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Railroads and Clearcuts
Railroads and Clearcuts includes
presentation by author George Draffan
plus live folk music at the Cascadia
Forest Revu. The presentation takes
place at Clinton St. Theatre, 2522 SE
Clinton St., Portland; at 7:30 p m
doors open at 7, Thursday, March 2()It
will benefit the Cascadia Forest Alii
ance, with a sliding scale price of $3
10 per person. Eco-activist folksingers
Timothy Hull and Jim Page will per
form. Updates on how to stop ancient
forest timber sales in our area will be
available. Plenty of free literature For
more info., call the Cascadia Forest
Alliance, 241-4879.
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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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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.