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H ere's wishing each and every
one of you reading this a very pros
perous, healthy and happy New year
I want to remind you that while this is
my sincerest wish for all of us, it will
not happen by itself. If you want to be
prosperous, healthy and happy you
will have to take major responsibi I ity
for bringing these conditions into
your life. Usually around New Year's
many of us make resolutions or prom
ises to ourselves. We ' re goi ng to stop
smoking, lose weight, get in shape,
go back to school, get our lives to
gether, sober up etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera. Tragically most of us will
not keep these well-intended prom
ises. If you can’t keep a promise you
make to yourself w hat’s the proba
bility you’ II keep your word to some
one else? Does this mean we should
give up and not make promises? Not
necessarily. It means we have to take
a look at ourselves and what prevents
us from keeping our word.
We fail to keep our promises not
because we are bad people, weak or
we lack integrity or will power We
fail to keep them mainly because we
are ignorant of what is required to do
what we say we want to do; that is
alter our behavior or change our con
ditions. When we talk about chang
ing our behavior we are talking about
changing habits. Habits are actually
thoughts, feelings, ways of doing
things and responding to life that
^ w n q &&Mc>ry o f(baserei'/ Anderson
Sunrise, August 7, 1933, Saline,
Louisiana— Sunset, December 26,
1996, Portland, Oregon
Roosevelt Anderson moved to
Portland, Oregon in 1946 and at
tended B enson H igh S c h o o l.
Roosevelt became interested in avi
ation and joined the United States
Air Force shortly after graduation.
During his twenty years of active
military duty, he served in the Kore
an and Vietnam wars in defense of
our nation. As a Technical Sergeant
in the medical unit, Anderson was
cited numerous times for Hying rcs-
cue missions during the Vietnam War.
Roosc velt Anderson was a member
of New Hope Baptist Church, and
lifetime member of United States Air
Force Reserves. Dedicated member of
M.W. Prince Hall, Logan Lodge #5.
He is survived by his loving wife
Betty Jo Anderson, and children Lo-
L eatha A nderson, Roosevelt D.
Anderson Jr., Derwain L. Anderson,
Curtis L. Hamilton and Petress D.
Hamilton and Rita M. Langworthy.
Friends and family are invited to
celebrate the life of Roosevelt Ander
son Friday January 3rd, 1997 at New
Hope Missionary Baptist Church
3725 N Gantcnbein.
Services will begin at 11:30 AM,
internment at W illamette National
Cemetery.
Friends of Trees training
C R IM E
STOPPERS
Mail Theft
The U.S. Postal Inspection ser
vice in cooperation with the Port
land Police Bureau and Crime Stop
pers, is asking for your help identi
fying and apprehending the person
or persons responsible for the thefl
of mail. The mail is commonly sto
len from residential letter boxes.
Most mail thieves are looking for
checks that can be altered and cashed
to support drug habits. They may
also be looking for cash, and boxes
of new checks.
Mail theft is a growing problem.
According to police bureau statis
tics, the number of reported cases in
Portland has grown from 92 in the
year 1992, to over 650 cases in
1995. For the first six months of
1996, over 380 cases of mail theft
were reported.
Many mail thefts can be prevent
ed. The postal service says never
send cash through the mail, retrieve
your mail from the mailbox as soon
as possible after delivery, and never
leave outgoing mail in the box with
the red flag up.
Notify the post office of address
changes, and if you plan on being
out of town, ask the post office to
hold your mail.
Rewards are available if you have
information which leads to the iden
tification and arrest of anyone re
sponsible for stealing mail, and you
can remain anonymous. Call Crime
Stoppers at (503) 823-HELP.
The Roofing Recycling
Center open
The Roofing Recycling Center
(a division of W ood W aste Recla
mation, Inc.) has opened their used
asphalt roofing shingles recycling
yard. They accept used (tear off)
asphalt roofing shingles for the pur
pose of recycling. The Roofing
Recycling Center is the first and
only approved recycler of used as
phalt roofing shingles/roofing felt
in the Portland, Oregon Metro area.
This adds the 5th largest percent
age of construction waste (Roof
ing) to the list of items that can now
be recycled in the Portland M etro
politan Region.
