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PSCC Governmental contracting forum Gussie McRobert (Mayor of Gresham) Dennis Reynolds, (Judge (Chair) of Grant County), Burke Raymond (Admimstra tor of Jackson County), Bev Stein (Chair Multnomah County) and Tom Walsh (General Manager of Tri-Met) will be speakers at the Governmental Contract ing Forum sponsored by the Professional Services Coordinating Council (PSCC) The Forum will take place from 2:30 6:00 PM on March 18th, 1997 in the Portland Building. The cost for professionals who are members of PSCC member associations is $25 and for non-members $40. Reser vations can be made in advance by send ing payment to the PSCC at 121 SW Morrison Street, Suite 840, Portland, OR 97204. For information call The Suran Group at (503) 274-9381. Peter Rabbit visits Washington Square Washington Square Shopping Center invites children of all ages to come listen to Peter Rabbit Story Times and meet Peter Rabbit himself. This famous, cos tumed character, from Beatrix Potter’s much-love children’s story, will be in the Summit Court, between Nordstrom and Meier& Frank, inside Washington Square on Thursday, March 27, through Satur day, March 29, from 11:00a.m. to3:00pm Story times will begin at noon, 1 pm, 2pm. daily. Peter Rabbit will have a spe cial treat for all his little friends that come to visit him. Parents are welcome to bring their cameras. Washington Square is located south west of Portland off Hwy. 217 Stores include Nordstrom, Me(er & Frank, JCPenney, Sears, Mervyn’s and 140 spe cialty shops. Committed to cultural diversity. March 12, 1997 Library Closure protested ver 1 50 people attended the Save Our Library rally to show their support for the Albina Branch Library. Because of the antici pated impact of Measure 4 7 ’s budget cuts, Albina is one of eight branches slated for closure in June. O The rally, held Saturday March 8th at noon, was organized by the Save Albina Branch Library committee. It featured storytelling by Frederick Hollingsworth, and brief speeches from Carl Talton o f Pacific Power and Mari Petzing, a student from the Northeast Community School. A special guest appearance by Super Li brary Person, bearing a large L on his chest and draped in a cloth replica of a library card led the song “This Branch is your Branch" to the tune o f “This Land is your Land.” Richard Seidman, committee chair, said “Our neighbors view this library as a crucial resource to the community. This rally par ticipants to write their county commission ers and state legislators asking them to keep the library open, especially for the sake of the children. It’s a place of learning. It’s a world of freedom It’s a place of healing. It’s a land of dreamin’ It’s a place of safety. It’s a realm of beauty, This branch was made for you and me. / v* Local parents, students, and concerned citizens protested the imminent closure of Albina Branch Library. The neighborhood library is scheduled to close due to budget cuts. Rosemont mediation fails r I by L ee P erlman ing in good faith. Apparently both sides did m ediation process between things that the other side questioned. As far Central City Concern and the as I know, this is the first time a mediation Piedmont Neighborhood Asso has been suspended by the mediator. It’s ciation over the future of the Rosemont unfortunate." School property has broken down, with The dispute concerns C entral City both sides calling foul. Concern’s plans to develop the 7.6 acre A Nancy Lea o f the Piedmont Association says that Anne Rutherford of Full Circle Consulting called her to say that she and her partner Judith Mallory were withdrawing from the process. Additional sessions were pointless because "neither party is moving o ff their fixed position,” Lea quoted Rutherford as saying. Steve Rudman of the Portland Bureau of Housing and Community Development, which set up the mediation process, con firms that Full Circle had suggested the process be suspended “because it wasn’t going anywhere and neither party was act- former Catholic school at 597 N. Dekuin St. The non-profit agency, which develops and manages low-income housing, primarily in the downtown and Burnside area, acquired an option to purchase the purchase the prop erty from the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1995. They initially planned to use part of the grounds to build 75 units of housing for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts and their families. Piedmont protested that such a large concentration of a “delicate" popula tion would undermine their efforts to stabi lize the neighborhood. CCC’s current proposal, in cooperation with developer Brian McCarl, is to build 240 housing units on the property, including 50 to 60 units for the elderly, about 40 owner- occupied row houses on the periphery, and 50 units for the alcohol and drug-free popu lation According to Piedmont representatives, the parties held only two mediation sessions, one to discuss the ground rules of the process and one