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May 22, 1996
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The 14th annual Blacks in Government
TrainingConferencewill beheld May 29-30
I at the Lloyd Center Red I.ion Hotel. Patricia
Russell McCloud w ill deliver the keynote
I address. Blacks in government is a national
nonprofit organization concerned with the
I educational professional and cultural devel­
opment o f Black employees at all levels o f
| government. Call (509)448-1039.
Intergenerational
Programs
M ultnom ah C ounty w ill celebrate
intergenerational programs Thursday, May
I 23 from 3:30 to 5 p in. in the lower atrium
at P ioneer Place. A 30 piece
I intergenerational photograph exhibit w ill
highlight the event. Children and older
I adults from Multnomah County programs
w ill place photographs to create a collage
o f count intergenerational activities.
Cook’s Tour
The Hearing and Speech Institute is
hosting its 6th Annual C ook's Tour Thurs-
I day. May 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Five
I homes w ill be featured in the tours which
from various caterers. Call 228-6479 for
I more information.
Women’s Self-
Defence Workshop
Learn practical physical self-defence
I skills, find out about pre-assaultive strate­
gies, learn what self-defence options are
available. Learn a new sense o f safety in
life at the womens self-defence workshop
Wednesday, May 29 from 7:30 to 9 p.m at
One With Heart at 4231 SE Hawthorne
I Blvd. Space is limited call 231-1999 for
more information.
Water Exercise
Class
Total body toning and conditioning with
an emphasis on stretch ing for increased flex-
ibility, muscular strength, endurance and
reduction ofstress is oftered in the American
Red Cross Instructor Course at M t Hood
Community College, 26000 SE Stark St in
Gresham. The course is scheduled Monday,
June 10 from Noon to4 p.m., Thursday, June
13 9 a m. to 3 p.m. and Friday, June 14 from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It teaches workout design
and the basic principals o f teaching water
exercise. Participants must have current
Water Safety Instructor Certificate and cur­
rent ARC standard F irst Aid including Adult
CPR. Call 284-0011 to register.
Illustrator At
Powell’s
Roby Gilbert w ill present his two pic­
ture books,” lt ’ s Raining lt;s Pouring” and
“ Out o f the N ight" (W hispering Coyote)
Tuesday, June 4 at Powell’s C ity o f Books
1005 W Burnside. G ilbe rt’s sharing he
colorful work as well as drawing at the
event invites children to experience the
creative process o f illustrating stories.
Mandolin Concert
The 7th annual West Coast Mandolin
Convention Concert is scheduled Sunday,
May 26 at 3:30 p.m. at Old Laurelhurst
Church 3212 SE Ankeny. More than 50
musician from the United States and other
countries w ill join together to perform music
ranging from classical to folk to popular
music with an international flavor. Special
guest artists are Paulo De Sa ad Marco de
Carvalho from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
SUBMISSIONS: Community
Calendar information will he given
priority if dated two weeks
before the event date.
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ne w eek after leaping into the
restaurant business, Anthony
Kelly was feeling fatigued. But
it doesn’t slow him down, or put a
damper on his dream of opening a soul
food/C reole restaurant.
"I grew up in southern Louisiana, just
outside New Orleans," said Kelly. “ We moved
when I was a teen-ager, but I always missed
the food, whenever I'd go back to visit, I jus,
couldn't get enough o f it.”
Now Kelly gets plenty o f down-home
southern food everyday at his restaurant,
Beignet’s. Located at 106 Evergreen Blvd.,
in the heart o f downtown Vancouver, Wash,
the restaurant serves up a variety o f dishes
fam iliar to both southerners and southerners
at heart. Gumbo, greens, and red beans and
rice are just a few o f the dishes soul food fans
w ill recognize.
The restaurant gets its name from a deep-
Anthony Kelly (above) missed
fried p u ff pastry popular in the New Orleans
the Creole food o f Southern
area. So tar beignet have been one o f the
restaurant’s most popular items.
