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