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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1997)
P age AS A ug . 6, 1997 • T he P ori land O bserver HOME H ab itat home com plete Blanca and Maria Sanchez, new homeowners on Morris Street I he Sanchez family has a brand-new home of its ow n. thanks to the combined efforts of the l iving Enrichment Center, Portland Habitat for Humanity and the family itself. All will celebrate the completion of the house with a dedication ceremony from 11 a m. to I p m Saturday, Aug 9, at the house, 202 NE Morris Street. Blanca Segovia Sanchez and Maria Sanchez, who work as housekeepers at a local hotel, will take ownership o f the new, live-bedroom home by making affordable monthly payments on their zero-interest, zero-profit mortgage from Habitat. The women, their mother Rosa Elva Sanchez and the eight children who com prise the family have lived for the past two years in two cramped Housing Authority apartments. I hey are excited about bringing the fam ily together again under one roof. Ever hard- work ing and gracious, the women have com pleted more than the required 400 hours of “sweat equity” to help earn their new home. “It’s a beautiful feeling to be able to live in a house that we have worked for and to help other people get houses,” Maria Sanchez said through a translator. The Sanchez home is sponsored by the l iving enrichment Center, a Wilsonville- based congregation. I EC members raised the $50,000 needed to build the house by holding a Valentine’s Day ball and other fundraisers Brittany Wheeier (from left), Ann Ishlmaru, Jannene Malone and Evette Lewis unwind wire from a young tree at Whitaker Ponds in northeast Portland. On Saturday, more than 70 residents turned out for "Reclaim the Slough Day" organized by the Urban League of Portland to clean up the waterway and make it a place for recreation. 3 >c 3") , A l .. if roua company IS PACIFIC POWER, THE REASON IS GETTING CLEARER. We're working on reducing In partnership with four other coal-fired power plants and help balance the CO 2 emissions carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air. U.S. energy companies, we other industries. Many scientists thousands ofmifes away. In .Pa cifc Power has joined forces will contribute $600,000 over believe that higher levels of fact, scientists estimate that with The Nature Conservancy ten years to buy 15,000 acres CO2 and other greenhouse gases our Belize project could reduce and the Programme for Belize in of endangered rain forest and could increase the temperature greenhouse gas emissions by an unprecedented international manage another 105,000. over time. Because trees and 5.2 million tons over 40 years. effort to reduce greenhouse By preserving the rain forest, plants naturally absorb CO2 from And, that's not only good news g as emissions by protecting the Pacific Power is testing a strategy the atmosphere, planting and for people in our area, it's good tropical rain forest of Belize. to offset CO2 emitted by cars, news for the entire planet. protecting trees in Belize could # PACIFIC POWER Vitti Podfit Power s website at http://www.pad .5 :orp. com I A PncifiCorp Company I I
