIGION CLASSIFIEDS A8 B2 B4 I
