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Volume XXVI, Number 46
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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