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T he P ortland O bserver • A pril 30, 1997 P age Loaves & Fishes Needs Volunteer Drivers Define “senior citizens": Adults who have survived the challenges o f growing up, have overcome “mid-life” crises, have gained in wisdom and retained enough vitality to settle back and enjoy their "golden years”? Visit Loaves & Fishes’ Northeast Center and you will find active, healthy, older adults who fit this glow ing definition o f “senior citizens.” They are Loaves & Fishes volunteers. Few in numbers but deeply devoted, these seniors are the “ life blood” o f Loaves & Fishes at the Northeast M ulticultural Center. Working together, they struggle each day to meet the needs o f frail, elderly people living in Northeast Portland who must rely upon Loaves & Fishes’ hot meals and other life saving nutritional services. However, Center Manager, Dorit Riser- Doron says Northeast Loaves & Fishes is experiencing a real crisis: lack o f available volunteers. “ We need more volunteers to drive Meals-on-Wheels. Applicants should be eighteen years o f age, have valid drivers licenses, be available between the hours o f 11:00 am and 1:00 pm, Mondays through Fridays, be able to lift 20 lb. and have reliable transportation to make meal deliv eries.” Call 248-5211 to find out how yoif can help, today. Northeast Loaves & Fishes is located in the Northeast MultiCulteral Se nior Center, 5325 NE Ml.K Blvd. Northeast Loaves & Fishes is part o f Loaves & Fishes Centers, Inc., a private, non profit organization which serves 3,600 meals per day to Portland area seniors. For general information regarding Loaves & Fishes Centers, Inc., call 777-2424. Youth & Family Center Open House at New Location The North Portland Youth and Family Center, (NPYFC), invites the community to attend an open house April 30, 1997 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event is in celebration o f the C enter’s new home at 5139 N. Lombard. Refreshments will be served. NPYFC is a project o f Delaunay Family o f Services and one o f seven family centers located throughout M ultnomah County. Ths Center moved to it’s new location in March. It’s previous home was Geiser Hall located at 7704 N. Hereford. This historic building, the original home o f St. Andrews Learning Kindert 'are Teaming Centers, the nation ’ s larg est childcare company, has a new educational program that addresses President Clinton ’ s recent call for meeting the specific learning needs of infants and toddlers. Called Welcome to Learning, it will be imple mented in KinderCare’s more than 1,100 centers across the country this fall. Citing new scientific research which shows that experiences in the first three years of life have dramatic impactson brain development, President Clinton last week called on parents and caregivers Episcopal Church, was built in the 1880’s in the Kenton area and moved to Ports mouth in the 1890’s. The North Center began serving the community in December 1973. Over the 23 years at the Hereford site 11,256 families were provided with a mix o f prevention, intervention (programs in cluding juvenile diversion, counseling and Big Brother Sister services. During the open house St. Andrews Episcopal Church will be recognized for their many years o f support. Families served at the center, cur rent and former volunteers and staff are encouraged to drop in. locks Set to provide America’s children with nurtunng, stimulating environments beginning in infancy. K inderC are’s new program , developed over the last 12 m onths w ith the assistance o f experts in early childhood education, helps build early learning and com m unica tion skills through constant interaction betw een teacher and child in a hom e-like setting. The curriculum provides parents with daily summaries of their children’s activities and sug gestions for complementary activities at home. McDonald’s “Campaign 55” “Campaign 55” celebrates M cDonald’s heritage by bringing customers more o f what they come to M cDonald’s for: unbeatable value, great-tasting food and fast, friendly service. Quality, service, cleanliness and value were the principles M cDonald’s Cor poration was founded on in 1955 when Ray Kroc opened his first M cDonald’s restau rant in Des Plaines, Illinois. McDonald’s launched the first phase o f Campaign 55 with breakfast on Friday, April 4. Customers can create My Size Meals by purchasing any one o f four breakfast sand wiches — the world-famous Egg McMuffin Sausage McMuffin with Egg; Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit; and Sausage Biscuit with Egg - for just 55 cents with an order o f hash browns and any drink, any size. “My McDonald’s” Advertising Campaign On Friday, April 4, M cDonald’s intro duced new co m m ercials them ed “ My McDonald’s” featuring local M cDonald’s franchisees, managers and crew from across the country. Created by Leo Burnett Company, Chi cago, the first commercial in the campaign focuses on breakfast and features Herb Peterson, inventor o f the Egg McMuffin. He stars in the commercial along with his son, David, also a M cDonald’s franchisee, and