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P o r u and O bserver • M ay 14, 1997 ‘(S lotól iï&a&æs?’ Remembered though he had that disease, he just let his life go on as if he was a normal person.” The walk, organized by the Cystic Fibro sis Foundation, hopes to raise $150,000 for research on a disease that kills 365 Ameri cans each year Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which causes the exocrine glands to produce abnor mally thick layers of mucus which then block the bronchi. The disease is fatal with a medium life expectancy of 30.5 years. One of every 3,300 births are diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. When 10-year-old Rory Weitzel, diag nosed with cystic fibrosis, thought about what he would like to do in Heaven, he told friends he wanted to be the person who made the clouds. In Saturday’s Walk to Cure Cystic Fibro sis, a statewide fundraiser, walkers will walk in memory of Rory, who died Aug. II o f last year. Walkers in Portland, Eugene, Pendleton, Roseburg, Brandon and Wallowa will honor Rory’s spirit and determination. “He was the bravest person I’ve ever known,” said his best friend, 11-year-old Conway McDorald-O’Leat, who has orga nized a team of walkers called Rory’s Row dies. In last year’s walk, the Rowdies raised more than $4,000. The team is composed of Rory’s family, his former hospital nurses and his friends and former classmates at Holy Redeemer Area School in north Port land. The fact that this year’s walk is dedicated to Rory is largely he work of Conway who wants to be sure no one forgets his friend and who wants more people to become involved in finding a cure for cystic fibrosis. “ It’s kind of hard for me and so 1 wanted for other people with the disease to not go through what he did,” said Conway. “Even Friends o f the late Rory Weitzel prepare bulletin board in his honor. The students at Holy Redeemer Area School in north Portland are Patrick From her z (from left), Conway McDonald-0’Lear, Kealani Haines, Angela Richard, Jason Norris and Brianne Holmbeck. (Photo by Nell Heilpem) Child center anything Oregon 8th graders lead on tests but ordinary As the child care debate rages, a team of ¡xperts has built its beliefs into a building: he Husky Child Development Center. The prototype child care center shows hat the facility itself can provide the sense of safety and positive stimuli children need in irder to feel secure and grow optimally. The new Center was built for Husky Injec- :ion Molding Systems Inc. in Bolton, Ontario. Headed by developmental psychologist Anita Rui Olds, Ph D., world renowned for tier pioneering work in designing environ ments for children, the team includes archi tect Barbara Winslow and interior design/ color specialist Carla Mathis. The group capitalized on their diverse backgrounds to create a day care setting vastly different from today’s more institu tional facilities. Most day care centers rely entirely on the staff to nurture a child’s development. The Husky Center shows that the environ ment can be another teacher, encouraging individuality, creativity and the healthy growth of children. The team used human-scaled architec tural elements, a home-like layout, furnish ings, color and lighting, and ethnic and hand-crafted details to design the unique setting. “Research shows that the sensory envi ronment children confront in their early years can promote or inhibit a child’s physi cal, emotional, social and intellectual devel opment,” said Dr. Olds, director of The Child Care Design Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Tufts Uni versity. “As day care, not home, is today's primary child-rearing habitat, our challenge is to create day care facilities that provide a nurturing context for children’s healthy development.” The Center is based on Olds’ unique “residential core” model, which breaks a large facility into small “houses.” Each house consists o f age-specific rooms that open onto a common living/dining/kitchen area, which children, parents and staff share as a family. Different “zones” in each room define a variety of play areas important to the curriculum. Designed by Winslow, partner in Jacobson, Silverstein and Winslow and co-author of The Good House, the layout supports freedom of movement and the development of community. “Children suffer little or no separation anxiety when they come to the Husky Cen ter,” said Mathis. “Our use of residential colors, furnishings and design helps chil dren feel like they’re walking into a visual hug, a work of art where they can explore, discover, rest, and relate to others.” SAFEWAY FOOD & DRUG Oregon eighth graders outscored their national counterparts on a 1996 science test conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Oregon students scored 155 on the test, 7 points above the national average. Ac cording to NAEP, only 4 states - Maine, North Dakota, Montana and Wisconsin - scored significantly higher than Oregon. "We're pleased with our results,” said State Schools Supt. 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