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Education
N ovember 27, 1996 • T he P ortland O bserver
Local teachers awarded grants
to E.T.C. Ed-Tech Centers
FUNDS RAISED DURING TCI'S FALL
EDUCATION CAMPAIGN RESULT IN
FREE “FIELD TRIP” FOR TEACHERS
O ' Brian V ojtek, D ire cto r o f Instruc
tion. Oregon C ity School D istrict;
Jo y c e A K n o w lto n , T e a c h e r,
Seven teachers w ith in the Port
Gladstone High School.
fh e school districts chose these
educators to attend the center based
land, Gladstone, Oregon C ity. Bea
verton, Vancouverand B attleG round
School D istricts have ben awarded
grants to attend one o f the leading
technology education fa cilitie s in the
United States. The grants were pro
vided to the school districts as a
result o f funds raised during T C i’ s
recent Fall Education Campaign
The Grant winners are Judy Van
Scoter, Teacher, West Tualatin View ;
Bruce Russell, Executive C oordina
to r, V a n co u ve r P u b lic S ch o o ls;
K risten Felde, Teacher and Educa
tion Technology C oordinator, Pleas
ant V a lle y P rim ary; K e lly Kuntz,
Instructional Technology Specialist,
Beaverton School D is tric t; Susan
M cE lroy, A c tiv ity C oordinator, West
Sylvan M id d le School; RoseAnne
on their high degree o f interest in
educational technology. They also
posses the leadership qualities re
quired to return to the district and
share their newfound knowledge and
experience w ith their colleagues.
The teachers w ill attend a specially-
constructed, 2 1/2 day course at the
ETC Ed-Tech Center in Littleton.
Colorado. They w ill learn a variety o f
instructional technologies, including
cable-del ivered video and data resourc
es, Internet, information retrieval, vid
eo and computer networks, multime
dia and electronic publishing Grant
winners form the community w ill jo in
other teachers selected from around
the country to attend training.
I he ETC Ed-Tech Center, locat
ed at T C I’ s national d ig ita l te le vi
sion fa c ility in L ittleton, has trained
more than 1,000 teachers on ad
vanced technologies since it opened
in May 1994. E T C ’ s new training
fa c ility w ill open in m id-O ctober o f
1996 in W ashington, D C.
T C I’ s Portland M e tro systems
serve over 240,000 customers in
Portland, West Linn, Oregon C ity,
G la d s to n e , C la c k a m a s C o u n ty ,
Washington C ounty and the com m u
nities o f T ualatin V alley, Vancouver
and C lark county. Through T C i’ s
philanthropic efforts, over 3 16 K -1 2
schools in the local area have been
w ired to receive com m ercial-free
educational programs via cable.
T C I is the nation’ s largest cable
television company, serving compa
ny, serving 14 m illio n U.S. house
holds in 49 states, w ith operations in
several foreign countries.
Governors’ School Seeks Applicants
The Oregon G overnors’ School
(O G S) is currently accepting a p p li
cations from high school students
throughout Oregon fo r its sixth an
nual Institute.
OGS is a year-round, tw o-part
program that begins w ith a three-
week, residential Summer Institute,
to be held this year on the campus o f
W illam ette U niversity in Salem from
June 22 to July I I, 1997. The In sti
tute focuses on critical thinking ski I Is,
com m unication, c o n flic t manage
ment and team -building as w ell as
diversity training and project devel
opment. Students also meet w ith key
leaders in the state and participate in
an intense out-doors experience du r
ing the three weeks.
F o llo w in g the Institute, students
participate in a series o f follow -up
training sessions and opportunities
to w ork on both individual and group
service projects w ith other youth to
address the needs o f their com m uni
ties T h is phase o f OGS is known as
“ Y oung Initiatives” and takes place
regionally throughout the state.
"W e seek youth who represent
diverse ethnic, academic and socio
economic back-grounds from all cor
ners o f Oregon,” says Dr. M arilyn
Johnston, executive director o f OGS.
“ We strongly encourage young peo
ple who feel they have untapped nat
ural leadership potential and who
w ould like to gain confidence and
skills as a leader in their school and
com m unity to apply.”
To be e lig ib le , students must be
entering th e ir sophomore, ju n io r or
senior year in either a traditional high
school o r an alternative education
program in Fall 1997. S ixty p a rtici
pants w ill be chosen to participate
through a com petitive process.