Now, everyone can recycle used
asphalt roofing shingles and roof
ing felt, plus do it for less money
than normal disposal. Everyone wins
by going to The Roofing Recycling
Center. The roofing doesn’t go to a
landfill, it’s recycled and business
es and residents save money by re
cycling. This is one time when recy
cling does pay, in “real" dollars.
The Roofing Recycling Center is
located at, 6637 S.E. l(X)th Ave.,
Portland, Oregon 97266. Call (503)
774-6939; fax: (503) 774-7037
Friends of Trees is offering an
educational training session for those
people interested in leading volun
teer planting crews at Friends ot
Trees’ tree plantingevents. The train
ing will be held on Saturday, Janu
ary 11th from 8:30am to 1:00pm.
The free session will take place at
the Smile Station, 8210 SE 13th
Ave. Refreshments will be provid
ed.
Participants in the training ses
sion will learn how plant trees prop
erly, supervise volunteers, and re
spond to homeowners’ questions on
tree care.
There will be a tree planting dem
onstration, as well as opportunity for
hands-on instruction. Because some
outdoor activity is scheduled, those
attending the training are asked to
dress for the weather and bring work
gloves.
Tree planting is a fun and rewarding
activity for anyone, and becoming a
Friends of Trees Crew Leader brings
even added sense of accomplishments.
No prior tree planting experience is
needed to become a Friends of Trees
Crew Leader and an essential part of
one of the nation’s Best community
tree planting organizations.
Those wishing to participate in the
Crew Leader Training, or volunteer in
other ways with Friends of Trees,
should call 282-8846, ext. 13.
w e’ve done so often, we no longer
have to think about doing them We
just find ourselves doing them over
and over again whenever a certain
situation arises. The only way to
"break" a habit is to be aware of what
you are doing, why you are doing it
and consciously substituting another
idea, feeling, response or action tor
the one you wish to alter. In meta
physics this referred to as the Law of
Substitution. We must substitute an
other series ol ideas, feelings, phys
iological responses and behavior
patterns for the ones we wish to
change. We must do this so often that
the new patterns become so ingrained,
we do them without thinking.
It usually takes about 21 days of
constant conscious repetition to
change from one pattern to another.
The reason we fail or fall short is
because we don ’ t follow through long
enough or with enough enthusiasm
to impact our subconscious minds,
which facilitate the desired change
on a much deeper level of conscious
ness. Change requires thought and
determination.
As I have said so often, it is our
thinking that makes or breaks us in
the game of life. If our thinking is
right, our feelings will be right, our
health will be right and if our prepa
rations match our thinking, the out
come, in due time will be right. It all
begins in our minds with a thought,
Coping-Superstitions are dangerous
ttv I>R. C harles F aui . knkk
When was the last time that you
got nervous when a black cat crossed
your path? When did you last go out
of your way to avoid walking under
a ladder? Or, threw salt over your
shoulder for good luck? Or got
scared when you broke a mirror
(because you expected to have sev
en years of bad luck)? Or, finally,
avoided dating someone because
they were born under a different
astrological sign?
Is it really true that you will have
bad luck if a black cat crosses your
path? Many people think it is. Some
people become terrified if they spot a
black cat a block away. Are you one
of those individuals? Why do you
believe this, or any other superstition,
to be true? If you believe in supersti
tion it is likely that your parents did
too and they taught it to you.
But there is no evidence to support
any superstition or so-called "bad
luck". If something uncomfortable
happens, people who believe in su
perstition think that it was caused by
something that they did and this in
creases their fear. But non-supersti-
tious people simply attribute it to
chance or coincidence, and go fear
lessly about their business.
Superstitious people believe that
some evil being is able to watch
everyone on earth, at the same time.
This "being" keeps careful records,
they think, of every broken mirror
(he [it?] must have the largest com-
p u ter-o r file cabinet in existence)
and it punishes every individual who
has the misfortune of breaking a mir
ror. If you break 10 mirrors, over a
lifetime, your entire life will be total
torment, so the superstitious thinks.
But people whose parents did not
believe in superstitions, don’t be
lieve in them either because their
parents never taught them to be afraid
of their own behavior. They live per
fectly normal live. And they have
great advantage of not being nervous
when they see a black cat, or walk
under a ladder, or have to I i ve through
Friday the 13th, or break a mirror, or
do any of the other things that are
suppose to mysteriously make their
lives miserable.