Louisiana so he opened his own
“ Beignets in New Orleans are like
restaurant. Beignet's (right), in
Starbucks coffee in the northwest," said Kelly.
Vancouver, WA„ features a
“ I couldn’t find them anywhere, so I decided
cuisine done in a real southern
to make them myself.”
method.
To ensure an authentic flavor, K e lly
brought in his sister, Deborah Tillman, for
Slidell. La. to oversee the preparation o f the
dishes, and to train the employees in the
i t ’ s re a lly fu n .”
“ southern way” o f cooking.
Lunch and dinner crowds are often treated
"Smoked meats are often used to flavor
to live jazz and blues. Kelly invites up and
southern dishes,” said Tillm an. “ It makes the
coming local musicians to preform at the
food taste great but it’s something you have
restaurant.
to learn i f you’re not used to doing it.”
“ I'he music adds something special and
K e lly ’s wife, Jeanette, is also involved in
sets us apart from other restaurants,” said
the restaurant, she serves customers and oc­
Kelly. “ Our customers really enjoy it.”
casionally helps in the kitchen.
W ith lunch crowds steaming out the door,
“ I'v e w orked in the restaurant indus­
K e lly hopes to eventually to open up a second
try before, bu, this is the firs t tim e I'v e
restaurant in Longview, Wash.
seen a restaurant started from the ground
It s taken an incredible amount o f work
u p ," she said. “ So far i t ’ s been tria l and
and time, but it’s been such a th rill," said
error, w e ’ re learning as we go along, but
Kelly. " I t ’s exciting to live out a dream.”
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Training
Conference
benefits children’ s programs at the Insti­
tute. The tour w ill be in Northwest Port-
! land and participants w ill sample food
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Apartment Complex Controversy
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L ee P e a r i m a x
be growing.
he Northeast Community Devel­
At a community meeting, Stastny said that
opment Corporation and archi­
in response to community concerns that the
te c t Don Stastny are trying to
project form a "G ateway” to Northeast
m ake the proposed M cCoy Village's
Prescott Street, most o f its ground floor com­
design respond to community concerns.
mercial activity would be moved there. The
However, for some nearby residents, the
frontage on M artin Luther King w ill be five
question is not how the 55-unit low income
residential buildings o f four units each with
housing project on Northeast Martin Luther
landscaped courtyards in between. Most o f
King Jr. Boulevard between Skidmore and
the units w ill be at the rear o f the project, in
Going street should be built, but whether it
units sitting on top o f a concrete slab on top
should be. Moreover, their numbers seem to
o f an enclosed 76-space parking lot. (A sec-
ond, 14-space lot for residents and commer­
cial tenants, w ill be built to the south.) The
primary lot w ill be accessed by a single card-
lock gate on Prescott, and through pedestrian
entrances visible to the rear residential units.
The project w ill have a variety o f open court­
yards serving different functions, includinga
children’ s play area, he said.
Richard Brown, chair o f the Black United
Front’ s Hope and Hard Work Committee,
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First Female Salvation Army Chair
he Portland M etro Salvation
Army has a p p o in ted Karen
Rierson, d ire c to r of s afety,
health, organization training & develop­
ment for Portland General Electric, as
chair of its M etro Advisory Board.
Rierson. a Salvation Arm y board member
since 1991, is the first female to hold the
board chair position in the organization’s
110-year history.
Rierson o fficially w ill be appointed as
board chair at a May 16 board meeting during
National Salvation Army Week. May 13 - 17.
Rierson replaces Steve Stevens, retired CEO
o f Fred Meyer.Inc.. who w ill remain on the
board.
“ We are extrem ely fo rtunate to have
Karen Rierson
Karen leading our b o a rd ,” S a lva tio n
A rm y Cascade D iv is io n a l Com m ander
strong com m itm ent and v isio n to help-
M a jo r R ichard Love states. “ She has
ing Th e S alvation A rm y address to d a y ’ s
been an active volunteer, and shares a
c ritic a I societal problem s and needs, in-
e lu d in g hom elessness, d om estic v io ­
lence, teen pregnancy and a t-risk y o u th ."
