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t H '• *■* * . î. J*» . r. .¿c J • . :•*-«»-<• V' . < # » - . '. U ^ n *< «** .Volume X X V I, Number 25 MMMINN«lNSK3tflBt&¿ M *i m> a nBajWfik’fl Committed to cultural diversity. June 19, 1996 (The ^ o rtía n h (©bseruer SECTION Affordable Housing Bolstered by Regional Focus Introduced in August II Fomaio’s Portland located is the first outside of California. Located at 115 NW 22nd Avenue, the restaurant and bakery opened to the public on April I. Hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. midnight; and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. For restaurant information or reservations, please call 503-248-9400. For additional bakery information, please call 503-248-9500. Summer Sockhop At Pearson Air Museum 50’s & 60’s sock hop featuring Rock n’ Ricky 7 to 12 p.m. June 22, 1996 for more information call 694-7026 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Concert First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main Street. Featuring pianist Tatjana Balas performing the Piano Concerto # I by Liszt, & will also feature the Cantata Carmina Burana for Solo Voices, Chorus & Orches tra. $ 10 general, $8 seniors/students. Tick ets available at Beacock’s Music, Runyan’s Jewelers, Reader’s Hallmark & Music Headquarters. The Bill Healy Foundation will present • theCeltic Music Fest 1996intheChampoeg Park Amphitheater on September 14 and • 15, from 11 a m. to 10 p in. “Summer’s Best Pickin’s Come be one of this “Summer's Best I Pickin’s at the 142nd Washington County I Fair and Rodeo, Tuesday, July 30th through Sunday, August 4th Once again you’ll find “Summer’s Best” entertainment, PRCA Rodeo action, food, exhibits and livestock for the whole family. June 28-30, 1996 at Marine Park, Cas cade Locks, Oregon. Security provided, J live music , parade starts at 11.00 a.m. on I Saturday, June 2 9 ,1996formore informa- ! tion please call Phil Redlock 503-374- 1 8313 or Port of Cascade Locks 503-374- ] 8619. Shrewsbury Renaissance Fair 14-15 September 1996 in Philomath, Oregon. Application deadline for Perform- j ing Artists, Vendors, Improv Theatre, Reenactors, and Crafters is July 3 1, 1996. I Please call Shrew at 541-929-4897. 1 I Class Of ‘56 Reunion j Jefferson High School Class of 1956 J will have a 40 year reunion picnic at Roslyn j Lake on August 10, 1996 from noon until ] 8:30 p.m For more information, call: Doug Sorenson, (503) 245-7198 or Marlene i (Goebel) Iverson, (503) 690-2037. j SUBMISSIONS: Community Calendar information will be given priority if dated two weeks before the event date. L ee P erlman A One of them, HOST Community Devel opment, isjust completing work on its newest project, the Woodlawn Park Place subdivi sion. Phase One of the 20 house project on a 64,656 square foot lot at Northeast 15th Avenue and Bryant Street should be avail able be mid-August. Last week one of the three-bedroom homes was sold for just under $90,000, according to executive director Howard Nolte. The Woodlawn homes range in price from $89,000 to 97,000 for three bedrooms, com pared to $64,000 to $70,000 for houses HOST built in Eliot and King, However, the same structures, built and sold on a for-profit basis, would probably cost $ 125,000 to $ 135,000, Nolte says. “This is the wildest escalation in the real estate market in the history of Portland," he says. He quotes the June issue of Money Magazine as showing that at 5.6 percent, Portland’s housing prices are the fastest- rising of the nation’s 50 largest cities. Since 1990 the median price of homes has nearly doubled, going from $70,000 to $ 130,000. In northeast, where the market has been de pressed for decades, the rate of increase is even higher. “People may be frozen out of the opportu nity for home ownership forever if they don’t buy now,” he says. Rosem ary Daniels n June 4th 3 0 0 people from the Brooklyn Community - stu dents, staff, parents ex-Brook lyn students, family and friends said farewell to principal Rosemary Daniels. O ▼ Daniels has been the principal at Brook lyn School for the past ten years. Daniels is well loved by the Brooklyn community. They called her “The Star” of Brooklyn. She is noted for greeting all the students by name as well as comments on some thing special about each student. The enrollment has increased at Brook lyn due to her force to add additional programs to the school,- such as Piaget/ English as second language and the new alternative program (Winter Haven) sci- ▼ Continued to page Continued to page Portland’s African-American F.B.I. Supervisor D an B e i . i . H er demeanor Is pleasant and cordial, and even self-effac ing. However this African-American woman is responsible for an important unit in the Portland Federal Bureau of Investigation. She supervises 16 regional and federal agents in the areas of violence, interstate theft, kidnapping and bank robbery. The Grand Rapids, M ichigan native holds a master’s degree in Business Education, and worked various other jobs before com ing to the F.B.I. in 1983. Our conversation focused on the area of what pre-requisites are necessary to enter the F B I. and what career opportunities are avai I- able to people of color as well as some of the Joyce Adkins realities for person’s of color in the agency. Dan fie//—What is the entering pay for an agent in the F B I. Joyce Adkins—About 10,000 no wait its changed, some where in the area of about 30,000 now. (Actually according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics the starting salary for an F B I. agent which is catego rized as G-10 is entry level $33,762 as of January 1996.) Dan fie//—How did you get involved with the F