A p plications are due by March
15, 1997, and are available through
Oregon p u b lic and p riva te high
sc h o o ls , o u r W eb site ( H tt p :/ /
w w w .w illam ette.rg/ogs), o r by con
tacting the OGS o ffic e directly: O re
gon G overnors’ School, c/o W il
lamette U niversity, 900 State Street,
Salem. OR 97301; phone (5 0 3 )3 7 3 -
3335; fax (503) 373-3220; e-m ail:
m johnsto@ w i llam ette.edu.
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Do You Plan To Appeal?
How Will You Do I he Required Research To Find Comparables?
l ake time off from work, travel to the Assessment & Taxation office
in downtown Portland and stand in line waiting for the microfilm machine
OR
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Your choice?
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Why doesn’t the Multnomah County Assessment and Taxation Division want citizens
to have access to public property tax records on Multnomah County’s Internet Server?
Find out here at
http://www.maesolve.com/multco/default.html
Multnomah County holds no greater power over its citizens than its ability to assess property values.
Property tax payers must have equal access to information to effectively challenge arbitrary decisions
or errors made by faceless bureaucrats. Fairness demands that citizens be provided with the information
they need in a timely and easily accessible manner in order to have an equal voice in any challenge to
disputed assessments. Multnomah County’s current property tax information delivery system is
outdated, inadequate and burdensome on the citizens that must use the system to justify their claim.
Contact
•
Bev Stein, the County Chair and your Commissioner
•
Beverly Stein, County Chair, 248-3308 mult.eliair@co.multnornah.or.us
• Commissioner Dan Saltzman 248-5220 Dan.S.Saltzman@co.multnomah.or.us
• Commissioner Gary Hansen 248-5219 G.D. Hansen@co.multnomah.or.us
• Commissioner Tanya Collier 248-5217 Tanya.D.Collier@co.multnomah.or.us
• Commissioner Sharron Kelley 248-5213 Sharron.E.Kelley@co.multnomah.or.us
Tell them you want access to public property tax records
made available on the Multnomah County Internet Server, NOW.
Please fax or give this to another property tax paver.
Slavery’s Buried Past
In 1991, New Y o rk C ity construc
tion workers were digging a founda
tion for a skyscraper when they un
earthed an 18th Century slave grave
yard containing the remains o f 427
bodies. It was a m ajor news story —
and a p o litic a l fig h t --as A frica n
Americans in New Y o rk sought to
preserve a sacred place. A fterm onths
o f negotiation, the skeletons were
sent to Washington D .C .’ s Howard
U niversity fo r study. Today the re
sults are in: enslaved A fricans not
only b u ilt early New Y o rk, they were
lite ra lly worked to death. Host B ill
K urtis and the Peabody A w a rd -w in
ning The N ew Explorers document
the dig, the controversy, the research
and the results. “ S lavery’ s Buried
Past” airs on PBS stations nation
wide on Wednesday, December 18
at 8 p.m. (check local listings).
The N ew E xp lo re rs w ith B ill
K urtis is p roudly sponsored by the
United State Postal Service.
M oving south o f the New Y o rk
burial grounds, The N ew Explorers
team jo in s historical archaeologists
at C olonial W illia m sb u rg , V irg in ia ,
and the Hermitage, A ndrew Jack
son's home in N ashville, identity and
their rights, slaves held on to their
traditions, practiced in secret.
Dr. M ichael Blakey, a b iological
anthropologist at Howard U niversi-
ty ’ s C obb Laboratory, heads the re
search on the skeletons found at the
burial ground in N ew Y o rk C ity.
H a lfo fth e m were children, and many
o f those were infants under 6 months
old. This evidence o f high infant
m o rta lity tells researchers that the
early 18th Centery.
A ndrew Jackson’ s home, the H er
mitage in N ashville, yields unique
finds from the 1820s: Dr. Larry
M cK ee is the scientist w ho is exca
vating slave cabins on Jackson’s plan
tation -- and here there is a d iffe r
ence.
The Hermitage was a wealthy plan
tation where A ndrew Jackson treat
ed his slaves “ w e ll,” as a showcase
fo r the institution o f slavery. But
even there, the slaves held on to a
personal, hidden culture. Am ong oth
enslaved A fricans at this site were
kept in very, very poor conditions.