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Forum Series
Continues
The Black United Front continues its Community
Forum Series Wednesday, May 29 from 9 a m. to
Noon with a workshop on Corporate Funding Pro­
posals at theNE Police PrecinctCommunity Meeting
Room, 449 NE Emerson.
Kathleen Shelton, director o f special projects for
Doembecher Hospital and Elise Brown, community
relations manager for A T & T. w ill speak. Topics w ill
include procedures for securing corporate support,
selling an event to sponsors, developing a target list,
sponsorships, in-kind gifts and media partnerships.
Space is limited. Call 282-7973 for more information.
Rierson will serve with other executive
committee members, including:
• Co-vice chairman, Doug Stand, p a rt­
ner, Strand, Atkinson, Williams & York
• Co-vice chairman, DougStoud, owner,
Summit Construction Co
• Treasurer. Nick Collins, vice chairman
o f the hoard, ESC 'O C orporation
• Secre/ci/y, Nancy Dun is, consultant.
Dunis
Associates, and
• Beth Huts man and Martha Stevens, com­
munity volunteers.
A leading social service provider serving
the tri-county area for 110 years, the Portland
Metro Salvation Army provides 12 major pro­
grams, including the Harbor Light Center, the
Greenhouse program, the West Women’s and
Children’s Shelter, the White Shield Center
and the Moore Street Community Center
Teens Get Taste Of
Homelessness Firsthand
Portland Teens w ill be able to expe­
rience life as a homeless person in
“ Operation Homeless.” Sponsored by
the Salvation Army Moore Street Com­
munity Center, the first-year program
aims to educate local youth, on the
causes o f homelessness and conditions
faced by the homeless,and how to get
involved in local efforts to help
Nearly a dozen boys and girls, 13
and 14 from the Moore Street youth
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programs w ill participate.
Friday, May 24, they w ill serve meals
to homeless people from 3 :15-5:30 p.m
and around 11:30 p.m. they w ill bed
down outside in cardboard boxes. W ork­
shops w ill be held Saturday, fiom 11 a m
to 6 p.m. and, after 30 hours, at 7 p.m. the
kids w ill get their first meal.
Money raised from sponsors for each
hour the kids go hungry w ill be used to
support local homeless services.
Alberta
Corridor
Forum
N
ortheast Portland residents I
and business owners will |
gather Saturday, June 1 for a >
community forum to discuss the revi­
talization of the Alberta Corridor.
I he forum, from 10 a.m to Noon, w ill I
be at the Texas Annex at I625N E Alberta I
St. It is sponsored by the Sabin Commu­
nity Development Company.
Although the commercial district o f l
Northeast Alberta Street has deteriorated i
in recent years, its historic character and
proxim ity to downtown make it a hot area
for revitalization. I he Alberta C orridor |
l orum is an avenue for community mem­
bers to influence this revitalization Res-1
I idents w ill be asked to share their ideas on
| what kind o f business they want to be able j
to walk to and what other improvements I
they want to see on Alberta. They w ill J
also learn how to become involved in
projects to improve the Alberta ( orridor)
Community.
Representatives from the Portland de­
velopment commission and other city
agencies local banks and the Portland
Police w ill also be on hand to talk about
the assistance they can provide for small
businesses and property owners on A l­
berta Street.
Ihe forum is a chance lor dialogue
among residents, property owners, busi­
ness people and community groups so
these groups can work together to design
the future o f development on Alberta
June I is also the first day o f the
Alberta Street Saturday Market at 1452
NF Alberta and the Alberta Street Farm­
ers Market is Sunday. June from 9 a.m. to
I p.m.
I lie Sabin Community Development
< " ip is a nonprofit organization whose
goal is to stabilize and improve the liv-
abilitv o f northeast Portland Call 2 8 7 -1
3496 for more information