B I Joyce Adkins—\ came into the Bureau in 1983 steered in this direction by a friend, Andy Metcafc, who was a U.S Marshall in Grand Rapids Michigan Dan Bell—Vl&s he Black also. Joyce Adkins—Yes he was Black. He took me up to the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion,.. at that time I thought you had to have a degree in accounting or be a lawyer. But he told me no I had the qualifications, and I applied. Did a little background investiga tion of my own. Put in the paper work and I went for it. I came in through the Detroit office my career led me back to Grand Rapids for a short time, to Milwaukie, then Washington DC. Dan Bell— Do you have to take a test, what is the criteria to enter the F B I.? Do you have armed forces, or law enforcement back ground? What do you suggest to some one I4or 15 who want to get into the F B I ? ▼ ” Continued to page A5 JUHETEEHTH CELEBRATED by Steenwheeler Days Festival 300 Say “Farewell” ffordable housing is becoming scarce in northeast Portland, but four non-profit agencies are working to keep the opportunity of se curing the American Dream alive. by The First-Ever Bill Healy Foundation : Celtic Music Fest • %rK<<wU'K&’á P amela J ordan the celebration. ozens of people drifted in and Juneteenth com m em orates June 19, out of Alberta Park Saturday 1865, the day General Gordon Granger afternoon. They came to enjoy ordered Texas slaveholders to release the good food, sunny w eather and to slaves. That federal order freed their celebrate Juneteenth, what some call the last isolated group o f slaves held in African-American Independence Day. the United States. The order reached D “ I, represents the physical emancipation of the chattel slave, and the continuation of their mental and physical emancipation,” said Iman Mikal Shabazz, a participant in Texas alm ost 2 1/2 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Em ancipa tion Proclam ation in 1863. Although the holiday isn’t widely known in the Pacific Northwest, African-Ameri cans in Portland have been celebrating Juneteenth since the mid-forties. A, Saturday’s celebration individuals re membered ancestors in a “passage-over” ceremony. Some participants chose to re main nameless as a tribute to ancestors who had their names taken away when they were brought to this country. The event ended with a march from Al berta Park to Bethel African Methodist Epis- copal Church. Shabazz hopes celebration of Juneteenth will help young people remember African- American history, and inspire them to con tinue working for equality. “ We need to keep pushing forward, but not in an isolated sense,” said Shabazz. “Keep pushing forward in partnership with the entire nation, the nation that once was slave and master is now one nation moving forward.” Lucious Hicks Seeks City Commission Seat P ortland Public School Board Chair and Community Leader Stresses Education and Neigh borhoods Lucious Hicks current Chair for the Port land School Board and long time community leader formally announced his candidacy for City Commissioner for the September spe cial election Hicks announced today at 12;00 noon in front of Prescott Elementary School located at 10 4 10 NE Prescott and stressed his on going commitment to education. “I am confident that I have a unique set of qualifications and experiences which will allow me to make a positive contribution to the people of Portland. This is a great city - but we can and must do better’ said Hicks. “Over these last months all Portlanders have come to realize that the future of our city and the future of our Public School are tied to gether. My number one priority will be to work on that relationship.” Lucious Hicks is a graduate of the Univer sity o f Oregon where he holds a B.S. in Psychology, M.S in counseling and Execu tive MBA. Hicks has been an employee of Pacific Corp, since 1980 where he represent ed Pacific Power and Light as a Community Relations Consultant. Government Affairs Specialist, Neighborhood Partnership Fund Director and currently as a Strategic Account Manager. Before coming to Pacific Corp. Hicks worked for the Oregon State Board of Higher Education as Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs, Portland State. Director of Portland State University Educa tion Center, Instructor, University of Oregon Department of Education, and Consultant, Office of Minority Relations, University of Oregon. A long time community leader Hicks is Portland's first African-American, to be elect ed to the Portland School Board Lastyearhe was elected Chair of the Portland School Board and as Chair he represented Portland Lucious Hicks on both the Oregon and National Association of School Boards. Under his Chairmanship the larges, education school bond measure in the h istory of Oregon was successfuI ly passed by the voters and the successful March for our Public Schools received national atten tion as a statement in support of Public Edu cation. Hicks has also been instrumental in creating the North/Northeast Economic De velopment Alliance which has been a pre mier model for community and economic development in Portland’s low-income neigh borhoods. Hicks has been active in the Wash ington and Oregon Branches of the National Association for the Advancement ofColored People (NAACP) and the Urban League of VX. Hicks is a member r of the Black Lead ership Conference ofVX. In addition to these accomplishments Hicks has served on the City Club of Portland, Metro Youth Com mission, the Police Internal Audit Commit tee, the City of Port land Workforce Develop ment Task Force, and the Coalition for School Integration. “ Another priority for me will be our neigh- ▼ Continued to page A5