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M ay 8, 1996 • T he P ortland O bserver
E d u c a tio n
Smith and
Bybee
Lakes Day
Students from George, Portsmouth
and O ckley G reen m iddle schools;
R o o s e v e lt H ig h S c h o o l an d
EnviroCorps will lead hands-on ed­
ucational activities at Sm ith and
Bybee Lakes Day, Saturday, May 18
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A ctivities will include canoe trips,
guided tours by m iddle school stu­
dents, fishing clinics for youngsters,
wildlife w atching, planting projects
and activities on bird life, w ater qual­
ity and N ative A m erican History.
Will H ornyak, a northw est storytell­
er, will begin the w elcom ing cere­
mony at 11 a.m.
Smith and Bybee Lakes Day will
be held Interlakes Trail at the Smith
and Bybee W ildlife Refuge. The trail
is located o n N . M arine D rive w est o f
Interstate 5, and is handicapped ac­
cessible. Please no pets.
Fighting Youth Crime Through Literacy
Plummeting scholastic ratings pre­
dict a grow ing segm ent o f society
unable to hold jo b s, w hile deep-seat­
ed poverty in the inner-city has m an­
ifested in m ore than 1 m illion. A m er­
icans who live behind bars and more
than 800 more out o f every 10,000
w ho are victim s o f violent crime.
Law enforcem ent experts are pre­
dicting a grim future traced to a failed
education system.
The C om pton-based W orld Liter­
acy C rusade has been successfully
tackling the problem head-on through
a program o f com m unity em pow er­
m ent. O ne inner-city librarian in
M em phis, T ennessee, calls the C ru­
sade “a m etam orphosis.”
According to Reverend Alfreddie
Johnson, who has used the study meth­
ods o f L. Ron Hubbard in his program
for more than three years. “These learn­
ing techniques are simple and pro­
found in their ability to em power the
community to learn how to leant. They
are a monumental tool, not only for
those who desire to learn, but for those
who want to teach others.”
After the 1992 civil unrest in Los
Angeles, Reverend Johnson, founder
o f the Crusade, felt he needed to step
out from the pulpit and m ake a per­
sonal response to the violence in his
com m unity. A fter learning o f the
w orkability o f L. Ron H u bbard’s
study methods, he launched the W orld
Literacy C rusade to m ove beyond
the confines o f C om pton. The C ru ­
sade differs from other tutorial-type
literacy program s because it teaches
people how to learn and understand,
and also enables them to help others
as they have been helped.
A ssisted by the efforts o f legend­
ary musician, Isaac Hayes, interna­
tional spokesperson for the W LC
and strong advocate, the program
rapidly found its way into 15 inner
city areas in the ITS. in less than four
years, and m ore than four cities o u t­
side the United States.
A com m unity leader in M em phis
who worked with Johnson to launch
the Crusade in H ayes’ hom e town,
says it is the m ost “effective p ro ­
gram ” he has seen in his field in 35
years. A story that illustrates the p ro­
gram ’ s effectiveness is that o f a seem ­
ingly hopeless individual with a sec­
ond grade level education who did
the program early on in Com pton. He
was able to com plete it and went on
to becom e a m edical nurse, passing
his accreditation exam with very high
marks. The difference, after the pro­
gram, was he could read and u nder­
stand a technical field. And the re­
sult, he is a contributing m em ber o f
society.
But what the W orld Literacy C ru­
sade will m ean to youth is perhaps
even more profound. The program
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has taken gang m em bers—young men
who jo in ed gangs rather than p artic­
ipate in a society they feel excludes
them --right o ff the street. These are
the affects o f the W orld Literacy
C rusade that have led to its rapid
expansion.
Reverend Johnson took m atters
into his own hands when he began the
crusade. Today it is poised to be­
com e a national effort against illiter­
acy and ultim ately against crim e. For
more inform ation about the W orld
Literacy Crusade, call (310) 637-
2273.
ELECT Paul
and not just when
there’s an election.
Portland City Council
■ M M M M H H i P a u l M c C o y has served his community, Portland,
and Oregon with honesty, integrity, and vision. Paul McCoy will return real
citizen participation to city government, promote business development in our
communities, and help stop youth crime by supporting alternatives to guns,
gangs and the streets. M M M M M M M M M M M M M B M M M M M M M M
F act: In 1992, Charlie Hales pledged to business owners he would make it a “priority” to remove the
Hales’
real
record
median strip that divides Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and reduces customer access to the area. He
has taken no action while neighborhood stores continue to struggle and even fail.
F act: Hales did not open the door to the Fire Bureau to minorities. The Black Firefighters Union gets
credit for forcing hiring opportunities in 1994 after the City Council scrapped a minority recruitment
program in 1990 with a hiring freeze. The 1990 program’s trainees were left to seek jobs elsewhere.
Vote PAUL McCOY for City Commissioner, Position 4.
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