No one has ever proven that there
is any connection between your be
havior and any supernatural being.
D on’t forget that billions of people
ber is actually a 9(X) number some
where in the Caribbean.
In addition to the 809 area code,
consumers should be wary of mes
sages that promote a return call to
any of the following area codes; 242,
246, 268. 345, 441, 664, 670, 758,
767,787, 868, 869 or 876. These arc
listed by AT&T as originating off
shore and are targeted as warnings
for possible telephone scams.
“Basical ly, anyone who uses a tele
phone, pager or electronic mail
should watch out for suspicious ac
tivity,” warns Hola.
World Class Communications has
been serving the Seattle area since
1926 and has a proactive system in
place to protect their clients from
possible fraudulent calls from the
Caribbean or other countries.
If consumers suspect they are vic
tims of the “809 scam” or any other
form of telephone fraud, Hola urges
them to contact their telephone com
pany or long distance carrier.
For more inform ation contact
who live in other countries have
never heard of these superstitions
and would laugh at you if you crossed
the street to avoid having a black cat
cross your path.
Millions of people are manipu
lated by others who tell them how to
remove their “bad luck”. They often
become wealthy by selling you a
trinket, button, a piece of cloth, or
anything that they can make you
think will solve your problem and
“chase away evil spirits”. These
people are unscrupulous. They know
that this “stuff" will have no effect
whatsoever.
If you are superstitious, you have
given control of your life to some
one else simply because you have
accepted the myths. These myths
may have been accepted hundreds
of years ago by people who did not
understand science. It is now time
for you to take control of your own
life; stop being controlled by others
and drop these silly superstitions
form your life.
If you would like to contact Dr.
F a u lk n e r, w rite him at 1635
Nathaniel M itchell road, Dover,
Del., 19901
Reward $5,000
A $5,000.00 reward is being offered for the murder of
Willie Banks Jr., who was killed on November 15th 1996.
Call: Crime Stoppers 503-823-HELP
In
charge.
International Telephone Scam
Targets U.S. Consumers
A new telephone scam deceiving
ieople into calling high-coast num
bers in the Caribbean is targeting
isers of pagers, fax machines, voice
nail boxes or the Internet. Since
ieptember 1996, thousands of pager
isers have received urgent messages
a diala number in the 809 area code.
When people call, they hear a long,
ambling message that never con-
lects to a real person,” explains Kelly
Iola, president of World Class Cotn-
nunications
"The scheme is the latest in a
lever-ending series of attempts by
on artists to line their pockets by
ricking unsuspecting people into
lialing a recorded message that of-
ersnoreal value.” says Rich Pctillo,
<T&T corporate security manager.
“It’s not just pagers and answer-
ng systems that are affected," adds
jola. “Fax-on-demand systems and
lectronic mail servers are also begin
n filtrated.
“The real problem with this scam
s the cost of the call-ab o u t $25,”
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or an image of what we want to do, be
or have.
What is it you desire for yourself
in 1997? Is it belter health, unproved
relationships or more financial secu
rity? None of this beyond your grasp.
None of this is impossible for you
However, you must realize none of it
will happen without serious ef f ort on
your part If you want it, work for it.
Be willing to pay the price for it. Be
willing to make it a part of you, just
like the things you want to change are
a part of you. Be willing to pul the
quality time and energy into your
relationships so they reflect the men
tal equivalent of what you want Be
willing to spend just as much time
and energy staying sober as you did
getting high. Wishing wouldn’t get
it. Unwavering faith in yourself and
what it is you want, coupled with
planning, decisive actions and perse
verance will forge your dreams into
reality.
I say make your promises and
resolutions. Think big and boldly
and call forth those things that are not
as though they were! Do it with faith,
put in the required mental energy,
emotional commitment and repeti
tive actions to make them part of you.
Make success your habit. Believe in
yourself and the power residing with
in you that can transform your life
into something beautiful, wonderful
and fulfilling. Unveil a new you 1997.
Ask Cheryl Carter how she likes to conduct business
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us she wanted her bill to be the same amount every
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month, we averaged her payments out over the year.
And because Cheryl dislikes the hassle o f mailing her
monthly bill, she signed up for automatic payment
On the same day, each month, the amount Cheryl
owes is automatically deducted from her checking
account It's faster and easier than, say, giving a hound
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like Chauncey the suds
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