M ark Mack and other scientists at
Cobb Laboratory have been study
ing defects in muscle attachments
and fractures on the remains o f the
buried slaves w hich show that peo
er sym bolic artifacts, M cK ee has
found a charm in the image o f a fist,
ple were” pressed to the very mar
gins o f human physical capacity.”
In W illiam sburg, V irg in ia , The
New Explorers team examines the
w ork o f M aria Franklin, and historic
a rc h a e o lo g is t w h o e x c a v a te d
Richneck, a slave quarter dating back
reflective o f the m ysterious life that
the slave holders could neither con
tro l nor understand.
In S lavery’ s B uried past, the New
Explorers w ith B ill K urtis shows how
to the m iddle 1700s. She has found a
co llection o f d rille d spoon handles,
artifacts she believes were w orn to
attract good spirits, indicating that
the enslaved A fricans incorporated
science is tryin g to piece together a
history that was never w ritten. The
documentary sheds new lig h t on one
o f the most elusive stories in A m e r
ideas o fth e past in shaping their new
people held as slaves.
B y e xa m in in g tin y things that
someone at one tim e thought were
im portant, either s p iritu a lly o r fo r
practical use, science is learning that
ican history, the personal lives o f
identity in Am erica.
A t the James R iver A rchaeologi
cal Institute, also in V irg in ia , Garrett
Fessler has excavated a slave quarter
on a plantation iro n ica lly called U to
pia, where he also found artifacts
suggesting that A fricans kept their
native spiritualism alive during the
enslaved people stayed true to their
own culture in spite o fth e systematic
e ffo rt to eradicate th e ir sense o f iden
tity and ties to th e ir homeland.
New Manager of Multnomah County
Library’s North Portland Branch
L ib ra ry A ssociation and the M ic h i
gan A frica n -A m e rica n Librarians
group.
The N orth Portland Branch L i
M ultnom ah County L ib ra ry has
hired Patricia Welch as the new
manager o f the N o rth Portland
Branch Library.
Welch, who has moved to P ort
land from D etroit, most recently
served as a reference librarian at
D etroit Public L ib ra ry and as a re
search specialist at M IT S , the U n i
versity o f M ich ig a n ’ s free-based
inform ation service. W elch replac
es Cathie H elm ick, who has jo in e d
the s ta ffo f the San Francisco Public
Library.
Welch has also been a reference
librarian at the U n ive rsity o f M ich-
igan Graduate L ib ra ry and was a
reference/m arketing librarian for
the U n ive rsity’ s M - L IN K project,
in w hich she provided reference
services to businesses, local g o v
ernments and com m unity agencies
th ro u g h a n e tw o rk o f p u b lic
libraries.
brary, located at 512 N. K illin g s -
w orth, serves a population o f ap
p roxim ately 60,000 in a m u lti-e th
nic urban neighborhood. The clas
sic Carnegie library, b u ilt in 1913,
also houses the Black Resource Cen
ter, a special collection o f materials
relating to the A frica n -A m e rica n
experience.
The Center also contains w orks
by A frica n and Caribbean w riters.
Additional col lections include Span
P a tric ia Welch, B ranch
m a n a g e r, N o rth P o rtla n d L ib ra ry
ish language and Vietnamese lan
W elch is a graduate o f Towson
State U n ive rsity and the U n ive rsity
o f M ichigan School o f Inform ation.
She has studied at the U n ive rsity o f
Ghana, West A fric a and completed
guage materials.
The N o rth Portland Branch L i
brary is open Tuesday-Thursday
from 10 a.m.-8 p.m .; and Friday-
Saturday from 10 a.m .-5:30 p.m.
N orth Portland Branch L ib ra ry is
the M ichigan Leadership Academy.
She has been active in the M ichigan
closed Sunday and M onday.
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legal assault on a m in o rity woman
owned skin care products compa
ny, fo r using her historical and rare
name
Madeleine Jaundoo fo r selling beau
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name. Revlon states in their opposi
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their mark Jontue are sim ilar in ap
Revlon among the giants o f the
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her 92 year old father C y ril Jaundoo
what is happening to use, he let his
head down in prayer.
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