discussion of the proposed develop ment. After this, there was an exchange of letters in which CCC accused Piedmont of not bargaining in good faith. “They dragged the process out until the (mediation) contract ran out," Tom Markgraf of Piedmont told his association at a Febru ary 27 meeting. “ It’s a clever scheme if you don’t really want to mediate or change your position” CCC executive director Richard Harris and development director lan McKechnie The GREAT Program Adoption Conference Easter Bunny Visits Healthy Kids’ Fair Where else can kids visit the Easter Bunny, hunt for egges, have a teddy bear mended and get a health check all in one busy place? Legacy Emanuel Children’s Hospital welcomes the children o f Or egon to the Healthy Kids’ Fair, March 29, 1997. This springtime family tradition runs from 10 a m. to 2 p.m. and is co sponsored by Oregon Youth Care of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Oregon. The 5th/6th grade GREAT took home the Team Sportsmanship Trophy and the Third place trophy in the GREAT 48 (team) tournament held in Beaverton. Mortgage Market Sponsors Continuing Education Credit Realtors needing Oregon Continu ing Education credit hours can enroll in the course “New Construction” at a special discount sponsored rate o f $39.95. Participants will earn 7.5 elec tive CE credit hours with broker ap proval. The course is scheduled for Monday, March 24th form 9:00am to 4:30pm at the Home Builders Associa tion offices at 15555 SW Bangy Rd. Lake Oswego. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served bassis. For more information call Ray Bowman (360) 254-8713. SUBMISSIONS: Community Calendar information will be given priority if dated two weeks before the event date. he Portland Police Bureau GREAT program sponsors three basketball teams: and eighth grade girls team and a 4 th /5 th and 5 th /6 th boys basketball team. T The goal is to Provide basketball tourna ment experience for inner-city boys and girls, and to encourage citizenship and aca demic achievement through sports. To qualify for tournament participation youth must attend school, maintain grades. and exhibit a desire to excel in basketball. Cooperation with Physical Education teach ers or designated representative from each school. Students grades and attendance must be in good standing. Each basketball team has a Portland Police Bureau GREAT Officer on the coaching staff. Officer Larry Anderson. Officer Tim Evans and Officer Dawn Wil son. The GREAT basketball teams have com peted in local tournament play. Other tournaments that the teams will participate in will be held in Seaside Or egon, Bend Oregon, Vancouver, Washing ton and the State A AU Tournaments in Springfield Oregon. Anyone wish to sponsor a team or an individual for tournament play should call The Portland Police Bureau GREAT Program. Contact Larry Anderson at 823- 2111 or M erilee L aurens 823-2078 GREAT City o f Portland Federal Tax ID # is 936000236 Î declined to discuss the process. “ We took a vow of confidentiality when the process began, and I haven’t been officially informed that it has been terminated,” Harris told the Observer on March 3. Rudman says the mediation contract had not expired. McCarl and CCC appear ready to proceed with their development plans. They had a pre-application conference with the Bureau of Planning last month, although they have not yet submitted a formal application, to proceed, they will need to change the property’s current R5 zoning to R2, in comforntance with the Portland Compre hensive Plan. The process requires a public hearing, but such requests are usually granted if the applicant can show that urban services such as streets, sewers and water are available for the proposed development. orthwest Adoptive Families Association (NAFA) presents its seventh Conference on Adoption and Parenting Adopted Chil dren, Saturday, April 12 from 8:30 am to 5:30 p.m. It will be held at the Portland Conference Center, 3 00 NE Multnomah St. (across the Max line from the Oregon Convention Center). N Keynote speaker Patricia Irwin Johnston will speak on "Growing Your Family” Pat is an educator on the subjects of in fertility and adoption, as well as an author and publisher Johnston’s Perspectives Press titles fo cus exclusively on infertility and adoption issues. Her own works include "Adopting After Infertility”, “Taking Charge of In fertility", and recently published, "Launch ing A Baby’s Adoption: Practical Strate gies for Parents and Professionals Pat is also the author of "Positive Adoption Lan guage” and "Adopt-A-Confusion ”. She and her husband have adopted three chil dren In addition to the keynote address, the conferenceoffers nine workshops Two led by Patricia Irwin Johnston are “Pa renting After Infertility" and “Children's Developing Understanding of Adoption”, “A Family’s Journey”, “Attachment Is sues”; and "A Male Perspective”. NAFA has applied for continuing credit from NASW Please contact NAFA for a conference brochure and further informa tion, 243-1356.
