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* Volume XXVI, Number 46 Committed to cultural d "JÌorUanh (©bserucr SECTION P Hladdin and Çis fflagic Lamp Race Relations To further positive race relations, The Metropolitan Human Rights Commis sion is hosting a series of dialogues on race relations. One dialogue took place on Saturday, November 9. Another dia logue will take place on Saturday, No vember 16, 8:30 a.m.- 12:00 Noon, in the Community Room of Mid-County Sewer Project, SE 162nd & Stark, Portland (in Village Square ShoppingCenter). Partic ipants in MHRC Community Dialogues will engage in dialogue, not debate. To register,call LindaHunter, MHRCCom- munity Relations, 823-5284 (voice TTY). If you are a person with a disability and need accommodation, please cal 148 hours in advance. ears of Joy Theatre's production of Aladdin and His Magic Lamp will open this award-winning theater's season at the Winningstad Theater in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts from November 15 - December 1. T APA receives funding To reduce the under representation of I minorities in the biomedical field and address the problems minority students encounter in higher education, the Amer ican Psychological Association’s (APA) O ffice o f Ethnic M inority Affairs (OEMA) has sought and was awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Insti tute ofGeneral Medical Science (NIGMS) Aladdin (right) dicovers the magic lamp. for a three-year project to “increase the number of persons of color in the educa- I tional pipeline." For more information, contact Pam Willenzat the Public Affairs Office, (203) 336-5700. Photo by Newel Stickney Albina Head Start's pilot project Share Our Strength ‘Operation Frontline' is a program that tries to increase the cooking, budgeting and nutritional knowledge o f low- incom e families. Pictured left (from left to right) are Matthew Lasof, C hef at Avalon Bar & Grill; Elaine Remeriz, Operation Frontline Cooidinator; and Fernando Divina, C hef and owner o f Fiddleheads Restaurant. Free Thanksgiving dinner St. Andrew Church will offer its annu al freeThanksgivingdinnerat St. Andrew Community Center. 4940 NE 8th Ave., from 12 noon to 3 p.m., Thursday, No vember 28. Donations of any traditional Thanksgiving food items, from cooked turkeys to pies, will be welcomed for the dinner. The contributions will be accept ed W ednesday, November 27, and Thanksgiving Day, starting at 9 a m., at the St. Andrew Community Center. For more information contact Dan Coyne a 281-1005. The Power of Kindness If you believe in the power o f kind ness, Volunteers of America invites you I to join its Random Acts of Kindness I committee. Help get the community in- I volved in the kindness movement. For I more information, contact Volunteers of America at 235-8655. Kindness helps | everyone Holiday in the Country In celebration o f the holidays, the Jenkins Estate will host its annual Holi day in the Country Show and Sale, No vember 16 and 17 from 10:00a.m.-6 p.m. Artists from the northwest will offer their items (or sale in the main house and stable which they have transformed into a fine holiday specialty boutique. There’s a gift I for every budget. There is free parking and no admittance fee. ■ A.C. Green Scholarships A series of Oregon State University scholarships funded by Phoenix Suns bas ketball star A.C. Green will be announced at 10 a.m. I hursday, November 14, in the OSU Memorial Union Martin LutherKing Room. Details of Green’s BUG Scholar ship will be announced by Lee Johnson, an Austin, Texas attorney who attended OSU with Green. Embracing diversity is focus of local Churches The co n g regations o f P ortland, under the leadership o f The Rev. Luther S tu rtev an t o f E cum enical M inistries o f Oregon, will be part o f a national teleconference on Satur day, November 16, 1996. The Port land gathering, which will include local workshop sessions, will be held at First United M ethodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson, beginning at 8:30 a m Pastors, parishioners, lay lead ers, religious educators, sem inarians and theologians are invited to attend SUBMISSIONS: Community Calendar information will be given priority if dated two weeks before the event date. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays; 11 a m and 2 p.m. on Saturdays; and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Special Friday evening performances will be opened at 7 15 p.m. by Portland s own Middle Eastern Music ensemble, Al-Andalus. The Portland Center for the Performing Arts is located at 1111 SW Broadway in Portland. Season tickets and available for $7.00. Individual tickets are $9.50 for adults and $8.50 for children. For tickets and information call 248-0557 New to this show is an exhibit on the Middle East which will accompany all the performances of Aladdin and His Magic Lamp. I ears of Joy s Family Series will continue with Toy Box, Fire on the Mountain, and concludes with Pinocchio. All performances this season will be ac companied by a lobby exhibit or activity. Community service awards given he late Joyce Washington, past publisher of the Portland Ob server, was the recipient of the 1996 Neil Kelly Award at the 10th Annu al “Excellence In Business" Awards Din ner on November 6. T The award is presented “to the individual and/or business which best signify the most successful efforts in business and communi ty development for North-Northeast Port land.” A lifelong advocate for family values, elderly care and the community, Mrs. Wash ington was a member o f the NAACP, the Urban League, and the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs (OAME). As the only female publisher among the members of the West Coast Black Publish er’s Association, she was a pioneer in jour nalism. Her volunteer work included Meals on Wheels, the Multi-Cultural Senior Services Center and Project Head Start, and many other organizations and projects over the years, The Neil Kelly Award was accepted on Mrs. Washington’s behalf by her eldest son. Chuck Washington, publisher of the Port land Observer, and her son Mark Washing ton, the Observer’s distribution manager. Joyce Washington Ken Boddie was Master of Ceremonies for the event Baruti Artharee, Director of Oregon Housing & Community Services, was the keynote speaker. Mr. Artharee high lighted the many developments and projects taking place in N-NE Portland, and specifi cally addressed the efforts and accomplish- mentsofthe Martin LutherKing, Jr. Blvdand Main Street project in progress. The theme of this year’s banquet was “Teaming Up for Results”. Juan Campos, V ice President of Key Bank of Oregon, received the Association’s Com- munity Service Award on behalfofthe Bank’s Community Services Department. Thisaward recognizes Key Bank for its ongoing gener ous support of a wide variety of community efforts. I he Association’s “Effective Government A w ard” was presented to G overnor Kitzhaber’s Solution Team and to the Mar tin Luther King, Jr Boulevard Action Com mittee forthe MI.K Blvd Main Street Project recognizing its significant contribution to the community over the past year. Three neighborhood businesses were hon ored For their contributions to area economic development: Interstate Rentals won the medium-sized business award. Realty World (formerly Albina Progressive Realty) won the small business award, and Safeway’s MLK Jr. Blvd store won the large business award These businesses have made significant contributions by their involvement in and support o f many community activities. As employers, investors, activists, supporters and advocates for the community they each contribute dai ly to the qual ity of I ife in North- Northeast Portland. Past winners of the Neil Kelly Award include Sam Brooks, Sheila Holden and Carl Talton. Breaking Down Barriers T he A si AN R e I’OKTEK s we arrive at the Urban League Northeast Multicul tural Senior Center, we can hear African American Barbara McFar- Land-hunt, an alto, belting out a beau tiful song. A She has been singing since she was six years old, and the song is a tribute to the center’s Queen for a Day, Frieda Murray. Mrs. Murray, an African American, is handicapped but has a wonderful smiling attitude. This is why her fellow seniors in the county program have chosen her as Queen, said activities Director Jaime Lombos, a Filipino American “All the seniors recognized her for her perseverance and for being a strong person who has gone through the turmoils of life. “She was chosen for being a person who has a very good attitude This attitude is evident as she smiles both for my camera and for the cake she receives from Mark Washington, her grandson from the Portland Observer, and family friend Annie Jennings. Frieda’s situation underscores that fact that seniors are willing to help one another. It also is living proof of the statement that you can do anything you put your mind to. In this case, Frieda’s resistance to despair is nothing short of heroic. Her party is a part of the center’s Activ ities Program, which Mr Lombos runs with Associate Activities Coordinator Sylvia Garcia, a Hispanic American, and others. He describes the mission of the center’s Activities Program as helping seniors of all ethnicities get to know each other Mr. Lombos was an l&R, oran Informa tion and Referral Specialist, and an outreach worker. Seven months later African American Program Director Esther I linson hired him in his current position. He is also a realtor. “She was the one who gave me a break to be an I and R in the first place, so I kinda stuck with her like glue.” E & M Market Reopening Concordia Elects New President told the Observer, “Our market research A bout 300 people turned out for showed that the community was so positive the grand opening of the E and toward this concept that we said. Let’s do M Community M arket, a re sponse store officials hope will continue. Rice says that the store may hold a contest The 24,000 square foot store at 919 N. Killingsworth St., now a subsidiary o f Eman uel Temple, will forgo the sale of alcohol and tobacco products, which earned the former store $260,000 in gross sales during its last year of operation. Store official Evgrett Rice to pick a new name early next year, and perhaps even offer a prize for the winning idea, but that, this is not yet determined Bishop Wells of Emanuel Temple fears a name change might interfere with communi ty recognition of the market. BT L tiE tR L H A N Harris, who presided for two years, took esident and former business over an organization so divided by internal man Pat Messinger replaced strife that it could barely function. resident and mall carrier Isham During the previous two years president Harris as president of the Concordia Ron Fossum and committee chairs Sandy Neighborhood Association last week. Oldenkamp and Bill Hermanson had re R Messinger, a four-year resident of the area, has served as chair of the association’s land use committee and has been active in the Alberta Conrcordia Revitalization Project He ran unopposed signed under pressure Harris was elected in part because he was perceived as perhaps the only active member of the association whose leadership would be acceptable to all parties. He declined to run for a third term
