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Annual Picnic For Yaun Center Improvements
The Yaun Youth Care Centers
o f Oregon will he holding its 4th
Annual Summer’s End Picnic and
Chautauqua. Saturday. September
16, from 12 noon to 6 p.m . at Penin­
sula Park. Picnic activities include
live entertainment, "horse” with se­
lected Trail Blazers, and auction, a
raffle, kids’ games, and a catered
barbecue.
This year's entertainment will
be provided by Portland Blues artist
Linda Hombuckle Hornbuckle will
be joined in the park's gazebo with a
number o f blues artists with whom
she has performed in recent years
The Blues performance is made pos­
sible by a grant from EL & M Commu­
nity Market.
No less entertaining, five names
will be drawn to play "horse” with
P o rtla n d T rail B lazer C liffo rd
Robinson and others. Other raffle
items include certificates to local
hotels, dinner certificates, compact
disks, and merchandise.
Picnickers also can take part in
Yaun’s Silent Auction. High bidders
can win such items as three days in
Reno at the Riverboat Hotel and
Casino, roundtrip airfare for four and
“ fun packages” to the Red Lion Inn
and Casino in Elko, meals and one
night at McMenamin’s Edgefield for
two, numerous Oregon Coast resorts
and hotels, skying at Timberline, a
Trail Blazer coat, a special NIKE
package o f cross-trainers, sweatsuit
and dufflebag.
The picnic menu, provided by
Doris’ Cafe, includes BBQ pork ribs,
BBQ chicken, potato salad, greens,
red beans and rice, and corn muffins.
Other items and refreshments are be­
ing provided by local area merchants.
Special hamburger meals will be pro­
vided to children, 14 and under.
Cost is $12 for adults, $6 for
children, and $30 for families (4 per­
sons). Meals must be ordered in ad­
vance by calling 281-7564 Raffle
tickets are $2 each and Silent Auc­
tion items will go to the persons
writing down the highest bid. Both
are open to the public.
Each year the picnic provides
funding for the Alfred Yaun Resi­
dential Center on NE Rodney. For26
years, the home has been licensed for
up to 15 young men who are deemed
“at-risk” by counselors, the CSD or
the courts. Currently, the residential
program needs nearly $ 100,000 for
remodeling, painting, dormitory and
study room improvements, and ex­
pansion o f recreational facilities.
Other Yaun programs include
Youth Employment and Empower­
ment Program (YEEP), Youth Out­
reach and Gang Alternatives, an the
Clackamas County Youth Gang Task
Force.
Metropolitan Family Service Receives
Demonstration Grant For Portland's Older Adults
Metropolitan Family Services’s
Foster Grandparent program received
an E x p e rie n c e C o rp s g ra n t o f
$175,000 at 9:30 am on Monday,
September 11, at a news conference
in the gymnasium o f Humboldt Ele­
mentary School at 4915 N. Ganten-
bein. The grant, from the National
Senior Service Corps (NSSC) o f the
Corporation for National Service
(CNS), will be presented by John B.
K eller, CN S E x p erien ce C o rp s
Project Manager. Also speaking was
Congressman Ron Wyden (D-OR).
"W e’re thrilled to have the op­
portunity to develop this model
in I’ k o i . M< K im . n Bi
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Actually, that is the title of an
excellent book by Dr. Claud Anderson
(Duncan & Duncan Inc. 1994), but it
fits in very well as a part of my series,
"Minority Business For Year 2000.”
While the author’s background is
not that o f business and commerce
(Ed.D.j, we, nevertheless, are treated
to some thorough research and thought­
ful analysis o f a nagging economic
problem that has been exacerbated to
no end in the past decade of both
corporate and public sector layoffs. It
is reassuring to find that there are an
increasing number o f us [African
Americans), standing outside the fi­
nancial arena, who are forced to the
conclusion that 90 percent ofthe prob­
lems are economic in nature.
One particular conclusion of Dr.
Anderson will prove extremely con­
troversial among African Americans;
that the emphasis on social integration
proved fatal not only to existing black-
owned enterprise, but effectively pre­
cluded the development’ of new busi­
ness and industrial organizations. In
Paragon Cable Adds
New Payment Site
Paragon Cable has announced
the addition o f a new payment site at
the Postal Express Unlimited store at
3507 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd.
The location will make it easier
for customers to pay their cable bills,
company officials said. The Postal
Express office is open M onday
through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m.
The new location joins Para­
gon's three existing full-service walk-
in service centers and 13 other pay­
ment sites.
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work to increase learning in reading,
math and environmental areas; facil­
itate parental involvement; and en­
hance broad neighborhood support
for the children and the school.
The Experience Corps will in­
clude up to 50 active older adults,
age 55 and over, serving a minimum
o f 15 hours per week, who will serve
in teams o f 6 to 10 individuals.
Corps members will mobilize
parents and others in the community
to mentor, tutor and provide a variety
o f services to children. Incentives,
such as stipends, educational vouch­
ers and travel costs, will be available
to seniors to encourage their com­
mitment to one full year o f service.
While thirty programs in the
country were nominated to receive
these grants, only five were selected.
In addition to Portland, the other
cities selected are New York, Min­
neapolis, Port Arthur (Texas), and
Philadelphia.
For more information contact:
Foster Grandparent Program or Ex­
perience Corps, Stefana Sardo, 503/
284-4322; Corporation for National
Service, John Keller, 206/553-1558;
or Humboldt School, La Verne Davis,
principal, 503/281-8797.
Black Labor, White Wealth
The Search For Power And
Econom ic Justice.