three grandchildren. Pfizer has pledged $5 million to help pro mote children’s health nationwide through the year 2000. The pledge, made as part o f the Presidents ’ Summit for A m erica’s Future, encompasses donations o f advanced pediatric medicines, grants to innovative children’s health pro grams and employee volunteerism. Pfizer was the first pharmaceutical company to pledge support for the Sum m it’s agenda. “This pledge affirms our long-standing resolve to make a measurable difference in the health and lives o f children,” said W illiam C. Steere, Jr., Pfizer chairman andchiefexecutive officer. As part o f Pfizer’s pledge to the Summit, the company is donating $2 million o f its leading pediatric pharmaceuticals to treat uninsured children from low-income families who otherwise might not have access to quality pharmaceutical care. The donations are being made nationwide through more than 340 community, migrant and homeless health centers in 47 states that participate in Pfizer’s Sharing the Care pro gram. Since Sharing the Care was initiated in Portland,3,529prescriptions have been given to 1,692 uninsured low-income patients. Oregon, which has 6 federally funded com m unity health centers, has received $207,727 in total donations o f Pfizer’s ad vanced medicines. Since the program was initiated in 1993, Pfizer has donated over 1,400,000 prescrip tions and reached more than 490,000 patients. Sharing the Care is a partnership o f the N a tional G overnors’ Association, the National Association o f Community Health Centers and Pfizer. © As of Friday, April 4, McDonald's customers can create My Size Meals by purchasing any one of four breakfast sandwiches - the world-famous Egg McMuffin; Sausage McMuffin with Egg; Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit; and Sausage Biscuit with Egg - for ju st 55 cents with an order of hash browns and any drink, any size. JUMP Gives Kids Mentors More than 6,500 at-risk young people in 30 states will receive one-on-one mentoring to help keep them in school and away from drugs and crime through grants announced Tues day by the Justice Department. More than $9.6 million will be distributed to 52 sites, including Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago and H ous ton, through the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP). With these awards, there are now a total o f 93 JUMP sites in 34 states. The JUMP program matches an adult over 21 with a young person who has difficulty in school and shows signs o f dropping out or getting in trouble. Mentors provide youth with discipline, guidance and personal attention through activities such as tutoring, job training and community service. “We know that mer.toring gives troubled youth critical support that lessens the chance that they will drop out or turn to crime or drugs,” said Attorney General Janet Reno. y Pledge For Children In Portland "This is why mentoring, and similar initia tiv e s, are an e sse n tia l p a rt o f the Administration’s efforts to combat youth violence.” The President recently sent to Congress the Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Control A c to f 1997. T he b ill’s “ A t-R isk C h ild re n G ran ts P ro g ra m " w ould p ro v id e $75 m illio n in F iscal Y ear 1998 to local ju risd ic tio n s to help com bat tru a n c y , school v io le n c e and ju v e n ile crim e through in itia tiv e s su ch as m en to rin g . A so o n -to -b e re le a se d b u lle tin from the Ju stice D e p a rtm e n t’s O ffice o f Ju v e nile Ju stice and D elinquency P rev en tio n (O JJD P ), M en to rin g — A Proven D e lin q u e n c y P rev en tio n S tra te g y , exam in ed the im p act o f m e n to rin g th ro u g h an e v a lu a tio n , c o n d u cted by P u b lic/P riv ate V en tu res, o f m en to rin g p ro g ram s run by B ig B ro th ers/B ig S isters o f A m erica. The evaluation found that youth involved FOOD & DRUG y '¿O EXPIRES 5/6/97 Beef Round Steak - ' S* Ä' p In Your Oregonian FOODday in the Portland Metro Area ...and save more shopping at Safeway! • Smaller packages, $1.39 lb. • lenderited Round Steak, $1.49 lb. Available at your Safeway store. www.safeway.com 30 (S) 000000088183 0 0 0 0 0 08818 • Del Monte •S A VE up to 4 0 (lb . 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Look For Your Sun in the mentoring programs were less likely to experiment with alcohol and drugs, less likely to hit someone and less likely to skip school than youth not participating in the program. “T hese results show that m entoring w orks,” said OJJDP Administrator Shay Bilchik. “Through our grants and other assis tance, we are helping communities use this strategy to make a real impact on young people’s lives.” OJJDP, which administers JUMP, selected the 52 sites through a competitive review process from a pool o f 479 applicants. Because of the high interest in JUMP and the quality o f the applications, OJJDP com bined Fiscal Year 1996 andFiscal Year 1997 funds into a single round o f awards Awards range from $ 150,830 to $ 190,000 for use over the next three years. 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