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intergenerational program ,” said
Gary Withers, Executive Director o f
Metropolitan Family Service. John
Hopkins University School o f Med­
icine and Public/Private Ventures o f
Philadelphia will partner with the
N SSC. Both organ izat ions offer tech-
nical support, research and analysis.
The Experience Corps is a neigh-
b o rh o o d -b a se d d e m o n stra tio n
project aimed at improving scholas­
tic achievement and the overall qual­
ity o f life for children in four local
elem entary schools - Humboldt,
Woodlawn, Kenton and Brooklyn.
Teams ofSeniorC orps members will
consequence, there was no vehicle for
capital accretion, and even new Asian
immigrants had better financing avail­
able for ghetto enterprise.
I have dealt with this in these
pages at other times. I would, howev­
er, draw attention to several factors
(social attitudes?) that have crippled
minority business in the past--and
which still may be agents of failure. In
the busy hey day of the first post-war
efforts to build an economic structure
owned/ operated by African Ameri­
can, I and other members of my peer
group pursued a very naive course of
action -- a, first!
This was in the middle 1950’s
and in Los Angeles, the center o f flux
and movement. Those few of us lucky
enough to have gained broad, real­
time experience in American industry
and finance were beguiled by the rhet­
oric and blandishments o f several of
the large black-owned financial insti­
tutions (insurance) that had survived
from another age. We were soon
stripped o f any illusions that our busi­
ness proposals (on-going or prospec­
tive) would receive any better recep­
tion than from white banks or mort­
gage brokers. Monies from black pol­
icy holders was ‘exported’.
W hite-owned grocery chains
w ere enabled to expand th e ir
leaseholds in the inner-city almost in­
definitely. White venture capitalists
got monies for “sure fire” ghetto ex­
ploitation by indirect means and sub­
terfuges. Many of these revelations
came from sympathetic white rqem-
bers o f accounting and legal profes­
sional societies. Already the Asians
were getti ng funds transfers from home
for developing inner-city business.
Some blacks were able to get some
high-cost capital from black or white
mortgage and trust deed brokers. The
feds were yet to begin lending - for
“traditional” black enterprise. These
experiences turned my thoughts to an
even earlier period, 1948 to 1951 in
Portland, Oregon when most of my
accounting clients were car dealers on
Martin Luther King Blvd. (then "Union
Avenue”). Squeezed by the high inter­
est charges o f the big finance compa­
nies and banks to finance their huge
inventories o f used cars kept on their
lots, two of my dealer clients com­
bined forces and broached the idea of
my setting up an auto finance compa­
ny, for them. The other small dealers
from North Broadway to Columbia
Blvd. would be the customers, attract­
ed by lower interest rates (cal led "floor­
ing” ) and a “friendly, neighborly” en­
vironment.
The ideas I am developing here
are about “capital accretion” and pos­
sible ways blacks may go about it. As
Dr. Anderson says in his book, Afri­
can Americans dissipate tens o f bil­
lions in purchasing power each year,
but fail to develop institutions to struc­
ture that cash flow and put it to work.
We will explore those possibilities next
week. Evidently, a college education
is no solution.
But back on Union Ave and the
two white car dealers who employed
me to set up “Union Avenue Auto
Finance Co.” (Sidney Ambrose and
Samuel Masters); We all belonged to
the generation of "got a brain? Read
and write? Know where the public
library is? Then you can’t possibly
have a problem. Within thirty days I
had located the trade association for
finance companies in Utah, obtained
all the accounting and procedural
manuals, hired an office girl and we
were making dry practice runs, “Sid
and Sam” had hired a contractor to
build an office in the 5000 block of
N.E. Union and their lawyer had filed
the corporate papers. Next month I
was driving up and down Union Ave.
Signing up dealers. The Negroes were
saying, “McKinley, you can do that!”
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School’s Special programs
include the following:
All Day Kindergarten
H alf Day Pre-Kindergarten
Mixed-Age Classes
Music
P.E.
Computer Lab Kdgn - 5
In-School Scouting
Reading Recovery program
Chapter I
Friends o f the Children
Hands-On-Science Outreach
Firefoxes African Dance/Drill Team
Free Breakfast/Free Lunch program
Touchstone Program
Chess Club
Computer Club
Several Business Partnerships
Kids Need Breakfast
For Learning, Part II
(Continuedfrom last issue)
Montandon believes that even
the most hectic household can find
time for breakfast.
“In some cases, it might re­
quire waking the family 10 to 15
minutes earlierthan usual. But, when
you consider you are giving your
children a classroom edge and help­
ing them learn a lifetime o f good
eating habits, it is well worth the
effort.”
A balanced breakfast should
include a daily product such as low-
fat milk or yogurt, a grain such as a
high-fiber bread or a cereal, a pro­
tein such as peanut butter, cheese or
a lean cut o f meat and a fruit or 100
percent fruit juice.
“ It’s alright to occasionally
serve sweetened cereals and conve­
nience foods such as toaster waf­
fles, breakfast burritos and other
frozen entrees,” she said. Parents
should carefully read labels because
many o f these foods contain high
levels o f sugar, sodium and fat.
Parents should also remember
that they are important role models.
Children are more likely to east
breakfast if their parents eat break­
fast, Montandon said.
If breakfast just does not fit
into the morning routine at home,
Montandon encourages parents to
consider programs available at their
local school.
And, remember on those morn­
ings when no one is on schedule,
you can always eat in route.
"Make sure to have plenty o f
breakfast items like low-fat break­
fast bars, fresh fruit and cartons o f
milk or 100 percent fruit juice on
hand to offer your children in the'
car. The important thing is for them
to eat something nourishing,” she
said.
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